10-Apr-2007
Sun2Surf
It is difficult to identify what benefits the proposed US FTA holds for Malaysia. Supporters of the deal have trotted out the usual platitudes. However, large numbers of people remain unconvinced of these arguments.
10-Apr-2007
Taiwan’s Council for Economic Planning and Development estimates show that the FTA between the US and South Korea will have a US$2 billion impact on Taiwan, or approximately 5 percent of its total exports, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
10-Apr-2007
A controversy is growing as the government continues to deny claims from opposition lawmakers that economic polarization will worsen in the wake of a South Korea-U.S. free trade agreement (FTA).
10-Apr-2007
TWN
Dr. Michael K Hansen, from US Centre of Consumer Policy, advises a cautious attitude towards an FTA with the US as the US has a hidden agenda in seeking to protect its farmers who now face more than RM4.6 billion in losses due to the lack of demand for GE rice.
9-Apr-2007
The Coordinating Office for Trade Negotiations is in charge of taking the country into a free trade deal with the European Union before the end of the year.
9-Apr-2007
IHT
South Korea said Monday that a free trade agreement covering goods with nine of the ten members of Association of Southeast Asian Nations will take effect on June 1.
9-Apr-2007
Japan and India have opened a second round of talks on a free trade deal that the two countries aim to seal within two years.
9-Apr-2007
With a slim victory in the recent provincial election under his belt, Quebec Premier Jean Charest hopes to herd the feds and other provinces towards a free-trade agreement (FTA) with the 27-member European Union.
9-Apr-2007
It would be difficult to overstate the likely impact on Taiwan of last week’s free-trade agreement (FTA) between South Korea and the US, because South Korea and Taiwan produce many similar products and are rivals in key industrial sectors.
9-Apr-2007
Catholics in a rural South Korean diocese have protested their government’s "unpardonable" free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States, warning that an influx of US imports would destroy local farming communities.
9-Apr-2007
Global Gold mining company submitted its claim to the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), a body adjunct to the World Bank, against the Government of the Republic of Armenia (ROA). The Company is trying to protect its investment rights in arbitration court.
9-Apr-2007
A lawmaker of the pro-government Uri Party Monday raised various suspicions over the landmark free trade agreement (FTA) deal struck between South Korea and the United States on April 2.
9-Apr-2007
President Roh Moo-hyun’s popularity has shot up recently. From surveys done by Korean media from The Hankyoreh to the Chosun Ilbo, every poll says his approval rating has surpassed 30 percent. It is not easy for a president to have his approval rise towards the end of his term, so the cause for all of this can be attributed to the recently inked FTA with the United States.
9-Apr-2007
Korea and China are moving swiftly toward negotiations on a bilateral free trade agreement. China’s courtship of Korea has intensified since Seoul clinched an FTA with the US last Monday, with Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao expressing hope last Thursday that an FTA between Beijing and Seoul can be concluded
as soon possible".
9-Apr-2007
Iran and South Korea have signed an agreement to create an exploratory committee aimed at boosting trade and investment between both countries.
8-Apr-2007
Developments over the past few days have re-confirmed that the developing countries are more eager than developed countries to break the deadlock in multilateral trade. The developing countries have shown ample flexibility, without waiting for a response from the developed world.
8-Apr-2007
Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont dismissed criticism of his signing the Japan-Thailand Economic Partnership Agreement (JTEPA) as voiced by various sectors in Thailand.
8-Apr-2007
Trinidad and Tobago should rethink its position on the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and instead examine Latin American proposals on the formation of a Latin American-Caribbean trade grouping. Government, it seems, continues to believe that we can still be selected as the headquarters of the FTAA.
8-Apr-2007
Sugar cane farmers have added their voice to demands that Government seeks an extension of the Comesa moratorium, which comes into effect from early next year. The Kenya Sugarcane Grower’s Union officials petitioned President Kibaki to lead the extension campaign to enable local factories and market get ready to compete with the imports from the region.
8-Apr-2007
The US-Korea Free Trade Agreement will allow the US greater access to one of Australian beef’s premier export markets.
