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Bilateral deal-making involving governments of Asia and the Pacific region.

Asean To Sign Agreement On Commitment For CEPT-AFTA
4-Dec-2008    
A new agreement to further strengthen the Common Effective Preferential Tariff-Asean Free Trade Area Agreement 1992 or CEPT-AFTA, has been drawn up and is expected to be signed at the 14th Asean Summit in Thailand.
APEC leaders to push trade as way out of crisis
20-Nov-2008     Reuters
The United States, China, Japan and some emerging economy heavyweights will push for quick action on free trade deals at a summit meeting this weekend as an antidote to a looming recession in much of the world.
Lima under lockdown for Asia-Pacific summit
18-Nov-2008     AFP
Top officials from the Pacific rim were arriving Tuesday for free-trade talks in Peru's capital Lima, which was under a security lockdown for US President George W. Bush's last scheduled foreign trip.
The danger of trade agreements
5-Nov-2008     Phnom Penh Post
When Cambodia negotiates an FTA with a hegemonic power, it must use a template which confines the negotiations to trade matters only, says Jagdish Bhagwati
APEC November meeting to discuss free-trade accord, Peru says
24-Oct-2008     Bloomberg
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum will study a proposed European Union-style free-trade agreement at a November meeting in Lima, Peru's government said today.
Asean free trade concerns still bug RP pharmas
28-Sep-2008    
Fearful of the ongoing effort to realize a single market for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations by 2015, Filipino-owned pharmaceutical firms have asked the government to ensure that safety nets are in place for the local industry.
Turkey aims to sign free trade deal with ASEAN members
21-Sep-2008     World Bulletin
Turkey expressed its views to sign free trade agreement with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries, indicating that serious initiatives may be launched within the scope of Asia-Pacific strategies.
Proliferation of FTAs in ASEAN may impede business activities
5-Sep-2008    
Asian economic integration is facing some of its toughest challenges in the form of regional diversity and gaps in modernisation.
Union, Alliance blast ASEAN FTA
31-Aug-2008    
The Maritime Union has blasted a new free trade agreement between New Zealand, Australia and the ASEAN nations, saying it is bad for workers because it includes Burma.
Pacific civil society organisations statement on trade justice
20-Aug-2008    
Pacific NGOs, churches and trade unions working on trade justice issues are concerned about the push for free trade agreements in the Pacific and the grave risk that these agreements pose for our people.