28-Sep-2006
An enthusiast of the US-sponsored Free Trade Agreement, Peruvian President Alan Garcia will promote the agreement on his October visit to the US.
28-Sep-2006
A leading US labour coalition and an industry group have filed a complaint with the US Trade Representative asking that it formally sanction the government of Jordan for "gross workers' rights violations" under a controversial free trade agreement with the United States and Israel.
28-Sep-2006
When the idea of a free trade agreement with Japan was floated four years ago, there was not much enthusiasm in Tokyo.
28-Sep-2006
A Mauritian political party called Rezistans ek Alternativ (RA) has asked local MLAs to help in stopping the process of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) which, according to its members, Mauritius and fourteen other African countries have agreed to negotiate with the European Union, without realising the implication of such an agreement.
28-Sep-2006
Europe, Japan and emerging economies are weaning themselves from dependence on the American consumer, and economists say it's just in time.
28-Sep-2006
Concerned over the possibility of non-tariff barriers (NTBs) of Bimstec nations becoming an obstacle to the projected 74% jump in India's exports to them from 2003 figures, the government will soon collect data regarding the current and future revenue loss incurred due to the NTBs.
28-Sep-2006
Do the Pacific Islands' negotiators genuinely hope they can negotiate a beneficial Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union or are they simply going through the motions and doing what is required of them under the Cotonou Agreement 2000? In the secretive chess game of trade negotiations it is impossible to know.
28-Sep-2006
Agriculture minister Peter McGauran's lightning trip to Xian, home of the famed terracotta warriors, yesterday was to open a joint agriculture conference intended to persuade the Chinese that Australian farmers are no threat to their 800 million peasant counterparts, most of whom are barely above the poverty line and who form a potentially volatile force in Chinese politics.
28-Sep-2006
The Prime Minister of the Faroes, Mr Jóannes Eidesgaard and the Prime Minister of Greenland, Mr Hans Enoksen, discussed various topics of mutual interest in connection with the Faroese Prime Minister's official visit to Ilulissat.
28-Sep-2006
Japan wants to launch separate talks with India and Vietnam next year to develop bilateral free trade agreements, reflecting new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's push to expand such pacts through Asia, a news report said Thursday.
