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Trade deal template for NZ
13-Aug-2004    
Australian Labor leader Mark Latham's onslaught on the US free-trade deal has profound implications for New Zealand.
Sino FTA raise job loss concerns: Downer
13-Aug-2004    
A free trade deal between Australia and China would generate controversy because of its possible impact on Australian manufacturers, Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer said.
USTR statement on Australia's amendments
13-Aug-2004     Statement from USTR Spokesman Richard Mills Regarding Australian implementing legislation and amendments related to the FTA
We understand that the FTA implementing legislation and amendments pose important issues in Australia, just as they did in the United States.
Senate passes FTA deal amid US warning
13-Aug-2004     Senate passes FTA deal amid US warning
The Coalition and Labor combined to pass the legislation after two weeks of debate in Senate, but the deal could still come unstuck if the US decides Australia's supporting legislation including Labor's amendments are not consistent with the agreement.
A heavy-duty vehicle for colonisation
12-Aug-2004    
John Maynard Keynes once reflected that his upbringing presumed free trade to be part of the moral law. More, he regarded departures from it as being ''an imbecility and an outrage''.
Selling off a slice of our country
12-Aug-2004     Selling off a slice of our country
The funny thing about the free trade agreement with the United States is that Australians and Americans see it as being about completely different things. Australia's businesspeople see it as about eliminating the barriers to exports and imports between the two countries, which they regard as a good thing.
Australian Linux bodies blast US free-trade deal
11-Aug-2004     Australian Linux bodies blast US free-trade deal
Australia's national open source industry body, OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia), and Linux Australia have spoken out about their concerns over the proposed Australian-US Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA), warning that the legal framework of the intellectual property clauses will put the entire Australian software development industry at risk.
Andean Nations Bet on Bio-Trade
11-Aug-2004     Andean Nations Bet on Bio-Trade
"One of the key aspects of the free trade agreement that the United States is negotiating with Colombia, Ecuador and Peru refers to access to the biological wealth of the three South American nations."
FTA set to increase medicine prices
11-Aug-2004     FTA set to increase medicine prices
Kerryn Williams spoke to David Henry, clinical pharmacology professor at Newcastle University and former Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee member, about how the proposed US-Australia Free Trade Agreement will undermine the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, and increase the price of medicine.
UE-Mercosur: reinician negociaciones para acuerdo de libre comercio
11-Aug-2004     UE-Mercosur: reinician negociaciones para acuerdo de libre comercio
La Unión Europea y el Mercosur inician hoy en Brasilia el último tramo de negociaciones técnicas con el objetivo de destrabar las diferencias y alcanzar un acuerdo bilateral de libre comercio antes del 30 de octubre, plazo fijado por el cronograma.