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

APEC leaders duck free-trade plan
22-Nov-2004     Channel News Asia
Asia-Pacific leaders have ducked a call from business advisors to study an ambitious FTA among APEC members.
Viet Nam eyes more FTA involvement
17-Nov-2004     VNS
Viet Nam will start its first round of free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations with Japan and South Korea next year, as well as prepare for negotiations with Australia and New Zealand in the near future, said a Ministry of Trade official on Monday.
Apec FTA proposal raising interest
17-Nov-2004     NZPA
A proposal for an Asia-Pacific free trade agreement is attracting significant interest at a ministerial-level meeting of member countries in Santiago, Chile, NZ Trade Negotiations Minister Jim Sutton said today.
ABAC: Assessment of the Proposal for an FTAAP
12-Nov-2004     ABAC
An Issues Paper for the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC)
Singapore -Thailand see need to implement ASEAN free trade earlier
11-Nov-2004    
Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his visiting Singapore counterpart Lee Hsian Loong have shared the same view that the planned ASEAN trade liberalization should be implemented and achieved earlier than originally set in 2020, according to Government Spokesman Chakraphob Penkair.
‘East Asia trade bloc would balance NAFTA and EU'
11-Nov-2004     Asia Today
Beijing would like to see the emergence of an East Asian arrangement such as the European Union or the North America Free Trade Arrangement (NAFTA). Such an East Asian grouping would balance the world system, which is slowly being carved into blocs.
Bush better for Asia...
5-Nov-2004    
The United States must come to grips with the China juggernaut and assert its role as a stabilising force in the region, say analysts
APEC might form unilateral FTA: Official
2-Nov-2004     Jakarta Post
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation member countries are displaying a growing tendency in favor of establishing a unilateral free trade agreement in the vast region, according to a senior official at the Indonesian Ministry of Trade.
US and Afghanistan sign TIFA
24-Sep-2004     USTR
Assistant U.S. Trade Representative Ashley Wills and Afghanistan's Minister of Commerce, Sayed Mustafa Kazemi, signed a Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) today in Kabul that provides a forum for Afghanistan and United States to examine ways to expand bilateral trade and investment.
Fashionable trade agreements all the rage in Asia
13-Sep-2004    
From Tokyo to Mumbai, FTAs - free-trade agreements - seem to be every Asian politician's favorite new phrase these days.