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Implementing CARICOM-Canada Free Trade Area crucial, says Canadian High Commissioner
8-Nov-2006     Caribbean Net News
Canadian High Commissioner to Guyana and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Charles Court, has committed to fast-tracking negotiations for the establishment of a CARICOM-Canada Free Trade Area (FTA).
Trading freedom
8-Nov-2006     Times of India
India has good reasons to be apprehensive about a free trade agreement (FTA) with China, even as Beijing is more than eager.
Delhi divided over Chinese 'threat'
8-Nov-2006     Asia Times
Ahead of Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to New Delhi this month, security concerns about firms from his country investing in India is turning into a touchy issue.
Fair Trade Statement on JPEPA, October 2006
8-Nov-2006     Fair Trade Alliance (FairTrade-Philippines)
The Japan-Philippine Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA), signed on the sidelines of the Helsinki's ASEAN-Europe Meeting (ASEM) held in September this year, sidelines the development needs of the Philippines and further enhances the imbalances in the economic relations between the two countries.
FairTrade-Philippines' Statement on RP-US Agreement
8-Nov-2006     Fair Trade Alliance (FairTrade-Philippines)
After concluding the Japan-Philippine Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA), the government appears to be pursuing a similar bilateral free trade agreement (BFTA) with the United States. But like in the JPEPA, the RP-US trade talks are shrouded in secrecy.
Another JPEPA deception
7-Nov-2006    
JPEPA's promise of opening up Japanese borders to Filipino professionals may not exactly be true and Filipino nurses and health workers delighted over Malacañang pronouncements may have celebrated too early.
China mulls FTA talks with India
6-Nov-2006     China Daily
China is considering the possibility of establishing a free trade area (FTA) with India, a senior official with the Ministry of Commerce has said.
US postpones FTA talks with Thailand
6-Nov-2006     Asia Pulse
The United States government used a Malaysian platform Friday to warn Thailand's interim government that reinstating democracy was a precondition for the resumption of US-Thai trade negotiations.
Alliance forged vs RP-Japan trade pact
6-Nov-2006     INQ7
From militants to high society matrons, citizens' groups have embarked on a joint effort to fight the ratification of a controversial Philippine-Japan economic agreement they fear would turn the country into a “garbage republic” for Japan's toxic and hazardous waste.
Militants to take fight vs trade pact to Japan
6-Nov-2006     INQ7
The militant leftist group Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) is bringing the struggle against the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) right to the heart of that North Asian country--the Diet--to ask its members to reject the onerous trade pact.