11-Jun-2007
The free trade agreement between India and Thailand may falter in the absence of consensus regarding the services sector.
11-Jun-2007
Thailand and India expect to complete negotiations on cutting duties on goods and services and sign a free-trade agreement by July, according to Commerce Minister Krirk-krai Jirapaet.
11-Jun-2007
Dominican Republic could become a key regional center for the re-export of merchandise and services, through the mechanisms in the United States-Mexico-Canada trade triangle after it signs free trade pacts with the two latter countries, said the Foreign Ministry's head of Trade Negotiations today.
11-Jun-2007
South Korea's commerce minister on Monday called on European companies to consider investing in an inter-Korean industrial complex in North Korea.
11-Jun-2007
Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and his Malaysian counterpart Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi had agreed upon the need for early finalization of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two countries, the Saudi Press Agency reports Monday.
11-Jun-2007
India and Russia have decided to explore signing a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement that will include not only features of an FTA but also trade in services and investment.
11-Jun-2007
Felix Okatch (“Churches' stand on EPAs look suspicious,” The EastAfrican, May 28-June 3) wondered why churches should take a stand on a “complex matter” such as the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the European Union and the countries of Africa, Caribbean and the Pacific.
11-Jun-2007
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and the Prime Minister of Malaysia Dr. Abdullah Badawi Sunday agreed upon the need for early finalization of FTA (Free Trade Agreement) between the two countries.The mutual consent was expressed during a telephonic conversation between the two Prime Ministers this afternoon.
11-Jun-2007
Free trade with Iceland and Liechtenstein is not exactly a hot political topic in Canada. But last week, Canada announced a deal with those two little countries along with Norway and Sweden - together they refer to themselves, rather grandly, as the European Free Trade Association. It's not much, but it's more than this country has accomplished in the trade arena is some time. Trade Minister David Emerson says there's more to come, to which Canadian exporters and consumers can only say: "It's about time."
11-Jun-2007
The Sri Lankan High Commissioner in Pakistan said this week that the potential to expand trade between the two countries will be facilitated by the recently inked Free Trade Agreement (FTA).