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China to begin FTA deals with trading partners from next year
17-Dec-2005    
China will honour its free trade area (FTA) agreements with its trading partners, levy negotiated tariffs on some Indian goods and will also offer special preferential tariff rates to about 30 least developing countries next year, finance minister Jin Renqing said.
GCC and European Union: 17-year old FTA negotiations
16-Dec-2005     Khaleej Times
The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations between the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and European Union (EU) have started since 1988. However, there have been always obstacles that prevented the achievement of a final agreement.
Tonga's WTO accession has TRIPS+ linkage
16-Dec-2005     Ip-health
Tonga acceded to the WTO yesterday and one of the conditions of it being allowed to join the WTO was to have TRIPS+ linkage of patent status and data exclusivity.
US economic and security interests enhanced by moral trade agreements
16-Dec-2005     USCCB
The chairman of the bishops' International Policy Committee Monday offered a Catholic perspective on a pending free trade agreement, suggesting that the United States and several Andean nations could simultaneously promote human dignity and fair and sustainable development.
CRS Report for Congress: Andean-US FTA negotiations
16-Dec-2005    
Given that CAFTA-DR passed only by a small margin, it is unclear how much support the U.S.-Andean FTA will have.
AELE: Accord de libre-échange signé avec la Corée du Sud
16-Dec-2005     AP
Le ministre de l'économie fédéral Joseph Deiss et ses homologues de l'AELE ont signé jeudi à Hong Kong un accord de libre-échange avec la République de Corée. L'accord entrera en vigueur le 1er juillet prochain
Robust outlook conducive for US-Malaysia FTA talks
15-Dec-2005     Business Times
An 18-member mission of the US-Asean Business Council visited Malaysia recently to encourage the start of bilateral FTA talks with the US.
FTA must cover at least 90 percent of trade: Asean Sec-Gen
15-Dec-2005     Bernama
A quality free trade agreement (FTA) between countries should cover 90 to 95 per cent of their trade, Asean Secretary General Ong Keng Yong said Wednesday, adding that India's long exclusion list of products hampered such a pact with Asean.
Morshed assumes BIMSTEC chair Dec 19: Dhaka wants early enforcement of FTA
14-Dec-2005    
Foreign Minister M Morshed Khan who formally assumes BIMSTEC chair with the holding of its ministerial meeting here on December 19 said Dhaka wants early enforcement of the FTA in goods in the BIMSTEC region, as production base in Bangladesh is gradually expanding.
Vietnam and RoK sign bilateral co-operation agreement
14-Dec-2005    
Investment promotion agencies of Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK) reached an agreement on bilateral co-operation in Hanoi on December 13.