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Japan: Free trade deal with Manila stumbles over labour
1-Aug-2006     IPS
While 23 July marked the 50th anniversary of bilateral friendship between Japan and the Philippines, Tokyo has decided not to use the occasion to conclude a long-awaited free trade agreement (FTA) with a fellow Asian country.
Malaysia and Australia set to enter new era with FTA
31-Jul-2006    
Economic relations between Malaysia and Australia are set to enter a new era when the two countries conclude a free trade agreement (FTA).
India to raise SAFTA issues in Dhaka
31-Jul-2006    
India, which has called for an emergency meeting of the South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) Ministerial Council, is expected to raise the issue of Pakistan backing away from its commitment under the multilateral agreement.
Academics branded 'anti-US over FTA research'
31-Jul-2006    
The head of the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra says there has been an attempt to silence academics who are making critical comments about issues of public importance.
An FTA story for children
31-Jul-2006    
Hello, my young friends! I want to share with you a strange math equation that I found. It attempts to tell you what the sum is after such and such numbers are added up. Or, it tries to tell you the average of all these numbers combined. For example, it tells what GDP is, what the whole trade volume is, what per capita income is. Confusing? Well, I am not so good at numbers, so I also didn't let the equation bother me very much, either. It was perhaps because I wasn't that much interested in economics, after all.
A Korea-U.S. trade agreement: what is at stake?
31-Jul-2006     The Hankyoreh
This examines macro-economic issues, intellectual property and patent protections, the potential impact on pharmaceuticals, and other issues at stake in the U.S.-Korea FTA.
Has Mercosur gone bananas?
31-Jul-2006    
While the world was focused on the tragic events taking place in Lebanon and northern Israel, something very disturbing happened in South America last week. The trading bloc known as Mercosur (the South American common market), at its summit meeting in the Argentine city of Cordoba, formally supported Venezuela's bid for one of the two Latin American seats on the United Nations Security Council.
Canada: The Occidental Tourist - Expropriation Claim Tests BIT Efficacy
31-Jul-2006    
The outcome of Occidental Petroleum's latest dispute with Ecuador will be an important test of the effectiveness of BITs in protecting overseas investor rights in volatile political climates.
HM issues orders to begin implementation of FTA
31-Jul-2006    
HM King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, on Friday, gave his royal orders to begin implementing the Bahrain US FTA as from August 1, 2006.
Expert: Keep Delaying CAFTA for DR
31-Jul-2006    
Fernando Alvarez Bogaert, former Finances minister, said Friday that the validity of the Central American-Dominican Republic-US Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), put off for this month, could wreck national production if enacted.