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Free-trade deal not in US trip agenda
3-Sep-2005     Manila Bulletin
Trade and Industry Secretary Peter B. Favila said the proposed Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the Philippines and the US is not in the agenda of President Gloria Arroyo's state visit to the US.
Greens's FTA stand no problem for PM
2-Sep-2005    
The Prime Minister appears prepared to let the Green party vote against trade treaties if it goes into coalition with Labour.
NTC to clarify Thai stand in FTA talks
2-Sep-2005    
Thailand is preparing briefing papers for the technical round of the US-Thailand free trade area (FTA) agreement talks that will make clear the country will not open satellite-based international telecom services or direct broadcasting in the near future.
Mandelson in 'illegal' trade move
2-Sep-2005    
In advice for a new report by the development charity ActionAid a lawyer in Matrix Chambers today warns that European Union trade commissioner Peter Mandelson is violating a legal duty to Africa by undermining alternatives to his trade plans which, critics fear, threaten the jobs of millions of poor people.
Thai FTA defers sticking points
2-Sep-2005     Japan Times
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and his visiting Thai counterpart, Thaksin Shinawatra, agreed Thursday on a basic accord to lower mutual trade barriers that left key decisions on high tariffs on Japanese cars and Thai rice unresolved.
Preferential trade agreements in the Asia-Pacific region
1-Sep-2005    
This IMF working paper of July 2005 describes the proliferation of PTAs in the Asia-Pacific region, discusses their characteristics and implementation, and assesses their potential effects.
Myths about bilateral free trade
31-Aug-2005     Dawn
Of late, there has been an outbreak of activism in the realm of bilateral free trade and investment agreements across the world. Many developing countries have found themselves swept off by the wave of bilateralism, not realizing it only weakens the cause of multilateralism.
US-SACU: New impetus behind a deal
31-Aug-2005     Business Day
Negotiations for a free trade agreement between the US and the Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) stalled last year in an atmosphere of impasse rather than acrimony. But on the explicit instruction of President Thabo Mbeki, the talks are now on again and new, ambitious targets have been set for their completion, as well as a new plan for getting past the problems that plagued the last effort.
US Congress to address draft of Egyptian-US free trade agreement
31-Aug-2005     Arabic News
The US Administration will put forward the draft to the Egyptian-US free trade agreement to the Congress by the end of the current year, Egypt's Foreign Trade and Industry Minister Rashid Mohamed Rashid said.
UPS keen to cash in on possible China-Australia FTA
31-Aug-2005     Asia Pulse
The president of United Parcel Service (UPS) said today a free trade agreement (FTA) between Australia and China could deliver the logistics giant a similar surge in business that followed the signing of the Australia-US FTA in May last year.