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  • 31-Oct-2005 DowJones News
    Trade deals mushroom, with or without WTO
    A World Trade Organization ministerial meeting in Hong Kong in December is looming as key to the shape of free trade in Asia in the 21st century as countries within the region intensify their interest in integrating their markets.
  • 31-Oct-2005 AFP
    Egypt, Israel enhance US free trade accord
    Egypt and Israel have agreed to expand the scope of an agreement which allows Egypt to export products containing a quota of Israeli components to the United States free of customs duties.
  • 30-Oct-2005 JoongAng Daily
    Prospects seen dim for Japan trade pact
    Korea’s top trade official voiced pessimism about the prospects for signing a free trade agreement with Japan and the United States, but was more hopeful about future trade accords with other nations.
  • 30-Oct-2005 East African Standard
    Kenya to lose Sh9.5b in EU trade agreement
    Kenya and the European Union started negotiations for a new trade pact last week amid fears that the country could lose Sh9.5 billion.
  • 30-Oct-2005 AP
    Groups to rally against Bush in Argentina
    "We think his policies are totally contrary to what we want for Latin America and are promoting genocide, domination of workers and their communities and the plundering of natural resources," said Argentine labor leader Juan Gonzalez, who is heading a protest "People’s Summit" coinciding with Bush’s visit Thursday through Saturday.
  • 30-Oct-2005 St Louis Post Dispatch
    Low prices force Mexicans from fields
    But in just over a decade, an estimated 1 million farmers in rural Mexico have lost their livelihoods.
  • 30-Oct-2005 Daily Journal
    It’s US or us for Andean Pact partners says Venezuelan Trade Minister
    An apparently chance remark by a junior trade minister appears to have put Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Alí Rodríguez Araque on something of a spot.
  • 30-Oct-2005 Dominican Today
    US sets deadline for entering Free Trade
    The Dominican Republic has until 15 November to approve reforms stipulated by the Free Trade Agreement with the United States and Central America (CAFTA-DR), or it will not be able to participate as of January 2006, the launch date for the accord.
  • 29-Oct-2005 Prensa Latina
    Colombian farmers question FTA with US
    Rafael Mejia, president of the Colombian Association of Farmers (SAC), asserted his entity would not support a free trade agreement (FTA) with the US if farmers do not benefit from it.
  • 29-Oct-2005 Znet
    Varieties of imperial aggression: The Andean trade treaties
    One crucial element common to all these bilateral trade talks is the ruthless determination of rich countries to destroy poorer countries’ national sovereignty.
  • 29-Oct-2005 EUROPA
    EPAs: EU and West Africa agree next phase of negotiations
    EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson met with West African Ministers on 27 October to agree on the next phase of the Economic Partnership Agreement negotiations between the two regions. Ministers agreed to start negotiations in 2006.
  • 29-Oct-2005 Pakistan Link
    Pak-Singapore second round of talks on FTA by end of Nov
    Pakistan and Singapore would go into the second round of talks on proposed Free Trade Agreement (FTA) by the end of November.
  • 29-Oct-2005 People’s Daily
    China, Chile reach agreement on trade in cargo on their way to FTA
    Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOC) announced here Friday that China and Chile have reached agreement on trade in cargo which is an important step towards the establishment of their free trade area (FTA).
  • 28-Oct-2005 Bangkok Post
    Few trade gains from ’early harvest’: Sino-Thai pact misunderstood
    Tariff reductions on fruit and vegetables agreed on two years ago between Thailand and China have provided little benefit to the Thai economy.
  • 28-Oct-2005 AFP
    Egypt, Russia to negotiate free trade deal
    Egypt and Russia will reportedly start negotiations next month with a view to reaching a free trade agreement.
  • 27-Oct-2005 Gulf Daily News
    GCC-EU free trade talks make progress on issues
    The European Union and the GCC wound up talks on a long stalled free trade deal yesterday without agreement on opening up the region’s lucrative services sector.
  • 27-Oct-2005 Kyodo
    Japan to hold joint FTA meetings with Australia, Switzerland
    Japan will hold its first joint study meetings separately with Switzerland and Australia next week in Tokyo to explore the possibility of concluding bilateral free trade agreements, the government said Wednesday.
  • 27-Oct-2005 El Universal
    Venezuela to revise undertakings with countries signatories of FTA
    Minister of Integration and Foreign Trade Gustavo Márquez declared Tuesday that in the event that the parties to the Andean Community decide to sign a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States, Venezuela will have to revise trade arrangements with those nations.
  • 27-Oct-2005 Hindu Business Line
    India Inc worried over Govt plan to ink more FTAs
    The Government’s announcement to initiate free trade agreements (FTAs) with neighbouring economies, including ASEAN and Gulf countries, by 2006 has given Indian industry cause for concern.
  • 27-Oct-2005 Economic Times
    Singhing in a new free trade zone
    Move over World Trade Organization (WTO), regional trade arrangements are here to rule.