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  • 10-Dec-2005 People’s Daily
    Comment: "Smug calculations" lack sincerity, analysis
    Japan is craving a "return to Asia", and the kernel of its regional strategy is to "Japanize" regional policies, legal system, industrial division and financial and monetary fields. It mainly targets some ASEAN countries, at the same time avoiding Free Trade Agreement (FTA) but bending on Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA).
  • 10-Dec-2005 Business Times
    New chapter in strategic ties
    Excerpts of New Straits Times interview with Japan’s Ambassador to Malaysia, Tadashi Imai.
  • 10-Dec-2005 Pakistan Link
    Pak-China sign agreement to enforce EHP from January next
    Pakistan and China signed an agreement to enforce Early Harvest Programme (EHP) reducing tariff on a number of industrial and agriculture products from January 1, 2006.
  • 10-Dec-2005 USTR
    US-Peru FTA (2005): summary
    From the Office of the US Trade Representative.
  • 10-Dec-2005 Times of India
    India, Asean to consider free-trade pact by ’07
    India and the Association of South East Asian Nations aim to forge a free-trade agreement by the start of ’07, both sides said after a meeting on Friday.
  • 9-Dec-2005 Intellectual Property Watch
    Peru’s acceptance of IP terms led to trade pact with US
    An agreement by Peru to accept US demands on protecting intellectual property rights, including protections for pharmaceutical test data found in other US free trade agreements, paved the way for a final deal on a US-Peru FTA.
  • 9-Dec-2005 Dominican Today
    Improbable implementation of free trade by January 2006
    It is still unclear whether the DR-Central America and US Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) will start in January 2006, and if it does, most of the Central American countries lag in preparation to enter commercial activity.
  • 9-Dec-2005 New Age
    Bilateral investment treaties dangerous traps: experts
    Experts have cautioned that bilateral investment treaties with the rich countries will ultimately lead the developing and least developed countries towards dangerous traps at the cost of their national interests.
  • 9-Dec-2005 AFP
    Rice row threatens ASEAN-South Korea free-trade deal
    A row over Asia’s staple food, rice, is threatening to scuttle a proposed free-trade deal between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and South Korea, which wants to protect the key sector from tariff cuts.
  • 9-Dec-2005 Antara News
    Japan, Malaysia to sign FTA next week in Kuala Lumpur
    apan and Malaysia are scheduled to sign a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) during their summit talks in Kuala Lumpur next week on the sidelines of the inaugural East Asian Summit, Japanese officials said Friday.
  • 8-Dec-2005
    ASEAN to ink FTAs with India, S Korea
    The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is expected to sign free trade agreements next week with India and South Korea, Malaysian International Trade and Industry Minister Rafidah Aziz has said.
  • 8-Dec-2005
    Second round of Pak-China FTA talks on
    Pakistan and China on Wednesday started second-round of negotiations on Free Trade Agreement (FTA), with a pledge to make it an effective document, giving boost to their bilateral trade and establishing mutually beneficial cooperative partnership.
  • 8-Dec-2005 The News International
    Regional, bilateral trade pacts to mushroom if WTO talks fail
    Regional and bilateral agreements will proliferate further and protectionist tendencies are likely to increase if the World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks in Hong Kong fail, business leaders and analysts say.
  • 8-Dec-2005 AP
    US, Peru reach free trade agreement
    The US and Peru have wrapped up negotiations on a free trade agreement, officials from both countries said Wednesday. The pact was reached after Colombia and Ecuador halted their own discussions with Washington on what was expected to be a regional agreement linking all three countries with the United States.
  • 8-Dec-2005 FT
    US and Peru end trade impasse with agreement
    The US and Peru struck a wide-ranging trade agreement on Wednesday after 18 months of talks that had been mired in disagreements over agricultural and intellectual property issues.
  • 8-Dec-2005 AP
    House OKs trade agreement with Bahrain
    The US House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to make the small Persian Gulf nation of Bahrain one of the few Middle Eastern countries with a free-trade relationship with the United States.
  • 8-Dec-2005 Japan Times
    Business chiefs urge METI to bolster Asian FTA efforts
    Japan’s business leaders want Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Toshihiro Nikai to promote free-trade agreements between Japan and Asian economies as well as market-opening negotiations under the World Trade Organization.
  • 7-Dec-2005
    Free trade, but not fair trade
    Early results of the free trade agreements (FTAs) Thailand made with China, Australia, New Zealand and India are quite worrying for the country.
  • 7-Dec-2005
    African and European farmers say no to EPAs and no to a WTO agreement in HKG
    Farmers organizations from West Africa and the European Union are convinced that the EPA talks will lead to an agreement which will be detrimental to family farming unless strong corrective measures are taken.
  • 7-Dec-2005 People’s Daily
    Thailand will not sign ASEAN-S. Korea FTA: spokesman
    Thailand will not sign a free trade agreement (FTA) between the Association of South East Asian Nations and South Korea because it does not include rice, government spokesman Surapong Suebwonglee said on Tuesday.