The Andean Commission of Jurists and five prestigious international law experts from around the world have joined a growing chorus of criticism targeting Chevron’s attempt to use a secret investor arbitration as part of its campaign to evade an $18 billion environmental judgment in Ecuador, according to letters released today.
The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) signed between Peru and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) -consisting on Switzerland, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway- will come into effect on July 1, Peru’s Executive branch noted Friday.
The US House of Representatives on Monday approved a one-year extension of soon-to-expire trade benefits for Ecuador, Colombia, Peru and a long list of other developing countries.
According to Latin American trade unions and organisations, patenting has had devastating consequences for biological diversity in several Latin American countries. Yet neither the patent rules proposed in the association agreement between the EU and Central America nor the bilateral trade negotiations taking place between the EU and Colombia and Peru have taken account of such criticism.
This week, Bolivians are in Lima to help organize a protest against Peru and Colombia for agreeing to sign a Free-Trade Agreement with the European Union.
Ecuador wants to negotiate a trade deal with the European Union, reversing its preference for group talks a day after neighboring Colombia and Peru abandoned efforts at a regional partnership in favor of their own deals with the European bloc.
Congress has approved an extension of the Andean Trade Preference Act (ATPA), covering trade with Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia in a move supported by the Bush administration, US textile manufacturers and importers of textiles and apparel.
The US House of Representatives voted unanimously on Monday to approve a one-year extension of trade benefits for Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia that expire at the end of the year.
The US House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a 10-month extension of a trade program aimed at promoting imports from four Andean nations and thus discouraging the cultivation and production of illegal drugs.
La Cámara de Representantes de EE.UU. tiene previsto votar mañana otra prórroga de las preferencias arancelarias andinas, mientras crece la presión de la Casa Blanca para que apruebe el Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC) con Colombia.
La extensión de las preferencias arancelarias andinas enfrenta fuertes trabas en el Senado norteamericano, donde algunos republicanos quieren que el beneficio sea ampliado por sólo tres meses para presionar por la aprobación del TLC entre Estados Unidos y Colombia, dijeron a la AFP fuentes cercanas a las tratativas.
A US House panel on Thursday approved a 10-month extension for a trade program providing reduced tariffs for exports from the four Andean nations of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
El comisario de Comercio de la Unión Europea, Peter Mandelson, se reunirá el próximo 21 de diciembre, en Bogotá, con los ministros de comercio de Colombia, Perú, Bolivia y Ecuador, a fin de impulsar el Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC) que se negocia entre la CAN y la Unión Europea.
La posición del gobierno de George W. Bush respecto a las preferencias arancelarias andinas (Atpdea) quedó clara luego de la visita de una comitiva estadounidense a Colombia
Las negociaciones se apoyan a su vez en tres principios cardinales: nada está negociado hasta que todo esté negociado, asimetrías a favor de los andinos y trato especial y diferenciado para Bolivia y Ecuador
La negociación comercial CAN-UE abarca 14 temas, similares a las que se registraron el en TLC con EE.UU. y que tienen que ver con acceso a mercados, reglas de origen, compras públicas, servicios e inversiones, propiedad intelectual, entre otras. En la primera ronda, según informó la cancillería colombiana, se analizarán los objetivos y alcances de la negociación, los procedimientos y calendarios, así como los métodos y las modalidades de las tratativas
La Comisión de la Comunidad Andina de Naciones (CAN) compuesta por Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador y Perú reunidos en la ciudad de Lima el viernes 13 de julio, aprobó en una sesión sin precedentes la Decisión 669 que suspende la Unión Aduanera andina representada por el Arancel Externo Común (AEC) y el Sistema Andino de Franjas de Precios (Safp).
The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote today on a plan to extend trade preferences for Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia for eight months.
U.S. lawmakers have begun talks on whether to extend a 15-year-old trade preference program for Andean countries while free trade deals with Colombia and Peru remain up in the air, congressional aides said on Wednesday.
NOAFTA.org, a collaboration between several Independent Media Centres, is designed to be a central point of information for the Andean Free Trade Agreement talks in Tucson, Arizona (30 November - 4 December 2004).