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  • 31-May-2005 CADTM
    Investment treaties: the risks of jeopardising economic development, the Bolivarian revolution and participatory democracy
    This article analyses some of the potential direct consequences of investment treaties on economic policies implemented by the Venezuelan public authorities
  • 31-May-2005 China Daily
    Gulf countries, Turkey sign FTA deal
    The six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council and Turkey signed an agreement Monday to begin negotiations on a free trade agreement (FTA).
  • 31-May-2005
    Clark tells China NZ wants to be first
    Prime Minister Helen Clark has told China’s leaders she wants New Zealand to be the first developed nation to sign a free-trade deal with the Asian economic powerhouse.
  • 30-May-2005 AFP
    Taiwan needs free trade agreement with US to ward off China: Chen
    Taiwan desperately needs a free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States to protect itself against rival China’s growing economic dominance, the island’s President Chen Shui-bian told a visiting US senator.
  • 30-May-2005 Bangkok Post
    Washington insists financial services must be on agenda
    Financial-sector liberalisation could undermine efforts to negotiate a Thailand-US free-trade area agreement, according to Finance Ministry officials.
  • 30-May-2005 Dow Jones Newswire
    Interview: Chile turns to Australia in Asia Pacific push
    On Friday, Chile will formally unveil free trade agreements with New Zealand, Singapore and Brunei, building on existing agreements with South Korea, Canada, the US and the European Union. Next on Chile’s FTA hit list are Asian giants China, Japan and India.
  • 30-May-2005 MCOT
    Operators in financial sector opposes FTA with US
    Local operators in the financial sector have voiced opposition to the financial liberalization between the United States and Thailand, saying that they would be put at disadvantage since the US financial services are more advanced than Thailand’s.
  • 30-May-2005 Bangkok Post
    ’Too many FTAs could hurt Asean’
    Too many bilateral free trade area (FTA) agreements between individual Asian countries and more powerful economies will erode Asean’s drive to create free trade among its 10 members, according to Dr Somkiat Tangkitvanich, research director of the Thailand Development Research Institute.
  • 29-May-2005 http://egyptelection.com/modules.ph...
    Egypt-US talks on FTA start next year
    Egypt-US negotiations on setting up a free trade area will probably start early next year when the US administration and Congress finishes negotiations with some countries in Central America, US economic sources said.
  • 29-May-2005
    Colombia iffy over FTA negotiations with US
    Colombia’s Minister of Trade Jorge Humberto Botero said Friday his government is undecided whether it should attend the 10th Round of Negotiations of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the US, to be held in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • 29-May-2005 China Daily
    China, Chile warm to FTA
    China and Chile are to sign an agreement next Tuesday cementing their co-operation in developing a joint copper industry. Following this, a third round of China and Chile’s Free Trade Agreement (FTA) talks is set to be held next month in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province.
  • 29-May-2005 Thanh Nien News
    US supports Vietnam’s WTO bid, works toward FTA
    The United States fully supports Vietnam’s efforts to join the World Trade Organization (WTO), said US Ambassador to Vietnam Michael Marine at a press conference in Washington on May 25.
  • 29-May-2005 BNI
    Burma-Bangladesh trade agreement expires
    With no transactions in the past two years, the term of the Account Trade Arrangement (ATA) between Burma and Bangladesh has expired without any initiative for renewal.
  • 29-May-2005 New Nation
    BIMSTEC meet on June 1: Six priority sectors to be discussed
    A BIMSTEC Free Trade Area agreement was signed in last February. The agreement covers trade in goods, services and investment. Negotiations are progressing well on specific issues. The Agreement would come into force from July 2006.
  • 27-May-2005 Prensa Latina
    Colombian farmers blackball FTA negotiations
    Colombia’s Farmers Association has urged its government not to attend the 10th Free Trade of Americas (FTA) Round of Negotiations with the US, to be held in June in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • 27-May-2005 Washington Post
    Latinos debate free trade’s cost
    In the Dominican enclave of Upper Manhattan, where street life thrives on mom-and-pop stores and the sound of bachata, trade debates are scrutinized through the lens of daily survival in the city and on the island.
  • 26-May-2005
    FTA requires backing of Congress
    The Bush administration will do nothing to advance a free trade agreement (FTA) with Taiwan unless Taiwan mobilizes a widespread coalition of US businesses in favor of an FTA to lobby Congress to pressure the administration into action, a key US congressman told a Washington symposium on a US-Taiwan FTA on Tuesday.
  • 26-May-2005 Forbes
    EU studies free trade agreement with Malaysia - report
    The EU is studying the feasibility of a free trade agreement between it and Malaysia, national news agency Bernama reported.
  • 26-May-2005 PDI
    Japan to drive into Malaysian auto sector with FTA
    Japan and Malaysia on Wednesday sealed the outline of a free-trade agreement (FTA) that will open up a major new market for Japanese automakers with the lifting of heavy tariffs on Japanese cars within 10 years.
  • 25-May-2005
    Smaller auto component firms threatened by Asian FTAs: KPMG report
    Smaller and indigenous automotive and component companies may find themselves at a disadvantage due to the Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) being put into place across Asia, says a report released by KPMG.