Recently, the Research and Planning Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs invited American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei (AmCham) executive director Richard Vuylsteke to a conference discussing win-win strategies for negotiating a Taiwan-US free trade agreement (FTA).
Only eleven days before the scheduled date for entering the DR-CAFTA trade accord, officials doubt that the stipulated time slot will be met, because, according to them, the Dominican Republic is in no condition to render to new U.S. exigencies by July 1st.
What a blow. The Southern African Customs Union (SACU) has not yet made up its mind on extension of the duty-free market access for four textiles and garment exporting countries, including Malawi, Economic Report has learnt.
It has always been far too easy for Canada to rely on the United States as an export market. With its huge appetite for our resources and with our mutual network of cross-border firms, the U.S. has been a comfortable partner for this perilously cautious nation. So it is laudable that International Trade Minister David Emerson has forcefully underlined that new trading giants are emerging, and that Canada is woefully lagging in those markets.
Korea will seek to strike free trade agreements (FTA) with China, Japan, India, the EU and Russia on top of its current negotiations with the United States, the nation's top economic policymaker said.
The Executive Secretary of the Southern African Development Community, Dr Tomaz Augusto Salomao, says exchanges made during his meeting with the Southern African Customs Union Executive Secretary, Tswelopele Moremi, will increase cooperation between SADC and SACU.
Suspension of the free trade agreement between Moldova and Romania on January 1, 2007, when Romania is expected to join the European Union (E.U.), will poise the trade balance between the two states, according to Mircea Toader, undersecretary of the Romanian Ministry of Economy and Commerce.
The Korea-U.S. free trade agreement will top the agenda in talks of the 19th Korea-US Business Council meeting starting Tuesday in Seoul for two days, according to the Federation of Korean Industries (FKI).
