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

Summit can help US-Asean FTA
17-Oct-2007     Today
There's still a long way to go before Asean and the United States can ink a free trade agreement (FTA), but trade representatives from both sides are hoping that next month's Asean Summit will enable them to move the process forward.
India calls for the formation of an Asian Economic Community
20-Sep-2007     Malaysia Sun
India has called for greater economic cooperation with fellow East Asian countries saying regional groupings like ASEAN and others were pursuing separate goals, and this would not serve the larger economic interests of Asian nations.
Jane Kelsey - Critical overview of APEC's agenda
11-Sep-2007     Scoop
The objective of the neoliberal camp is to link together the tangle of FTAs that is emerging in the region into a grand Asia Pacific FTA.
Squeezed: The real cost of free trade in the Asia-Pacific
10-Sep-2007     Squeezed
Filmed in Thailand and The Philippines in July 2007, Squeezed tells the story of how free trade agreements and globalisation are changing the lives of millions of people living in the Asia-Pacific region.
ASEAN ministers to finalise FTAs with Japan, China
23-Aug-2007     Reuters
Southeast Asian economic ministers will finalise a blueprint for economic cooperation in the region and push free trade deals with six dialogue partners at a weekend meeting in Manila
APEC eyes merging trade pacts in region to create APEC-wide FTA
23-Aug-2007     Kyodo
Pacific Rim leaders are expected at their summit next month to consider combining existing bilateral and regional free trade agreements in the region as a way of creating a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific, according to a draft report of policy recommendations to the leaders.
ASEAN stops new intra-reg'l FTAs
21-Aug-2007     Manila Bulletin
ASEAN countries have agreed to a moratorium on forging intra-regional free trade agreements saying they would have to focus first on the completion of FTA negotiations with China, Japan, Korea, and the Australia-New Zealand.
ASEAN hype
6-Aug-2007     Bulatlat
The press releases churned out about the 40th Ministerial Meeting of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the annual ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) last week give the impression that ASEAN is well on the way to becoming a formidable economic bloc and a force to reckon with in the geopolitical landscape. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
Pacific free trade idea is misguided
3-Aug-2007     The National
A free trade agreement covering the Pacific region is unlikely to be worth the paper it is written on as far as Papua New Guinea is concerned.
ASEAN urged to make progress on trade deals with China, SKorea, Japan
30-Jul-2007     Forbes
Southeast Asia must ratify free trade deals with China and South Korea and make progress on a similar accord with Japan, as the region prepares its own free-trade zone, the Philippine government said Monday.