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  • 27-Apr-2004
    China, Chile to launch FTA feasibility study
    Visiting Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu and Chilean Foreign Minister Soledad Alvear declared Friday that their countries will soon launch a feasibility study on a free trade agreement (FTA) between them.
  • 26-Apr-2004
    South Korea Passes Chile Free Trade Pact
    South Korea’s parliament braved the wrath of a powerful farm lobby on Monday to pass a free trade agreement with Chile, the Asian trading powerhouse’s first bilateral market-opening deal.
  • 26-Apr-2004
    Reassess free trade agreements
    Recent experience with the implementation the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) Free Trade Area Agreement effectively illustrates how Pacific leaders sign regional and international agreements without adequate consultation and assessment at national and local level.
  • 26-Apr-2004
    Proposal with the US to be highlighted
    The government will spend 10 million baht this year on advertisements to inform the public about the benefits of free trade area (FTA) agreements, in particular the one proposed between Thailand and the United States.
  • 26-Apr-2004
    Can We Do A Deal With China?
    Dairy, meat and forestry exporters stand to gain the most if the government cuts a free trade deal with China and its market of 1.3 billion people.
  • 26-Apr-2004
    MierScope: FTA with the US makes good sense
    A US-Malaysia FTA will demand strong obligations from Malaysia. It will push us towards greater liberalisation. Complain as we may that such an FTA will be an instrument of economic imperialism, it will not be pragmatic to deny it.
  • 24-Apr-2004 FPCJ
    Japan and Mexico agree on conclusion of free-trade agreement
    On March 12 Japan and Mexico reached virtual accord on the conclusion of a bilateral free-trade agreement following 16 months of negotiations.
  • 23-Apr-2004
    US-Paraguay MOU on IPR (2004)
  • 23-Apr-2004
    US-Ukraine BIT (1996)
  • 21-Apr-2004
    Thailand Trade Talks with Australia Wraps Up
    Thailand and Australia have completed talks on establishing a bilateral free trade area (FTA) agreement, and the pact will go before the Thai cabinet for approval within the next two weeks, according to Deputy Commerce Minister Pongsak Raktapongpaisal.
  • 21-Apr-2004
    US Trade Promotion Authority Act (2002)
    The US Trade Promotion Authority Act grants the President of the United States "fast-track" authority to enter into and conclude trade negotiations with other countries. It also restricts the role of Congress to either approve or reject such treaties, within 90 days of signature, without the possibility of amending them. The current TPAA expires in 2006.
  • 20-Apr-2004
    Regionalism and the multilateral trade system
    Regional trade agreements (RTAs) are an integral part of international trade, accounting for almost half of world trade and expected to grow further in the next few years. These agreements operate alongside global multilateral agreements under the World Trade Organization (WTO), and have both positive and negative effects.
  • 19-Apr-2004 Big Brothers Behaving Badly
    Big Brothers Behaving Badly: The Implications for the Pacific Islands of the Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations
    The Implications for the Pacific Islands of the Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations by Prof. Jane Kelsey - commissioned by the Pacific Network on Globalisation - interim report - April 2004
  • 18-Apr-2004
    NAFTA Tribunals Stir US Worries
    After the highest court in Massachusetts ruled against a Canadian real estate company and after the United State Supreme Court declined to hear its appeal, the company’s day in court was over.
  • 18-Apr-2004 IATP Trade Observatory
    Bilateral Investment Treaties and Disputes
    Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) have greatly proliferated in the last two decades, and play an increasingly significant role in global trade and investment protection.
  • 14-Apr-2004 PICIS Statement against the Korea-Japan Bilateral Investment Treaty
    PICIS Statement against the Korea-Japan BIT
    Between 20th and 24th December, representatives from the two countries will meet in Tokyo and finalise the text of the BIT that has been under much criticism from peoples’ movements of both Korea and Japan.
  • 8-Apr-2004 http://www.us-asean.org/us-thai-fta...
    Monsanto comments to USTR on US-Thailand FTA
    Monsanto Company appreciates this opportunity to submit written comments pertaining to the initiation of negotiations with Thailand on a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) as notified in the Federal Register (69 ER 9419, February 27,2004).
  • 5-Apr-2004 Asahi Shimbun
    Japan: Free trade with Mexico
    Japan and Mexico have reached a basic accord on free trade. Japan promises to increase imports of pork, oranges and other agricultural products from Mexico, while that country says it will import more steel, automobiles and other industrial products from Japan.
  • 4-Apr-2004
    USA-Morocco deal may extend drug patents to 30 years
    A free trade agreement due to be signed between Morocco and the USA by the end of this year could threaten access to medicines, several non-governmental organisations (NGOs) warned last week.
  • 3-Apr-2004 Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, UN Human Rights Commission, 60th session
    The right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, Addendum: Mission to WTO
    The Special Rapporteur recommends that States be cautious about enacting “TRIPS plus” legislation without first understanding the impact of such legislation on the protection of human rights, including the right to health. Equally, wealthy countries should not pressure a developing country to implement “TRIPS plus” legislation, unless reliable evidence confirms that such legislation will enhance enjoyment of the right to health in the developing country.