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9-Apr-2007
President Roh Moo-hyun’s popularity has shot up recently. From surveys done by Korean media from The Hankyoreh to the Chosun Ilbo, every poll says his approval rating has surpassed 30 percent. It is not easy for a president to have his approval rise towards the end of his term, so the cause for all of this can be attributed to the recently inked FTA with the United States.
9-Apr-2007
Korea and China are moving swiftly toward negotiations on a bilateral free trade agreement. China’s courtship of Korea has intensified since Seoul clinched an FTA with the US last Monday, with Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao expressing hope last Thursday that an FTA between Beijing and Seoul can be concluded
as soon possible".
9-Apr-2007
Iran and South Korea have signed an agreement to create an exploratory committee aimed at boosting trade and investment between both countries.
8-Apr-2007
Developments over the past few days have re-confirmed that the developing countries are more eager than developed countries to break the deadlock in multilateral trade. The developing countries have shown ample flexibility, without waiting for a response from the developed world.
8-Apr-2007
Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont dismissed criticism of his signing the Japan-Thailand Economic Partnership Agreement (JTEPA) as voiced by various sectors in Thailand.
8-Apr-2007
Trinidad and Tobago should rethink its position on the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and instead examine Latin American proposals on the formation of a Latin American-Caribbean trade grouping. Government, it seems, continues to believe that we can still be selected as the headquarters of the FTAA.
8-Apr-2007
Sugar cane farmers have added their voice to demands that Government seeks an extension of the Comesa moratorium, which comes into effect from early next year. The Kenya Sugarcane Grower’s Union officials petitioned President Kibaki to lead the extension campaign to enable local factories and market get ready to compete with the imports from the region.
8-Apr-2007
The US-Korea Free Trade Agreement will allow the US greater access to one of Australian beef’s premier export markets.
8-Apr-2007
New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has been lobbying United States politicians to gain their support for free-trade talks, despite his party’s scepticism over such deals in the past.
8-Apr-2007
Trouble. Government has failed to seal a textile tax-free export extension deal with the Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) which now means over 6,000 jobs in the textile industry in the country face uncertain future, Economic Report can reveal.
8-Apr-2007
President General Pervez Musharraf on Saturday stressed the need for initiation of negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Pakistan and the United States to strengthen the bilateral relations by boosting trade and investment links.
8-Apr-2007
The international trade tide is turning in a dangerous direction for Australia.
The new deal carved out by the US and South Korea last week, just minutes before President George Bush’s trade negotiating powers expired, is a massive one.
8-Apr-2007
The free trade agreement the United States signed with South Korea last week could be the most important step in the nation’s trade policy since the North American Free Trade Agreement. It could symbolize a shift away from global trade negotiations, which were supposed to help poor countries grow, to the bilateral option, the only game in town right now.
8-Apr-2007
On April 6, a special committee of the National Assembly set up to monitor the Korea-U.S. free trade agreement (FTA), waged fierce debate over their evaluation of the deal as well as any needed countermeasures.
8-Apr-2007
The US-South Korea free trade deal could encourage further liberalization and create an environment conducive to a proposed trans-Pacific free trade area linking Asia and the Americas, officials and analysts say.
8-Apr-2007
The European Union (EU) has been accused of trying to introduce structural adjustment in developing African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) nations by way of economic partnership agreements (EPA).
8-Apr-2007
"I will lead a large business delegation to China in June, and will try to give support so that China opens negotiations with Switzerland," Leuthard told the Neue Zuercher Zeitung am Sonntag newspaper in an interview.
7-Apr-2007
Hankyoreh
The South Korean government pledged to ease quarantine rules on products containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) under a free trade agreement with the United States struck on April 2. But while negotiations were underway on the deal, the government denied it was discussing the topic.
7-Apr-2007
IHT
Thousands of South Korean workers took to the streets of the capital Saturday, demanding that a just-concluded free trade agreement between their country and the United States be scrapped.
6-Apr-2007
The Mozambican government is preparing its position for negotiations with the European Union, scheduled to begin in May, on the controversial Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs).
