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Free trade agreements: The quiet economic track of US Middle East policy
13-Feb-2006 Washington Institute
Since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the Bush administration has placed democratization and reform in the Middle East at the top of its agenda. While press reports have focused on political developments, another key component to the American strategy entails encouraging economic growth, modernization, and liberalization throughout the region.
Japan, Chile to hold 1st formal FTA talks on Feb. 23-24
13-Feb-2006 TMCnet
Japan and Chile will hold their first official negotiations aimed at sealing a bilateral free trade agreement on Feb. 23-24 in Tokyo.
Free trade fuels drug smuggling
13-Feb-2006 Houston Chronicle
US drug agents say that free trade with Mexico has had an ugly and unintended consequence: Just as legitimate business people have flocked to Nuevo Laredo, so have criminals.
Aid issue hinders progress in Africa, EU trade talks
13-Feb-2006 ANDnetwork
According to officials, dispute over whether Europe should provide aid to help African states prepare for increased competition ahead of a new trade regime, is hindering progress in talks between the two blocs.
Cartoons threat to EU trade talks
13-Feb-2006 Gulf News
Free trade negotiations between the EU and GCC face being disrupted by the ongoing controversy surrounding cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), according to a Saudi official involved in the talks.
Eastern promise
12-Feb-2006 Gulf News
Trade and investment. Not words which always set the pulse racing, the heart pounding.
Freedom isn’t free
12-Feb-2006 Business Today
Disarray on the political side of the house casts the side of free-trade talks with the United States into question.
Japan, ASEAN to resume free trade talks
12-Feb-2006 Yomiuri Shimbun
Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations agreed Saturday to resume official free trade agreement negotiations in March, as ASEAN welcomed Japan’s proposal of a common tariff-elimination method.
Thai service sector must adapt to FTA challenges
12-Feb-2006 MCOT
Economists at the KASIKORN Research Centre (KRC) on Sunday urged Thailand’s service sector to adapt if it plans to survive stiff competition caused by free trade area (FTA) agreements Thailand has signed with other countries.
Uribe for US FTA, Colombia against
12-Feb-2006 Prensa Latina
President Alvaro Uribe will travel to the US on Monday to talk about free trade agreements while most Colombians continue rejecting that trade scheme.
No US-ME free trade talks this year but with Egypt
12-Feb-2006 MENAFN
According to US Trade Representative for Europe and the Middle East Shaun Donnelly, the only Arab country under consideration for beginning FTA talks before the summer of 2007 is Egypt.
Oman-US FTA gathers momentum
11-Feb-2006 Zawya
Notwithstanding the Democrats’ reservations over the existing labour laws in Oman, the United States is confident that the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) that it had signed on January 19 this year in Washington will sail through smoothly in the Congress in the next few months.
Anti-Thaksin rally: Coalition gains momentum
11-Feb-2006 The Nation
The new Royal Plaza alliance of senators and civic groups has boosted the credibility of the movement to oust Thailand’s Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and produced an array of new issues from free trade to human rights violations and the plight of the rural poor
Viet Nam, Japan prepare for negotiations on bilateral FTA
11-Feb-2006
Vietnamese and Japanese commerce experts will meet in Ha Noi from Feb. 16-18 in preparation for negotiations on a free trade agreement (FTA) between the two countries, and a meeting at higher level will be held by the end of this year, according to the Trade Ministry.
Salvadorian women concern on FTA
11-Feb-2006
Workers of the Salvadorian maquilas Friday expressed their concern on the prompt implementation of the Free Trade Area (FTA) with the US.
Australia joins queue for trade deal
11-Feb-2006
Canberra hopes to reach a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Seoul, Peter Rowe, Australia’s new ambassador to South Korea, said on Thursday. He also underlined that the bilateral trade deal would not hurt South Korea’s agriculture industry.
Haiti could return to CARICOM
11-Feb-2006
HAITI CAN return as a member of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) after its elections, says Prime Minister P.J. Patterson.
Businessmen want free trade agreement
11-Feb-2006
Korean business leaders issued a joint statement in support of a Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) yesterday.
Trade minister selling FTA to US and Koreans
11-Feb-2006
Only a few years ago, the idea of signing free-trade deals was new to Koreans. But after signing such agreements with Chile and Singapore, and after the opening of free-trade talks with the United States was announced, free trade is now at the forefront of the national discourse.
FTAA off? - Regional heads explore option to US-proposed Free Trade Area
10-Feb-2006 Jamaica Gleaner
Caribbean leaders are reconsidering the region’s strategic alliances, including a possible free trade agreement with Venezuela as an alternative to the stalled Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiations.