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  • 8-Mar-2004 VIET NAM, LAOS SIGN BILATERAL AGREEMENT FOR 2002
    Viet Nam, Laos sign bilateral agreement for 2002
    Viet Nam’s Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and his Lao counterpart, Thonglune Sisoulit, today, Jan. 15, signed in Vientiane an agreement on economic, cultural, scientific and technical cooperation for 2002 between the two countries.
  • 7-Mar-2004
    EU-Israel FTA (2000)
  • 5-Mar-2004
    No plans for a US-EU free trade pact
    A top European Union trade official ruled out chances on Friday of the world’s two largest economic powers, the United States and the EU, negotiating a free trade agreement.
  • 5-Mar-2004
    TRIPS-plus through the backdoor
    Bilateral agreements are a powerful but hidden tool to achieve uniform market conditions for transnational corporations in developing countries. Silently hammered out between individual governments, they offer a direct means to cut deals over market access privileges, foreign investment, research funding or anchor-free profits.
  • 2-Mar-2004
    Colombia-US free trade treaty - far more than trade
    Arguments against bilateral US "free trade" agreements with other countries that make it into mainstream Anglophone media tend not to come from industrialists or business people.
  • 2-Mar-2004 Can Safta lead to a South Asian economic union?
    Can Safta lead to a South Asian economic union?
    Can the South Asian Free Trade Agreement lead to an economic union? By all counts, and indications, such a union is still a distant dream.
  • 1-Mar-2004 US-SACU trade talks takes on centre stage
    US-SACU trade talks takes on centre stage
    The fourth round of negotiations between the Southern African Customs Union and the US took place this weekend in Walvis Bay, Namibia.
  • 26-Feb-2004
    Why Asian countries are racing to sign bilateral trade deals with each other
    With everyone but Mongolia and North Korea doing it, even South Korea’s protectionists could not resist any longer. After three failed attempts, the National Assembly finally ratified the country’s first-ever free-trade agreement (FTA) last week.
  • 25-Feb-2004
    PM urges US-type rules
    Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has ordered the Commerce Ministry to quickly address the issue of intellectual property-right violations to facilitate the creation of the Thailand-US Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
  • 14-Feb-2004 Update of US model BIT
    US draft model BIT
  • 3-Feb-2004 Taiwan-US TIFA expected to resumed this fall
    Taiwan-US TIFA expected to resume this fall
    Bilateral U.S.-Taiwan consultations under the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement are expected to be resumed this year, probably in the fall, a senior U.S. trade official said yesterday.
  • 26-Sep-2003 Alexander’s Gas and Oil Connections
    Bechtel and GE mount investment treaty claim against India
    Two minority investors in India’s largest foreign investment, the ill-starred Dabhol Power Plant, have launched a bilateral investment treaty (BIT) claim against India in an effort to recoup their losses related to the plant.