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This article analyses the social forces that supported and opposed the AUSFTA, explores why the agreement was signed despite widespread public opposition in Australia, assesses the impact of oppositional campaigns on the content of the agreement in some key areas and analyses the environment and labour chapters.
Approximately one-third of the firms in the Dominican Republic could disappear once the Free Trade Agreement with the United States (DR-CAFTA) is implemented, if revisions are not introduced to raise competitive levels.
A proposed free-trade deal between the United States and South Korea would probably be doomed if Washington succeeds in putting rice on the negotiating table, according to a source familiar with the subject.
Bahrain businesses trading with the US may still be paying duty on customs-free products because they haven't amended their paperwork. Bahrain Export Development Society (BEDS) chairman Dr Yousef Mashal said 96 per cent of Bahrain's industrial and agricultural products now received immediate duty-free access to the US markets because of the Bahrain-US Free Trade Agreement (FTA), but some traders were missing out.
The United States and Panama are making "good" progress toward a bilateral trade deal, Washington's chief agricultural negotiator said on Thursday.
U.S. Rep. Peter T. King (R-NY) expressed support recently for the signing of a free trade agreement (FTA) between the United States and Taiwan.
The United States ambassador Hans Hertell discarded yesterday that there would be any possibility for the Dominican Republic to be left out of the Free Trade Agreement with Central America and the United States.
The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Bahrain and the US has been operational since August 1, and on September 19, the US Congress approved the FTA with Oman, which will come into effect soon. The media coverage of the two deals in the region have been limited to official announcements without pointing out the serious dangers these FTAs pose to the GCC customs union.
The United States has not decided so far as to what will be manufactured in the much-talked Reconstruction Opportunity Zones (ROZs) proposed by US President George W bush during his visit to Pakistan in March 2006.
National Private Enterprise Council (Conep) president Elena Viyella said today that the entrepreneurs' concern over the public payroll is part of inherent rights they have as citizens to demand full accounting from those who, in a democracy, have been delegated the [nation's] power.
