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IBSA experiment will benefit all the members, says Singh
14-Sep-2006    
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh yesterday spoke strongly in favour of the newly emerging trilateral co-operation between India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA), saying all three countries stand to benefit from it in working for their energy security, creating synergies in trade and technology and in enhanced transport connectivity.
Time for IBSA to shine in world trade, says Mbeki
14-Sep-2006    
President Thabo Mbeki says IBSA's (India-Brazil-South Africa's) time has arrived to make a mark on world trade. He was addressing the IBSA summit in Brazil and called on developing nations to form strong partnerships and strategic alliances in the wake of the recent collapse of the Doha round of trade talks.
Top S.K. trade negotiator sees deal by March
14-Sep-2006    
South Korea's top trade negotiator Kim Jong-hoon said that there should be a "tangible" agreement by March next year in the ongoing trade negotiations with the United States.
Beijing condemns protectionism
14-Sep-2006    
China has voiced its concern over increasing trade protectionism by its counterparts, which it sees as the main threat to its competitiveness in the world market.
The 'free trade' explosion
14-Sep-2006     India Together
With the World Trade talks in limbo, the focus remains on aggressively pushing on the bilateral front. What could not be achieved through a multilateral trade regime, is now being pursued by the US through bilateral and regional deals. Devinder Sharma connects the dots.
Japan to prepare safeguard against imports from Philippines
14-Sep-2006     Mainichi
Japan's Ministry of Finance said Wednesday that it plans to amend customs-related laws and ordinances to enable Japan to invoke emergency restrictions on imports from the Philippines.
Labor leader explains anti-FTA stance
14-Sep-2006     Donga
Interview with the president of AFL-CIO, John Sweeney, on the US-Korea FTA.
Joint declaration of first IBSA Summit
14-Sep-2006     PIB
The Prime Minister of India, H.E. Manmohan Singh, the President of Brazil, H.E. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and the President of South Africa, H.E. Thabo Mbeki, expressed their full support and commitment to the expeditious establishment of the Working Group to focus on the modalities for the envisaged India-Mercosur-SACU Trilateral Free Trade Agreement (T-FTA).
KMU sees more retrenchment with new RP-Japan trade pact
14-Sep-2006     INQ7
The militant Filipino labor group Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) said it fears more retrenchments and lower wages with the impending liberalization of the country's automotive and steel sectors under the recently signed Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA).
Fiction and fact: an IBSA pact
13-Sep-2006    
IBSA will be a powerful bloc in south-south cooperation with echoes of ‘non-alignment' in earlier times but from the economic point of view, IBSA is a little fictitious” was Union minister of state for commerce Jairam Ramesh's reported take on this regional formation that includes India-Brazil-South Africa just ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Brazil and Cuba to attend an IBSA and NAM summit.