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Pakistan uncertain on SAFTA
27-Mar-2006
Pakistan remains unsure of India’s role in the South Asian Free Trade Agreement as bilateral economic cooperation talks begin Monday.
Civil society, trade and the US-ROK relationship
27-Mar-2006
Remarks by Alexander Vershbow, US Ambassador to the Republic of Korea
On trade, the US and China need to go global
27-Mar-2006
With President Hu Jintao due to visit the United States, there is an urgent need for a cease-fire in the war of words between China and the United States over trade.
2006 SME survey to address overseas competition, FTAs
27-Mar-2006
SINGAPORE: This year’s SME development survey will take on a different focus. The annual study will delve deeper into concerns among Singapore’s small- and medium-sized enterprises which are related to increasing competition overseas and the impact of free trade pacts.
Report considers DR hastily plunged into CAFTA trade accord
27-Mar-2006 Dominican Today
Central American countries had negotiated every issue, and the Dominican Republic simply adhered to all that had already been convened.
FTA to cut auto sales
27-Mar-2006 Asia Times Online
A free trade agreement between South Korea and Japan is expected to reduce domestic sales of local carmakers by up to 226,000 units annually.
GCC, India likely to sign FTA next year
27-Mar-2006 MENAFN
India’s minister of commerce and industry said that GCC countries and India possibly will sign a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) by early next year.
Rally against partnership agreement
27-Mar-2006 CBC
Members of the islands public sector union and other Barbadians will be showing their dissent towards the most recent process of negotiations between Barbados and Cariforum countries this week.
Indigenous-led uprising challenges FTA, US domination
27-Mar-2006 Workers World
Ecuadorian Indigenous organizations are in the leadership of the most recent uprising in that country, which began on March 13. Tired of being lied to, exploited and excluded, they have taken on the courageous road of challenging the Free Trade Agreement that is secretly, behind closed doors, being negotiated with the United States by President Alfredo Palacios.
Malaysian activists launch campaign against free trade deal with US
27-Mar-2006 AFP
Malaysian activists over the weekend launched a campaign against a planned bilateral free trade deal with the US, saying it could undermine job and food security and the nation’s economy.
The US-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement (TPA): The intellectual property provisions
26-Mar-2006 USTR
Report of the US government’s Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Intellectual Property Rights (ITAC-15)
US FTA set to impact entertainment industry
25-Mar-2006 Korea Times
Korean culture and entertainment industries will suffer considerable damage from a Korea-US free trade agreement (FTA), a local think tank warned Friday.
Peru torn over FTA with US
25-Mar-2006
Peruvians are divided Friday on the possible ratification of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with United States, because businesspeople insist on implementing it, but agricultural farmers reject it.
Free trade pacts are bad for business
25-Mar-2006 Forbes
The WTO on March 22 issued a report criticizing the US pursuit of free trade agreements. The report claims that US free trade agreements create political interests in other countries, which complicate the multilateral process.
RI seeks closer trade ties with US
25-Mar-2006 Jakarta Post
After four years of stagnant trade relations, the government plans to start intensifying talks with the United States and support a joint-study group on a possible free trade agreement (FTA) with the country, a minister says.
India-Asean FTA hits a roadblock
25-Mar-2006 NDTV
The India-Asean Free Trade Agreement (FTA) has hit a roadblock with Agriculture Ministry objecting to inclusion of farm products like pepper, rubber, palm oil, coffee and tea in the tariff liberalisation programme.
Indigenous movement proposes to assume its own power
25-Mar-2006 Granma International
Given the rejection by Ecuadorian president Alfredo Palacio of the demands made by the popular sector, the indigenous movement is today to assume power itself and convene a popular consultation on the Free Trade Agreement.
’Fisheries could lose W80 billion under US FTA’
24-Mar-2006 Chosunibo
Once tariffs are removed under a putative free-trade agreement with the US, Korea’s domestic fishing industry could lose between W51.1 billion (US$51 million) and W84.9 billion (US$87 million).
Kamal Nath for separate FTA with Bangladesh
24-Mar-2006 The Hindu
India is for a South Asia Free Trade Area (SAFTA) "plus’’ a separate free trade arrangement with Bangladesh that would address the existing trade imbalance between the two countries, Commerce Minister Kamal Nath said on Wednesday.
FTA Watch statement: In support of Korean people’s struggle against the Korea-US FTA
24-Mar-2006
Although Thailand and South Korea are different in terms of development, people in both countries share a common demand for the protection of their right to affordable medicines and treatment.