18-Apr-2006
Korea will need to end negotiations for a free trade agreement with the U.S. as it did with Japan if it cannot defend its “Maginot Line” -- protection for sensitive agricultural and service sectors -- Trade Minister Kim Hyun-chong said Monday.
18-Apr-2006
The Prime Minister of Turkey not only hosted the Bangladesh leader but also highlighted the need for augmenting bilateral relations in different fields, including trade and investment.
18-Apr-2006
South Asian nations want to ease tariffs gradually with the aim of establishing a free trade zone in about a decade, experts at a trade meeting said on Tuesday.
18-Apr-2006
When Korea and the United States enter formal negotiations for a free trade agreement in June, both countries are expected to begin a fight against time to meet a March 2007 target to conclude the talks.
18-Apr-2006
South Korea will not rush through its free trade agreement (FTA) deal with the United States so as to make the bilateral pact a win-lose deal for Korea rather than a win-win treaty.
18-Apr-2006
The US International Trade Commission (ITC) will hold a public hearing Thursday on a free trade agreement (FTA) with South Korea, industry officials said Sunday.
18-Apr-2006
Under global trading rules, the inventors of medicines ordinarily enjoy the right to a 20-year monopoly on their inventions. But five years ago, the United States joined 141 other countries to sign the Doha Declaration, confirming the right of poor countries to break drug patents and produce cheap generic drugs in the event of contagions like HIV.
18-Apr-2006
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has cautioned that free trade agreements between the US and many of Pakistan's competitors in clothing exports as well as the trade diversion effect of the May 2005 inclusion of 10 East European countries in the EU (itself one of the top three T&C exporters), could affect the country's potential gains in exports.
18-Apr-2006
US Trade Representative, Robert Portman, met Trade Ministers of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) countries on 12 April giving rise to speculation that a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the US and Caricom countries might be in the offing.
18-Apr-2006
The US free trade agreement with the UAE might take unspecified time to sign, but the US hopes to ink the deal before the end of this year, although nothing is clear as yet, according to a senior official from the US Embassy in Dubai.
