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  • 18-Dec-2005
    Nation up against last WTO barrier
    Viet Nam was awaiting the removal of the last major barrier to its entry to the World Trade Organisation - the successful conclusion of bilateral negotiations with the United States - Deputy Trade Minister Luong Van Tu has told a Vietnam News Agency correspondent.
  • 18-Dec-2005
    GCC needs Fair Trade Agreements
    The GCC does not need Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), what it needs is Fair Trade agreements, said Mishal Hamed Kanoo, Deputy Chairman, the Kanoo Group, at the 4th GCC Economic Forum.
  • 18-Dec-2005
    GCC chief hails improving S.N. Korea relations
    GCC Secretary General HE Abdulrahman bin Hamad al-Attiyah has said that negotiations are now under way between GCC and China for earlier conclusion of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and that a legal framework is now being made in preparation for the FTA agreement with Korea.
  • 18-Dec-2005
    GCC chief expects free trade talks with China to end soon
    Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Abdul Rahman al-Attiya said here on Sunday that he hoped talks between the GCC and China on a free trade agreement will be concluded soon.
  • 18-Dec-2005
    NGO statement on need for WTO moratorium on regional and bilateral trade agreements undermining access to health
    NGOs call upon WTO Members and their trade negotiators to protect the public from the explosion of one-sided and harmful regional and bilateral trade agreements that impose TRIPS plus obligations on developing countries that undermine access to medicine.
  • 17-Dec-2005
    FTA - a passport of opportunities
    The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is a ’passport of opportunities’ and it is up to the business communities of both Bahrain and the US to see how best they can use this opportunity, the President of American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham), Samir Benmukhlouf, said yesterday.
  • 17-Dec-2005
    Japanese demand better standards
    Japanese fruit producers and exporters have called for their Thai counterparts to upgrade sanitary and food safety standards if they want to succeed in promoting Thai fruit consumption in Japan.
  • 17-Dec-2005
    China to begin FTA deals with trading partners from next year
    China will honour its free trade area (FTA) agreements with its trading partners, levy negotiated tariffs on some Indian goods and will also offer special preferential tariff rates to about 30 least developing countries next year, finance minister Jin Renqing said.
  • 16-Dec-2005 Khaleej Times
    GCC and European Union: 17-year old FTA negotiations
    The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations between the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and European Union (EU) have started since 1988. However, there have been always obstacles that prevented the achievement of a final agreement.
  • 16-Dec-2005 Ip-health
    Tonga’s WTO accession has TRIPS+ linkage
    Tonga acceded to the WTO yesterday and one of the conditions of it being allowed to join the WTO was to have TRIPS+ linkage of patent status and data exclusivity.
  • 16-Dec-2005 USCCB
    US economic and security interests enhanced by moral trade agreements
    The chairman of the bishops’ International Policy Committee Monday offered a Catholic perspective on a pending free trade agreement, suggesting that the United States and several Andean nations could simultaneously promote human dignity and fair and sustainable development.
  • 16-Dec-2005
    CRS Report for Congress: Andean-US FTA negotiations
    Given that CAFTA-DR passed only by a small margin, it is unclear how much support the U.S.-Andean FTA will have.
  • 16-Dec-2005 AP
    AELE: Accord de libre-échange signé avec la Corée du Sud
    Le ministre de l’économie fédéral Joseph Deiss et ses homologues de l’AELE ont signé jeudi à Hong Kong un accord de libre-échange avec la République de Corée. L’accord entrera en vigueur le 1er juillet prochain
  • 15-Dec-2005 Business Times
    Robust outlook conducive for US-Malaysia FTA talks
    An 18-member mission of the US-Asean Business Council visited Malaysia recently to encourage the start of bilateral FTA talks with the US.
  • 15-Dec-2005 Bernama
    FTA must cover at least 90 percent of trade: Asean Sec-Gen
    A quality free trade agreement (FTA) between countries should cover 90 to 95 per cent of their trade, Asean Secretary General Ong Keng Yong said Wednesday, adding that India’s long exclusion list of products hampered such a pact with Asean.
  • 14-Dec-2005
    Morshed assumes BIMSTEC chair Dec 19: Dhaka wants early enforcement of FTA
    Foreign Minister M Morshed Khan who formally assumes BIMSTEC chair with the holding of its ministerial meeting here on December 19 said Dhaka wants early enforcement of the FTA in goods in the BIMSTEC region, as production base in Bangladesh is gradually expanding.
  • 14-Dec-2005
    Vietnam and RoK sign bilateral co-operation agreement
    Investment promotion agencies of Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK) reached an agreement on bilateral co-operation in Hanoi on December 13.
  • 14-Dec-2005
    American Farm Bureau supports free trade with Oman
    Even though Oman is a relatively small market for US agricultural exports, several factors make it an attractive export market for the United States, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation.
  • 14-Dec-2005
    Korean mid-sized cos to drop anchor here
    After the big daddies, it appears to be the turn of mid-size Korean companies to hot foot it to India.
  • 14-Dec-2005
    Colombia congratulates Peru on free trade deal with US
    Colombia’s government congratulated Peru on closing a free trade deal with the US, but said some of the issues that it has regarding a similar agreement with the US still need to be resolved.