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3-Nov-2004
Financial Express
Proliferation of regional trade agreements (RTAs) has been a striking development in the world’s trading systems since the mid-1990s.
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2-Nov-2004
Jakarta Post
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation member countries are displaying a growing tendency in favor of establishing a unilateral free trade agreement in the vast region, according to a senior official at the Indonesian Ministry of Trade.
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2-Nov-2004
Stuff
An election win for Senator John Kerry could make the United States tougher and more cautious on trade, while a victory for President George W Bush would keep the country on the path to more deals, experts say.
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2-Nov-2004
Channel News Asia
Australian Trade Minister Mark Vaile said negotiating an FTA with China would be "arguably more important" than the Australia-US free trade deal recently concluded and due to come into operation on January 1.
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2-Nov-2004
Digital Chosun
US ambassador to Korea Christopher Hill said on Monday that the Korean government and people had to choose between an FTA and Korea’s screen quota system.
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2-Nov-2004
GFH
Handled with care. That is the best way to describe how the Bush administration has dealt with sugar in America’s international trade agreements.
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1-Nov-2004
Uruguay and the United States signed a bilateral trade agreement Monday to safeguard foreign business investments in each other’s countries while promoting trade and exports.
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1-Nov-2004
AP
Japan and South Korea opened a new round of free trade talks in Tokyo as nearly 150 labor union members from the two countries clashed with police during a demonstration to oppose the deal.
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1-Nov-2004
Xinhuanet
The fifth round of negotiations for a free trade agreement (FTA) between the United States and Ecuador, Colombia, and Peru ended Friday without progress in the Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil. The controversial issues were agriculture and intellectual property.
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31-Oct-2004
China Daily
Leaders of China and the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) countries are expected to sign a package of free trade deals late next month, enabling the two parties to formally implement a China-ASEAN free trade area (FTA) starting from 2005.
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30-Oct-2004
INQ7.net
The Philippines reported significant progress in talks to sign a free-trade pact by the end of the year with Japan.
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29-Oct-2004
The United States’ continuing concern about Australian laws is threatening to delay the countries’ free-trade agreement.
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29-Oct-2004
Yomiuri Shimbun
Japan’s ongoing negotiations over free trade agreements with Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand are entering a crucial stage.
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28-Oct-2004
ABS-CBN
The Philippines has yet to adopt a systematic framework that would govern its negotiations for bilateral free-trade agreements (FTAs) with other countries, according to two economic analysts.
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28-Oct-2004
Xinhua
Bangladesh is set to sign its first bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) - with Morocco - despite reservations by its own research wing.
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28-Oct-2004
TNI
Declaration from the Social Movements and Civil Society organisationss from the Mercosu
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26-Oct-2004
In these issues papers, the author examines a subject of importance in the developing international intellectual property regime and highlights the key issues arising. The topics have been chosen following consultations with negotiators from developing countries
and respond to their concerns.
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26-Oct-2004
Radiomundoreal
The Ecuadorian indigenous movement ECUARUNARI has called for a “great march” on Wednesday 27 October 2004 to protest against the negotiations carried out by Ecuador, Colombia and Peru with United States in order to sign a free Trade Agreement (FTA)
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26-Oct-2004
AFP
Malaysia and Pakistan have agreed to start negotiations that could lead to a free trade agreement.
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26-Oct-2004
Lanka Business Online
Sri Lanka and Pakistan are hoping to have another go at the belated free trade agreement between the two countries in November.
