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  • 23-Mar-2005 The Australian
    Australia: Push to free up Japan on trade
    John Howard will ask Japan to support an official feasibility study as the first substantial step towards a bilateral free trade agreement when he visits Tokyo next month.
  • 23-Mar-2005
    Indigenous groups against the FTA
    On March 6, six indigenous communities in the Cauca valley in southwest Colombia voted in a referendum to reject the signing of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States.
  • 23-Mar-2005 Asia Times
    Japan-South Korea ties on the rocks
    When are a few sea-swept, uninhabited rocky islets more than a bunch of rocks? When they involve lucrative fisheries and emotional issues that hark back to the days of the Japanese Empire.
  • 23-Mar-2005 Business Day
    Italy claims SA in breach of treaty
    The minerals and energy department is engaged in talks with Italian companies operating in SA over possible breaches of the SA-Italy bilateral investment treaty in the implementation of the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act.
  • 23-Mar-2005 Jakarta Post
    RI-Japan partnership too exclusive
    The public, along with NGOs, academics and business groups — both pro- and anti-free trade — should be well-informed about the development of the Indonesia-Japan EPA.
  • 22-Mar-2005
    China fears FTA’s impact on farming
    As the prospect of Australia and China negotiating a free trade agreement (FTA) appears increasingly likely, China has flagged that Australian farmers may not get all they wish for.
  • 22-Mar-2005
    Music case to test US-Australia FTA laws
    The music industry’s legal assault on BitTorrent file sharing will provide the first major test of new laws designed to limit ISPs’ liability for copyright breaches by their customers.
  • 22-Mar-2005 MercoPress
    Mercosur resumes EU talks; signs with India
    Mercosur and European Union negotiators resumed Monday in Brussels discussions with the purpose of reaching a much delayed free trade agreement between the two blocks. Meantime in New Delhi a framework trade understanding was signed with India.
  • 21-Mar-2005
    Bush’s pointsman has his job cut out
    After weeks of uncertainty, President George W Bush has nominated as US Trade Representative Rob Portman, a Republican Congressman from Ohio, better known for his loyalty to the President than for any experience in international trade negotiations.
  • 21-Mar-2005
    Entrepreneurs apprehensive of Pak-Lanka FTA misuse
    Upcountry industrialists and business community have asked the economic managers to strictly monitor goods traded under the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Sri Lanka.
  • 21-Mar-2005
    China, ROK initiated joint study on feasibility of FTA
    China and the Republic of Korea (ROK) have initiated the non-government joint study on the feasibility of free trade agreement (FTA), announced Wang Mengkui, director of the Development Research Center of the State Council (DRC) here Monday.
  • 21-Mar-2005
    Howard cautious on China FTA
    Prime Minister John Howard said tonight Australia would continue to have strong trade links to China even if a free trade agreement could not be settled.
  • 21-Mar-2005
    US pushes bilateral trade pact
    US Assistant Trade Representative Barbara Weisel yesterday urged Manila to sign a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) with Washington to boost its underperforming economy and keep it globally competitive.
  • 21-Mar-2005
    FTA with US premature at this time, says Santos
    Trade and Industry Secretary Juan B. Santos sees no need to rush a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States. According to Santos, an FTA with the US at this time may even be "premature."
  • 21-Mar-2005 IBON
    US-RP free trade pact a blow to economic sovereignty
    IBON calls on the Arroyo government to discontinue any negotiation on the proposed bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) with the US, saying that the free trade pact is a blow to economic sovereignty and would bring the economy back to the era of the Bell Trade Act, which has stunted the Philippine economy to its pre-industrial level.
  • 21-Mar-2005 IP-Health
    Global bully goes to Guatemala
    The global bully, the United States, has just coerced Guatemala, its latest victim, into repealing an important law to lower the price of pharmaceuticals and promote generic competition. The U.S. ambassador to Guatemala acknowledged that the Guatemalan law was intended to advance public health objectives. But, no matter, he said — U.S. commercial interests in the form of Big Pharma demanded that the law go.
  • 21-Mar-2005 Manila Bulletin
    No rush in free-trade deal with US - DTI
    Philippine Trade and Industry Secretary Juan B. Santos said there is no rush in the proposed bilateral free-trade agreement with the US noting the country’s trade with the US is slowly losing steam while gaining markets elsewhere particularly, ASEAN, Japan and Greater China.
  • 21-Mar-2005 Business Monthly
    Egypt: Privatizing the Cabinet
    Egypt’s Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment Rachid Mohamed Rachid is bringing three decades of private sector experience to his post, taking on the twin challenge of modernizing industry and expanding foreign trade.
  • 20-Mar-2005
    American goods likely to become cheaper as Oman proposes FTA
    Building on a spree of free-trade deals across the region, Oman is in the process of signing a free-trade agreement with the United States by the end of 2005 or early 2006.
  • 20-Mar-2005
    Piracy Threat to China FTA
    Australian Industry Group chief executive Heather Ridout has warned Chinese officials that intellectual piracy could be a critical block to plans for a free trade agreement, with international agencies estimating that 90 per cent of copyright goods sold in China are counterfeit.