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  • 12-Oct-2005 Oxford Business Reports
    One step closer
    Oman came to the closing stages of its Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations with the US on October 3, after talks on the final details closed successfully. Omani and US officials say the final signing should now take place early in 2006.
  • 12-Oct-2005 Senate Finance Committee
    AFL-CIO testimony to Senate Finance Committee on US-Bahrain FTA
    The Bahrain FTA provides precisely the wrong answers to the challenges faced by workers in Bahrain and the United States.
  • 12-Oct-2005 Gulf Daily News
    Bahrain-US FTA backed
    Business giants in the US are backing the Free Trade Agreement with Bahrain as it comes under scrutiny in hearings at the Senate and House of Representatives in Washington.
  • 12-Oct-2005 Jakarta Post
    Japan and Indonesia resume FTA talks
    Japan and Indonesia resumed free trade agreement (FTA) talks in Tokyo Tuesday and hope to conclude an agreement within two years, government officials said.
  • 11-Oct-2005 Times of Malta
    Likely costs of Euro-Med free trade area
    The proposed Euro-Mediterranean Free Trade Area (EMFTA), due to be established in 2010, might only generate slight net gains in regional economic welfare, but significant social and environmental costs in the Arab nations and Turkey, as well as extensive dislocations in south European agriculture.
  • 11-Oct-2005 New York Times
    Kuwaitis quietly breach a taboo: easing hostility toward Israel
    Reports have circulated that Kuwait will lift its embargo on Israel, but they remain unconfirmed. The Kuwaiti daily Al Qabas noted that Kuwait had not yet signed a free-trade agreement with the United States. Such an agreement would not permit a trade embargo on Israel.
  • 11-Oct-2005 NewIndPress
    India-Brazil-South Africa FTA distinct possibility: Govt
    Terming an India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Free Trade Agreement as a “distinct possibility”, the Indian government said it is looking at other ways of enhancing trade relationship with the two countries.
  • 10-Oct-2005 Mizzima News
    BIMSTEC trade meeting begins in Dhaka with focus on FTA
    The Eighth BIMSTEC Trade Negotiation Committee meeting began in Dhaka today with the aim of developing a free trade agreement between member countries.
  • 10-Oct-2005 The Age
    China FTA to boost wool sales: report
    Australian wool producers would reap a $780 million windfall if barriers to trade with China were ripped down, a new report has found.
  • 10-Oct-2005 Taiwan News
    President pitches for FTA with Honduras
    Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian made a pitch for the signing of a free trade agreement with Honduras during a state banquet host by him for visiting Honduras President Ricardo Maduro yesterday.
  • 10-Oct-2005 Edge Daily
    US hopes to conclude FTA with M’sia by June ’07
    The United States hopes to conclude any possible Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Malaysia by June 2007, said Assistant US Trade Representative for Southeast Asia and Pacific Affairs Barbara Weisel.
  • 10-Oct-2005 Taipei Times
    Specter of failure haunts WTO trade talks
    "The consequences of failure would be an even further switch to [bi-lateral] Free Trade Agreements [FTAs] and long-term weakness for multilateral trade. Trade would become more discriminatory," said Razeen Sally, visiting senior research fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore.
  • 10-Oct-2005 Gulf Daily News
    Israel ties ruled out
    The decision to lift boycott of Israel in line with the US FTA does not entail any economic, cultural, political, diplomatic or any other form of normalisation, Bahrain’s Foreign Minister said.
  • 10-Oct-2005 Jamaica Observer
    ACP negotiators meet in London
    Chief negotiators from the six Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) regions that are fashioning the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union met in London last week to compare notes and review strategies, and emerged saying that they had a better understanding of the way forward.
  • 9-Oct-2005 Gulf News
    US expects FTA with Bahrain to benefit Middle East
    A senior US trade official has dismissed concerns by the Senate Labor Advisory Committee, saying that "the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions General Secretary has publicly hailed Bahrain as showing the way for the region" and "the disciplines and consultative mechanism in the FTA will play a major role in further improving the labour situation in Bahrain."
  • 9-Oct-2005 Gulf Daily News
    Hundreds rally against lifting ban
    Hundreds of people turned up at two separate sites to demonstrate against Bahrain’s lifting of a boycott of Israeli goods yesterday
  • 9-Oct-2005 Bloomberg
    Ukraine to start free-trade talks with EU next year
    Ukraine expects to win market-economy status from the European Union in December and plans to start negotiating a free-trade regime with the bloc early next year, Prime Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov said.
  • 7-Oct-2005 Economic Times
    Thai FTA hits rules of origin roadblock
    The much-publicised Thai FTA seems to be stuck in first gear. According to sources in the auto industry, it is stuck over the rules of origin issue, which has been a contentious issue right from the beginning.
  • 7-Oct-2005 The Nation
    Chile next in line for FTA
    Thailand and Chile have agreed to conduct a joint study on a potential free-trade agreement (FTA) in order to establish bilateral access to regional markets.
  • 7-Oct-2005 ABS-CBN
    RP pushes for car-tariff clause in Japan talks
    The Philippines will push for a provision in a planned free-trade deal with Japan that would allow renegotiation on motor vehicle tariffs by 2009.