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  • 24-Jan-2005 China Daily
    China’s first foreign-owned car dealer to open
    Hong Kong-based auto dealer Triangle Motors will become the first wholly overseas invested company to sell vehicles on the mainland when it opens a dealership in Guangzhou.
  • 24-Jan-2005 The Standard
    European Union censured over EPA negotiations
    Trade agreements between the European Union and Africa Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries could undermine the integration project in East Africa, a civil society lobby group has said.
  • 24-Jan-2005 AllAfrica.com
    EAC states risk losing ties in other trade blocs
    Clarity Consultancy said the three EAC countries - Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania - could lose their preferential treatment in other economic blocs since the new pact does not allow affiliate parties to participate in other economic arrangements.
  • 23-Jan-2005 Kyodo
    Taiwan calls for free trade pact with Japan
    Taiwan’s Minister of Economic Affairs Ho Mei-yueh called on Japan to strike a bilateral free trade agreement, saying such a pact will be "very beneficial to Japan."
  • 22-Jan-2005 Trinidad & Tobago Express
    Europe: support for change carries agendas
    As 2005 proceeds, some Caribbean nations may find themselves faced with an unusually specific strategic choice: Europe may suggest the need to consider the relative weight they intend to give to the development of sectors such as tourism in preference to the role presently afforded to traditional agriculture.
  • 22-Jan-2005 Nassau Guardian
    CARICOM considers FTA with US, Canada
    As the outlook for the Free Trade Area of the Americas continues to be shrouded in uncertainty, CARICOM is looking to bilateral Free Trade Agreements as a means of improving market access for countries in the region.
  • 22-Jan-2005 PIB
    India, Chile sign framework agreement on economic cooperation
    India and Chile have signed a Framework Agreement on Economic Cooperation to promote expansion of trade by providing limited preferential access to each other initially.
  • 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.