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US manufacturers group to call for FTA with S. Korea
20-Jan-2005     Yonhap
After picking South Korea, India, Malaysia, New Zealand and Egypt as potential FTA partners, the National Association of Manufacturers of America (NAM) will soon recommend the Bush administration and US lawmakers to seek free trade accords with the countries.
Ethio-Turkey joint commission negotiates on FTA
20-Jan-2005     AllAfrica.com
The Ethio-Turkey Economic Commission has taken deliberations on Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
Malaysia-India joint study on CECA and possible FTA
19-Jan-2005    
Malaysia and India have agreed to undertake a joint feasibility study on the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA), which includes the possibility of having Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two countries.
US yet to act on FTA amendments
19-Jan-2005    
The United States has yet to follow through on threats to challenge amendments made to the US-Australia Free Trade Agreement.
FTA may force debtors to reform
19-Jan-2005    
Banking liberalisation under the Thai-US free trade agreement will affect not only local banks, but also debtors, according to Twatchai Yongkittikul, the secretary-general of the Thai Bankers' Association.
ECC approves Free Trade Agreement with Sri Lanka
19-Jan-2005    
The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the federal cabinet in Pakistan has approved the signing of a free-trade agreement (FTA) with Sri Lanka.
Sub-region integration a challenge to FTAA
19-Jan-2005     IPS
The fifth annual World Social Forum will take place Jan. 26-31 in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre amidst an upsurge in Latin American sub-regional integration efforts, bolstered by the obvious failure of the project to create the hemisphere-wide Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).
New head of AMCHAM pushes treaty on investment
18-Jan-2005    
In his first address as chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in Korea, Wayne Chumley said yesterday that the United States and Korea needed to make progress on a free trade agreement this year.
Regional, bilateral deals seen as impeding trade
18-Jan-2005    
Far from being a stepping stone to freer trade, the NAFTA and other regional and bilateral trade deals have created a conflicting web of preferential arrangements that may be impeding rather than spurring trade, the authors of a report commissioned by the World Trade Organization have concluded.
Vaile defends trade deals
18-Jan-2005    
Trade Minister Mark Vaile today defended Australia's free trade deals with foreign countries after a new World Trade Organisation (WTO) report said such agreements could be discriminatory.