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US Congress backs Vietnam trade
9-Dec-2006     BBC
The United States Congress has passed landmark legislation normalising trade ties with Vietnam. The trade vote package also expanded trade relations with Haiti, and tweaked Washington's trade preferences with several states in Latin America and beyond.
S Korea, US finish latest trade talks amid no progress in key areas
9-Dec-2006     Yonhap
South Korea and the US failed to resolve differences in most sensitive areas such as antidumping laws, autos and pharmaceuticals, both sides said.
Scaling the Andes for free trade
9-Dec-2006     The Age
Another day, another free trade negotiation. Two days after announcing a study into a free trade agreement with South Korea, Trade Minister Warren Truss revealed Australia will start negotiating an FTA with Chile.
Free trade pacts now in fashion
9-Dec-2006     The Telegraph
The Gulf nations and Japan are the next in line for free trade agreements (FTAs) with India.
EU 'strongly committed' to Mediterranean agriculture
8-Dec-2006     Food Navigator
The EU has sought to ease frustrations that agricultural trade within the Mediterranean region has not advanced as quickly as hoped.
South American summit dreams of uniting continent's governments, people
8-Dec-2006     IHT
Hopes for a continentwide trading community and a celebration of the region's populist movements will highlight a two-day summit of South American leaders hosted by Bolivian President Evo Morales.
Japan, China, S Korea to negotiate investment pact from 2007
8-Dec-2006     Black Enterprise
Japan, China and South Korea have decided to start negotiations in 2007 with the aim of concluding a tripartite investment treaty, it was learned Thursday.
EC to negotiate Association Agreements with Andean Community and Central America
8-Dec-2006     FreshPlaza
The EU Commission notified its intention to begin negotiations for Association Agreements in the first quarter of 2007, which would gradually become free trade agreements with the Andean Community (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru) and Central American countries (Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala). However, this process could be broken because of the new demands on part of Ecuador before the WTO.
Mercosur/EU talks depend on the Doha Round
8-Dec-2006     MercoPress
As long as the Doha Round is pending, “significant advances” in negotiations with Mercosur for a free trade agreement will not be forthcoming anticipated on Friday the European Union External Trade Commissioner, Peter Mandelson.
EU tactics over African trade are 'bribery', say aid groups
8-Dec-2006     Guardian
The European Union is insisting that some of Africa's poorest countries accept liberalisation of services, investment and competition policy as the price of better access to the world's richest market, it emerged last night.