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ASEAN Keeps Moving Toward Freer Trade PDF Print E-mail
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Posted by Ross Korves   
Thursday, 30 August 2007
While the Doha Round of WTO trade policy talks idles along and the U.S. lacks Trade Promotion Authority to negotiate free trade agreements (FTAs), the ten countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are moving ahead with increased intra-ASEAN trade and FTAs. The Economic Ministers of the ten countries meeting in Makati City, the Philippines, on August 24 prepared for a seven year effort to create the ASEAN Economic Community by 2015 and continued their support for the Doha talks.

The countries of ASEAN (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam) have a combined population of 570 million people, GDP of $1.1 trillion and per capita GDP of $1,900 ($5,200 on a purchasing power parity basis). They had 2006 exports of $751 billion, imports of $654 billion and foreign direct investment of $52.4 billion, up 27 percent from 2005. The countries range from small, affluent Singapore, to prosperous Malaysia with 27 million people, to Indonesia with 222 million people to emerging economies of Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia.

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Trust, Trade and China PDF Print E-mail
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Thursday, 23 August 2007
The ongoing revelations that products made in China and imported to the U.S. do not meet health and safety standards taken for granted in this country will force the Chinese government and businesses to make fundamental reforms that they have not been willing to do up to now. Consumers in importing countries have choices, and they will force suppliers to reject Chinese products if they do not meet accepted standards.

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The 2007 NAFTA Commission Meeting PDF Print E-mail
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Wednesday, 15 August 2007
The NAFTA Commission, the trade ministers of the U.S., Canada and Mexico, met in Vancouver, B.C., Canada on August 13-14. With serious trade disagreements like U.S. government domestic policy for corn production, the movement of softwood lumber from Canada to the U.S. and Mexican trucks operating in the U.S., they could have gotten lost in those details. There probably was considerable behind the scene’s discussion about those issues, but the joint statement after the meeting showed that the trade ministers focused on future opportunities rather than disagreements of the present.

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The U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement is a Unique Opportunity PDF Print E-mail
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Wednesday, 08 August 2007
The U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement (FTA) has become an easy target for trade policy critics in general and those with specific industry concerns like automobiles and beef. Some of the issues raised are valid points of concern, but are actually reasons to support the FTA as a way to deal with the issues. The FTA permanently sweeps away barriers to trade that would be impossible to remove one at a time. U.S. agriculture has a major stake in seeing that the agreement is approved by Congress and fully implemented.

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Seeking Resolution of the Brazilian Cotton Case PDF Print E-mail
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Wednesday, 01 August 2007
The leaking on July 27th of a WTO compliance panel report to the U.S. and Brazilian governments that the U.S. had not fully complied with a March 2005 WTO ruling concerning certain U.S. government cotton support programs is the latest event in a five-year WTO process. The report is expected to be officially released to other WTO members about October 1. In August of 2006 Brazil had requested the compliance panel because it believed that the U.S. had not fully complied with the March 2005 ruling that U.S. domestic programs disadvantaged growers in other countries.

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