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  • 28-Oct-2006 Legal Week
    Africa: Arbitration nation
    A number of African governments have made efforts to encourage investment in the continent by entering into bilateral investment treaties and adopting arbitration legislation.
  • 28-Oct-2006 Channel News Asia
    Singapore and China start talks on Free Trade Agreement
    China and Singapore have held the first round of talks in Beijing on the China-Singapore Free Trade Agreement. When concluded, the FTA will be a comprehensive one, extending beyond trade in goods, services and investment.
  • 28-Oct-2006 Korea Times
    US offers to lift tariffs on all industrial goods
    US Trade Representative Susan Schwab recently had told a radio broadcasting company in California that the US will not continue its FTA talks if Korea does not remove trade barriers in the automobile sector.
  • 28-Oct-2006
    Stop KorUS FTA right now!
    Statement of the Korean Alliance against KorUS FTA (KoA) before the 4th round of talks on Korea-US FTA in Jeju Island in South Korea (23-27 October 2006).
  • 26-Oct-2006 Inside PCIJ
    JPEPA to encourage trade in hazardous and toxic waste
    A summary of the current debate over the Philippine-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement by the Philippine Centre for Investigative Journalism.
  • 26-Oct-2006 Zee News
    US, India hold high level dialogue to deepen economic ties
    The United States and India have held high level talks to boost bilateral trade and investment following a blueprint drawn up by the US-India CEO’s Forum.
  • 26-Oct-2006 Angus Reid
    Uruguayans divided on free trade agreement
    Adults in Uruguay are split over a proposed commerce deal with the United States, according to a poll by Interconsult published in Últimas Noticias. 49 per cent of respondents oppose signing the free trade agreement, while 43 per cent are in favour.
  • 26-Oct-2006 Mondaq
    IP developments in the DR-CAFTA countries
    Current state of play with intellectual property law reforms in Central America under the US-DR-CAFTA.
  • 26-Oct-2006 Embassy Magazine
    Opposition opens up Central American trade deal
    In an effort to ensure that the protection of labour and human rights are built into a free trade agreement being negotiated with four Central American countries, the Standing Committee on International Trade passed a resolution last week calling for the disclosure of all agreement draft texts and Canadian negotiating proposals.
  • 26-Oct-2006 Asia Times
    Pakistan, China to sign FTA
    Pakistan and China will sign a free-trade agreement (FTA) during the visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao to Pakistan next month. This will be Pakistan’s first comprehensive FTA with any country.
  • 26-Oct-2006 PDI
    DENR opposed waste dumping in trade deal but gave in to DTI
    The Philippine Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) tried but failed to stop the government from including toxic and hazardous wastes from the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA), yielding to pressure.
  • 26-Oct-2006 PDI
    Senate indignant, CBCP sad over ‘toxic’ accord
    Archbishop Angel Lagdameo, president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, yesterday said he was saddened by the agreement that environmentalists fear would turn the Philippines into Japan’s dump for toxic wastes. Indignation was also voiced in the Senate and calls were made for an investigation of the Japan-Philippine Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA).
  • 25-Oct-2006 News Talk
    USA free trade agreement still on cards
    A US-New Zealand free trade agreement is still on the cards according to US Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill.
  • 25-Oct-2006 The Nation
    Bangkok is ready to ink Thai-Japan FTA : FM
    Thai government is now ready to sign Thai-Japan Free Trade Agreement that has been concluded in the previous government, Foreign Minister Nitya Pibulsonggram said Wednesday.
  • 25-Oct-2006 VNEconomy
    Great leap in Japanese investment in Vietnam forecast
    Vietnam and Japan have had an agreement on investment liberalisation and protection which works as the foundation for attracting and creating open environment for investment. The economic partnership agreement will further focus on trade: commodity trade, service trade and intellectual property protection.
  • 25-Oct-2006 Hankyoreh
    Anti-FTA protesters clash with riot police in Jeju
    Korean riot police, using water cannons and clubs, on Tuesday dispersed hundreds of anti-globalization protesters trying to disrupt free trade talks between South Korea and the US, witnesses said.
  • 25-Oct-2006 PDI
    RP-Japan accord ‘toxic’
    A new dump for toxic waste may soon open for Japan — and it has 7,100 islands. This is how concerned environmentalists see the likely effect of the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) which President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and then Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi signed on Sept. 9 in Helsinki on the side of the Asia-Europe Meeting.
  • 24-Oct-2006 swissinfo
    Swiss look to free trade after WTO failure
    Switzerland is looking to boost its free trade accords with other countries following the collapse of world trade talks, says the country’s top economics official.
  • 24-Oct-2006 Fiji Times
    Pacific ACP united against pressure
    Papua New Guinea prime minister Sir Michael Somare said that after much negotiation, the European Commission had conceded that not all Pacific ACPs would need to sign up to a single, comprehensive EPA.
  • 24-Oct-2006 Hankyoreh
    US makes proposal on FTA screen quota issue: sources
    With the fourth round of talks underway for a proposed free trade agreement (FTA), the US has reportedly made a proposal regarding protections currently in place on the South Korean film industry.