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  • 22-Sep-2005 IPS
    Talks between US, Andean countries in final stretch
    Trade negotiators and officials in Colombia, where the 12th round of negotiations of a free trade agreement between the United States and Colombia, Peru and Ecuador is taking place Monday through Friday, say the talks are moving ahead smoothly.
  • 22-Sep-2005 AllAfrica.com
    Resist external forces, trade bodies urged
    Regional trade integration bodies must stand together and prevent outside forces like the European Union (EU) from promoting divisions to suit their varied agendas, especially when dealing with African member states, a Government minister has urged.
  • 22-Sep-2005 Sydney Morning Herald
    Australia, Japan agree FTA study details
    Australia and Japan have finalised the details of a planned free-trade feasibility study, Trade Minister Mark Vaile has said. But despite the breakthrough, Mr Vaile cautioned that any deal on a free trade agreement (FTA) was still a long way off and faced political hurdles.
  • 22-Sep-2005 Bangkok Post
    US responsive to Thai concerns
    US congressmen have pledged to accommodate Thailand’s concerns about drug prices and freer mobility for Thais into the United States once the two countries conclude their free trade area (FTA) agreement.
  • 22-Sep-2005 The Nation
    Not all share PM’s wish for fast FTA
    Finance Minister Thanong Bidaya said yesterday that the Thai-US free-trade agreement (FTA) would be difficult to hurry as Thai bankers are concerned about competing with their sophisticated counterparts in the field of e-banking. “I can’t say when the deal could be concluded because both sides still use absolutely different approaches,” Thanong said.
  • 22-Sep-2005 Business Standard
    India may ink preferential trade pact with Mauritius
    India and Mauritius are likely to enter into a Preferential Trading Agreement before going for a Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA).
  • 22-Sep-2005
    TWN seminar warns about WTO-plus issues and rules in bilateral and regional FTAs
    The Third World Network held a regional Asian workshop on bilateral and regional FTAs on 26-29 August in Kuala Lumpur. Many speakers and participants voiced concerns about how the developed countries are making use of such FTAs to get developing countries to accept issues.
  • 22-Sep-2005
    Asian regional workshop on bilateral free trade agreements
    The Asian Regional Workshop on Bilateral Free Trade Agreements was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 26-28 August 2005. It was organized by the Third World Network and attended by about 120 participants from many Asian countries.
  • 22-Sep-2005
    Bilateral/regional free trade agreements: An outline of elements, nature and development implications
    Several Asian countries and Asean as a bloc are now pursuing trade and economic frameworks and agreements with non-Asean countries.
  • 21-Sep-2005
    Data Exclusivity - Its Interpretation and India
    The Intellectual Property Regime in India is in the final stages of ensuring compliance with the standards agreed in the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (‘TRIPS’).
  • 21-Sep-2005 Korea Times
    AMCHAM urges Seoul to start FTA talks soon
    The US business community in Korea Wednesday expressed its collective hope to launch free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations between South Korea and the U.S. within this year, noting increasing interest in forming such a trade pact among US policymakers.
  • 21-Sep-2005 Jerusalem Post
    Olmert: Free trade pact with S. America close
    Israel is close to signing the free trade agreement with the Mercado Comun del Sur (Mercosur) countries in South America, acting Finance Minister Ehud Olmert indicated yesterday.
  • 21-Sep-2005 Asia Pulse
    Leaders agree to conclude US-Thai FTA in 2006
    Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and US President George W Bush agreed Monday to make vigorous efforts to reach a conclusion on the US-Thai Free Trade Agreement (FTA) next year, the leaders said in a joint statement.
  • 21-Sep-2005 Yonhap
    US presses S. Korea on issues blocking FTA negotiations
    The US Trade Representative (USTR), raising doubts about South Korea’s commitment to a bilateral free trade agreement, pressed the Asian trading partner Tuesday to be "unambiguous" in supporting it.
  • 20-Sep-2005 AP
    US, three S. American nations begin talks
    The United States began a new round of negotiations Monday with Peru, Ecuador and Colombia for a proposed free-trade agreement aimed at giving the three South American nations tariff-free access to US markets.
  • 20-Sep-2005 Reuters
    Chile-China trade pact could be signed in November
    Chile and China could sign a free trade agreement as early as November, tying together the world’s biggest producer and consumer of copper, Chilean President Ricardo Lagos told Reuters on Tuesday.
  • 20-Sep-2005 Economic Times
    An Asian economic community?
    There is a lot of anxiety in the developed world that Asia, buttressed by markets such as China and India, might be emerging as a big free trade block by itself.
  • 20-Sep-2005 Xinhua
    Andean countries, US start 12th round of talks on FTA
    Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and the United States on Monday began the 12th round of negotiations on a free trade agreement (FTA), in an effort to put a deal in effect in 2006.
  • 20-Sep-2005 Bangkok Post
    Thai farmers head to the US
    As senior bureaucrats from Thailand and the US prepare to enter the fifth round of negotiations over the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in Hawaii later this month, two Thai organic farmers have started their own campaign in the US. Phakpum Inpaen and Kanya Onsri from Surin province left Thailand yesterday on a 23-day circuit tour to talk to people in the US about how the FTA deal will threaten their survival.
  • 19-Sep-2005 Hindu Business Line
    Thailand calls for deepening ties under FTA
    Thailand has advised India not be deterred by the "aftershocks" of a tariff reduction on products under the Early Harvest Scheme in the Indo-Thai Free Trade Agreement (FTA) initiated in September last year.