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  • 29-May-2005 China Daily
    China, Chile warm to FTA
    China and Chile are to sign an agreement next Tuesday cementing their co-operation in developing a joint copper industry. Following this, a third round of China and Chile’s Free Trade Agreement (FTA) talks is set to be held next month in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province.
  • 29-May-2005 Thanh Nien News
    US supports Vietnam’s WTO bid, works toward FTA
    The United States fully supports Vietnam’s efforts to join the World Trade Organization (WTO), said US Ambassador to Vietnam Michael Marine at a press conference in Washington on May 25.
  • 29-May-2005 BNI
    Burma-Bangladesh trade agreement expires
    With no transactions in the past two years, the term of the Account Trade Arrangement (ATA) between Burma and Bangladesh has expired without any initiative for renewal.
  • 29-May-2005 New Nation
    BIMSTEC meet on June 1: Six priority sectors to be discussed
    A BIMSTEC Free Trade Area agreement was signed in last February. The agreement covers trade in goods, services and investment. Negotiations are progressing well on specific issues. The Agreement would come into force from July 2006.
  • 27-May-2005 Prensa Latina
    Colombian farmers blackball FTA negotiations
    Colombia’s Farmers Association has urged its government not to attend the 10th Free Trade of Americas (FTA) Round of Negotiations with the US, to be held in June in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • 27-May-2005 Washington Post
    Latinos debate free trade’s cost
    In the Dominican enclave of Upper Manhattan, where street life thrives on mom-and-pop stores and the sound of bachata, trade debates are scrutinized through the lens of daily survival in the city and on the island.
  • 26-May-2005
    FTA requires backing of Congress
    The Bush administration will do nothing to advance a free trade agreement (FTA) with Taiwan unless Taiwan mobilizes a widespread coalition of US businesses in favor of an FTA to lobby Congress to pressure the administration into action, a key US congressman told a Washington symposium on a US-Taiwan FTA on Tuesday.
  • 26-May-2005 Forbes
    EU studies free trade agreement with Malaysia - report
    The EU is studying the feasibility of a free trade agreement between it and Malaysia, national news agency Bernama reported.
  • 26-May-2005 PDI
    Japan to drive into Malaysian auto sector with FTA
    Japan and Malaysia on Wednesday sealed the outline of a free-trade agreement (FTA) that will open up a major new market for Japanese automakers with the lifting of heavy tariffs on Japanese cars within 10 years.
  • 25-May-2005
    Smaller auto component firms threatened by Asian FTAs: KPMG report
    Smaller and indigenous automotive and component companies may find themselves at a disadvantage due to the Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) being put into place across Asia, says a report released by KPMG.
  • 25-May-2005
    One big step for free trade (again) with the US
    The long-standing close relationship between the Philippines and the United States may lead us to think that a free-trade agreement between the two countries should come naturally.
  • 25-May-2005
    Taiwan ready to be free trade partner of US: Vice Minister
    The formation of a free trade agreement (FTA) between Taiwan and the United States will not only create a win-win situation for both, but also will benefit the U.S. by enhancing its presence in other countries, including China, a visiting Taiwan official said Tuesday.
  • 25-May-2005
    FTA with China won’t cut into clothes market
    China won’t get special access to our $9 billion textile market as part of a looming free trade agreement between Canberra and Beijing, senior trade negotiators have told Australia’s clothing industry.
  • 25-May-2005
    Japan, Malaysia agree on FTA to open up Malaysian auto sector
    Japan and Malaysia reached an agreement Wednesday on a free-trade agreement (FTA) that will open up a major new market for Japanese automakers as Kuala Lumpur agreed to lift tariffs on Japanese cars within 10 years.
  • 25-May-2005
    Auto sector wary of Bimstec FTA
    The domestic auto industry has asked the government to include completely-built units of all four-wheelers (including buses, trucks, MUVs and passenger cars) and two-wheelers (up to 250 cc) in the negative list for the free trade agreement (FTA) with the Bimstec regional block.
  • 25-May-2005 Arab News
    UAE, US make progress on free trade agreement
    Negotiations between the UAE and the US on a free trade agreement (FTA) are making progress. Two more rounds of discussions should produce the final draft of an accord, according to a senior US official.
  • 25-May-2005 Scoop
    Groups call for end of Pacific trade negotiations
    "The current EPA negotiations are a game of Russian roulette where the casualties will be the people of the Pacific Islands," said Professor Jane Kelsey at the release of A People’s Guide to the Pacific’s Economic Partnership Agreement in Suva today.
  • 25-May-2005 Jakarta Post
    Susilo and Koizumi set to officiate FTA talks
    Indonesia President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Japan Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi are set to officially begin negotiations on a bilateral Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) during Susilo’s visit to Japan next week, a minister said.
  • 25-May-2005 ANI
    India and Australia move closer to a free trade agreement
    Indian Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath and Australian Trade Minister Mark Vaile have indicated that both the countries would beign discussions on a trade and economic framework, leading to possible free trade agreement (FTA).
  • 24-May-2005 The Guardian
    Mandelson warns on lobbyists’ zeal
    Campaigners on behalf of the developing world risk harming poor countries if they align themselves with forces opposed to change, Europe’s trade commissioner Peter Mandelson said last night.