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  • 31-Jul-2006
    Bilateral deals ’mock’ Doha
    The Doha round of world trade talks may have collapsed in Geneva last week — denying the world’s developing countries their promised access to global markets — but leading trade expert Jagdish Bhagwati remains optimistic about the cause of multilateral trade liberalisation.
  • 31-Jul-2006
    Steel boss sounds alarm on China FTA
    The head of Australia’s biggest steel maker, BlueScope Steel, has questioned the value of a free-trade deal with China and urged the Federal Government to even up tariffs on steel traded between the countries.
  • 31-Jul-2006
    India says ASEAN-India free trade talks not dead
    Trade talks between India and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are very much alive, despite reports that they they have been suspended, an Indian minister said Thursday.
  • 31-Jul-2006
    PR firm hired to push FTA
    Taiwan has hired a US public relations firm to push the US to sign a free-trade agreement with Taipei, a Taiwanese radio network reported yesterday.
  • 30-Jul-2006 Financial Express
    Expert panel wants India, Japan economic pact to get cracking
    A joint study group, which was set up during the Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s visit to India in 2005, has given the green signal for having a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) between India and Japan.
  • 30-Jul-2006 Stop CAFTA Coalition
    Coalition mourns one year of CAFTA, calls for trade with justice
    One year after the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) narrowly passed in the US House of Representatives, the agreement has failed to live up to its supporters’ claims.
  • 28-Jul-2006
    RI-Japan trade deal waiting on new law
    Trade Minister Mari Elka Pengestu says the government cannot sign a much-awaited Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with Japan by the year’s end unless the House of Representatives speeds up the passage of the new investment bill.
  • 28-Jul-2006 S&L
    Fighting the US-South Korea free trade agreement
    Participants in the growing movement inside South Korea who are opposed to the proposed U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement held demonstrations in Washington, D.C. during the first week of June while negotiations were being conducted.
  • 28-Jul-2006 Gulf Daily News
    India denies FTA talks deadlock
    India’s Commerce and Industry Ministry said yesterday free trade talks with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations were still on and officials from both sides were likely to submit fresh proposals soon.
  • 28-Jul-2006 People’s Daily
    Tanzania’s multi-block membership reaffirmed by SADC
    The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has okayed Tanzania’s multi-regional block membership, thus paying the way for the east African country to remain in SADC with its East African Community affiliation.
  • 28-Jul-2006 Bernama
    New Zealand optimistic of sealing FTA with M’sia soon
    New Zealand is optimistic of concluding a Free Trade Agreement with Malaysia soon, its foreign minister, Winston Peters, said today.
  • 27-Jul-2006
    BIMSTEC Taking Shape, Finally
    The Bay of Bengal for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC), a regional trading bloc of seven South and Southeast Asian countries, is giving final shape to its free trade agreement in Colombo this week.
  • 27-Jul-2006 Financial Express
    Asean suspends FTA talks with India
    The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) has suspended free-trade talks with India because of New Delhi’s reluctance to open its markets, Malaysia’s trade and industry minister said on Tuesday.
  • 27-Jul-2006 Kyodo
    ANALYSIS: WTO collapse forces Japan down rocky FTA road
    Now that the global trade talks under the World Trade Organization have collapsed, Japan will be forced to walk down what looks like a rocky road to seek bilateral free trade agreements, marking a departure from its trade policy based on both multilateral and bilateral approaches.
  • 26-Jul-2006
    Regional trade pacts rise to the fore
    Two weeks ago, members of the World Trade Organization agreed on rules that would make it easier to track bilateral and regional trade deals. Negotiators were concerned that the proliferation of such deals would detract from efforts, already faltering, to reach a global trade pact.
  • 26-Jul-2006
    Will US Change Laws for FTA With Korea?
    South Korea has three major demands in its free trade agreement (FTA) talks with the United States since June when the first round of bilateral meeting began.
  • 26-Jul-2006
    Asean suspends FTA talks with India
    The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) has suspended free-trade talks with India because of New Delhi’s reluctance to open its markets, Malaysia’s trade and industry minister said on Tuesday.
  • 26-Jul-2006 The Hankyoreh
    A Korea-U.S. trade agreement: what is at stake?
    This examines macro-economic issues, intellectual property and patent protections, the potential impact on pharmaceuticals, and other issues at stake in the US-Korea FTA.
  • 26-Jul-2006 BBC News
    The death of the WTO’s Doha talks
    You don’t have to declare multilateralism dead, just because this round of talks is over, but there are three particular, potential consequences of the collapse in the talks.
  • 26-Jul-2006 Reuters
    India considering trade pacts with EU, Japan
    India is considering economic cooperation agreements with the European Union and Japan to boost trade, Commerce Minister Kamal Nath said on Tuesday, a day after global free trade talks collapsed.