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Thailand
A new study finds that more than 100,000 Thai farming families cannot compete with cheap Chinese produce dumped in the market under Thailand's FTA with China.
The United States is still interested in a free trade deal with Thailand, the US embassy said Tuesday, adding that a top trade official had been misquoted as saying the deal was off.
The current level of trade between the United States and Thailand will not be negatively affected if Washington ends the free trade area (FTA) negotiations with Thailand as previously reported, according to Permanent Secretary for Commerce Karun Kittisathaporn.
Thai Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont on Tuesday announced launching of an FTA roadshow aimed at speeding up a free trade agreement between India and Thailand, for which fresh negotiations will begin next month.
The visiting Thailand prime minister, General Surayud Chulanont, said on Tuesday that India and Thailand are close to concluding a free trade agreement (FTA) in goods. A roadshow to speed up the FTA will soon be launched.
The Calcutta Paper Traders' Association (CPTA) is expecting lowering of duties on writing, printing, packing and wrapping papers imported from Thailand as Thai Prime Minister General Surayud Chulanont is scheduled to visit India soon.
Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont and Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh are to sign pacts on Tuesday on energy and culture, while speeding up talks on a free trade deal that could be signed next month.
India's trade with Thailand could touch USD 7 billion by 2010-11 propelled by a doubling in transaction under Free Trade Agreement (FTA), but there has been an alarming widening of trade deficit, industry chamber FICCI said on Friday.
A bilateral agreement on non-conventional energy and another on cultural exchanges are among the agreements to be signed when Thai Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont arrives here on a two-day visit on June 26. Leading a 30-member business delegation, the visiting leader is going to push for an early conclusion of the free trade agreement (FTA) between India and Thailand.
Just two bilateral free-trade pacts behind it and a handful of them under negotiation, India has turned wiser. India and Thailand have come to differ on how to progress the 2004-born free-trade arrangement between them. New Delhi wants further liberalisation to happen simultaneously on trade in goods, services and investment.
