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  • 17-Nov-2005
    India, look ahead: A two-pronged strategy for boosting trade
    The current state of play in the Doha Round negotiations underlines the importance of stronger bilateral and regional trading agreements for India. As of now, India has concluded trading agreements with Sri Lanka, Thailand and Singapore. In the regional context, Safta and Bimstec are yet to really takeoff.
  • 17-Nov-2005
    US ’Big Brother’ attitude in FTAs draws criticism
    Arabs attending a conference in Bahrain blasted yesterday Washington’s "Big Brother" attitude in bilateral Free Trade Agreements, saying they are political tools to serve US interests rather than enhance economic prosperity in the region.
  • 17-Nov-2005
    Singapore-Panama FTA on track for progress
    Singapore’s plans to sign a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Panama remain on track.
  • 17-Nov-2005 AXcess News
    Democrats and labor leaders balk at lack of workers rights under CAFTA
    Democratic members of Congress and labor leaders say they want the Bush administration to move away from CAFTA’s failed trade model or face another tough battle in Congress.
  • 16-Nov-2005
    Goff calls for APEC FTA progress, Doha pressure
    Noting that a "spaghetti bowl of rules" would result from multiple bilateral free trade agreements among APEC members, Minister of Trade Phil Goff has called for coherence between FTAs in the region.
  • 14-Nov-2005 Korea Herald
    Understanding FTAs: going back to the basics
    Despite being a late starter in pursuing bilateral free trade agreements, Korea has been actively seeking Free Trade Agreement talks with its trading partners around the world.
  • 11-Nov-2005 The Hindu
    ADB, RBI for FTA between India and Mekong nations
    Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Thursday advocated that India should go in for a free trade agreement (FTA) with China and five other nations in the Mekong region to sustain high growth.
  • 10-Nov-2005 Thai Labour Campaign
    Attracting FDI through the spread of free trade agreements
    This paper shows how free trade agreements (FTAs) in Southeast Asia are essentially a means to secure foreign direct investment (FDI) at the expense of labour standards. It explores the significance of FDI in export-oriented industrialisation and for economic transformation in Southeast Asia, with emphasis on the increasing global competition for FDI.
  • 10-Nov-2005 Prensa Latina
    Peruvian farmers buck FTA with US
    Two important Peruvian agricultural organizations march Wednesday against president Alejandro Toledo’s negotiations for a free trade agreement with the US.
  • 10-Nov-2005 IPS
    Is an ’FTAA Lite’ a real possibility?
    Most of the countries in Latin America and the Caribbean want a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), even in a less ambitious form, as opposed to a handful of nations - albeit an economically powerful minority - that reject the idea.
  • 10-Nov-2005 Prensa Latina
    Chilean FM breaks FTA date with Japan
    Chilean Foreign Minister Ignacio Walker suspended Tuesday a visit to Japan to discuss a free trade agreement as a result of Peruvian ex-President Alberto Fujimori’s arrival in the country, local media said on Tuesday.
  • 10-Nov-2005 Asharq Awalsat
    UAE and US in third round FTA negotiations
    The UAE and US will resume their FTA negotiations on the 12 through the 16 of November in London.
  • 9-Nov-2005 Financial Express
    S’pore benefits to all under new Bipa
    Pre-establishment national treatment to foreign investors in India, now a prerogative of Singapore-based entities, will soon be a generic benefit India would offer all eligible investors under the bilateral investment protection agreements (Bipas).
  • 9-Nov-2005 Korea Times
    US links beef import to FTA with South Korea
    Alexander Vershbow, Washington’s top diplomat to Seoul, said Tuesday that South Korea’s lifting of the ban on US beef could trigger talks on a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA).
  • 8-Nov-2005 MENAFN
    US exports to Arab nations may touch new highs
    With many Arab nations going ahead with their plans to sign free-trade agreements (FTAs) with the US, trade and industry associations are projecting extraordinary growth in US exports to the Arab world in the years to come.
  • 8-Nov-2005 Ohmynews
    Chile seeks FTAs with 11 Asian countries
    After the negotiations on a possible Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with China, the Chilean government already started a route to conquer the rest of the market in the Asia-Pacific region. The list has 11 countries.
  • 8-Nov-2005 Agência Brasil
    Fox wants Mexico in the Mercosur in 2006
    On the final day of the 4th Summit of the Americas, in Mar del Plata, Argentina, the president of Mexico, Vicente Fox, said that he is negotiating his country’s entry into the Mercosur in the middle of next year.
  • 8-Nov-2005 Colombia Journal
    Despite FTAA defeat at Americas Summit, free trade to be imposed on Colombians
    In the aftermath of the U.S. failure in Argentina, the Bush administration continues to work for bilateral or sub-regional free trade agreements throughout the Americas.
  • 8-Nov-2005 Khaleej Times
    No pax americana
    Indigenous movements are indeed a threat to the free-trade policies Bush is hawking, with ever fewer buyers, across Latin America. Their power comes not from terror but a terror-resistant strain of hope, so sturdy it can take root in the midst of Colombia’s seemingly hopeless civil war.
  • 8-Nov-2005 Reuters
    Bush says US and Panama close to free trade accord
    President George W. Bush said on Monday the United States and Panama were close to completing a free trade agreement as he ended a Latin American tour that fell short of his goal of reviving talks on a hemispheric-wide trade zone.