21-Jun-2006
Public health officials working closely with the World Health Organisation yesterday vowed to continue their strong collaboration with the WHO despite widespread reports of possible interference by Washington in the international body’s administrative affairs. The US government was allegedly behind the abrupt removal of William Aldis, the WHO representative to Thailand, after he wrote of possible adverse impacts Thailand could suffer if it went ahead and signed a free trade agreement with the US in its present state.
21-Jun-2006
A short term delay before implementing the DR-CAFTA trade accord should not significantly affect investment plans in the country, according to the U.S. investment company, Bear Stearns.
21-Jun-2006
Before I moved to South Korea, I learned my host country is practically an American protectorate. By watching news it is easy to see from outside: Wartime command, intervening in North-South relations, and so on.
21-Jun-2006
South Korea has internationally recognized labor and environmental standards that would ease opposition by US Democrats who traditionally don’t favour trade agreements with foreign countries, a South Korean asserted this week.
21-Jun-2006
Korea and US business leaders agreed Wednesday to push for the completion of a free trade agreement between Korea and the US. But at the 19th Korea-US Business Council meeting in Seoul, the two sides failed to see eye to eye on some key issues, especially whether products made in the inter-Korean Kaesong Industrial Complex should be included and whether Koreans should be granted a visa waiver in the US.
21-Jun-2006
The United States is the world’s largest economy while South Korea ranks tenth. The two countries started negotiations for a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) in Washington D.C. June 5-10.
21-Jun-2006
The United States does not want goods produced in the Kaesong industrial complex to be included in the free trade agreement (FTA) with South Korea, a senior economic official at the U.S. Embassy in Seoul said.
21-Jun-2006
Hankyoreh
The Korean Peasants League and the Korea Dairy & Beef Farmers Association have filed a lawsuit against the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade over the ministry’s reluctance to share information with them related to the first round of South Korean-US free trade talks that concluded in Washington last week.
21-Jun-2006
Bangkok Post
Washington was behind the abrupt removal of a World Health Organisation representative to Thailand after he wrote of possible adverse impacts to Thailand of a free trade agreement with the US, a source said yesterday.
20-Jun-2006
In a welcoming speech at an evening reception in Seoul Tuesday, ahead of the 19th Korea-U.S. Business Council meeting, top businesspeople and government officials from Korea and the United States heard Hyosung Group, and council joint-chairman Cho Suck-rai, stress the importance of a free trade agreement (FTA) between the two countries.
20-Jun-2006
AMCHAM Korea
US-Korea Business Council and American Chamber of Commerce Korea position paper on the US-Korea FTA.
20-Jun-2006
A 98-page outline of US industry recommendations for the proposed US-Malaysia FTA.
20-Jun-2006
Letter from the US Biotechnology Industry Organisation to the US Trade Representative on intellectual property, GM labelling, biosafety, GM contamination and other issues BIO wants addressed under the US-Korea FTA talks.
20-Jun-2006
Letter from the US Biotechnology Industry Organisation to the US Trade Representative on intellectual property, GM labelling, biosafety, GM contamination and other issues BIO wants addressed under the US-Malaysia FTA talks.
20-Jun-2006
Recently, the Research and Planning Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs invited American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei (AmCham) executive director Richard Vuylsteke to a conference discussing win-win strategies for negotiating a Taiwan-US free trade agreement (FTA).
20-Jun-2006
A contingent of local garments exporters is in Washington to seek support from United States Congress for a possible sectoral preferential trade deal.
20-Jun-2006
Only eleven days before the scheduled date for entering the DR-CAFTA trade accord, officials doubt that the stipulated time slot will be met, because, according to them, the Dominican Republic is in no condition to render to new U.S. exigencies by July 1st.
20-Jun-2006
Whether the nation is ready or not, the 800-page DR-CAFTA treaty, replete with new rules and regulations, is set to become reality for the country.
20-Jun-2006
Susan Schwab began work last week as US Trade Representative (USTR) at a difficult time for free trade.
19-Jun-2006
Bahrain is set to join the Trademark Law Treaty and Regulations enacted in Geneva, Switzerland in 1994.
