7-May-2007
Prices of articles included in the free trade agreement between the Dominican Republic, Central America and the United States, DR-CAFTA, which is already in effect have not come down. If anything, they have increased. Small businesses are claiming that wholesale prices are more expensive.
6-May-2007
The Thai government should come up with concrete measures to assist small-scale farmers, who are likely to be adversely affected by bilateral free-trade agreements. Otherwise they will be forced to go out of business. This is the view of a Commerce Ministry official who has been involved in several bilateral trade negotiations.
6-May-2007
Taipei will sign free trade agreements (FTA) with El Salvador and Honduras tomorrow, making it the first multilateral FTA between Taiwan and its trade partners.
6-May-2007
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe admitted he has found resistance among US politicians to the approval of a Free Trade Agreement with its country.
5-May-2007
TNI
The EU proposes free trade agreements with ASEAN, India and Korea, part of a new generation of agreements with ambitious services and investment targets. Marc Maes and Roelien Knotterus set out the context in relation to other FTAs, while Charles Santiago puts these new EU-Asia relations in a historical perspective.
5-May-2007
Bernama
Asean is waiting for Japan to iron out its bilateral issues with the CLMV countries (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam) before proceeding to sign the Asean-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership (AJCEP) this November at the Asean Summit in Singapore.
4-May-2007
Taiwan's economics minister will fly to El Salvador Saturday to sign a free trade agreement (FTA) with El Salvador and Honduras, making them the fifth and sixth countries to sign an FTA with Taipei, the Economics Ministry said on Friday.
4-May-2007
Colombia must resolve US concerns about a paramilitary scandal and the unsolved murders of trade unionists if it wants Congress to approve a free trade agreement, a spokesman for the Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Thursday.
4-May-2007
Rekindling differences with his senior colleague Kamal Nath, Minister of State for Commerce Jairam Ramesh has written to the Prime Minister seeking review of the proposed reduction in customs duty on farm products under the Free Trade Agreement with Asean.
