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  • 15-Oct-2004 Economic Times
    India initiates FTA talks with Gulf Cooperation Council
    The government of India has kickstarted the process for clinching a free trade agreement with the Gulf Cooperation Council, with which New Delhi had entered into a framework agreement for economic cooperation in August.
  • 14-Oct-2004 The Forum
    Area sugar farmers see pledge as victory for industry
    US Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has promised to scrap the controversial US-Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) if elected president November 2.
  • 13-Oct-2004 ABC
    China may sign FTA with New Zealand first
    New Zealand may emerge as the first western country to sign a free trade agreement with China. A study looking at such a deal is to be released next month, and official negotiations between the two governments will start in the new year.
  • 13-Oct-2004 AAP
    Fast track Australian FTA with China: farmers
    Australian grain growers, who stood to gain billions of dollars in new trade targeting the Chinese food and livestock sectors, are demanding that the federal government fast track a free trade deal with China.
  • 13-Oct-2004 Gulf Daily News
    Bahrein: FTA faces delay
    A Free Trade Agreement between Bahrain and the US was signed last month but will not come into effect until it has been ratified by the US Congress, now in recess for the presidential election.
  • 13-Oct-2004 Asia Pulse
    South Korea to discuss FTA with EFTA
    South Korea will hold a second round of joint studies on a free trade agreement this week in with the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), which is made up of Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.
  • 13-Oct-2004 Asahi.com
    Japan: FTA deals deadlocked
    Japan’s separate negotiations with Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia and South Korea for bilateral free trade agreements have run into a brick wall.
  • 12-Oct-2004 Reuters
    Japan, Thailand to exclude rice from FTA
    Japan and Thailand have agreed to leave out rice from a planned bilateral free trade agreement (FTA), a breakthrough that could see a deal agreed by the end of the year, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun said yesterday.
  • 12-Oct-2004 The Nation
    Thai civil groups want IP off trade-talks agenda with US
    Civil groups yesterday called for intellectual property (IP) to be excluded from the second round of the Thai-US Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiation because of fears it would give unjustified protection to rich IP developers at the expense of Thais.
  • 10-Oct-2004 Outlook India
    Tom Yam Swamp
    The Indo-Thai FTA is great news, but who will it benefit?
  • 10-Oct-2004 TWN Africa
    Ghana national trade policy and Economic Partnership Agreements
    While the ECOWAS governments and the European Commission are still agreeing the road map for the negotiations, EPAs have not been discussed fully with local stakeholders.
  • 8-Oct-2004 IPS
    US business pushing for Middle East FTA
    Major US corporations are joining forces to lobby for a US-Middle East Free Trade Agreement (MEFTA) that President George W Bush proposed in 2003.
  • 8-Oct-2004
    US-Mongolia Agreement on Trade Relations (1991)
  • 8-Oct-2004
    US-Lao Agreement on Trade Relations (1997)
  • 8-Oct-2004
    EU-Sri Lanka Cooperation Agreement (1995)
  • 8-Oct-2004 CNA
    Kuwait, Singapore agree FTA to include 4 main areas
    Kuwait and Singapore have agreed that the free trade agreement between them will include four main areas of trade in goods, trade in services, investment and government procurement.
  • 8-Oct-2004 Khaleej Times
    UAE, US move towards FTA
    The United Arab Emirates and US made significant progress towards a Free Trade Agreement on Wednesday, paving the way for negotiations to start in the near future.
  • 7-Oct-2004 The Guardian
    Seeds of change
    Unable to get its own way through the World Trade Organisation, the EU is now shamelessly trying to corral some of the world’s poorest nations into bilateral trade agreements that would severely disadvantage them.
  • 7-Oct-2004 AllAfrica.com
    US-SACU trade deal: what’s in it for us?
    In bilateral talks characterised by unequal power relations, the rich will force their will on the poor and the "development" element of trade deals will be diluted to the point of being meaningless. This is especially so when dealing with a country like the US that believes more trade, on its own, equals more development.
  • 7-Oct-2004 AllAfrica.com
    US-SACU trade talks grind to a halt
    Free trade talks between the five members of the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) and the largest economy in the world have reached a dead end.