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  • 12-Feb-2005
    Preferential trade with Afghanistan proposed
    Pakistan has proposed a preferential trade agreement with Afghanistan and shown keen interest in setting up industrial zones between Kandahar and Jalalabad, once security issues are resolved, said Humayun Akhtar Khan, Pakistan’s commerce minister.
  • 12-Feb-2005 Public Health Association of Australia
    When FTA spells BSE: Trading away our food safety
    Australia is fortunate to be one of few countries to remain free of BSE, the degenerative brain disease in cattle that causes the deadly variant CJD in people. But the Free Trade Agreement recently signed with the United States may change this.
  • 11-Feb-2005 Jakarta Post
    Thai-Japanese FTA threatens RI exports
    Indonesia risks losing up to US$5 billion in non-oil and gas exports to Japan per year, should Thailand succeed in ongoing negotiations with Asia’s largest economy for a free trade agreement.
  • 10-Feb-2005 Prensa Latina
    FTA with USA can cause division among Andean Nations
    Medicine patents are threatening unity among Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru in the negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement with the United States
  • 10-Feb-2005 Financial Express
    India, Lanka to draw roadmap for comprehensive economic ties
    A comprehensive economic partnership agreement (CEPA) between India and Sri Lanka covering goods, services and investment is all set to become a reality.
  • 10-Feb-2005 Dawn
    Pakistan, Sri Lanka sign free trade pact
    Pakistan and Sri Lanka have exchanged diplomatic notes to formalize the annextures in bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with a view to its operationalization between the two countries.
  • 9-Feb-2005
    Labour, environment, IPR left out of TIFA text
    The US has agreed to Bangladesh’s proposal for exclusion of issues related to labour laws, environment and intellectual property rights from the main text of a proposed trade and investment framework agreement the two countries are likely to sign some time this year.
  • 9-Feb-2005 Media Trade Monitor
    Recent FTAs of the US as illustrations of their new strategy for the audiovisual sector
    US trade strategy is shifting: USTR may be willing to make concessions to countries that want to require local content or ownership in ’traditional’ AV sector, ie film and radio; however, no such requirements will be allowed in the category of ’electronic commmerce.’ This is because USTR (and MPAA) expect all cultural content (films, television, music) to be transmitted digitally in the near future.
  • 9-Feb-2005 MercoPress
    US reject 4+1 agreement with Mercosur
    United States is not interested in reaching an agreement with Mercosur and prefers to concentrate in the Free Trade Association of the Americas, FTAA, said Peter Allgeier Washington’s Trade Representative.
  • 9-Feb-2005 Rediff.com
    No truncated FTA with India: US
    United States said it was against entering in to a limited Free Trade Agreement with India and any bilateral FTA will have to be comprehensive.
  • 8-Feb-2005
    Top US manufacturing group calls for US-NZ FTA
    As tipped by Korea’s Yonhap News two weeks ago, the top group representing US manufacturers, the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), has called for a free trade agreement with New Zealand.
  • 8-Feb-2005
    Pakistan to initiate FTA talks with Malaysia
    Pakistan will try to convince Malaysia to enter a free trade agreement (FTA) when Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawai visits Islamabad next week.
  • 8-Feb-2005
    Durables industry worried over FTAs and cheap imports
    Already reeling under soaring material costs and tight margins, the consumer durables industry has raised concerns about cheap imports from neighbouring countries.
  • 8-Feb-2005
    Landmark FTA to be signed with Pakistan
    President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga will arrive in Islamabad tonight (7) on a three-day state visit. The highlight of President Kumaratunga’s visit to Pakistan is the signing of the landmark Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two SAARC partners.
  • 8-Feb-2005
    US-Bangladesh to resume TIFA talks soon
    The stalled talks for signing a trade and investment framework agreement between Dhaka and Washington will resume soon since the new Bush administration has already set its agenda for coming days, said sources in the government.
  • 7-Feb-2005 Straight Goods
    Investment: NAFTA illegal?
    On January 24, the Council of Canadians and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) launched a constitutional challenge against NAFTA’s Chapter 11 rules before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. This is the first time that a court will consider the constitutionality of international trade rules.
  • 7-Feb-2005 ABS-CBN
    Great on paper, hard to execute
    In a recent discussion on the prospects for a Philippines-US FTA organized by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies, Romeo G. Borillo, the country’s trade representative in Washington DC, refused to divulge details of the proposed agreement.
  • 4-Feb-2005 Kyodo
    Japan, Philippines agree to speed up work to sign FTA
    Japan and the Philippines have agreed to speed up work to sign a bilateral free trade agreement and compared notes over Japan’s plan to tightening immigration control over Philippine nationals.
  • 3-Feb-2005 IISD
    The rush to regionalism
    This paper aims to set out the issues of importance in addressing the links between sustainable development and the rush to regionalism (FTAs).
  • 3-Feb-2005 NAM
    NAM’s recommended candidates for US FTAs 2005
    After extensive discussion within the NAM’s International Economic Policy Committee, a consensus was reached to recommend Egypt, India, Malaysia, New Zealand, and South Korea for US FTAs; and to place the five others - Brazil, China, The European Union, Japan, and Taiwan on a Watchlist, possibly to be recommended in the future as circumstances change.