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  • 7-May-2005
    Thaksin tells businessmen to shape up for free trade
    Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra yesterday took local industrialists to task for criticising the government’s efforts to forge a free trade area (FTA) agreement with Japan, even as negotiators on both sides continued working to close a deal.
  • 7-May-2005
    ’India under cheap textile imports threat’
    Though the end of the quota regime has made India a much sought-after destination in the textile sector, the industry here is reeling under fears of cheap imports from Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
  • 7-May-2005 Philippine Star
    Zoellick hits RP violations of IPRs
    Washington said it would use the bilateral Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) and the out-of-cycle review to assist the Philippine government in strengthening its IPR regime.
  • 7-May-2005 BUA News
    SA to reopen US free trade talks
    The South African government is to revive talks with the US on trade policies between Washington and the Southern African Customs Union (Sacu).
  • 6-May-2005
    Vietnam-US: Former enemies to become WTO buddies
    With the painful chapter of war between them closed, both Vietnam and the United States seem to be moving to new horizons in the realm of business relations.
  • 6-May-2005
    Dominican president to visit US for FTA
    Dominican President Leonel Fernandez will visit the US next Monday to attend a meeting convened by President George W Bush to examine free trade agreements (FTA) together with several Central American counterparts.
  • 6-May-2005
    It’s make or break time for free trade, says Supachai
    World Trade Organisation chief Supachai Panitchpakdi has described this month as a crucial period that could make or break the highly-anticipated WTO ministerial meeting in Hong Kong in December.
  • 6-May-2005
    Abdullah says FTA with Pakistan can spur bilateral trade
    Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said the proposed Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Malaysia and Pakistan can spur faster growth in bilateral trade and investments.
  • 6-May-2005
    Interview: NZ-China economic ties can be closer, stronger
    New Zealand, expectedly the first developed country to make a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) deal with China, can tap boldly China’s vast market and share more common interests in the future, said Jean-Christophe Iseux, a China expert here Friday.
  • 6-May-2005 Bangkok Post
    Steps needed to avoid legal disputes with US
    The Thai government must become more efficient and enact more ironclad laws in order to avoid unnecessary legal disputes with US investors once the Thailand-US free trade area (FTA) agreement takes effect, says a local researcher.
  • 6-May-2005 IISD
    UN Cultural Diversity treaty negotiations to tackle trade/investment treaty relationship
    One of many vexing questions remaining to be worked out by negotiators of the draft convention for the protection of the diversity of cultural products and artistic expression will be the relationship between the proposed convention and existing and future trade and investment treaties which may apply to cultural industries and which might impose restrictions on government cultural policies.
  • 6-May-2005
    Germans worry about impact of free-trade deal with Japan
    The Thai-Japanese free trade agreement should not put German car makers at a disadvantage, German ambassador Andreas von Stechow said yesterday.
  • 5-May-2005
    Changing minds
    Rachid Mohamed Rachid, appointed to the industry and foreign trade portfolio last July, speaks to Al-Ahram Weekly about his efforts to reinvigorate the industrial sector and to integrate Egypt more fully into the global economy.
  • 5-May-2005
    China floats FTA study group with Korea, Japan
    China has proposed a study group to stimulate free trade agreements between Korea, China and Japan bringing together governments, businesses and academics.
  • 5-May-2005
    Lien plugs FTA, promises closer ties with Beijing
    Capping off his tour of China, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Lien Chan yesterday said he had encouraged Beijing to support a free-trade agreement (FTA) between Taiwan and ASEAN, while elaborating on the role of cross-party communications between the KMT and the Chinese Communist Party.
  • 5-May-2005
    ’Mutual benefit’ essential: Tokyo’s car-import requests opposed
    Thai auto parts manufacturers and industrialists remain adamantly opposed to liberalising car imports under the proposed Thai-Japan free trade area agreement.
  • 5-May-2005
    Initial phase of talks with Tokyo to be wrapped in July, says Somkid
    Agreement on the initial phase of the Thailand-Japan free trade agreement is expected by July, according to Finance Minister Somkid Jatusripitak.
  • 5-May-2005
    FTAs protectionism in disguise: Garnaut
    This week, to the fanfare of headlines trumpeting talk of a $24 billion bonanza, Australia and China announced the start of formal negotiations on a free trade agreement (FTA). However, the Federal Government’s pursuit of FTAs all over the globe has its detractors who argue that they are a sort of Trojan horse for protectionism and they also damage relations with countries that we don’t have deals with.
  • 5-May-2005
    Priorities for Indian trade policy
    Recent writings on trade policy have focused excessively on free trade agreements/regional trade agreements (FTAs/RTAs) and their usefulness to India. The importance attached to this topic, at the expense of serious discussions on second-generation trade reforms, is frightening.
  • 5-May-2005
    Zoellick’s visit fails to ease Thai concerns
    Thailand was Robert Zoellick’s first stop on a week-long visit to Southeast Asia to discuss economic, security and political issues.