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Thailand-US: AIDS drugs take centre-stage at trade talks
30-Jun-2005     IPS
After tiptoeing around the issue for months, Thailand's trade negotiators will have to finally reveal where they stand on the life-or-death question of producing cheap, generic anti-AIDS drugs.
Patenting rice: A matter of serious royal concern
30-Jun-2005     Bangkok Post
The prospect of including in many FTAs, especially the Thai-US one, issues like intellectual property and agriculture, could have implications on the survival or disappearance of the Thai rice culture
TRIPS, bilateralism, multilateralism & implications for developing countries: Jordan's drug sector
30-Jun-2005    
Looking at the experience of Jordan's pharmaceutical sector, this paper shows that the expected benefits from bilateral agreements between developed and developing countries have been largely overestimated while the costs underestimated.
AU's Ministerial Declaration on EPA negotiations
30-Jun-2005     AU
EPAs should serve as instruments for development and poverty reduction. They must also support the deepening of intra-African trade.
Trade pacts to the south losing appeal
30-Jun-2005     New York Times
An ambitious American plan for a hemispherewide trade pact, which President Bush described as a "vital link for prosperity," is mired in disputes that have led to widespread skepticism about its chances of ever materializing.
Govt under fire over China FTA
29-Jun-2005    
Workers' rights and the environment are being sacrificed in the rush to sign a free trade agreement (FTA) with China, a public interest group says.
Bilateral Treaties to Promote and Protect Foreign Investment within the Americas: an alternative to the FTAA
29-Jun-2005     Argenpress
Sovereign states are the original right bearers. They have to denounce bilateral investment treaties or their most arbitrary clauses following the procedures provided, in accordance with the legal principles of democratic constitutions; to recover their legislative and jurisdictional powers, by retrieving their inherent jurisdiction which had been delegated to international foreign tribunals, allowing them to rule on the general regulatory or contractual policies of independent nations.
Senate panel considers Cafta trade pact: Vote won't occur until Wednesday at earliest
29-Jun-2005     Market Watch
The US Senate Finance Committee won't hold an important vote on the controversial Central America Free Trade Agreement before Wednesday, delaying action on the pact by at least a day.
CAFTA on the ropes: Agreement must protect people and the environment
29-Jun-2005     Voice of San Diego
The lack of worker and environmental protections leads the list of concerns as CAFTA is modeled after the failed 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA. At its 10-year anniversary, the verdict on NAFTA is in: It is an economic, social and environmental failure.
India, Singapore sign CECA to boost investments
29-Jun-2005     India Daily
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and visiting Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, on Wednesday, signed the much awaited Comprehensive Economic Co-operation Agreement (CECA).