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17-Mar-2006
AP
The leader of Ecuador’s main Indian movement on Thursday rejected President Alfredo Palacio’s call to end protests against free-trade talks with the United States.
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17-Mar-2006
Zawya
The UAE and New Zealand are expected to begin talks on a free trade agreement (FTA) tomorrow, a top Govennment official said.
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17-Mar-2006
Daily News
Singapore is keen on entering into an FTA with Sri Lanka, Minister of Enterprise Development and Investment Promotion Rohitha Bogollagama said on Wednesday.
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17-Mar-2006
People’s Daily
The Saharan states have called for free trade agreements to help the region achieve peace, stability and prosperity.
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17-Mar-2006
TMCnet
Indian and Chinese economic relationship is set to get a leg up with the two countries closing in on signing a Bilateral Investment Protection Agreement (BIPA), which will help investments from across the border, some of which have been seen with suspicion in the recent past.
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17-Mar-2006
CBC
Farmers from the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean states have expressed interest in holding some form of action similar to that at the launch of the Economic Partnership Agreement in St. Lucia last September.
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17-Mar-2006
AP
President Evo Morales vowed never to negotiate a free-trade agreement with the United States — then lunched Thursday with the US ambassador and said he wanted to meet with President George W Bush on “fair trade.’’
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17-Mar-2006
Business Times
The European Union (EU) and the Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) are still studying the possibility of having free trade agreements (FTAs) either on a regional basis or bilaterally with individual countries, says European Commission ambassador and head of delegation Thierry Rommel.
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17-Mar-2006
Manila Bulletin
The Philippine exploratory mission to the US on the proposed specific preferential trading for the garment sector was met with cold treatment as top level government officials, Congress representatives and its private sector still prefer a comprehensive free trade area (FTA) agreement.
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17-Mar-2006
Donga
With Korea-US Free Trade Agreement (FTA) talks scheduled to start in May, representatives from US industries bombarded the US government with their own wishes for a Korea-US FTA, asking the government to open the Korean service market and eliminate market regulations.
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17-Mar-2006
Delta Farm Press
Notice from USDA to countries that aren’t too well heeled but would like to try to negotiate a new free trade agreement with the United States: Don’t bother.
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17-Mar-2006
TMCnet
New Zealand has offered to sign a free trade agreement with the Philippines to boost bilateral relations, an official said yesterday.
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17-Mar-2006
The Hill
Capitol Hill is starting to feel the pangs of trade déjà vu as two pending Latin American free-trade agreements prompt Democrats to demand stronger labor standards and business lobbyists push back.
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17-Mar-2006
The Reporter
Southern African Development Community (SADC) hopes to start trade talks with China and India at the forthcoming SADC Council of Ministers Consultative Conference in Windhoek, Namibia next month.
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17-Mar-2006
Draft investment chapter of US-Thailand FTA as proposed by US
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16-Mar-2006
Granma International
The battle against the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States is continuing in Ecuador.
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16-Mar-2006
Upside Down World
A trade agreement between the United States and Peru could be rejected in Congress because of Peru’s weak labor record and the agreement’s lack of labor provisions.
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16-Mar-2006
BBC
Ecuador’s president has urged Ecuadoreans to stand together after nationwide protests threatened to destabilise the country. The demonstrations have been sparked by ongoing talks with the United States over a possible free trade agreement
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16-Mar-2006
AP
Ecuador’s interior minister resigned Wednesday as protests over a US free trade plan spread from the Andean highlands to the oil-producing southeast jungle, where police clashed with demonstrators.
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15-Mar-2006
Two United States senators have written to President George Bush to encourage him to start free trade talks with New Zealand.
