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  • 21-Sep-2005 Korea Times
    AMCHAM urges Seoul to start FTA talks soon
    The US business community in Korea Wednesday expressed its collective hope to launch free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations between South Korea and the U.S. within this year, noting increasing interest in forming such a trade pact among US policymakers.
  • 21-Sep-2005 Jerusalem Post
    Olmert: Free trade pact with S. America close
    Israel is close to signing the free trade agreement with the Mercado Comun del Sur (Mercosur) countries in South America, acting Finance Minister Ehud Olmert indicated yesterday.
  • 21-Sep-2005 Asia Pulse
    Leaders agree to conclude US-Thai FTA in 2006
    Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and US President George W Bush agreed Monday to make vigorous efforts to reach a conclusion on the US-Thai Free Trade Agreement (FTA) next year, the leaders said in a joint statement.
  • 21-Sep-2005 Yonhap
    US presses S. Korea on issues blocking FTA negotiations
    The US Trade Representative (USTR), raising doubts about South Korea’s commitment to a bilateral free trade agreement, pressed the Asian trading partner Tuesday to be "unambiguous" in supporting it.
  • 20-Sep-2005 AP
    US, three S. American nations begin talks
    The United States began a new round of negotiations Monday with Peru, Ecuador and Colombia for a proposed free-trade agreement aimed at giving the three South American nations tariff-free access to US markets.
  • 20-Sep-2005 Reuters
    Chile-China trade pact could be signed in November
    Chile and China could sign a free trade agreement as early as November, tying together the world’s biggest producer and consumer of copper, Chilean President Ricardo Lagos told Reuters on Tuesday.
  • 20-Sep-2005 Economic Times
    An Asian economic community?
    There is a lot of anxiety in the developed world that Asia, buttressed by markets such as China and India, might be emerging as a big free trade block by itself.
  • 20-Sep-2005 Xinhua
    Andean countries, US start 12th round of talks on FTA
    Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and the United States on Monday began the 12th round of negotiations on a free trade agreement (FTA), in an effort to put a deal in effect in 2006.
  • 20-Sep-2005 Bangkok Post
    Thai farmers head to the US
    As senior bureaucrats from Thailand and the US prepare to enter the fifth round of negotiations over the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in Hawaii later this month, two Thai organic farmers have started their own campaign in the US. Phakpum Inpaen and Kanya Onsri from Surin province left Thailand yesterday on a 23-day circuit tour to talk to people in the US about how the FTA deal will threaten their survival.
  • 19-Sep-2005 Hindu Business Line
    Thailand calls for deepening ties under FTA
    Thailand has advised India not be deterred by the "aftershocks" of a tariff reduction on products under the Early Harvest Scheme in the Indo-Thai Free Trade Agreement (FTA) initiated in September last year.
  • 18-Sep-2005 IBON
    RP-US FTA: A skewed deal in the making
    The Philippines cannot hope for a “mutually-beneficial” relationship with the US through a free trade agreement founded on the US neocolonial agenda.
  • 16-Sep-2005 Business Today
    Made for the USA
    Nine months into the first experiment in free trade with the United States, few participating manufacturers have reported a jump in production - most haven’t shipped unit one.
  • 15-Sep-2005 Japan Today
    Nippon Keidanren seeks FTA with 6 Persian Gulf countries
    The Japan Business Federation, the nation’s biggest business lobby, urged the government on Tuesday to start negotiations at an early date on concluding a free trade agreement with the Gulf Cooperation Council, which consists of six oil producers.
  • 14-Sep-2005 JoongAng Daily
    Seoul gingerly courts trade pacts
    Seoul is trying to adopt a more flexible approach to deeper international economic ties after the very public and very intense domestic brawl over the ratification of a free trade agreement with Chile.
  • 14-Sep-2005 Bangkok Post
    US FTA seen as threat to Thai identity
    The free trade agreement with the United States threatens Thailand’s ecological biodiversity and cultural uniqueness, researchers warned yesterday. Visut Baimai, director of the Biodiversity Research and Training Programme, said he feared the FTA would accelerate deforestation to grow profitable single-crop plantations. This, he said, could undermine both the ecosystem and sustainable economic development.
  • 14-Sep-2005 MCOT
    Govt urged to seek consensus before signing FTA with US
    The Thai government should seek a consensus from the public before signing a free trade area (FTA) agreement with the United States, according to a leading academic.
  • 14-Sep-2005 Asia Pulse
    S. Korea, EFTA initial free trade accord
    South Korea and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) initialed a free trade agreement (FTA) on Tuesday, a deal that should give domestic companies a beachhead in the European market, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said.
  • 13-Sep-2005 Asia Pulse
    Significant progress made in Seoul-ASEAN FTA talks
    South Korea and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have made substantial progress in their negotiations on a free trade agreement, the Foreign Ministry said Sunday.
  • 13-Sep-2005 The Star
    The fleeting charm of free trade
    The signs are scattered and tentative. But it’s beginning to look as if American-style free trade is going out of style.
  • 12-Sep-2005
    US and Saudi Arabia conclude bilateral WTO accession agreement
    US Trade Representative Rob Portman today announced that the United States and Saudi Arabia have concluded bilateral negotiations on issues related to Saudi Arabia’s World Trade Organization accession.