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Federal Express to benefit from Malaysia-US FTA
Federal Express Services (M) Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp, says it will gain from the implementation of the US-Malaysia Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
Bahrain-US free trade pact comes into force
The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Bahrain and the US comes into force today.
Lawmakers mulling free trade impact
The “Special committee for the Korea-US FTA in the national assembly” kicked off yesterday with an opening session to deal with the Korea-US FTA issues at the lawmaker level.
For George Bush, a fair deal means what American farmers demand
When the Doha round of global trade talks collapsed last Monday, suddenly and acrimoniously, after five long years, furious trade ministers seemed to agree about only one thing - they were throwing away the best hope in decades of helping poor countries trade their way out of poverty.
No san-tong, no U.S. FTA
The U.S. has bluntly warned the pro-independence government of President Chen Shui-bian that it will not negotiate a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Taiwan unless the island opens san-tong (three direct transport links) with the mainland, the island's biggest export market.
Half of Koreans oppose US FTA
Half of South Koreans said in a recent poll that they oppose a free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States.
WTO is dead, long live free trade: globalisation and its new avatars
Bilateral and unilateral, initiatives are the new avatars of globalisation and free trade. And it is these avatars we must challenge to stop corporate rule, while WTO hangs between intensive care and the crematorium.
Academics branded 'anti-US over FTA research'
The head of the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra says there has been an attempt to silence academics who are making critical comments about issues of public importance.
An FTA story for children
Hello, my young friends! I want to share with you a strange math equation that I found. It attempts to tell you what the sum is after such and such numbers are added up. Or, it tries to tell you the average of all these numbers combined. For example, it tells what GDP is, what the whole trade volume is, what per capita income is. Confusing? Well, I am not so good at numbers, so I also didn't let the equation bother me very much, either. It was perhaps because I wasn't that much interested in economics, after all.
HM issues orders to begin implementation of FTA
HM King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, on Friday, gave his royal orders to begin implementing the Bahrain US FTA as from August 1, 2006.