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  • 26-Jan-2005 IMC QC
    Stop the mad pursuit of bilateral free trade and economic partnership agreements!
    We - farmers, fisherfolks, rural women, workers from the formal and informal sectors, and NGOs belonging to the Stop the New Round! Coalition - express our strong opposition to the Philippines government’s mad pursuit of bilateral free trade agreements particularly with Japan, China and the USA.
  • 26-Jan-2005 ABS-CBN
    Groups say the govt to lose P16.9B in revenues
    Two members of the Philippine House of Representatives are pushing for a congressional inquiry into the bilateral trade and investments agreements entered into by the government, which did not go through proper public consultations despite their far-reaching impact on the economy as well as the provisions of the Constitution.
  • 26-Jan-2005 National Foreign Trade Council
    US-Middle East Free Trade Coalition congratulates Moroccan Parliament
    As an important lynchpin between Europe, Africa and the Middle East, access to the Moroccan market is essential for the U.S. banking, insurance and telecommunications industries.
  • 25-Jan-2005 People’s Daily Online
    China, Chile launch FTA negotiation
    China and Chile officially launched negotiations Tuesday to establish a free trade area (FTA) between the two countries.
  • 25-Jan-2005 NWAnews
    Trade pact proposal has US upside
    A proposal to liberalize US trade with six Central American and Caribbean nations has received broad support from US agricultural groups. But the fate of the US-Central America-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement remains uncertain.
  • 24-Jan-2005 China Daily
    China’s first foreign-owned car dealer to open
    Hong Kong-based auto dealer Triangle Motors will become the first wholly overseas invested company to sell vehicles on the mainland when it opens a dealership in Guangzhou.
  • 24-Jan-2005 The Standard
    European Union censured over EPA negotiations
    Trade agreements between the European Union and Africa Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries could undermine the integration project in East Africa, a civil society lobby group has said.
  • 24-Jan-2005 AllAfrica.com
    EAC states risk losing ties in other trade blocs
    Clarity Consultancy said the three EAC countries - Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania - could lose their preferential treatment in other economic blocs since the new pact does not allow affiliate parties to participate in other economic arrangements.
  • 23-Jan-2005 Kyodo
    Taiwan calls for free trade pact with Japan
    Taiwan’s Minister of Economic Affairs Ho Mei-yueh called on Japan to strike a bilateral free trade agreement, saying such a pact will be "very beneficial to Japan."
  • 22-Jan-2005 Trinidad & Tobago Express
    Europe: support for change carries agendas
    As 2005 proceeds, some Caribbean nations may find themselves faced with an unusually specific strategic choice: Europe may suggest the need to consider the relative weight they intend to give to the development of sectors such as tourism in preference to the role presently afforded to traditional agriculture.
  • 22-Jan-2005 Nassau Guardian
    CARICOM considers FTA with US, Canada
    As the outlook for the Free Trade Area of the Americas continues to be shrouded in uncertainty, CARICOM is looking to bilateral Free Trade Agreements as a means of improving market access for countries in the region.
  • 22-Jan-2005 PIB
    India, Chile sign framework agreement on economic cooperation
    India and Chile have signed a Framework Agreement on Economic Cooperation to promote expansion of trade by providing limited preferential access to each other initially.
  • 21-Jan-2005 IPP Media
    Advised to choose either SADC or EA Customs Union
    The European Union has advised Tanzania to either retain membership in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) and withdraw from the East African Customs Union (EACU), or vice versa.
  • 21-Jan-2005 The Guardian
    Charities attack Mandelson’s trade plans
    Peter Mandelson outlined plans yesterday for new trade deals between Brussels and 77 of the world’s poorest countries but immediately ran into flak as development campaigners accused Europe’s trade commissioner of liberalisation "by the back door".
  • 20-Jan-2005
    India to align ROO on ASEAN model
    India will adopt the Indo-ASEAN FTA criterion for Rules Of Origin (ROO) for all the other trade pacts with Asian countries, including Thailand and Singapore.
  • 20-Jan-2005 Khaleej Times
    Morocco’s parliament approves FTA with US
    Morocco’s parliament approved a free-trade accord (FTA) with the United States, paving the way for its implementation in two months and bringing Washington closer to its goal of sealing a free trade agreement covering most of the Middle East and North Africa by 2013.
  • 20-Jan-2005 PSI
    Divide and conquer: The FTAA, US trade strategy and public services in the Americas
    Documents the progress of “competitive liberalization,” a strategy advanced by the United States Trade Representative to establish a network of bilateral international trade agreements as steps toward the multilateral GATS agreement.
  • 20-Jan-2005 Asahi Shumbun
    Tokyo tries dual trade diplomacy
    The government wants to have it both ways with its trade diplomacy this year, focusing on bilateral free trade agreements in the first half and multilateral negotiations at the World Trade Organization in the second.
  • 20-Jan-2005 Forbes
    Pumping for Mideast business
    While the media and the public focus on the deadly turmoil in Iraq, business lobbyists have turned their attention to another side of the fragile Middle East region.
  • 20-Jan-2005 MENAFN
    UAE is analysing impact of free trade agreement
    The United Arab Emirates Ministry of Finance and Industry has contracted an international consultancy firm, Maxwell Stamp, to undertake an impact analysis of the effects a US-UAE Free Trade Agreement (FTA) on the local economy.