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  • 20-Feb-2006 AP
    Rice: Timing off for free trade with Egypt
    The United States will not seek a free trade agreement with Egypt this year because the "timing" is not right, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said.
  • 19-Feb-2006 AFP
    S Korean farmers, movie makers rally over US trade talks
    Some 2,000 South Korean farmers, movie-makers and anti-US activists staged a candlelight protest Friday against free trade negotiations with the United States.
  • 19-Feb-2006 Bangkok Post
    US-Thailand: Talks could slow over plant and drug issues
    Differences over pharmaceuticals could be overcome, but the countries are far from reaching a common understanding on biodiversity issues.
  • 19-Feb-2006
    Kenya and Venezuela sign bilateral trade agreement
    Kenya has signed an agreement with the Venezuela government to enhance bilateral co-operation between the two countries.
  • 19-Feb-2006
    Cabinet approves negotiations on bilateral investment agreement with Kuwait
    Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz Wednesday approved negotiations on bilateral investment agreement between the governments of Pakistan and Kuwait.
  • 19-Feb-2006 IPS
    US free traders retreat on UAE ports deal
    In a replay of congressional efforts last year that foiled a bid by a Chinese company to buy a US oil firm, a group of hawkish US lawmakers, citing national security concerns, are trying to block a deal that gives a major Arab company control over a British firm that runs some US ports.
  • 19-Feb-2006 ZNet
    Hunger on the border
    The labor side agreement of NAFTA hasn’t forced anybody to take responsibility. It’s not an effective guarantee of anyone’s rights.
  • 19-Feb-2006 MCOT
    Thailand-US FTA talks likely to extend beyond April
    Although the local political situation has become heated, with rumours on dissolving the parliament prevaling in the country, the Thai-US negotiations will continue, Naris Chaiyasoot, Director General of the Ministry of Finance’s Fiscal Policy Office, said.
  • 19-Feb-2006
    Opening a trade gateway
    Hundreds of American companies have been invited to a key conference in Bahrain next week to discuss ways to enhance commercial ties between the two countries.
  • 19-Feb-2006 UNI
    Pakistan ratifies SAFTA - but no free trade with India
    Pakistan has ratified the much-trumpeted South Asia Free Trade Agreement (Safta), but trade between India and Pakistan will not be initiated under this agreement, instead it will continue under the existing import regime.
  • 18-Feb-2006
    Exclusion of rice from trade deal ‘possible’
    With the government’s recent efforts to sign a free trade agreement with the United States drawing intense opposition from farmers here, a top Korean government official said the trade negotiators would try to exempt rice from the economic pact.
  • 18-Feb-2006
    Time not right for US-Egypt trade pact: Rice
    The time is not right for the United States and Egypt to begin negotiations on a free- trade agreement, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in an interview on Friday with Arab media.
  • 18-Feb-2006
    US meets resistance on full access to finance
    A seminar heard yesterday that although US negotiators had asked Thailand to fully deregulate its financial services and allow US investors unrestricted stakes in the brokering and banking sectors, Bangkok was insisting that the sector was not ready to face direct competition.
  • 18-Feb-2006
    Brunei-Japan FTA talks on the cards
    Brunei and Japan will hold two-day preparatory talks starting Monday to conclude a bilateral free trade agreement.
  • 18-Feb-2006 Financial Express
    Inept handling of trade agreements
    All trade agreements may fumble in delivering results if they take effect prior to completion of all modalities and arrangements, which are to govern and ease trade between the signatory countries. But both the South Asian Preferential Trade Agreement (SAPTA) and its successor agreement on free trade — South Asian Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) — were signed before completing these essential formalities
  • 18-Feb-2006 El Universal
    Colombia-US FTA may distort Venezuelan market
    Venezuela’s Minister of Industry and Trade Gustavo Márquez thinks that an eventual Free Trade Agreement (FTA) by Colombia and the United States could result in unfair competition to the detriment of Venezuelan commodities.
  • 18-Feb-2006 Bangkok Post
    Free trade could cost plenty
    Supara Janchitfah looks at the rules of the Thai-US FTA negotiation process and finds them more favourable to the American side.
  • 17-Feb-2006
    CAFTA In Limbo
    Jacobo Kattan was hoping to build an industrial park and create 8,000 new jobs after the expected implementation of a regional free-trade pact last month. Instead, he’s had to fire 2,000 workers and close three companies as the region’s clothing industry haemorrhages, putting factories in legal limbo while much of their business leaves for Asia.
  • 17-Feb-2006 PR Newswire
    US Senators express concern over Chevron lobbying tactics
    US Senators Patrick Leahy and Barack Obama have written to the US Trade Representative urging that he ignore Chevron’s campaign to exclude Ecuador from FTA negotiations until the Ecuadorian government shuts down a historic environmental lawsuit against the company.
  • 17-Feb-2006 Reuters
    US nearing decision on trade talks with Malaysia
    The United States may announce soon that it is beginning free trade talks with Malaysia, US Trade Representive Rob Portman said on Wednesday.