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  • 5-Dec-2005
    Parliament ratifies FTA with Singapore
    Korea’s National Assembly has overwhelmingly ratified a free trade agreement with Singapore. The vote was 220:5 in favor with three abstentions.
  • 5-Dec-2005
    Free trade agreement between EU and GCC imminent
    The European Union and GCC are expected to conclude talks on establishing a free trade deal in the near future. The deal, which has been a long time in the making, is likely to be sealed by the end of the current year, according to Abdurrahman Al Attiyah, the GCC Secretary General.
  • 4-Dec-2005 Intellectual Property Watch
    US, Andean nations narrow differences on IP in trade talks
    Andean countries in late November narrowed differences with the United States over intellectual property protections in negotiations over a US-Andean bilateral free trade agreement, but divisions over market access for agriculture have likely delayed a final agreement until next year, at least for Colombia and Ecuador.
  • 4-Dec-2005 Wall Street Journal
    Bush reaches out to Democrats on trade
    President Bush is starting to embrace a different political strategy for getting trade agreements through Congress: bipartisanship.
  • 1-Dec-2005
    Chile, Peru near-FTA likely to be reached in new round
    Chile and Peru will likely reach a deal for a free trade agreement in everything but name at an upcoming round of negotiations, Peru’s ambassador to Chile said Thursday.
  • 1-Dec-2005
    Pakistan wants free trade agreement with US
    Pakistan is pressing for a bigger reward for its alliance with the United States in the war on terror, with the country’s Commerce Minister calling for a Free Trade Agreement that would open up the American market to Pakistani goods.
  • 1-Dec-2005
    Pakistan, US agree to bilateral investment agreement
    Pakistan and United States’ have agreed over a mutual investment agreement that will smoothen the way to talks for a Free Trade Agreement between the two countries.
  • 1-Dec-2005
    Seoul to sign trade deal with ASEAN
    Korea is expected to sign a framework agreement for free trade with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in mid-December.
  • 30-Nov-2005 Prensa Latina
    Farmers fight FTA in Ecuador
    Representatives of farmer organizations from Andean nations began a meeting in this capital on Monday to define actions and strategies to fight the free trade area with the United States (FTA).
  • 29-Nov-2005
    Australia pressured over US FTA: Crowe
    Oscar-winning actor Russell Crowe says the Australian government has buckled to United States pressure over free trade.
  • 26-Nov-2005
    Canadian and Japanese Business Leaders Meet to Advance Bilateral and Global Trade and Investment Talks
    Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE)/Nippon Keidanren Joint Statement
  • 23-Nov-2005 Bangkok Post
    Thai-US free trade talks stuck on finance sector
    The latest round of bilateral free trade negotiations between Thailand and the United States in London hit a serious snag over how much to liberalise the sensitive finance sector, one of the negotiators said.
  • 23-Nov-2005 Prensa Latina
    Peru to decide FTA referendum
    Promoters of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) Campaign "Asi no," will deliver this Tuesday to the National Electoral Jury the documents signed by Peruvians opposed to the FTA with United States.
  • 23-Nov-2005 Xinhua
    Colombia, Ecuador: more talks needed for FTA with US
    Colombia and Ecuador decided on Tuesday to break off their free trade talks with the United States for now, saying that more rounds of talks are needed.
  • 23-Nov-2005 UNCTAD
    Competition provisions in regional trade agreements: How to assure development gains
    During the last decade, Regional Trade Agreement (RTA) containing competition policy provisions have proliferated. These are part of a trend for ’deeper’ RTAs which often include articles for liberalizing trade in services, investment, labour and other trade-related provisions.
  • 20-Nov-2005
    Clark talks China FTA at Apec
    Free trade talks with China are "going very well" but will run on into next year, Prime Minister Helen Clark said after meeting Chinese President Hu Jintao at the Apec summit in Busan, South Korea, at the weekend.
  • 18-Nov-2005 Associated Press
    Two-nation trade talk of town at summit
    As world leaders gathered Friday for their annual talks on building a free trade zone that circles the Pacific, they were also spending time in sideline huddles forging one-on-one agreements.
  • 18-Nov-2005 Bangkok Post
    US and Asean agree on stronger links
    Kantathi Suphamongkhon, the Thai foreign minister, said the partnership, known as the Asean-US Trade and Investment Framework, could lead to a regional free trade area agreement between the 10 members and the US.
  • 18-Nov-2005 Reuters
    Protests turn violent near APEC venue
    About 2,000 farmers and farm activists and 3,000 union workers took to the streets of Pusan to denounce APEC, the World Trade Organisation and US President George W Bush, who was attending the leaders’ meeting.
  • 18-Nov-2005 Financial Times
    Apec admits dangers of bilateral deals
    Criticised by business leaders and alarmed by the possible failure of next month’s world trade talks in Hong Kong, Asia-Pacific governments are acknowledging for the first time the dangers of the tangled "spaghetti bowl" of bilateral trade deals they have spawned in the past few years.