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Korea-Chile FTA
Japan-Malaysia EPA: Joint Study Group Report
During his visit to five ASEAN countries including Malaysia in January 2002, the Prime Minister of Japan, H.E. Mr. Junichiro Koizumi, proposed the “Initiative for Japan-ASEAN Comprehensive Economic Partnership”, to which the then Prime Minister of Malaysia, H.E. Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad gave his full support.
Japan-Thailand EPA: Joint Task Force Report
During his official visit to Japan in November 2001, the Thai Prime Minister, H.E. Dr. Thaksin Shinawatra, proposed to Japanese Prime Minister, H.E. Mr. Junichiro Koizumi, that Thailand and Japan should explore together the possibility of establishing a bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
Japan-Philippines EPA: Joint Coordinating Team Report
JAPAN-PHILIPPINE ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT JOINT COORDINATING TEAM REPORT
Regional and bilateral treaties and a TRIPS-plus world: the Free Trade Area of the Americas
In these issues papers, authors are invited to examine a subject of importance in the developing international intellectual property regime and highlight key issues they see arising. The topics have been chosen following consultations with negotiators from developing countries, and respond to their concerns.
US-Brunei TIFA (2002)
Bilateralism in intellectual property
This paper examines the way in which bilateral trade negotiations (Bilateral Investment Treaties and Bilateral Intellectual Property Agreements) are being used by the USA and others to build more extensive protection for intellectual property than that set out in the WTO TRIPS Agreement.
Australia, China FTA talks progressing rapidly
Talks on a free trade agreement between Australia and China are moving faster than was anticipated, foreign minister Alexander Downer said today.
King’s reforms had positive impact on Morocco-US FTA, prime minister
Initiatives and reforms conducted by Moroccan king Mohammed VI in various fields have had "a positive and decisive impact" on the conclusion of a free trade agreement with the United States, said, here Thursday, Moroccan Premier Driss Jettou.
Police break up Morocco protest against trade deal.
Moroccan police armed with truncheons on Wednesday broke up a sit-in by protesters opposed to a free trade deal with the United States which they say could hurt the North African country’s most vulnerable people.
Multilateral, Regional, Bilateral: What Is The Way?
The Chicago Conference on the Global Economy ’The Future of the Global Trading System’
Stick approach: Police break up free trade demo in Morocco
Witnesses say police used batons to break up 200 people protesting in Rabat against US-Morocco free trade deal.
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.