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  • 20-Dec-2005
    Korea, EFTA ink free trade deal
    South Korea’s trade minister and his counterparts from the European Free Trade Association, or EFTA, signed a free trade agreement yesterday at the World Trade Organization ministerial conference in Hong Kong.
  • 20-Dec-2005
    SAFTA to come into effect from new year
    South Asia Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) will come into effect from January one next, Lok Sabha was informed today.
  • 20-Dec-2005
    Avoid marginalization by China, analysts urge
    While it’s too early to judge the prospects for the "pan-Asian" free trade community mentioned in the inaugural East Asia Summit (EAS), Taiwan, which has been excluded from participating, should devise a strategy to avoid being marginalized before it’s too late, analysts said.
  • 20-Dec-2005
    Some Asian nations eye free trade pact
    A free trade pact between seven South and Southeast Asia nations was likely to be in place by July 2006, Bangladesh’s foreign minister said Monday after a meeting of a regional economic forum.
  • 20-Dec-2005
    Agro producers favor postponing DR-CAFTA
    The Pork Industry Association, president Jose Alba, considered that not entering the Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) in January 2006 would be a welcomed break for the productive sector. This grace period, in his view, would be well-used to correct distortions in the tax system and enable competitiveness.
  • 20-Dec-2005
    Chiang Rai meeting probes Thai-China trade barriers
    Thailand and China have begun a joint meeting here to strengthen ties and remove trade barriers, hoping to increase bilateral trade under the free trade area (FTA) framework.
  • 20-Dec-2005 MADRE
    10 reasons why Latin American women oppose Bush’s free trade agenda
    Bush is branding Latin Americans’ broad rejection of his trade agenda at last month’s Summit of the Americas in Argentina as an attempt to "roll back the democratic process of the past two decades". What Latin Americans are actually rolling back is the US-driven economic process of the past two decades, which worsened poverty, income inequality, displacement, and cultural and environmental destruction.
  • 20-Dec-2005 IRC Americas Program
    Natural resources in the US-Andean Free Trade Agreement
    The three Andean countries currently negotiating a free trade agreement with the United States, in their double capacity as signatories to the CBD and members of the group of biologically “mega-diverse” countries, are demanding that the agreement establish regulations that clearly specify the terms of access to genetic resources and the population’s traditional knowledge, and in which proper economic consideration, conservation, and development act as guiding principles.
  • 20-Dec-2005 London School of Economics
    Thailand’s new FTAs and its trade policies post-Asia crisis: an assessment
    How credible is Thailand’s FTA policy? What can be done to improve it?
  • 19-Dec-2005
    Colombia, US to resume talks in January
    Stalled U.S.-Colombia free-trade talks will resume next month, Colombia’s trade minister said Monday.
  • 19-Dec-2005
    Economic integration of GCC states on cards
    The Abu Dhabi Summit, which kicked-off yesterday evening, will come up to the expectations of 40 million Gulf nationals as it is likely to incorporate a road map for greater economic integration of the oil rich region.
  • 19-Dec-2005
    BIMSTEC ministerial meet to implement FTA on schedule, fight terror
    The seven-nation Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation ministerial meet ended here today with a resolve to deepen economic integration by implementing FTA on schedule, relax visa rules and enhance cooperation in counter-terrorism and trans-nation crimes.
  • 19-Dec-2005
    Kenya, Sudan solve dispute
    Kenya and Sudan have sorted out differences over the compliance of Comesa rules of origin.
  • 19-Dec-2005
    Pakistan and Tajikistan to sign trade agreement
    Pakistan and Tajikistan will enter a preferential trade agreement (PTA) soon and Islamabad has already sent proposals to Dushanbe, sources said on Sunday.
  • 19-Dec-2005
    Free trade
    THE idea of a Balkan General Free Trade Agreement, to replace existing bilateral free trade agreements, received support at an Athens meeting of the Association of Balkan Chambers, the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) said on December 12.
  • 19-Dec-2005
    First trade & investment mission to the USA completes successfully
    A 14-member delegation from the Bahrain American Chamber of Commerce has returned after a successful trade mission to the US.
  • 19-Dec-2005 Asia Pulse
    BIMSTEC countries to sign FTA early next year
    BIMSTEC (Bangladesh-India-Myanmar-Sri Lanka-Thailand Economic Co-operation) Trade Ministers will sign a free-trade deal on goods at their Dhaka meet early next year.
  • 19-Dec-2005 Prensa Latina
    Ecuador indigenous expect FTA defeat
    The fight against the Free Trade Area treaty with the US constitutes one of the priorities for the Ecuadorian Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities (CONAIE), the largest in the country.
  • 18-Dec-2005 VietNamNet
    What is the cost for missing the WTO train?
    Is Vietnam capable of signing an FTA when the essence of such an agreement is WTO++, with rules based on WTO rules? If we have not joined the WTO yet, how can we reach an FTA with Japan?
  • 18-Dec-2005
    BIMSTEC meet
    Like SAARC, the South and Southeast Asian BIMSTEC has also become another seven-nation grouping with the inclusion of Bhutan and Nepal in the first BIMSTEC Bangkok summit in 2004 and its 8th ministerial meeting will now take place in Dhaka on 19 December.