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Police break up Morocco protest against trade deal.
13-Mar-2004     Friends of Morocco
Moroccan police armed with truncheons on Wednesday broke up a sit-in by protesters opposed to a free trade deal with the United States which they say could hurt the North African country's most vulnerable people.
Australia, China FTA talks progressing rapidly
13-Mar-2004    
Talks on a free trade agreement between Australia and China are moving faster than was anticipated, foreign minister Alexander Downer said today.
Stick approach: Police break up free trade demo in Morocco
12-Mar-2004     raioo.com
Witnesses say police used batons to break up 200 people protesting in Rabat against US-Morocco free trade deal.
Multilateral, Regional, Bilateral: What Is The Way?
12-Mar-2004     Multilateral, Regional, Bilateral:What Is The Way
The Chicago Conference on the Global Economy 'The Future of the Global Trading System'
Viet Nam, Laos sign bilateral agreement for 2002
8-Mar-2004     VIET NAM, LAOS SIGN BILATERAL AGREEMENT FOR 2002
Viet Nam's Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and his Lao counterpart, Thonglune Sisoulit, today, Jan. 15, signed in Vientiane an agreement on economic, cultural, scientific and technical cooperation for 2002 between the two countries.
EU-Israel FTA (2000)
7-Mar-2004    
No plans for a US-EU free trade pact
5-Mar-2004    
A top European Union trade official ruled out chances on Friday of the world's two largest economic powers, the United States and the EU, negotiating a free trade agreement.
TRIPS-plus through the backdoor
5-Mar-2004    
Bilateral agreements are a powerful but hidden tool to achieve uniform market conditions for transnational corporations in developing countries. Silently hammered out between individual governments, they offer a direct means to cut deals over market access privileges, foreign investment, research funding or anchor-free profits.
Colombia-US free trade treaty - far more than trade
2-Mar-2004    
Arguments against bilateral US "free trade" agreements with other countries that make it into mainstream Anglophone media tend not to come from industrialists or business people.
Can Safta lead to a South Asian economic union?
2-Mar-2004     Can Safta lead to a South Asian economic union?
Can the South Asian Free Trade Agreement lead to an economic union? By all counts, and indications, such a union is still a distant dream.