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Israel signs South American trade agreement
10-Dec-2005    
Israel signed an agreement to expand trade with a South American free-trade alliance. The deal is aimed at eventually creating a free-trade area between Israel and MERCOSUR, which encompasses Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela.
FTA held up by trivial items
10-Dec-2005    
TOILET seats, dolls and chewing gum were some of the products a bemused Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz said had presented a hitch to the negotiations to the Asean-India Free Trade Agreement (AIFTA).
Rough ride for some Asean FTA talks
10-Dec-2005    
Asean Secretary-General Ong Keng Yong admitted Saturday that some of Asean's free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations were difficult, and cited talks with India, Japan and South Korea as examples.
Comment: "Smug calculations" lack sincerity, analysis
10-Dec-2005     People's Daily
Japan is craving a "return to Asia", and the kernel of its regional strategy is to "Japanize" regional policies, legal system, industrial division and financial and monetary fields. It mainly targets some ASEAN countries, at the same time avoiding Free Trade Agreement (FTA) but bending on Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA).
New chapter in strategic ties
10-Dec-2005     Business Times
Excerpts of New Straits Times interview with Japan's Ambassador to Malaysia, Tadashi Imai.
Pak-China sign agreement to enforce EHP from January next
10-Dec-2005     Pakistan Link
Pakistan and China signed an agreement to enforce Early Harvest Programme (EHP) reducing tariff on a number of industrial and agriculture products from January 1, 2006.
US-Peru FTA (2005): summary
10-Dec-2005     USTR
From the Office of the US Trade Representative.
India, Asean to consider free-trade pact by '07
10-Dec-2005     Times of India
India and the Association of South East Asian Nations aim to forge a free-trade agreement by the start of '07, both sides said after a meeting on Friday.
Peru's acceptance of IP terms led to trade pact with US
9-Dec-2005     Intellectual Property Watch
An agreement by Peru to accept US demands on protecting intellectual property rights, including protections for pharmaceutical test data found in other US free trade agreements, paved the way for a final deal on a US-Peru FTA.
Improbable implementation of free trade by January 2006
9-Dec-2005     Dominican Today
It is still unclear whether the DR-Central America and US Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) will start in January 2006, and if it does, most of the Central American countries lag in preparation to enter commercial activity.