{"id":1207,"date":"2007-05-04T22:46:51","date_gmt":"2007-05-04T14:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1207"},"modified":"2009-06-14T15:00:51","modified_gmt":"2009-06-14T07:00:51","slug":"1203-of-asean-eu-fta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1207","title":{"rendered":"[1203] Of ASEAN-EU FTA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a stalled and disappointing Malaysia-US FTA negotiation, a better deal is coming our way. Today in Brunei, ASEAN and EU representatives met and agreed to start talking about a regional-wide FTA:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, May 4 (Bernama) &#8212; The European Union (EU) today agreed to enter into free trade area (FTA) talks with the Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) despite its strong feeling on the absence of Myanmar&#8217;s democratic reforms.<\/p>\n<p>Trade Commissioner, Peter Mandelson, told Bernama the 27-country EU&#8217;s stance on the junta-led Myanmar&#8217;s rights record has not changed although both blocs agreed that an FTA would provide for a comprehensive trade and investment liberalisation. [<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bernama.com.my\/bernama\/v3\/news_business.php?id=260077\"><em>EU Puts Myanmar Aside, Proceeds FTA Talks With Asean<\/em><\/a>. Bernama. May 4 2007]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While I am supportive of a bilateral FTA between Malaysia and the United States, multilateral FTAs such as the proposed ASEAN-EU are many times better than bilateral ones. A successful Doha Round would be best but pragmatism unfortunately forces us to choose less preferable paths toward greater prosperity and freedom.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect that the EU would try to insert climate related issues into the proposed FTA. It would be interesting to see that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a stalled and disappointing Malaysia-US FTA negotiation, a better deal is coming our way. Today in Brunei, ASEAN and EU representatives met and agreed to start talking about a regional-wide FTA: BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, May 4 (Bernama) &#8212; The European Union (EU) today agreed to enter into free trade area (FTA) talks with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[332,174,211],"class_list":["post-1207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-free-trade","tag-malaysia","tag-united-states-of-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4482,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions\/4482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}