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  • 4-Oct-2005 Xinhua
    US, Oman reach free trade agreement
    The United States and Oman have reached a free trade agreement (FTA) to eliminate tariffs and barriers and expand trade between both countries, US Trade Representative Rob Portman and Omani Minister of Commerce and Industry Maqbool Bin Ali Sultan announced Monday.
  • 4-Oct-2005 Daily Journal
    Free trade isn’t free of partisan politics
    Bitter partisanship is putting the United States’ trade agenda in the Americas in serious jeopardy.
  • 4-Oct-2005 Asahi Shumbun
    Guiding Japan: Leadership needed to unify multipronged FTA strategy
    Japanese FTAs agreed to so far are half-hearted at best.
  • 3-Oct-2005 PDI
    Veggie industry faces bleak future
    The Fair Trade Alliance blames the Philippine government’s trade commitments to the General Agreement on Tariffs Trade, the World Trade Organization and bilateral trade pacts for the problems facing the domestic vegetable industry.
  • 3-Oct-2005 Web India 123
    PM approves trade pact talks with South Korea
    With a view to further promoting India’s global engagement through regional trading arrangement, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today gave the green signal for starting negotiations with South Korea for signing a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA).
  • 3-Oct-2005 Bangkok Post
    Hawaii talks leave key points out
    Thailand and the United States have sorted out some technical issues but not major points during the week-long fifth round of the Thailand-US free trade talks that ended yesterday in Hawaii.
  • 2-Oct-2005 The News International
    Malaysia, Pakistan sign accord to reduce trade tariffs
    Malaysia and Pakistan on Saturday agreed to remove tariffs on scores of products they trade with each other including fish, fabric, fruit and machines as the first step toward a planned free trade agreement.
  • 2-Oct-2005 MCOT
    Negotiations on Thai-US FTA on well progress
    Negotiations between Thailand and the United States on a planned bilateral free trade area (FTA) are on well progress in its fifth round, with Washington agreeing in principle to protect Thai intellectual property on the Internet and to use the Thai laws to take care of the environment.
  • 1-Oct-2005 Bernama
    OIC members urged to look towards establishing Islamic FTA
    Governments and the private sectors of the member countries of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) should take a qualitative leap to establish an Islamic Free Trade Area (FTA) to overcome obstacles and bottlenecks that hinder the development of trade and investment between member states.
  • 1-Oct-2005 KUNA
    GCC-EU very close to striking free trade agreement — diplomatic source
    The Gulf Cooperation Council and the European Union are very close to striking a free trade agreement as coordination on this issue is in its final stages, an informed diplomatic source close to the process told Kuwait News Agency.
  • 1-Oct-2005 China Post
    Taiwan and Philippines to benefit from FTA, TIER president says
    Taiwan and the Philippines can benefit from a free trade agreement that is currently being negotiated by both countries, as it would help boost two-way trade and encourage more investments from the Taiwanese, said David Hong, president of Taiwan Institute of Economic Research (TIER), yesterday.
  • 1-Oct-2005 Arabic News
    Intensive talks to solve disagreement over free trade agreement
    Intensive talks between Egypt and the USA, especially on intellectual property, are currently take place as a preliminary step toward concluding a free trade agreement (FTA) between the two countries.
  • 30-Sep-2005 MCOT
    Financial institutions urged to resist seizure by foreign investors
    Local financial institutions need to adjust themselves to resist possible business seizure by foreign investors in a wake of the liberalization of trade with many countries in the world, according to a top banker.
  • 30-Sep-2005 Kyodo
    Japan, ASEAN trade ministers fail to break impasse in FTA talks
    apan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations failed to narrow their differences on launching free trade negotiations between the two sides during a ministerial meeting on Thursday.
  • 30-Sep-2005 Thai Labour Campaign
    Attracting FDI through the Spread of Free Trade Agreements
    This paper shows how free trade agreements (FTAs) in Southeast Asia are essentially a means to secure foreign direct investment (FDI) at the expense of labour standards. It explores the significance of FDI in export-oriented industrialisation and for economic transformation in Southeast Asia, with emphasis on the increasing global competition for FDI.
  • 30-Sep-2005 swissinfo
    US-Swiss free-trade deal "extremely valuable"
    An independent report says a free-trade accord between Switzerland and the United States would have "extremely valuable benefits" for both countries.
  • 30-Sep-2005 UNCTAD
    WIR 2005: Transnational corporations and the internationalization of R&D
    World Investment Report 2005, by UNCTAD, presents the latest trends in foreign direct investment and explores the internationalization of research and development by transnational corporations along with the development implications of this phenomenon.
  • 30-Sep-2005
    Saudi Arabia accession to WTO (2005)
    Information sheets from USTR
  • 30-Sep-2005 Gulf News
    Bahrain societies flay move to normalise ties with Israel
    Nineteen societies and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have rapped moves to normalise relations with Israel and called for joint national and regional efforts to abort the US-initiated Broader Middle East project.
  • 30-Sep-2005 The Australian
    Indonesia may sign trade deal
    Australia and Indonesia bolstered trading ties today, which could support efforts by Canberra and Wellington to forge a free trade agreement with ASEAN.