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  • 26-Nov-2004
    Musharraf keen to seal FTA deal with Dhaka fast
    Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf has expressed his keenness for early conclusion of bilateral free trade agreement between Bangladesh and Pakistan for further expansion of economic cooperation between the two countries.
  • 25-Nov-2004
    SPS issues and free trade agreements
    While the main US goal on agriculture in many FTA negotiations often is to secure non-SPS related concessions such as lower tariffs, the foreign partners often see the FTA as an opportunity to resolve outstanding SPS issues with the US as well as seek accelerated new market access to the US for their animal and plant products.
  • 24-Nov-2004 Financial Express
    India, SACU gearing up for FTA
    India and members of the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) hope to have a “limited scope agreement” for more liberal trading by next year, the first concrete step towards a free trade agreement (FTA).
  • 24-Nov-2004 Korea Times
    Seoul to start FTA talks with ASEAN in 2005
    South Korea will start negotiations next year for a free trade agreement (FTA) with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
  • 24-Nov-2004 AllAfrica.com
    SA near to clinching another trade deal
    SACU’s deal with Efta will be a scaled-down version of the original: Efta members have agreed to Sacu’s request to shelve complex issues such as government procurement, intellectual property and investment.
  • 24-Nov-2004 Asahi
    Driving a hard bargain: Trade agreements easier said than done
    Japan is proving a tough negotiator for countries with their hopes pinned on FTAs.
  • 24-Nov-2004 MCOT
    Agriculture: Thais urged to reject political parties which support bilateral FTAs and GM crops
    Thailand’s leading agricultural activist network has urged Thais not to vote for political parties which back free trade agreements and genetically modified (GM) crops research at next February’s general election.
  • 24-Nov-2004 Khaleej Times
    Drop FTA with US, GCC tells Bahrain
    Gulf Arab states angered by Bahrain’s decision to sign up to a free trade pact with the United States say it should back away from the deal and honour a regional agreement.
  • 22-Nov-2004 LA Times
    Bush plan that critics call ’NAFTA on steroids’ stalls
    President Bush’s goal for a free-trade zone encompassing the entire Western Hemisphere faces growing opposition in the United States and abroad.
  • 22-Nov-2004 MFAT
    Joint study on the FTA between China & New Zealand
    New Zealand government has released the report of a joint study on the to-be-negotiated NZ-China FTA.
  • 22-Nov-2004 Channel News Asia
    APEC leaders duck free-trade plan
    Asia-Pacific leaders have ducked a call from business advisors to study an ambitious FTA among APEC members.
  • 20-Nov-2004 Japan Times
    Japan, Philippines reach FTA accord
    Japan and the Philippines reached a basic agreement for a bilateral free-trade agreement after striking a deal on the stickiest issue — steel tariffs.
  • 20-Nov-2004 Xinhua
    China, Chile decide to start FTA talks
    China and Chile have decided to start talks on a free trade agreement (FTA)
  • 19-Nov-2004 DTN
    Dominican Republic excluded from CAFTA
    The Bush administration has decided to exclude the Dominican Republic from the Central American Free Trade Agreement because the Dominican Republic has adopted a tax on products containing high fructose corn syrup, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley said.
  • 18-Nov-2004
    Go the whole hog on regional trade pacts, says Kamal Nath
    Commerce and industry minister Kamal Nath said at the economic editors’ conference here on Wednesday, that bilateral trade agreements will serve as engines for international trade.
  • 18-Nov-2004 The Isthmian
    The first victim of the free trade agreement
    He was a Panamanian who lived of what the land gave him. His name? Sabino Rivera. What happened? Death took him when a bomb, abandoned by the United States in Panama, blew him to pieces.
  • 18-Nov-2004 Focus on the Global South
    Milking Thailand: The Thai-Australia Free Trade Agreement
    In Thailand, the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) debates were heated. Farmers and critics claim that Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s government sold out small farmers to their own big business interests. They took to the streets in protest while Thaksin lambasted them and obscured negotiation details.
  • 18-Nov-2004
    Senate debate begins on Thai FTA deal
    Debate has begun in the Senate on laws enabling the Thailand-Australia Free Trade Agreement to take effect from next year.
  • 18-Nov-2004
    FTA to create opportunities: Zoellick
    The free trade agreement (FTA) between Australia and the United States would create real economic opportunities in both countries for businesses, farmers, and workers, US trade representative Robert Zoellick said.
  • 18-Nov-2004 WB
    New World Bank study on regional and bilateral trade agreements
    This report addresses two questions: What are the characteristics of agreements that strongly promote-or hinder-development for member countries? Does the proliferation of agreements pose risks to the multilateral trading system, and how can those risks be managed?