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North Korea and Vietnam sign banking pact to boost trade
30-May-2004    
North Korea has signed a banking pact with Vietnam as it moves to boost bilateral trade with a fellow communist country, an official from North Korea's embassy in Hanoi said today.
NGO Statement: Stop EU-ACP Free Trade Agreements
30-May-2004    
Since 2002 the European Union (EU) and countries of the Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific Group (ACP) have been negotiating Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs).
FTA to boost US trade ties - Bahrain
30-May-2004    
Leading businessmen, investors and experts have termed the conclusion of Free Trade Agreement negotiations with the US a major development and opening of a new era of progress and development.
US-Bahrain FTA concluded
30-May-2004    
The United States and Bahrain struck a free-trade agreement (FTA) May 27 after four months of negotiations, prompting cheers from business leaders.
EU-Mercosur still far from ambitious trade pact
30-May-2004    
Talks to link the European Union and South America in one of the world's largest trade pacts are in their final phase but pose difficult challenges on both sides of the Atlantic.
Free trade agreements and the transformation of global trade
29-May-2004     Modern Plastics
The Cancun round of WTO negotiations in Mexico last year ended in disarray, prompting countries to seek other means of freeing up trade.
China-New Zealand trade framework agreement signed
28-May-2004    
China's Commerce Minister has described the first formal step towards a Free Trade Agreement with New Zealand as a historic moment for his country.
Rules of origin need proper perspective under trade pacts
28-May-2004     Rules of origin need proper perspective under trade pacts
Rules of origin (RoI) are emerging as one of the most important issues in the context of preferential trading relations of a country. They are a set of instruments, a lack of consensus on which can, and have, delayed several agreements on trade.
Mexico free trade founders on Japan's farmers
28-May-2004    
The failure of bilateral trade talks between Mexico and Japan on October 16 has shocked both sides, particularly Japan. The talks foundered on the question of what to do about Japan's farmers, among the most highly subsidized in the world and the power base of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
Korea's FTA conundrum
28-May-2004     Korea's FTA Conundrum
After a protracted courtship, Korea and Japan finally agreed last month to start negotiations on a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA).