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An Asian economic community?
20-Sep-2005     Economic Times
There is a lot of anxiety in the developed world that Asia, buttressed by markets such as China and India, might be emerging as a big free trade block by itself.
Andean countries, US start 12th round of talks on FTA
20-Sep-2005     Xinhua
Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and the United States on Monday began the 12th round of negotiations on a free trade agreement (FTA), in an effort to put a deal in effect in 2006.
Thai farmers head to the US
20-Sep-2005     Bangkok Post
As senior bureaucrats from Thailand and the US prepare to enter the fifth round of negotiations over the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in Hawaii later this month, two Thai organic farmers have started their own campaign in the US. Phakpum Inpaen and Kanya Onsri from Surin province left Thailand yesterday on a 23-day circuit tour to talk to people in the US about how the FTA deal will threaten their survival.
US, three S. American nations begin talks
20-Sep-2005     AP
The United States began a new round of negotiations Monday with Peru, Ecuador and Colombia for a proposed free-trade agreement aimed at giving the three South American nations tariff-free access to US markets.
Chile-China trade pact could be signed in November
20-Sep-2005     Reuters
Chile and China could sign a free trade agreement as early as November, tying together the world's biggest producer and consumer of copper, Chilean President Ricardo Lagos told Reuters on Tuesday.
Thailand calls for deepening ties under FTA
19-Sep-2005     Hindu Business Line
Thailand has advised India not be deterred by the "aftershocks" of a tariff reduction on products under the Early Harvest Scheme in the Indo-Thai Free Trade Agreement (FTA) initiated in September last year.
RP-US FTA: A skewed deal in the making
18-Sep-2005     IBON
The Philippines cannot hope for a “mutually-beneficial” relationship with the US through a free trade agreement founded on the US neocolonial agenda.
Made for the USA
16-Sep-2005     Business Today
Nine months into the first experiment in free trade with the United States, few participating manufacturers have reported a jump in production - most haven't shipped unit one.
Nippon Keidanren seeks FTA with 6 Persian Gulf countries
15-Sep-2005     Japan Today
The Japan Business Federation, the nation's biggest business lobby, urged the government on Tuesday to start negotiations at an early date on concluding a free trade agreement with the Gulf Cooperation Council, which consists of six oil producers.
S. Korea, EFTA initial free trade accord
14-Sep-2005     Asia Pulse
South Korea and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) initialed a free trade agreement (FTA) on Tuesday, a deal that should give domestic companies a beachhead in the European market, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said.