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Mexico, CentAm to sign single FTA
23-Nov-2011 Prensa Latina
Mexico and the five countries in Central America (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua) are expected to sign a Single Free Trade Agreement on Nov. 22, El Salvador’s Ministry of Economy announced.
Ecuador, ¿verdaderamente libre de transgénicos?
18-Nov-2011 Pandemic of Lies: The Exile
En el Ecuador la entrada de productos de soya provenientes de países donde casi la totalidad de los sembríos de dicha leguminosa es transgénica crea serias sospechas de que se estuviera infringiendo el Art. 401 de la Constitución 2008 que declara al país “libre de cultivos y semillas transgénicas”.
Chavez and ALBA
21-Sep-2011 La Hora
Venezuelans and Latin Americans have to acknowledge that Fidel and Chavez devised, created and forged the Bolivarian Alliance for the People of Our America/The Trade Treaty for Our People.
Costa Rica, Jamaica move forward on trade deal
22-Aug-2011 Inside Costa Rica
Jamaica and Costa Rica are attempting to press forward with the formal implementation of a seven-year-old-free trade agreement signed in 2004 between Costa Rica and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).
UNASUR protects the region against the international crisis
20-Aug-2011 Minga Informativa de Movimientos Sociales
The Union of South American Nations resolved today to put in place a six-point Plan of Action to protect the region from the international crisis that is shaking Europe and the United States.
Gov’t to Fully Implement Free Trade Agreement with Costa Rica
13-Aug-2011
The Government has signaled its intention to sign off on the full implementation of the CARICOM/Costa Rica Free Trade Agreement soon.
The US must seek labour guarantees in trade agreements
11-Aug-2011 SDP
Defenders of labour rights celebrated today the US request to establish an arbitral panel to analyse Guatemala’s non compliance with labour rights under a free trade agreement (FTA).
Nicaraguan businesspersons seek free trade agreement with Venezuela
7-Jul-2011
There are concerns in Nicaragua about the health of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, with whom the Central American government has signed trade agreements without the participation of Nicaraguan businesspersons, DPA reported.
Free trade at what cost?
6-Jul-2011
Inking free trade deals with South Korea, Panama and Colombia is among the highest priorities for the U.S. business community.
Panama seeks FTA with Caribbean countries
16-Jun-2011 Prensa Libre
Panama will attend the Caribbean Investment Forum in Trinidad and Tobago, to offer Caribbean countries like Barbados, Belize and Jamaica free trade agreements negotiations, according to an official source.
Central American integration —and militarization
5-Jun-2011
Representatives of the governments of Mexico and the Central American countries wrapped up a fifth round of talks on a regional free trade agreement last week. The negotiations took place in Mexico City, with the next round of talks to be held in August in El Salvador.
Realigning trade alliances
23-May-2011
With the demise of the Free Trade Area of the Americas, a realignment of trade alliances is evident in the hemisphere—witness ALBA, Petro Caribe, expanded Mercosur. In the aftermath of the Lome Convention between the European Union and its former colonies of Africa, Caribbean and the Pacific, the age of preferential trade agreements came to an end and the era of reciprocal trade was born.
Trade agreement with Canada a main focus for CARICOM Council meeting
19-May-2011 St Kitts & Nevis Observer
During the upcoming 32nd Meeting of the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) in Georgetown, Guyana, the packed agenda will include updates with respect to on-going negotiations with Canada
Venezuela formally exits Andean nations and waits for Mercosur incorporation
24-Apr-2011
Venezuela formally exited the Andean Community of Nations, CAN, Friday when it stopped belonging to the free trade zone which for 38 years eliminated a full range of tariffs among its members (Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and Colombia), announced the Venezuelan Foreign Affairs ministry.
Ecuador Congress ends bilateral pacts with France, Sweden
18-Mar-2011 Dow Jones
Ecuador’s National Assembly has approved a request by President Rafael Correa to end bilateral investment-promotion and protection agreements with France and Sweden.
Nicaragua joins Chile-Central America FTA
24-Feb-2011 Insidecostarica.com
Nicaragua joined on Tuesday the Free Trade Agreement between Chile and Central America, seeking to promote exports bound for the South American country.
What South Korea can teach Colombia about FTAs
23-Feb-2011 Colombia Reports
While South Korea seeks to further its development by selling to Colombia its industrial goods, Colombia’s elite pretend to develop the country by selling coal, oil, coffee and flowers (and probably farmland, which, thanks to the paramilitaries, they own) to South Korea, says Colombia Reports
Mexico: Avocado producers opposing the FTA with Peru and Brazil
3-Feb-2011 Fresh Plaza
Due to the risk to cultivation health that it represents, producers and packagers who export the Michoacán avocado oppose this fruit being included in the free trade agreements which Mexico will sign with Peru and Brazil.