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  • 21-Jan-2005 IPP Media
    Advised to choose either SADC or EA Customs Union
    The European Union has advised Tanzania to either retain membership in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) and withdraw from the East African Customs Union (EACU), or vice versa.
  • 21-Jan-2005 The Guardian
    Charities attack Mandelson’s trade plans
    Peter Mandelson outlined plans yesterday for new trade deals between Brussels and 77 of the world’s poorest countries but immediately ran into flak as development campaigners accused Europe’s trade commissioner of liberalisation "by the back door".
  • 20-Jan-2005
    India to align ROO on ASEAN model
    India will adopt the Indo-ASEAN FTA criterion for Rules Of Origin (ROO) for all the other trade pacts with Asian countries, including Thailand and Singapore.
  • 20-Jan-2005 Khaleej Times
    Morocco’s parliament approves FTA with US
    Morocco’s parliament approved a free-trade accord (FTA) with the United States, paving the way for its implementation in two months and bringing Washington closer to its goal of sealing a free trade agreement covering most of the Middle East and North Africa by 2013.
  • 20-Jan-2005 PSI
    Divide and conquer: The FTAA, US trade strategy and public services in the Americas
    Documents the progress of “competitive liberalization,” a strategy advanced by the United States Trade Representative to establish a network of bilateral international trade agreements as steps toward the multilateral GATS agreement.
  • 20-Jan-2005 Asahi Shumbun
    Tokyo tries dual trade diplomacy
    The government wants to have it both ways with its trade diplomacy this year, focusing on bilateral free trade agreements in the first half and multilateral negotiations at the World Trade Organization in the second.
  • 20-Jan-2005 Forbes
    Pumping for Mideast business
    While the media and the public focus on the deadly turmoil in Iraq, business lobbyists have turned their attention to another side of the fragile Middle East region.
  • 20-Jan-2005 MENAFN
    UAE is analysing impact of free trade agreement
    The United Arab Emirates Ministry of Finance and Industry has contracted an international consultancy firm, Maxwell Stamp, to undertake an impact analysis of the effects a US-UAE Free Trade Agreement (FTA) on the local economy.
  • 20-Jan-2005 Korea Times
    Israel seeks investment treaty with Chaebol
    Israel has expressed keen interest in forming state-corporation bilateral investment pacts with Samsung and LG apart from the inter-state BIT between Seoul and Jerusalem.
  • 20-Jan-2005 Yonhap
    US manufacturers group to call for FTA with S. Korea
    After picking South Korea, India, Malaysia, New Zealand and Egypt as potential FTA partners, the National Association of Manufacturers of America (NAM) will soon recommend the Bush administration and US lawmakers to seek free trade accords with the countries.
  • 20-Jan-2005 AllAfrica.com
    Ethio-Turkey joint commission negotiates on FTA
    The Ethio-Turkey Economic Commission has taken deliberations on Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
  • 19-Jan-2005
    Malaysia-India joint study on CECA and possible FTA
    Malaysia and India have agreed to undertake a joint feasibility study on the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA), which includes the possibility of having Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two countries.
  • 19-Jan-2005
    US yet to act on FTA amendments
    The United States has yet to follow through on threats to challenge amendments made to the US-Australia Free Trade Agreement.
  • 19-Jan-2005
    FTA may force debtors to reform
    Banking liberalisation under the Thai-US free trade agreement will affect not only local banks, but also debtors, according to Twatchai Yongkittikul, the secretary-general of the Thai Bankers’ Association.
  • 19-Jan-2005
    ECC approves Free Trade Agreement with Sri Lanka
    The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the federal cabinet in Pakistan has approved the signing of a free-trade agreement (FTA) with Sri Lanka.
  • 19-Jan-2005 IPS
    Sub-region integration a challenge to FTAA
    The fifth annual World Social Forum will take place Jan. 26-31 in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre amidst an upsurge in Latin American sub-regional integration efforts, bolstered by the obvious failure of the project to create the hemisphere-wide Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).
  • 18-Jan-2005
    New head of AMCHAM pushes treaty on investment
    In his first address as chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in Korea, Wayne Chumley said yesterday that the United States and Korea needed to make progress on a free trade agreement this year.
  • 18-Jan-2005
    Regional, bilateral deals seen as impeding trade
    Far from being a stepping stone to freer trade, the NAFTA and other regional and bilateral trade deals have created a conflicting web of preferential arrangements that may be impeding rather than spurring trade, the authors of a report commissioned by the World Trade Organization have concluded.
  • 18-Jan-2005
    Vaile defends trade deals
    Trade Minister Mark Vaile today defended Australia’s free trade deals with foreign countries after a new World Trade Organisation (WTO) report said such agreements could be discriminatory.
  • 18-Jan-2005
    Korea, Israel to push for FTA: Israeli minister
    South Korea and Israel are set to hold formal discussions on a Free Trade Agreement in a joint committee meeting next year, Israel’s Vice Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said yesterday.