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India, Japan move closer to trade pact
5-Feb-2007     Economic Times
India and Japan have decided to set up four working groups in goods, services, investment and bilateral cooperation to take forward negotiations on the proposed bilateral comprehensive economic partnership agreement (CEPA).
EU-Korea FTA prospects good: envoy
5-Feb-2007     Korea Herald
"Everything will be on the table" when Korea and the European Union start official negotiations for a free trade agreement in March, said EU Ambassador Brian McDonald.
More trade concessions likely for Mercosur bloc
5-Feb-2007     Business Standard
India may expand the list of items on which it will offer concessional imports to the Mercosur trading bloc as the two parties work towards an FTA.
US targets Malaysia in drive to sign Muslim countries to free trade agreement
4-Feb-2007     Media Monitors Network
FTAs are increasingly being regarded by many countries as Washington's economic analogue of a nuclear bomb.
UAE weights price of trade pact with US
4-Feb-2007     ANTARA
The United Arab Emirates is mulling whether to make political concessions to the United States in a free trade pact that has eluded both countries for nearly two years.
Deadlock of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) in Ouagadougou
3-Feb-2007     TWN Africa
EPA negotiators from West Africa and the European Union meeting in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, from the 23 -26 January, failed to reach agreement on key issues regarding the results of the mid-term review of the EPA negotiations and the way forward.
Court: free trade draft stays under wraps
3-Feb-2007     Hankyoreh
A South Korean court ruled that the government is not required to disclose a current draft of the proposed South Korea-US free trade agreement.
US eyes closer trade, investment ties with Vietnam
3-Feb-2007     Thanh Nien News
The US hopes to open negotiations with Vietnam on a Trade and Investment Framework Arrangement (TIFA), an important step towards establishing a free trade agreement (FTA) with Vietnam, a USTR official said Friday.
Japan-Thailand FTA (JTEPA): draft chapter on intellectual property
3-Feb-2007    
Uruguay signs a TIFA with the US: Will this mean an unraveling of Mercosur?
2-Feb-2007     COHA
On January 25, Uruguay signed a Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) with the United States that could ultimately dismantle Mercosur and isolate Uruguay in the southern cone.