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Japan infiltrates the Middle East
24-May-2007     FPIF
Japan is the preferred US candidate among Asian powers to penetrate an increasingly eastward leaning Middle East. In providing advanced technology and investments that the region desperately needs, Japan has an advantage over India and China in this new rivalry for Middle East influence.
Side deal on toxic wastes won't wash, says lawyer
24-May-2007     Asian Journal
A proposed side agreement to the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement aimed at ensuring that no toxic wastes will be exported to the Philippines will not not solve the deeper, more substantive problems of the JPEPA.
China-ASEAN FTA: trade in services (2007)
24-May-2007     ASEAN
African leaders resolve to harmonize regional blocs
24-May-2007     People's Daily
The leaders mandated Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki to convene a joint summit of COMESA, the South Africa Development Community (SADC) and the East African Community (EAC) to discuss the harmonization of the cross-border trading system.
'Free trade' drives Mexicans north
24-May-2007     Seattle Post Intelligencer
While Democratic leaders and President Bush do the hard sell on bipartisan immigration reform, they are now pushing secret, anti-worker, anti-environment trade agreements that will only exacerbate US immigration problems.
Japan begins studies on FTAs with US, EU
24-May-2007     Japan Today
Japan has begun considering bilateral free trade agreements with both the United States and the European Union, with specific plans. If the studies proceed smoothly, Japan and the United States are expected to start FTA negotiations "around the summer of 2009 after the launch of a new US administration," a senior METI official said.
Mass demonstrations in Colombia
24-May-2007     Prensa Latina
Hundreds of thousands of Colombians joined the national strike in a score of cities on Wednesday to protest against the US-Colombia free trade agreement and Uribe's neoliberal policies, and to support public education.
NAFTA Chapter 11 investor-state disputes
23-May-2007     CCPA
Table of all disputes and their status as of 1 March 2007
South Korea, US may release full text of FTA on Friday, official says
23-May-2007     Yonhap
South Korea and the United States have been in discussions to release the full text of a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) on Friday, a senior trade official said Wednesday, amid an indication that the deal's renegotiation is imminent.
Pres. Roh says Seoul's FTA with Beijing inevitable
23-May-2007     Chosun Ilbo
Korean President Roh Moo-hyun said Seoul's signing of a free-trade pact with Beijing is inevitable but the timing must be right.