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  • 7-Apr-2005 Bangkok
    SPS: New requirement imposed on Thai fruit exports to China
    Thai fruit exporters seeking to enjoy tariff-free access to China must ensure that their products come from orchards certified by local authorities, starting on May 1.
  • 7-Apr-2005
    FTA with Canada would enhance economy - King
    His Majesty King Abdullah on Wednesday said a free trade agreement (FTA) between Jordan and Canada would contribute to enhancing the Kingdom’s economy.
  • 7-Apr-2005
    FTA with New Zealand by end of this year
    Malaysia and New Zealand have rescheduled the signing of a free trade agreement to the end of the year, six months ahead of the June 2006 deadline announced on Thursday.
  • 7-Apr-2005
    Hindawi asks US to reduce customs tariffs under FTA - Jordan
    A senior US trade official and the Jordanian Minister of Industry and Trade Ahmad Hindawi held talks Tuesday on "reinforcing and further-developing economic and trade relations between both countries."
  • 6-Apr-2005
    Thai private sector against Japan trade deal
    Thailand’s private sector has warned the government that several of the country’s industries are too weak to cope with the impact of a free trade agreement with Japan.
  • 6-Apr-2005
    Pak, China agree to FTA
    Pakistan and China Wednesday finally agreed on the ever first free Trade Agreement (FTA) under which both sides have agreed to cut down excise duty and bring the tariff to zero on the different daily use commodities.
  • 6-Apr-2005
    Malaysia FTA hits roadblock over cars
    Negotiations over a free trade agreement between Japan and Malaysia have hit a speed bump over cars, a focal point of the talks, due to Kuala Lumpur’s determination to continue protecting its local industry.
  • 6-Apr-2005
    Australia-Malaysia FTA set to go-ahead
    Australia and Malaysia will give the green light to start talks for a free trade deal as Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi makes his first official visit to Australia.
  • 6-Apr-2005 Bangkok Post
    1,200 march to urge dropping of intellectual property from US-Thai deal
    More than 1,200 Thai farmers, slum dwellers and HIV/Aids patients from 30 civic groups staged a six-kilometre walkathon yesterday from a temple in Jomthien to the Royal Cliff Beach Hotel to drive home their demand that intellectual property rights be removed from free trade talks with the United States.
  • 6-Apr-2005 Gulf Daily news
    GCC-EU pledge historic FTA
    The GCC is on its way to securing a world first in terms of international economic and trade agrements. Talks with the European Union over the world’s first region-to-region Free Trade Area agreement will be completed by the end of the year, it was declared yesterday.
  • 6-Apr-2005 Jakarta Post
    Summit indicates no plan to move toward FTA
    The upcoming Asian-African Summit will focus on establishing a new strategic partnership, and would not as yet move toward ideas of linking the two continents via a free trade agreement. "However, we have identified that (a FTA) is one form of cooperation that we can pursue in the long term," Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs secretary-general Sudjadnan Parnohadiningrat said.
  • 6-Apr-2005 CSIS
    Towards a US-Indonesia free trade agreement
    This May 2004 paper examines the main issues in designing an FTA between Indonesia and the United States.
  • 5-Apr-2005
    CAFTA passage by US Congress far from certain
    Supporters of the proposed Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) have attempted to create the impression that the United States Congress is likely to ratify CAFTA in the coming session. This is a concentrated effort to spread disinformation about the true nature of the situation in Washington.
  • 5-Apr-2005
    Silence on Thai-US FTA broken: 1,500 people said NO to FTA!
    It took over a thousand and five hundred people blowing their whistle for the Thai government to come out and listen to its people. But did Mr. Nitya Pibulsongkram, head of the Thai negotiating team for the Thai-US Free Trade Agreement (FTA), actually hear them?
  • 5-Apr-2005
    Opposition to CAFTA will make vote difficult
    Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-IA) said this week that opposition to the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) from Senate Agriculture Chairman Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) has made CAFTA passage “very, very difficult,” and added in a March 29 press conference that another difficulty is stronger-than-usual opposition from the sugar lobby and organized labor.
  • 5-Apr-2005 Bangkok Post
    US-Thai free trade negotiations: There’s little trust in trade talks
    Negotiators say the FTA will be open to comment, but critics want their say now before it is too late
  • 5-Apr-2005
    Lobbying by Japanese irks industrialists
    Free-trade negotiations between Thailand and Japan could collapse if Japanese negotiators continue to lobby Thai politicians instead of dealing with the country’s trade negotiators, business executives warn.
  • 5-Apr-2005
    FTA talks to top GCC-EU agenda
    Progress in the Free Trade Area (FTA) negotiations will top the agenda of the annual GCC-EU foreign ministers meeting being held today in Bahrain, which currently chairs the GCC.
  • 5-Apr-2005
    US-Bahrein TIFA (2002)
  • 5-Apr-2005
    US-UAE TIFA (2004)