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  • 17-Dec-2005
    FTA - a passport of opportunities
    The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is a ’passport of opportunities’ and it is up to the business communities of both Bahrain and the US to see how best they can use this opportunity, the President of American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham), Samir Benmukhlouf, said yesterday.
  • 17-Dec-2005
    Japanese demand better standards
    Japanese fruit producers and exporters have called for their Thai counterparts to upgrade sanitary and food safety standards if they want to succeed in promoting Thai fruit consumption in Japan.
  • 17-Dec-2005
    China to begin FTA deals with trading partners from next year
    China will honour its free trade area (FTA) agreements with its trading partners, levy negotiated tariffs on some Indian goods and will also offer special preferential tariff rates to about 30 least developing countries next year, finance minister Jin Renqing said.
  • 16-Dec-2005 Khaleej Times
    GCC and European Union: 17-year old FTA negotiations
    The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations between the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and European Union (EU) have started since 1988. However, there have been always obstacles that prevented the achievement of a final agreement.
  • 16-Dec-2005 Ip-health
    Tonga’s WTO accession has TRIPS+ linkage
    Tonga acceded to the WTO yesterday and one of the conditions of it being allowed to join the WTO was to have TRIPS+ linkage of patent status and data exclusivity.
  • 16-Dec-2005 USCCB
    US economic and security interests enhanced by moral trade agreements
    The chairman of the bishops’ International Policy Committee Monday offered a Catholic perspective on a pending free trade agreement, suggesting that the United States and several Andean nations could simultaneously promote human dignity and fair and sustainable development.
  • 16-Dec-2005
    CRS Report for Congress: Andean-US FTA negotiations
    Given that CAFTA-DR passed only by a small margin, it is unclear how much support the U.S.-Andean FTA will have.
  • 16-Dec-2005 AP
    AELE: Accord de libre-échange signé avec la Corée du Sud
    Le ministre de l’économie fédéral Joseph Deiss et ses homologues de l’AELE ont signé jeudi à Hong Kong un accord de libre-échange avec la République de Corée. L’accord entrera en vigueur le 1er juillet prochain
  • 15-Dec-2005 Business Times
    Robust outlook conducive for US-Malaysia FTA talks
    An 18-member mission of the US-Asean Business Council visited Malaysia recently to encourage the start of bilateral FTA talks with the US.
  • 15-Dec-2005 Bernama
    FTA must cover at least 90 percent of trade: Asean Sec-Gen
    A quality free trade agreement (FTA) between countries should cover 90 to 95 per cent of their trade, Asean Secretary General Ong Keng Yong said Wednesday, adding that India’s long exclusion list of products hampered such a pact with Asean.
  • 14-Dec-2005
    Morshed assumes BIMSTEC chair Dec 19: Dhaka wants early enforcement of FTA
    Foreign Minister M Morshed Khan who formally assumes BIMSTEC chair with the holding of its ministerial meeting here on December 19 said Dhaka wants early enforcement of the FTA in goods in the BIMSTEC region, as production base in Bangladesh is gradually expanding.
  • 14-Dec-2005
    Vietnam and RoK sign bilateral co-operation agreement
    Investment promotion agencies of Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK) reached an agreement on bilateral co-operation in Hanoi on December 13.
  • 14-Dec-2005
    American Farm Bureau supports free trade with Oman
    Even though Oman is a relatively small market for US agricultural exports, several factors make it an attractive export market for the United States, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation.
  • 14-Dec-2005
    Korean mid-sized cos to drop anchor here
    After the big daddies, it appears to be the turn of mid-size Korean companies to hot foot it to India.
  • 14-Dec-2005
    Colombia congratulates Peru on free trade deal with US
    Colombia’s government congratulated Peru on closing a free trade deal with the US, but said some of the issues that it has regarding a similar agreement with the US still need to be resolved.
  • 14-Dec-2005
    Reaping the fruit of FTA with ASEAN
    The impending free trade agreement with the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations is expected to mark yet another leap for Korea in its pursuit of extensive trade ties in strategic markets.
  • 14-Dec-2005
    Bilateral trade deals not good for developing Asia: UNESCAP
    The proliferation of bilateral trade deals among Asian countries is an undesirable fallout of the slow progress in global trade talks and against the interests of the poorest countries in the region, according to the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP).
  • 14-Dec-2005
    On the free trade track
    Korea has taken another step forward in its pursuit of free trade agreements by signing the framework agreement with ASEAN on Tuesday. It should provide new momentum toward launching or accelerating talks with more trading partners, including the United States, Japan and China.
  • 14-Dec-2005
    Asean concerned about India’s position on FTA - Abdullah
    Asean has expressed its concern on India’s proposal to exclude a large number of products from tariff concessions under the Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
  • 14-Dec-2005
    GCC mulls FTAs with Singapore, Australia
    GCC finance ministers said the six states were considering foreign trade deals with Singapore and Australia to widen existing talks for bilateral accords with some of its member states.