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  • 6-Apr-2005 Gulf Daily news
    GCC-EU pledge historic FTA
    The GCC is on its way to securing a world first in terms of international economic and trade agrements. Talks with the European Union over the world’s first region-to-region Free Trade Area agreement will be completed by the end of the year, it was declared yesterday.
  • 6-Apr-2005 Jakarta Post
    Summit indicates no plan to move toward FTA
    The upcoming Asian-African Summit will focus on establishing a new strategic partnership, and would not as yet move toward ideas of linking the two continents via a free trade agreement. "However, we have identified that (a FTA) is one form of cooperation that we can pursue in the long term," Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs secretary-general Sudjadnan Parnohadiningrat said.
  • 6-Apr-2005 CSIS
    Towards a US-Indonesia free trade agreement
    This May 2004 paper examines the main issues in designing an FTA between Indonesia and the United States.
  • 5-Apr-2005
    CAFTA passage by US Congress far from certain
    Supporters of the proposed Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) have attempted to create the impression that the United States Congress is likely to ratify CAFTA in the coming session. This is a concentrated effort to spread disinformation about the true nature of the situation in Washington.
  • 5-Apr-2005
    Silence on Thai-US FTA broken: 1,500 people said NO to FTA!
    It took over a thousand and five hundred people blowing their whistle for the Thai government to come out and listen to its people. But did Mr. Nitya Pibulsongkram, head of the Thai negotiating team for the Thai-US Free Trade Agreement (FTA), actually hear them?
  • 5-Apr-2005
    Opposition to CAFTA will make vote difficult
    Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-IA) said this week that opposition to the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) from Senate Agriculture Chairman Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) has made CAFTA passage “very, very difficult,” and added in a March 29 press conference that another difficulty is stronger-than-usual opposition from the sugar lobby and organized labor.
  • 5-Apr-2005 Bangkok Post
    US-Thai free trade negotiations: There’s little trust in trade talks
    Negotiators say the FTA will be open to comment, but critics want their say now before it is too late
  • 5-Apr-2005
    Lobbying by Japanese irks industrialists
    Free-trade negotiations between Thailand and Japan could collapse if Japanese negotiators continue to lobby Thai politicians instead of dealing with the country’s trade negotiators, business executives warn.
  • 5-Apr-2005
    FTA talks to top GCC-EU agenda
    Progress in the Free Trade Area (FTA) negotiations will top the agenda of the annual GCC-EU foreign ministers meeting being held today in Bahrain, which currently chairs the GCC.
  • 5-Apr-2005
    US-Bahrein TIFA (2002)
  • 5-Apr-2005
    US-UAE TIFA (2004)
  • 5-Apr-2005
    US-Saudi Arabia TIFA (2003)
  • 5-Apr-2005
    US-Qatar TIFA (2004)
  • 5-Apr-2005
    US-Kuwait TIFA (2004)
  • 5-Apr-2005
    US-Algeria TIFA (2001)
  • 5-Apr-2005
    US-Yemen TIFA (2004)
  • 5-Apr-2005
    Local manufacturers cry foul over change in stance on steel
    Removing protection of hot-rolled steel under the Thai-Japan free trade area (FTA) agreement will create unfair treatment between local steel manufacturers and automotive makers, according to steel manufacturers.
  • 5-Apr-2005
    FTA logical agenda item: Wen
    Maintaining that establishment of a free trade area (FTA) between China and India has become a ‘‘logical agenda’’ item, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has expressed hope that the two sides will soon begin their feasibility study of FTA.
  • 5-Apr-2005 News from Bangladesh
    Dhaka hesitant to sign FTA with neighbours
    Bangladesh is hesitant to take any practical move to sign free trade agreement (FTA) as it has been sitting on several proposals from many neighbouring countries that have done so among themselves for their own benefits.
  • 5-Apr-2005 MITI
    Singapore-Jordan FTA (2004)