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  • 20-Sep-2004
    Talks On Taiwan-Nicaragua FTA Start In Taipei
    Taipei, Sept. 20 (CNA) The first round of talks on a Taiwan-Nicaragua free trade agreement (FTA) started in Taipei Monday. Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) officials said that a 20-member Nicaraguan delegation is visiting Taipei to negotiate with its Taiwanese counterparts.
  • 20-Sep-2004 Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs
    Japan-Mexico FTA (2004)
    Agreement between Japan and the United Mexican States for the Strengthening of the Economic Partnership September 2004 for the Annexes, click here
  • 20-Sep-2004 Financial Express
    India: BIPA with China?
    Notwithstanding border and other political problems and the low base, India’s trade with China has increased phenomenally. A preliminary study has been done on a possible free trade agreement (FTA) with China.
  • 20-Sep-2004 IPS
    Japan: Trade deal with Mexico culminates Latin America visit
    Mexico signed a free trade agreement Friday with Japan, reconfirming its world record in free trade accords — which have failed, however, to bear the promised fruits.
  • 20-Sep-2004 Asahi.com
    Japan, Mexico ink landmark accord
    After months of drawn-out negotiations, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi Friday signed an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with Mexican President Vicente Fox.
  • 20-Sep-2004 Japan Today
    Japan needs more FTAs
    In the face of the rapidly growing Chinese economy and a rising number of free trade agreements, Japan is scrambling to reinforce its flagging leadership status in Asia by accelerating FTA negotiations with regional trading partners.
  • 20-Sep-2004 STI
    Global trade: Creating a new mindset with FTAs
    Although FTAs have both trade-creating and -diverting effects, overall they serve the objective of multilateral trade liberalisation.
  • 20-Sep-2004 CONCORD
    Why the EU approach to regional trade negotiations with developing countries is bad for development
    Briefing Paper on the so-called EPA negotiations between EU and ACP countries within the framework of the Cotonou Agreement
  • 19-Sep-2004 inq7money.net
    US businessmen back Arroyo reform agenda
    American businessmen have given the thumbs up to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s move to undertake "painful" reforms in solving the fiscal crisis and a projected power crisis, Philippines-US Business Council chairman Ramon del Rosario Jr. said Thursday.
  • 19-Sep-2004 IPS
    Colombia: 50,000 Indigenous People march for basic rights
    A tandem bicycle with a loudspeaker moves back and forth from one end of the massive indigenous protest march to the other, as the 50,000 demonstrators make their way along the Pan-American highway to the city of Cali in southwestern Colombia.
  • 18-Sep-2004
    Thailand-US FTA: A roadmap to negotiations
    The politicization of the U.S. trade policy process regarding free trade agreements has created a complex landscape requiring careful navigation by U.S. trading partners. This report provides a comprehensive analysis of contemporary U.S. trade policy and of obstacles and opportunities facing Thailand.
  • 17-Sep-2004
    Taiwan To Start FTA Talks With Israel: Officials
    Taiwan is expected to sign an investment protection pact with Israel and start bilateral negotiations on a free trade agreement (FTA) soon, Council for Economic Planning and Development (CEPD) officials said Friday.
  • 17-Sep-2004 NYT
    Mexico and Japan expect to sign trade agreement
    President Vicente Fox of Mexico and Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi of Japan will sign a free trade agreement Friday that Mexico hopes will attract more investment from Japanese manufacturers and spur exports across the Pacific.
  • 17-Sep-2004 Foreign Control Watchdog
    Milking the deal
    Fonterra is the main exporter behind the "New Zealand" push for free trade with Thailand
  • 16-Sep-2004
    Tariff-free tequila flow from Mexico to Japan under FTA
    Mexico’s tequila industry is expecting a sudden surge in shipments to Japan when the tariff of 25.2 yen per liter is completely removed under a Mexico-Japan free-trade pact that takes effect April 1.
  • 16-Sep-2004
    FTA With Andean Nations Needs Mechanism to Resolve Investor-State Disputes
    The free trade agreement the United States plans to negotiate with the Andean countries of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru should contain an investor-state dispute settlement mechanism, witnesses at a Trade Policy Staff Committee hearing on the Andean FTA said March 17.
  • 16-Sep-2004
    USCSI: Statement on the US draft model Bilateral Investment Treaty
    In the course of consultations with services industries on the Model BIT, a number of serious concerns have been raised. These relate to (1) the prospective nature of the Model BIT; (2) the breadth of the BIT’s prudential carve-out; (3) the limitations on recourse to investor-state dispute settlement mechanisms in certain cases; and, (4) the dispute settlement process itself.
  • 16-Sep-2004
    China May Get MFN Status
    This may come as a surprise to the ministry of home affairs. Security concerns of the government’s intelligence agencies notwithstanding, the ministry of external affairs (MEA) is quietly pushing for a Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (BIPA) with China.
  • 16-Sep-2004
    Bechtel and GE File Arbitration over Dabhol Power Company
    Bechtel Enterprises Holdings, Inc. and GE Structured Finance (GESF) have filed an arbitration action against the Government of India to recover their investments in the Dabhol Power Company (DPC).
  • 16-Sep-2004
    Nepal Govt to negotiate with India on BIPA
    The government has finally announced to commence negotiations on long-unheeded Bilateral Investment Protection Agreement (BIPA) with India, which the southern neighbour had been pressing for the last five years.