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Sacu and US to kick-start trade talks
18-Aug-2005 Business Report
The US and the five-member Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) will meet in the second half of September to kick-start trade negotiations that ground to a halt late last year after the two regions failed to reach consensus on a range of key issues.
US bilateral free trade accords: Why Canada should be cautious about going the same route
18-Aug-2005 CD Howe Institute
Canada should focus on improving its access to the US market rather than trying to complete a host of FTA negotiations that are unlikely to result in large payoffs - despite the fact that the United States and many other countries are doing so.
PNG Minister warns over tapping EU funds
18-Aug-2005 Asia Pulse
Continued delay by Pacific Island countries to negotiate a successful Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) could result in the region missing out in millions of European Union (EU) funds.
In the trade zone: Georgians assess effects of CAFTA deal
18-Aug-2005 AJC
Georgia’s poultry industry is gearing up to ship more frozen chicken abroad under the Central American Free Trade Agreement, while parts of the state’s textile industry also stand to gain.
Caribbean: Trade winds gusting as region faces WTO meet
18-Aug-2005 IPS
Recent developments in international trade highlight the difficulties facing the 15-member Caribbean Community (Caricom) as it prepares for a key World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerial meeting in Hong Kong this December.
Official: CAFTA would hurt Mexico industry
18-Aug-2005 BusinessWeek
Mexico’s assembly-for-export industry, which has struggled to compete with China, will likely be hurt further by the proposed Central American Free Trade Agreement, officials said Wednesday.
Taiwan, Guatemala expected to ink free trade accord before Oct
17-Aug-2005 Asia Pulse
Visiting Guatemalan President Oscar Berger said Tuesday that he expects a Taiwan-Guatemala free trade accord (FTA) to be signed in September or October.
Agadir Agreement (2004)
17-Aug-2005 Embassy of Jordan (Washington DC)
Agreement for the Establishment of a Free Trade Zone between the Arabic Mediterranean Nations
There goes the neighborhood?
17-Aug-2005 Egypt Today
As the European Union enters a difficult watershed moment in its internal affairs, Egypt and the partner countries in the EU’s ten-year Euro-Mediterranean Partnership ponder their own new administrative spiderweb. The new European Neighborhood Policy was designed to speed up free trade and strengthen human rights and political reforms - but it could pass us over altogether.
Indonesia, China find love
17-Aug-2005 Asia Times
China’s sustained growth will depend on how well it manages its political and trade relationships. Acquiring concessions and investing directly in natural-resource-based projects in Indonesia makes a great deal of sense for China.
BIMSTEC trade experts to settle FTA issues in July 2006
17-Aug-2005 Mizzima News
Trade experts of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) are working on settling various issues pertaining to trade and investment in a bid to start a journey towards free trade area (FTA) among member countries from July 2006.
India’s new investment norm
17-Aug-2005 Rediff
The tax holiday provided under the India-Singapore agreement, which Indian companies may take advantage of, is part of a trend that will make it increasingly difficult to tax capital in almost any country.
Green light for talks on GCC-India FTA
17-Aug-2005 Bahrain Tribune
India will begin negotiations with the GCC as a single bloc as well as with individual member countries of the GCC for a comprehensive economic cooperation agreement, covering the service sector and investment, along the lines of the pact signed between India and Singapore recently.
Biodiversity and intellectual property rules in the Andean Free Trade Agreement
16-Aug-2005 CIEL
Letter from five US NGOs to the USTR advocating that patents on plants and animals be dropped from the FTA negotiations with Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, in favour of the current WTO TRIPS Agreement.
Can CAFTA save textile and apparel producers?
16-Aug-2005 EPI
The notion that 283,000 textile and apparel jobs will be created in Central America as a result of CAFTA is a pipedream.
The FTAA: A recipe for economic disaster?
16-Aug-2005 Political Affairs Magazine
As indicated by CAFTA’s ratification, instead of pushing for the enactment of the FTAA, the Bush administration has re-evaluated its strategy, now attempting to build up momentum by establishing separate free trade agreements with the different regions in the hemisphere through a "divide-and-conquer" strategy.
Free trade deal with Chile in the pipeline
16-Aug-2005 China Daily
China is expected to ink its first free trade agreement (FTA) with a single country this year: Chile.
Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement (2005)
16-Aug-2005
Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement. Brunei Darussalam, Chile, New Zealand and Singapore (P4)
Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (2003)
16-Aug-2005 Trade & Industry Department, Government of Hong Kong SAR
CEPA Legal Text
Downer’s Asia trade vision
16-Aug-2005 Herald Sun
The Federal Government wants to establish a powerful free trade bloc with Asia, giving Australia unprecedented economic access to almost half the world’s population.