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  • 7-Sep-2005
    Nigeria, Brazil sign bilateral agreements
    The relationship between Nigeria and Brazil yesterday took a major leap with the signing of bilateral agreements by Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and liiz Inacio Da Silva.
  • 7-Sep-2005
    Singapore, Vietnam shows interest in enhancing ties with India
    Singapore and Vietnam today showed keen interest in enhancing trade ties with India in view of the immense opportunities for investors here.
  • 7-Sep-2005
    Peru’s Toledo: US trade pact expected next month
    Peru hopes to have a free trade agreement with the U.S. concluded in October, President Alejandro Toledo said Tuesday.
  • 7-Sep-2005
    ’Death’ of Benguet veggie industry looms
    The feared "demise" of the Benguet vegetable industry due to the free trade agreement looms. Growers expressed this fear when vegetables from Benguet were not excluded from the Early Harvest Program (EHP) signed by the Chinese and Philippine governments.
  • 7-Sep-2005
    Third round of NZ-M’sia FTA talks on Sept 14
    THE proposed New Zealand-Malaysia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is on track, with the third round of talks to be hosted in Kuala Lumpur on Sept 14.
  • 7-Sep-2005 Business Standard
    EU asks for Singapore-like tax benefits
    The European Union wants India to extend similar capital gains tax benefits to its investments in the country as is given to Singapore.
  • 7-Sep-2005 Jamaica Observer
    Dominican Republic passes free-trade agreement with US
    Dominican legislators overwhelmingly approved a free-trade agreement yesterday with the United States and five Central American countries - rejecting arguments that the pact would devastate the domestic sugar industry.
  • 7-Sep-2005 Reuters South Africa
    Somalia, Kenya sign first trade deal in 14 years
    Somalia’s fledgling government signed a broad bilateral trade agreement with neighboring Kenya on Tuesday, the first since warlords overthrew military dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991 and plunged the country into chaos.
  • 7-Sep-2005 Korea Times
    US official criticizes ’screen quota’
    The long-standing screen quota issue is a major stumbling block to a comprehensive free trade agreement (FTA) between Korea and the US, according to a senior US government official.
  • 7-Sep-2005 Korea Times
    Roh wants APEC to become bloc
    Korean President Roh Moo-hyun Tuesday stressed the need for Asian and Pacific Rim countries to pursue economic integration like that of the European Union (EU) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). He said it would be more effective on a long-term basis to build a regional economic bloc, rather than to continue signing bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs).
  • 6-Sep-2005 ABS-CBN
    RP-Japan trade talks hit snag
    Negotiations regarding the Philippine-Japan trade accord may be delayed until 2006, four months behind the government’s schedule, because of the continued delay in the proceedings.
  • 6-Sep-2005 Financial Express
    India-EU investment, trade pact in the offing
    The sixth India-EU summit in New Delhi on September 7 is likely to be marked by a more definite move towards clinching a bilateral investment/trade agreement.
  • 6-Sep-2005 Bernama
    India hopes to expand scope of bilateral trade with Malaysia
    India hopes to expand the scope and coverage of trade with Malaysia once a Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) between Malaysia and India is completed.
  • 6-Sep-2005
    Free trade agreement: impact in Thailand
    This booklet by FTA Watch is aimed at disseminating information to international civil society for the purpose of sharing the analyses and experience of the FTA struggle in Thailand.
  • 5-Sep-2005
    Uribe and Toledo to analyze FTA with US
    Presidents of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe, and Peru, Alejandro Toledo will analyze Monday the Free Trade Agreement (FTA), which along with Ecuador, has been negotiated with the US since May 2004.
  • 5-Sep-2005
    Macedonian Government endorses FTA with Kosovo
    The Macedonian Government has endorsed on Thursday the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Kosovo, although Kosovar side has initiated its implementation a month ago.
  • 5-Sep-2005
    Battle to make free trade fair
    The political leaders of Thailand and Japan met last week in Tokyo to clear away some hurdles in the important negotiations for a bilateral Free Trade Agreement. This FTA, like others recently signed and vaunted by the government, is slightly misnamed because they do not even aim at actual, laissez-faire commerce.
  • 5-Sep-2005
    Mittal Steel to launch Netherlands vs. Czech Republic arbitration
    Netherlands-based Mittal Steel, disqualified from the Vítkovice Steel privatization, says that in late September it will launch international arbitration against the Czech state.
  • 5-Sep-2005
    Saudi Arabia and the US sign bilateral free trade agreement
    A member of the Saudi delegation negotiating the Kingdom’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) told Asharq Al Awsat his government and the United States had signed a bilateral free trade agreement and expected the U.S Congress to make an announcement on the subject next week following its ratification.
  • 5-Sep-2005
    India Inc wants FTA in services with EU: study
    On the eve of UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair’s arrival in the country for the India-EU Summit, India Inc. represented by the country’s top CEOs on Monday favoured signing of a special Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the European Union (EU) in the area of services, given India’s strength in knowledge driven sectors and changing demographic profile in EU, which will soon face a shortage of trained manpower for future economic growth.