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US ports deal: A bitter aftertaste
10-Apr-2006    
As a consequence of the furore by the US congress over DP World's acquisition of several American ports, the Dubai state-owned company decided to avert a long legal battle and agreed to put these assets up for sale.
Tariff timetables may get complicated
10-Apr-2006    
New Zealand will probably end up dealing with 10 schedules for the gradual phase-out of tariffs, one for each of the Asean countries.
Regional free trade agreement looms
10-Apr-2006    
Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia-Montenegro, Kosovo, Albania, Macedonia and Moldavia are expected to become a unique free trade zone by the end of 2007.
Mexico, Canada have seen few benefits in US FTA, says report
10-Apr-2006    
A state-run research center said Monday that some of the countries that signed a free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States have lost their export competitiveness.
Goff calls prospect of Asia FTA 'interesting'
10-Apr-2006    
Japan's proposed Asian regional free trade agreement got tepid support today from Trade Minister Phil Goff, who told the Gateway to Asean Summit in Auckland that the plan was "consistent" with other activities already well underway.
Jairam Ramesh cautions on free trade pacts
10-Apr-2006     Indo-Asian News Service
'A free trade agreement with China will be suicidal,' Minister of State for Commerce Jairam Ramesh said Monday.
Government faces revolt over free-trade deal with US
10-Apr-2006     Chosun Ilbo
The Korean government is reportedly considering setting up a special public relations office just to deal with opposition to the FTA. That opposition is expected to intensify after the upcoming local elections and probably right up to the US-proposed deadline for negotiations in March 2007. In the process, it could also spill over into intense social conflict in Korea.
The bitterness of sugar
10-Apr-2006     Caribbean Net News
A round table discussion held in Barbados on April 3rd and 4th between CARICOM sugar producing countries and the European Union appeared to achieve the exact opposite of what it intended.
Anti-FTA faction to launch cyber attack on US
10-Apr-2006     Chosun Ilbo
The IT labor union, part of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, has announced its plans to paralyze the homepages of the U.S. Department of Defense, the Whitehouse and President George Bush, by sending a flood of some 30,000 e-mails at 6pm on Tuesday 11 April.
S. Korea seeks exception for rice in US FTA
10-Apr-2006     Korea Times
It is Korea's livestock industries, not the rice market, which are feared would be hit the hardest by the FTA.