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  • 18-Aug-2005
    Pakistan and Singapore to hold talks on FTA soon
    Pakistan and Singapore will formally initiate 3-day technical parleys on Free Trade Agreement (FTA) on August 24, a senior government official told Online here on Thursday.
  • 18-Aug-2005
    All talk, no action at FTA meeting
    AUSTRALIA and China are unlikely to start real negotiations for a free trade agreement this year, and it could take a long time to end up with a result that tackled "behind the border" issues, a senior trade official has warned.
  • 18-Aug-2005 Asia Pulse
    Australian firms raise concerns over FTA with China
    Australian companies have raised serious concerns they may not be able to surmount Chinese regulations and restrictions ahead of the first in-depth free trade negotiations between the two countries.
  • 18-Aug-2005 Business Report
    Sacu and US to kick-start trade talks
    The US and the five-member Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) will meet in the second half of September to kick-start trade negotiations that ground to a halt late last year after the two regions failed to reach consensus on a range of key issues.
  • 18-Aug-2005 CD Howe Institute
    US bilateral free trade accords: Why Canada should be cautious about going the same route
    Canada should focus on improving its access to the US market rather than trying to complete a host of FTA negotiations that are unlikely to result in large payoffs - despite the fact that the United States and many other countries are doing so.
  • 18-Aug-2005 Asia Pulse
    PNG Minister warns over tapping EU funds
    Continued delay by Pacific Island countries to negotiate a successful Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) could result in the region missing out in millions of European Union (EU) funds.
  • 18-Aug-2005 AJC
    In the trade zone: Georgians assess effects of CAFTA deal
    Georgia’s poultry industry is gearing up to ship more frozen chicken abroad under the Central American Free Trade Agreement, while parts of the state’s textile industry also stand to gain.
  • 18-Aug-2005 IPS
    Caribbean: Trade winds gusting as region faces WTO meet
    Recent developments in international trade highlight the difficulties facing the 15-member Caribbean Community (Caricom) as it prepares for a key World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerial meeting in Hong Kong this December.
  • 18-Aug-2005 BusinessWeek
    Official: CAFTA would hurt Mexico industry
    Mexico’s assembly-for-export industry, which has struggled to compete with China, will likely be hurt further by the proposed Central American Free Trade Agreement, officials said Wednesday.
  • 17-Aug-2005 Asia Pulse
    Taiwan, Guatemala expected to ink free trade accord before Oct
    Visiting Guatemalan President Oscar Berger said Tuesday that he expects a Taiwan-Guatemala free trade accord (FTA) to be signed in September or October.
  • 17-Aug-2005 Embassy of Jordan (Washington DC)
    Agadir Agreement (2004)
    Agreement for the Establishment of a Free Trade Zone between the Arabic Mediterranean Nations
  • 17-Aug-2005 Egypt Today
    There goes the neighborhood?
    As the European Union enters a difficult watershed moment in its internal affairs, Egypt and the partner countries in the EU’s ten-year Euro-Mediterranean Partnership ponder their own new administrative spiderweb. The new European Neighborhood Policy was designed to speed up free trade and strengthen human rights and political reforms - but it could pass us over altogether.
  • 17-Aug-2005 Asia Times
    Indonesia, China find love
    China’s sustained growth will depend on how well it manages its political and trade relationships. Acquiring concessions and investing directly in natural-resource-based projects in Indonesia makes a great deal of sense for China.
  • 17-Aug-2005 Mizzima News
    BIMSTEC trade experts to settle FTA issues in July 2006
    Trade experts of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) are working on settling various issues pertaining to trade and investment in a bid to start a journey towards free trade area (FTA) among member countries from July 2006.
  • 17-Aug-2005 Rediff
    India’s new investment norm
    The tax holiday provided under the India-Singapore agreement, which Indian companies may take advantage of, is part of a trend that will make it increasingly difficult to tax capital in almost any country.
  • 17-Aug-2005 Bahrain Tribune
    Green light for talks on GCC-India FTA
    India will begin negotiations with the GCC as a single bloc as well as with individual member countries of the GCC for a comprehensive economic cooperation agreement, covering the service sector and investment, along the lines of the pact signed between India and Singapore recently.
  • 16-Aug-2005 CIEL
    Biodiversity and intellectual property rules in the Andean Free Trade Agreement
    Letter from five US NGOs to the USTR advocating that patents on plants and animals be dropped from the FTA negotiations with Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, in favour of the current WTO TRIPS Agreement.
  • 16-Aug-2005 EPI
    Can CAFTA save textile and apparel producers?
    The notion that 283,000 textile and apparel jobs will be created in Central America as a result of CAFTA is a pipedream.
  • 16-Aug-2005 Political Affairs Magazine
    The FTAA: A recipe for economic disaster?
    As indicated by CAFTA’s ratification, instead of pushing for the enactment of the FTAA, the Bush administration has re-evaluated its strategy, now attempting to build up momentum by establishing separate free trade agreements with the different regions in the hemisphere through a "divide-and-conquer" strategy.
  • 16-Aug-2005 China Daily
    Free trade deal with Chile in the pipeline
    China is expected to ink its first free trade agreement (FTA) with a single country this year: Chile.