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  • 5-Nov-2005
    Anti-US protests flare at summit
    Anti-American demonstrators torched storefronts and battled police Friday in this Atlantic resort following a large, peaceful protest, spearheaded by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, over President Bush’s plans to revive a free trade accord at a regional summit.
  • 4-Nov-2005
    DR should emulate neighbors, be more aggressive with FTA
    Officials at the highest level along with private business persons from El Salvador are currently on tours that have been denominated as “CAFTA-Tours” throughout the United States, looking to attract investments, in addition to participating in work shops to train exporters on how to best benefit from markets to open with DR-CAFTA.
  • 4-Nov-2005 Channel News Asia
    East Asia Summit to discuss FTA between Asian nations: SM Goh
    Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong said the East Asia Summit next month would discuss the possibility of a Free Trade Agreement between East Asian countries.
  • 4-Nov-2005 FT
    Australia attacks EU on farm subsidies
    In the event of failure in Hong Kong next month, foreign minister Alexander Downer said Australia would speed ahead with "Plan B" to sign further bilateral and regional trade agreements.
  • 3-Nov-2005 Prensa Latina
    Anti-Bush rally closes Peoples Summit
    The 3rd Peoples’ Summit is closing Thursday its three marathonic days of searching for an alternative model to neoliberalism with a hemispheric demonstration repudiating US President George W Bush.
  • 3-Nov-2005 Dominican Today
    Farmers reject new taxes, ask for assistance with upcoming FTA
    Associations in the Dominican farming sector today rejected some of the measures recommended by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and requested from the government to establish a program to shore the sector up, prior to implementing the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States.
  • 3-Nov-2005
    CEOs seek to standardize FTA rules at APEC
    Economies in the Asia-Pacific region need to establish standard FTA (free trade agreements) guidelines as FTAs between the countries have no fundamental rules or principles, the APEC CEO Summit chairman said Wednesday.
  • 3-Nov-2005 Yonhap
    Korea pushing to mitigate impact of free trade deals
    South Korea is moving to provide financial assistance and other support to companies and their workers who are adversely affected by free trade agreements with foreign countries, officials said Tuesday.
  • 3-Nov-2005 Christian Science Monitor
    Clash of visions for Latin America
    It’s Bush vs. Chavez as 33 heads of state meet Friday for Summit of the Americas.
  • 3-Nov-2005 Yonhap
    New Zealand seeks free trade, film pact with South Korea
    New Zealand will pursue talks for free trade and a deal for joint film production with South Korea when their government officials meet during the APEC forum in Busan next month.
  • 3-Nov-2005
    Does the FTAA have a future?
    The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) will become a reality only if the United States allows increased market access for Brazilian agriculture and competitive manufactures and if Brazil reciprocates by opening its market to foreign competition in goods and services.
  • 2-Nov-2005 Washington Post
    Bush says Latam free-trade idea stalled for now
    "The FTAA has stalled, I agree," Bush said on Tuesday. "On the other hand, at this point in time, the Doha round really trumps the FTAA as a priority, because the Doha round not only involves our neighborhood, it involves the whole world."
  • 2-Nov-2005 tralac
    Papers from tralac’s EPA conference
    tralac recently held its annual conference in Cape Town on Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) and their impact on African, Caribbean and Pacific countries.
  • 2-Nov-2005 Heritage Foundation
    America’s free trade agenda: The state of bilateral and multilateral trade negotiations
    A Heritage Foundation summary of the role of FTAs in the US trade agenda.
  • 2-Nov-2005 IPS
    Business groups lobby to resurrect FTAA
    Dozens of business groups from throughout the Americas are urging regional governments to adopt economic and trade reforms to give a boost to upcoming World Trade Organisation talks and a stalled regional free trade agreement.
  • 2-Nov-2005 CKUT
    The FTAA and its babies
    From November 4-5th, 2005, the heads of state of 34 countries in the Americas will meet in Mar del Plata, Argentina, to push the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) forward. One big issue at the helm this year are the bilaterals - otherwise known as the FTAA’s babies - which establish free trade agreements on smaller scales.
  • 2-Nov-2005
    Trade liberalization challenges post-CAFTA
    This CRS report for US Congress analyses some of the challenges that became apparent in the aftermath of a divisive trade debate and how they could affect consideration of future trade agreements.
  • 1-Nov-2005 Xinhua
    FTAA talks divide Latin American countries
    The talks on a future Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) have divided Latin American states into different interest groups prior to the 4th Summit of the Americas to be held in Argentina on Nov. 4-5.
  • 1-Nov-2005 Taipei Times
    US official urges Taiwan to do more on FTA
    "The ball is in Taiwan’s court. It’s not enough simply to say that we want an FTA."
  • 1-Nov-2005 Prensa Latina
    Chavez: Bush beats dead horse with FTAA
    Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez has accused his US counterpart George W Bush of trying to restore the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), which is a dead project, he asserted.