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Byline: Woranuj Maneerungsee
Oct. 1--Thailand and the United States have sorted out some technical issues but not major points during the week-long fifth round of the Thailand-US free trade talks that ended yesterday in Hawaii.
The Thai negotiating team on the free trade agreement, led by Nitya Pibulsonggram, has decided to leave some crucial topics, including the approach to investment liberalisation, to the government.
Thailand prefers a "positive-list" approach, in which each sector to be liberalised is explicitly named. The Americans favour a "negative list", under which everything will be liberalised except for certain, named sectors.
...Source: HighBeam Research, Hawaii talks leave key points out.