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27-Mar-2004
Senators want to screen FTA deals
A group of senators yesterday called for the government to seek parliamentary approval before signing any more free-trade agreements (FTAs). -
27-Mar-2004
Thailand starts touchy free trade talks with US
A large Thai delegation led by Commerce Minister Watana Muangsook yesterday opened crucial preliminary talks in Washington aimed at reaching a free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States by the end of the year. -
26-Mar-2004
Cotonou Agreement (2000)
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26-Mar-2004 Is Africa for sale?
Is Africa for sale?
This Sunday, trade representatives from member states of the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) will meet their counterparts from the United States in Walvis Bay, to resume negotiations for a bilateral Free Trade Agreement, expected to be concluded by the end of this year. -
26-Mar-2004
Analysis: Singapore-New Zealand: Human reality hidden in new free trade deal
The Singapore and New Zealand Governments are selling their new free trade and investment agreement as an abstraction, unlinked to people’s lives. -
26-Mar-2004 ZNet
Analysis: We Must Mobilise Against A Miasma of Mini-MAIs
You’ve got to wonder at the nerve of New Zealand trade officials. During the furtive Multilateral Agreement on Investment negotiations and the subsequent international waves of opposition they were quietly hatching binding bilateral investment deals containing provisions resembling some of the most controversial elements of the MAI. -
24-Mar-2004
Analysis: Sleeping Beauty And Prince Charming: Bilateral Deals Are No Fairytale
The recent explosion of bilateral investment and trade agreements and investor-state disputes is of growing concern. Many mobilisations against the World Trade Organisation (WTO) aim to stop attempts by industrialised countries to kickstart talks on a multilateral investment agreement at September’s Cancun Ministerial meeting. -
24-Mar-2004 Bulatlat.com
Analysis: U.S. Seizing Initiative in Pushing Trade Liberalization
Writing in the Financial Times (Sept. 22, 2003) after the collapse of the fifth WTO Ministerial Conference, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick lamented the “broader culture of protest” that characterized negotiations at Cancun, correctly (if sarcastically) noting that “countries that feel victimized are unlikely to agree to anything.” -
24-Mar-2004
FTA talks in cards with Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines - Japan
Japan will hold free-trade talks early next year with Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Thursday. -
24-Mar-2004
US-Kazakhstan BIT (1994)
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24-Mar-2004
US-Kyrgyzstan BIT (1994)
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24-Mar-2004
US-Latvia BIT (1996)
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24-Mar-2004
US-Lithuania BIT (1998)
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24-Mar-2004
US-Moldova BIT (1994)
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24-Mar-2004
US-Bulgaria IPR Agreement
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24-Mar-2004
US-Hungary IPR Agreement
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24-Mar-2004
US-Jamaica IPR Agreement (1994)
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24-Mar-2004
IIPA on US-Singapore FTA
Testimony of Eric H. Smith President International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) -
24-Mar-2004
Canada-Panama BIT (1996)
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24-Mar-2004
Canada-Philippines BIT (1996)