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  • 4-Sep-2005 AP
    Mexican farm union demands trade reform
    The leader of Mexico’s largest farm union has demanded a review of the North American Free Trade Agreement before final tariff reductions take effect in 2008.
  • 4-Sep-2005 Manila IMC
    AKBAYAN solon demands full disclosure of lopsided trade deal with Japan
    AKBAYAN Rep. Mayong Aguja today scored the Department of Trade and Industry and the Executive for failing to fully disclose and inform the public of the exact contents of the Japan Philippines EPA.
  • 3-Sep-2005 MOFA
    Joint press statement: Japan-Thailand Economic Partnership Agreement
    On 1 September 2005, Mr. Junichiro Koizumi, Prime Minister of Japan and Mr. Thaksin Shinawatra, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Thailand met in Tokyo to jointly announce that agreement in principle has been reached between the Japanese side and the Thai side on all major elements of the Japan-Thailand Economic Partnership Agreement, on the basis of a series of negotiations since February 2004.
  • 3-Sep-2005 Manila Bulletin
    Free-trade deal not in US trip agenda
    Trade and Industry Secretary Peter B. Favila said the proposed Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the Philippines and the US is not in the agenda of President Gloria Arroyo’s state visit to the US.
  • 2-Sep-2005
    Greens’s FTA stand no problem for PM
    The Prime Minister appears prepared to let the Green party vote against trade treaties if it goes into coalition with Labour.
  • 2-Sep-2005
    NTC to clarify Thai stand in FTA talks
    Thailand is preparing briefing papers for the technical round of the US-Thailand free trade area (FTA) agreement talks that will make clear the country will not open satellite-based international telecom services or direct broadcasting in the near future.
  • 2-Sep-2005
    Mandelson in ’illegal’ trade move
    In advice for a new report by the development charity ActionAid a lawyer in Matrix Chambers today warns that European Union trade commissioner Peter Mandelson is violating a legal duty to Africa by undermining alternatives to his trade plans which, critics fear, threaten the jobs of millions of poor people.
  • 2-Sep-2005 Japan Times
    Thai FTA defers sticking points
    Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and his visiting Thai counterpart, Thaksin Shinawatra, agreed Thursday on a basic accord to lower mutual trade barriers that left key decisions on high tariffs on Japanese cars and Thai rice unresolved.
  • 1-Sep-2005
    Preferential trade agreements in the Asia-Pacific region
    This IMF working paper of July 2005 describes the proliferation of PTAs in the Asia-Pacific region, discusses their characteristics and implementation, and assesses their potential effects.
  • 31-Aug-2005 Dawn
    Myths about bilateral free trade
    Of late, there has been an outbreak of activism in the realm of bilateral free trade and investment agreements across the world. Many developing countries have found themselves swept off by the wave of bilateralism, not realizing it only weakens the cause of multilateralism.
  • 31-Aug-2005 Business Day
    US-SACU: New impetus behind a deal
    Negotiations for a free trade agreement between the US and the Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) stalled last year in an atmosphere of impasse rather than acrimony. But on the explicit instruction of President Thabo Mbeki, the talks are now on again and new, ambitious targets have been set for their completion, as well as a new plan for getting past the problems that plagued the last effort.
  • 31-Aug-2005 Arabic News
    US Congress to address draft of Egyptian-US free trade agreement
    The US Administration will put forward the draft to the Egyptian-US free trade agreement to the Congress by the end of the current year, Egypt’s Foreign Trade and Industry Minister Rashid Mohamed Rashid said.
  • 31-Aug-2005 Asia Pulse
    UPS keen to cash in on possible China-Australia FTA
    The president of United Parcel Service (UPS) said today a free trade agreement (FTA) between Australia and China could deliver the logistics giant a similar surge in business that followed the signing of the Australia-US FTA in May last year.
  • 31-Aug-2005 ECO Secretariat
    ECO Trade Agreement (ECOTA, 2003)
  • 31-Aug-2005 Trade Compliance Center
    US-Slovak Republic BIT (2004)
  • 30-Aug-2005 The Star
    Benefits and costs of FTAs
    Negotiations on bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) are going on at a blazing speed worldwide. Not much is known on how these talks are going. But they have a lot of effects on local industries and farms, on medicine prices and on what can be included in future development strategies.
  • 29-Aug-2005
    Rafidah says Japan-M’sia FTA may be signed in December
    International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz said she was confident that Malaysia would be able to sign a free trade agreement with Japan by December this year.
  • 29-Aug-2005 Gulf News
    Gulf states and EU set to hold FTA talks in New York
    GCC and EU foreign ministers will hold crucial talks in New York next month to remove obstacles hindering a free-trade agreement between the two groups.
  • 26-Aug-2005
    Japan urged to compromise more in FTA talks
    ASEAN General Secretary Ong Keng Yong has called on Japan make more compromises in free trade talks between the country and the regional grouping.
  • 26-Aug-2005
    Japan to boost aid for Asia to promote FTA
    As part of efforts to promote free trade agreements (FTA) with Asian countries, Japan will step up such industrial aid as technical cooperation and personnel development for their automotive sectors.