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  • 24-Sep-2004
    Preferences, conflicts in the way of free trade pact with EU
    The European Union and Thailand are unlikely to forge a free trade agreement (FTA) because the grouping is currently focusing on its 10 new members, business pundits said yesterday.
  • 24-Sep-2004 USTR
    US-Central Asia TIFA (2004)
  • 24-Sep-2004 USTR
    US and Afghanistan sign TIFA
    Assistant U.S. Trade Representative Ashley Wills and Afghanistan’s Minister of Commerce, Sayed Mustafa Kazemi, signed a Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) today in Kabul that provides a forum for Afghanistan and United States to examine ways to expand bilateral trade and investment.
  • 24-Sep-2004 USTR
    The work of USTR on intellectual property
    In this work, we consult closely with Congress on our priorities and strategies; we use domestic trade law; regional initiatives in Europe, Asia (APEC), Latin America (FTAA) and Africa; existing institutions, notably the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
  • 24-Sep-2004 The Nation
    Preferences, conflicts in the way of free trade pact with EU
    The European Union and Thailand are unlikely to forge a free trade agreement (FTA) because the grouping is currently focusing on its 10 new members, business pundits said yesterday.
  • 23-Sep-2004
    ’FTA will help Thai businessmen enter US market’
    The signing of Bahrain-US free trade agreement (FTA) will offer numerous opportunities to the businessmen of Thailand to reach the huge US market by using Bahrain as a base in the region, the Minister of Commerce, Ali Saleh Al Saleh said yesterday, writes Mehmood Rafique.
  • 23-Sep-2004 IRC
    Coalition forces advance
    The Bush foreign policy team is looking a bit down in the mouth lately. The much-heralded “coalition of the willing” proved, like the alleged weapons of mass destruction, to be a myth of the Iraq war. But another coalition pieced together by the Bush administration—“the coalition of the liberalizers”—is advancing.
  • 23-Sep-2004
    Chile keen to sign PTA with India to boost trade volume
    Chile, the fastest growing economy in Latin America, has said it was keen to sign preferential trade agreement with India to increase the bilateral trade volume which stood at a meagre 230 million dollars in 2003.
  • 23-Sep-2004
    Free trade accord ’marks a new era in US-Bahrain ties’
    Finance and National Economy Minister Abdulla Saif hosted a luncheon reception at the New York Palace Hotel yesterday, to celebrate the historic signing of the US-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement (USBFTA).
  • 23-Sep-2004
    Full text of US-Pakistan joint statement
    US and Pakistani presidents reviewed progress in the global war on terror and pledged to continue working together. President George Bush expressed appreciation for Pakistan’s efforts in this area.
  • 22-Sep-2004
    Pakistan and GCC to sign trade treaty
    Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Dr Sheikh Mohammed Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah, Pakistani Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) General Secretary Abdul Rahman bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, will sign a framework economic agreement between Pakistan and the GCC states tomorrow (Thursday).
  • 22-Sep-2004
    CMS vs Argentina
    Decision of ICSID Tribunal (July 17, 2003) in regard to objections to jurisdiction in CMS Gas Transmission Company vs The Republic of Argentina. CMS bases its claim against Argentina on a 1991 Argentina-US Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT).
  • 22-Sep-2004 Entertainment Industry Coalition for Free Trade
    Entertainment Industry Coalition For Free Trade Hails U.S. - Australia Free Trade Agreement
    The Entertainment Industry Coalition for Free Trade (EIC), a group of leading entertainment companies, trade associations and entertainment unions and guilds, today applauded the conclusion of the U.S. - Australia Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
  • 22-Sep-2004
    Foreign investors alarmed by FTAs
    Foreign investors in Thailand are reconsidering their business plans in the Kingdom due to the spate of free-trade agreements the government is negotiating, representatives from European chambers of commerce said.
  • 22-Sep-2004
    US-Bahrain free trade pact approval unlikely soon
    The Bush administration is unlikely to push for congressional approval of a U.S.-Bahrain free trade agreement this year due to lawmaker concerns.
  • 22-Sep-2004
    Business Urged to Monitor Free-Trade Deals Closely
    The National Council of Trade Unions (Nactu) urged the business community yesterday to aggressively interrogate government’s action on job security and on the free-trade agreements that were being concluded with other countries.
  • 22-Sep-2004 Dawn
    US investment treaty: advantages and risks
    Pakistan is among dozens of countries with whom the United States is seeking to sign, or has already signed, a bilateral investment treaty (BIT) as part of a calculated strategy to bypass the WTO where it finds little hope of any agreement on investment and other Singapore issues being clinched in the foreseeable future.
  • 22-Sep-2004
    Squire Sanders Represents Czech Republic, National Property Fund in Massive Arbitration
    The Czech Republic can argue its case that Japanese investment bank Nomura is liable for billions of crowns in damage, according to an interim award issued Sept. 7 by an UNCITRAL arbitral tribunal seated in Zurich.
  • 22-Sep-2004
    FTA talks with US on track, says Thai minister
    Thailand’s negotiations with the United States for a free trade agreement (FTA) are ’on track’ despite delays, Thai Foreign Minister Surakiart Sathirathai said here yesterday.
  • 21-Sep-2004
    Foreign Investors Can Now Access Justice
    Recently, a central bank revoked the license of a bank owned by a foreign investor. The procedure followed conformed to domestic law to the letter, and it did not amount to a denial of due process.