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  • 16-Jan-2005
    Bill Day: Bring back the multilateral pact
    Now that Trade Representative Robert Zoellick is moving to the State Department as Condoleezza Rice’s deputy, U.S. trade policy may see a shift from small bilateral pacts back to big, sweeping multilateral trade agreements.
  • 16-Jan-2005
    End the Saudi-Bahrain FTA row
    As a Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) citizen, it is extremely disappointing to note that the controversy surrounding Saudi Arabia’s objections to the Bahrain-US free trade agreement (FTA) is threatening the future of the GCC economic integration.
  • 15-Jan-2005
    Egypt, US consider free trade talks
    The United States and Egypt are studying the possibility of opening talks for Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in 2005, a U.S. Trade Representative release said.
  • 14-Jan-2005 Asia News Network
    Israel seeks bilateral FTA deal with Thailand
    Israel is interested in a free-trade agreement with Thailand in order to enhance economic and political ties between the countries and triple trade value in the next four years.
  • 14-Jan-2005 Yabiladi.com
    Adoption par les députés marocains de l’accord de libre-échange avec les Etats-Unis
    L’accord de libre-échange conclu entre le Maroc et les Etats-Unis en 2004 a été adopté le 13 janvier à Rabat par la Chambre des députés.
  • 14-Jan-2005 MOFA
    Basic Policy towards further promotion of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs)
    As approved by the Council of Ministers on the Promotion of Economic Partnership on 21 December 2004
  • 13-Jan-2005 Business Roundtable
    Business group calls for dynamic global trade policy
    In a white paper released today, Business Roundtable called on Congress and the Bush Administration to continue the nation’s history of economic growth through liberalized trade and investment policies by pursuing a vigorous international trade agenda for 2005.
  • 13-Jan-2005
    El Salvador: Congress approves FTA
    The Legislative Assembly on Dec. 18 ratified the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), signed in May by Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua with the United States. El Salvador was the first country to ratify the accord.
  • 13-Jan-2005
    Zoellick plies a new trade
    Although not part of the new right’s militarist and neo-conservative camps, Zoellick’s personal arrogance, his unilateralism, and his loyalty to Bush and the Republican Party’s new radical elite make him a perfect fit for Bush’s new foreign policy team.
  • 13-Jan-2005
    Thailand makes progress on FTA talks with Europe
    Concrete progress is being made in negotiations between Thailand and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), with the talks focusing on the liberalization of trade in all commodities and services.
  • 13-Jan-2005
    Call for comments: IISD’s draft Model International Investment Agreement
    In what marks the first fundamental effort to review the nature and purpose of international investment agreements since the current model was developed almost 50 years ago, IISD is preparing a Model International Investment Agreement for Sustainable Development.
  • 12-Jan-2005
    FTA: Facing The Apocalypse?
    The graffiti on the walls in Quito ask if the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) that the US is pushing on Colombia, Peru and Ecuador means that our days are numbered.
  • 12-Jan-2005 Patent World
    A world united? The US approach to the protection of regulatory data
    The US has been using Free Trade Agreements to push a US-style system for data exclusivity.
  • 12-Jan-2005 Global Week of Action on Trade
    Global week of action on trade: 10-16 April 2005
    The main aims of the week are to challenge the free trade myth, put forward our alternatives, strengthen the already existing trade campaigns and show the strength of the global movement, campaigning in solidarity.
  • 12-Jan-2005 Yemen Times
    Yemen, US planning free trade
    The UPI has reported that Yemen and the United States of America are preparing a plan to start a free trade zone between the two countries.
  • 11-Jan-2005
    Conrad: Sugar negotiations are a recipe for disaster
    "Negotiating sugar trades in bilateral free trade agreements is a recipe for disaster for the U.S. sugar industry," warned Sen. Kent Conrad Friday.
  • 10-Jan-2005 Bangkok Post
    Stiglitz raps bilateral trade pacts
    Unilateralism, in which the largest economies, notably the United States, impose their will on smaller ones, is the main driver for the proliferation of bilateral trade agreements and represents a growing risk for the global economy, according to Joseph Stiglitz, the 2001 Nobel laureate for economics.
  • 10-Jan-2005 Houston Chronicle
    Trade agreement hits snag on Guatemala law
    The USTR’s Office said Friday that Guatemala violated the terms of a pending Central American trade agreement with a new pharmaceutical data law the United States objects to.
  • 9-Jan-2005 Xinhua
    FTA opens new horizon for China’s economic growth
    China has started talks with 23 countries across the world in a bid to build free trade areas (FTA) that experts say will open new horizon for China’s economic growth.
  • 8-Jan-2005 AmCham Egypt
    The quest for the holy grail
    The push is on once again to secure an Egypt-US free trade agreement (FTA) with the usual optimism in the state press, but few are buying it this time.