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  • 7-Feb-2006 Daily Times
    PM proposes FTA with Oman
    Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Monday proposed that Pakistan and Oman should sign Free Trade Agreement (FTA) to further expand their economic ties and this would be Pakistan’s first FTA with a Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) country.
  • 7-Feb-2006
    Free-Trade Backer Favored in Costa Rica
    A Nobel Peace Prize winner who supports a free-trade agreement with the United States was favored in pre-election polls as Costa Ricans chose a new president on Sunday. He faced a rival who said the pact would hurt farmers.
  • 7-Feb-2006
    FTA deals a wild card: farmers
    To the delight of free traders and the apprehension of Korean farmers and other globalization foes, the United States and Korea announced Thursday that they would begin negotiations on a free trade agreement.
  • 6-Feb-2006
    US-Thailand FTA - More IPR text proposed by US (2006)
    General provisions, trademarks (including GIs) and domain names
  • 6-Feb-2006 Bahrein Tribune
    GCC-India FTA to be signed in near future
    The GCC-India free trade agreement (FTA) will open over a billion consumers’ market for the Gulf countries.
  • 5-Feb-2006 PULSAR
    Peru - Farmers ask for referendum free trade agreement
    The National Agricultural Convention (CONVEAGRO) will present 40,000 signatures at the National Electoral Jury to back up their demand to submit signing of a free trade agreement with the US to a national referendum.
  • 5-Feb-2006 Financial Express
    Sri Lanka, Thailand benefit more from FTA with India
    With India signing Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) with Sri Lanka (1998) and Thailand (2004), its imports from these two countries have gone up by over 300% and 125%, respectively, between 2002-03 and 2004-05. India’s exports to Sri Lanka rose by about 47% and that to Thailand by 19% during the same period.
  • 5-Feb-2006 Xinhua
    Panama, Chile reach free trade pact
    Panama and Chile signed a free trade deal here on Saturday, ending their 15th round of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) talks.
  • 4-Feb-2006
    Outlook Hopeful as Trade Talks Begin
    Kim Hyun-jong, Korea’s trade minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Robert Portman, the United States Trade Representative, declared the start of preliminary ROK-U.S. ROK-U.S. free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations at a joint press conference in the main hall of Capitol Building in Washington D.C. yesterday.
  • 4-Feb-2006
    Support free-trade talks with S. Korea
    U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman’s newly announced plan to pursue a sweeping free trade agreement with South Korea is a bold step that, if done fairly, would be a win-win for the two nations, with long-term benefits for our economy.
  • 4-Feb-2006
    Take steps to avoid marginalization
    Over the past few years, East-Asian nations have signed many trade agreements and quickened the pace of economic integration. The exclusion of Taiwan from this process is a cause for concern.
  • 4-Feb-2006 Xinhua
    Andean community special tariff heralds EU free trade agreement
    The five-nation Andean community has agreed to create a special tariff regime with the European Union (EU) to ease the path to a free trade agreement, the regional bloc said in a statement published here on Thursday.
  • 4-Feb-2006 Prensa Latina
    Agriculture blocks Colombia-US FTA
    Disagreements on issues like agriculture are forcing the Colombian government on Friday to delay the possible signing of the free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States, scheduled for this weekend.
  • 4-Feb-2006 IPS
    Balkans: On different roads to EU
    All Balkans countries are headed for European Union membership, but they are taking different roads, and at differing pace.
  • 3-Feb-2006
    Semiconductor Industry Association Applauds Launching U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement; Agreement Has Potential to Eliminate Trade Barriers
    The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today applauded United States Trade Representative Rob Portman for initiating talks with Korea on a Free Trade Agreement.
  • 3-Feb-2006
    Hopes and Fears: Haste Should Not Make Waste in Free Trade Talks
    The launch of free trade negotiations between Seoul and Washington Friday marks another watershed in the two allies’ overall relationship. Particularly in economic areas, the two countries will almost become one with 90 percent of trade being made without tariffs in a decade. Doubts are still strong about the need for hurrying into a free trade agreement with the world’s largest economy, but the die is cast. This is no longer a matter of whether or not but of how and what kind.
  • 3-Feb-2006
    Car, Tech Industries Expected to Gain Most From FTA Deal
    Local automobile and information technology (IT) industries are expected to benefit most from the Korea-U.S. free trade agreement (FTA).
  • 3-Feb-2006
    Film People Begin Protest Against Screen Quota Cut
    Members of the local film industry on Wednesday started their all-night relay rally against the government’s decision to halve the screen quota system.
  • 2-Feb-2006 JoongAng
    Pact could mature alliance
    The relationship between Korea and the United States until now was a firm security alliance to prevent the spread of communism. The announcement of free trade agreement negotiations is an expression of a will to establish a more developed general alliance, not only in ideology and military on a security level, but also in economic gains.
  • 2-Feb-2006 Yonhap
    S. Korea, US announce start of FTA negotiations
    South Korea and the United States announced Thursday they will start negotiations for a free trade agreement (FTA). Formal negotiations will begin in May