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Nuke test poses minimal impact on KORUS FTA talks
12-Oct-2006     Korea Herald
One glaring issue is Gaeseong, the inter-industrial park located in North Korea. Seoul, up until the previous round of FTA negotiations held last month, said it would not give up trying to persuade Washington to include products made in Gaeseong in their deal.
Canadians, Americans feel losers in NAFTA
11-Oct-2006     Angus-Reid
According to a poll by Ipsos-Reid for the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Canada Institute on North American Issues, 63 per cent of Canadian respondents and 53 per cent of American respondents believe their respective countries were losers as a result of the commerce agreement.
Services liberalization in the new generation of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs): How much further than the GATS?
11-Oct-2006     WTO
A comprehensive overview of services liberalization commitments in the new generation of preferential trade agreements as compared to prevailing GATS commitments and Doha Round offers.
'India, UK need new free trade pact'
11-Oct-2006     Times of India
Britain and the European Union urgently need an unprecedented new free trade pact with India, the UK's leading organization representing 240,000 businesses and 80 of the FTSE's 100 companies has demanded.
Peru urges Bush to push through FTA now
11-Oct-2006     Prensa Latina
While his neighbors in South America are in no hurry to ratify a free trade agreement with Washington, Peruvian President Alan Garcia plans to ask President George W. Bush to push for ratification of the beached Free Trade Treaty today.
EU flexes its colonial muscles with divide and rule strategies to crush former colonies with unfair trade agreements
11-Oct-2006     Black Britain
Representatives of ACP countries have been in the UK to lobby politicians to pressurise the government over its proposed new trade agreements. Black Britain spoke to them about how the agreements will destroy their economies and their lives.
ECOWAS Ministers endorse controversial EPA deal
11-Oct-2006     The Statesman
The Ministerial Monitoring Committee of the Economic Partnership Agreement, between West Africa and the European Community, have recommended to the sub-regional body to speed up the controversial partnership deal with the European Union.
Asean negative list covers only 80% products: India
11-Oct-2006     Economic Times
In an interesting reversal of roles in the on-going India-Asean free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations, India has expressed dissatisfaction with Asean's negative list of items (products to be excluded from duty reduction commitments) and has asked for amendments in order to enhance market access for Indian products.
Revisiting NAFTA: Still not working for North America's workers
11-Oct-2006     EPI
NAFTA should be seen not as a stand-alone treaty, but as part of a long-term campaign by the conservative business interests in all three countries to rip up their respective domestic social contract.
EU asks C. America to select single negotiator for trade talks
10-Oct-2006     People's Daily
EU foreign relations director-general Eneko Landaburu on Monday urged Central American nations to choose a single negotiator for talks on an association agreement between the two trade blocs.