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CARICOM considers FTA with US, Canada
22-Jan-2005 Nassau Guardian
As the outlook for the Free Trade Area of the Americas continues to be shrouded in uncertainty, CARICOM is looking to bilateral Free Trade Agreements as a means of improving market access for countries in the region.
India, Chile sign framework agreement on economic cooperation
22-Jan-2005 PIB
India and Chile have signed a Framework Agreement on Economic Cooperation to promote expansion of trade by providing limited preferential access to each other initially.
Advised to choose either SADC or EA Customs Union
21-Jan-2005 IPP Media
The European Union has advised Tanzania to either retain membership in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) and withdraw from the East African Customs Union (EACU), or vice versa.
Charities attack Mandelson’s trade plans
21-Jan-2005 The Guardian
Peter Mandelson outlined plans yesterday for new trade deals between Brussels and 77 of the world’s poorest countries but immediately ran into flak as development campaigners accused Europe’s trade commissioner of liberalisation "by the back door".
India to align ROO on ASEAN model
20-Jan-2005
India will adopt the Indo-ASEAN FTA criterion for Rules Of Origin (ROO) for all the other trade pacts with Asian countries, including Thailand and Singapore.
Morocco’s parliament approves FTA with US
20-Jan-2005 Khaleej Times
Morocco’s parliament approved a free-trade accord (FTA) with the United States, paving the way for its implementation in two months and bringing Washington closer to its goal of sealing a free trade agreement covering most of the Middle East and North Africa by 2013.
Divide and conquer: The FTAA, US trade strategy and public services in the Americas
20-Jan-2005 PSI
Documents the progress of “competitive liberalization,” a strategy advanced by the United States Trade Representative to establish a network of bilateral international trade agreements as steps toward the multilateral GATS agreement.
Tokyo tries dual trade diplomacy
20-Jan-2005 Asahi Shumbun
The government wants to have it both ways with its trade diplomacy this year, focusing on bilateral free trade agreements in the first half and multilateral negotiations at the World Trade Organization in the second.
Pumping for Mideast business
20-Jan-2005 Forbes
While the media and the public focus on the deadly turmoil in Iraq, business lobbyists have turned their attention to another side of the fragile Middle East region.
UAE is analysing impact of free trade agreement
20-Jan-2005 MENAFN
The United Arab Emirates Ministry of Finance and Industry has contracted an international consultancy firm, Maxwell Stamp, to undertake an impact analysis of the effects a US-UAE Free Trade Agreement (FTA) on the local economy.
Israel seeks investment treaty with Chaebol
20-Jan-2005 Korea Times
Israel has expressed keen interest in forming state-corporation bilateral investment pacts with Samsung and LG apart from the inter-state BIT between Seoul and Jerusalem.
US manufacturers group to call for FTA with S. Korea
20-Jan-2005 Yonhap
After picking South Korea, India, Malaysia, New Zealand and Egypt as potential FTA partners, the National Association of Manufacturers of America (NAM) will soon recommend the Bush administration and US lawmakers to seek free trade accords with the countries.
Ethio-Turkey joint commission negotiates on FTA
20-Jan-2005 AllAfrica.com
The Ethio-Turkey Economic Commission has taken deliberations on Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
Malaysia-India joint study on CECA and possible FTA
19-Jan-2005
Malaysia and India have agreed to undertake a joint feasibility study on the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA), which includes the possibility of having Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two countries.
US yet to act on FTA amendments
19-Jan-2005
The United States has yet to follow through on threats to challenge amendments made to the US-Australia Free Trade Agreement.
FTA may force debtors to reform
19-Jan-2005
Banking liberalisation under the Thai-US free trade agreement will affect not only local banks, but also debtors, according to Twatchai Yongkittikul, the secretary-general of the Thai Bankers’ Association.
ECC approves Free Trade Agreement with Sri Lanka
19-Jan-2005
The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the federal cabinet in Pakistan has approved the signing of a free-trade agreement (FTA) with Sri Lanka.
Sub-region integration a challenge to FTAA
19-Jan-2005 IPS
The fifth annual World Social Forum will take place Jan. 26-31 in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre amidst an upsurge in Latin American sub-regional integration efforts, bolstered by the obvious failure of the project to create the hemisphere-wide Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).
New head of AMCHAM pushes treaty on investment
18-Jan-2005
In his first address as chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in Korea, Wayne Chumley said yesterday that the United States and Korea needed to make progress on a free trade agreement this year.
Regional, bilateral deals seen as impeding trade
18-Jan-2005
Far from being a stepping stone to freer trade, the NAFTA and other regional and bilateral trade deals have created a conflicting web of preferential arrangements that may be impeding rather than spurring trade, the authors of a report commissioned by the World Trade Organization have concluded.