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  • 22-Apr-2009 Dominion
    Harper pushes the Canada-Colombia FTA, the people fight back
    Since the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement was tabled on March 26th, people across Canada have been getting the word out and showing their opposition to the deal.
  • 21-Apr-2009 Tico Times
    China proves tough negotiator for Costa Rica
    During the second round of free trade negotiations last week, China’s negotiating team discussed allowing 94 percent of Costa Rican goods to access the Chinese market, but left out key products such as coffee, sugar, beef, pork and chicken.
  • 21-Apr-2009 San Antonio Business Journal
    Free Trade Alliance forms new Cross Border Trucking Coalition
    The coalition is being formed to address the US Department of Transportation’s recent cancellation of its Cross Border Trucking Demonstration Project and will be comprised of companies, industry organizations, trade associations and business chambers that support the North American Free Trade Agreement.
  • 21-Apr-2009 PR Newswire
    Espionage and property theft triggers call to suspend Israeli access to US market
    A major legal filing urges the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to suspend preferential Israeli access to the US market.
  • 21-Apr-2009 Country Guide
    Morocco/Canada FTA discussions hailed
    Talks that may lead to free trade negotiations between Canada and Morocco may help protect a major export market for Canadian durum and pulse crop exports, ag groups said this week.
  • 21-Apr-2009 PTI
    EU Par wants India FTA to address "child, bonded labour"issues
    "Concerned" over "child and bonded labour" in India, the European Parliament has strongly pressed the European Union to include the issues in the Free Trade Agreement talks with New Delhi, which is stoutly against inclusion of social issues in commercial deals.
  • 21-Apr-2009 Korea Times
    Assembly Committee to vote on KORUS FTA motion Wednesday
    The Korean National Assembly Foreign Affairs and Trade Committee will vote on a motion to forward a free trade pact signed with the US government to the full Assembly for ratification.
  • 21-Apr-2009 Chosun Ilbo
    US Security Council ’wants FTA with Korea ratified’
    "Inside US Trade", an American magazine, last Saturday quoted sources as saying NSC officials believe that the passage of the FTA bill will cement the Korea-U.S. alliance at a time when tension is mounting on the Korean Peninsula in the wake of North Korea’s launch of a long-range rocket.
  • 20-Apr-2009 Modern Ghana
    Report: Plummeting profits drive tomato farmers to suicide
    With cross-border price-undercutting, mounting debt and a lack of buyers, many tomato farmers in Ghana’s Upper East Region are turning to suicide. Yet with European Union Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) currently being negotiated, West African markets are about to be flooded with heavily subsidised EU products
  • 20-Apr-2009 East African
    ‘Negotiations for a comprehensive EPA on track’
    "The European Commission-East African Community interim economic partnership agreement on trade in goods, which we initialled in November 2007, should be signed shortly", says an EU representative
  • 20-Apr-2009 Final Call
    European Union pushes trade deal on Africa
    The signing of a finalized economic partnership agreement (EPA) between the European Union and southern African countries seems imminent-despite regional trade fragmentation remaining a danger.
  • 20-Apr-2009 China Daily
    EU aims for 15% growth in food exports to China
    A China-EU FTA is not in the cards, but new European Union initiatives aim to boost EU food exports to China by 15% over the next several years.
  • 19-Apr-2009 New Nation
    Japan disagrees to sign EPA with Bangladesh
    Despite repeated efforts from Bangladesh government, Japan is yet to agree to sign Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), an accord to strengthen bilateral economic ties.
  • 19-Apr-2009 Zimbabwean
    Zim balks from treaty with SA
    A bilateral investment treaty between Zimbabwe and South Africa could not be signed last week after Harare requested more details on the accord before it could commit itself, Industry Minister Welshman Ncube said.
  • 19-Apr-2009 AP
    Taiwan to discuss trade agreement with China
    Taiwan will discuss a partial free trade agreement with China and sign pacts to enhance economic cooperation during high-level talks in late April, negotiators said Saturday.
  • 19-Apr-2009 Colombia Reports
    FTA talks have begun: Colombia
    US president Barack Obama has given "instructions" to his Trade Representative Ron Kirk to start talks with Colombia about the pending free trade agreement between the two countries, Colombia’s Trade Minister Luis Guillermo Plata said Friday.
  • 18-Apr-2009 Manila Bulletin
    EU assist to improve exports to Europe
    The Philippines will receive 6.5 million Euros to develop a strategic trade policy for both bilateral and multilateral negotiations, speed up customs procedures, cope with demanding EU regulations on technical standards and comply with the latest requirements on food safety.
  • 17-Apr-2009
    EU-India FTA - trade in goods, IP and SPS chapters (draft Feb 2009)
  • 16-Apr-2009
    Without corn there is no country: Open Letter to the President of the United States
    We, the people of Mexico, also want to renegotiate NAFTA to protect our corn, the jobs of millions of farmers, and the way of life in the Mexican countryside
  • 16-Apr-2009 Oregon Live
    Mexican farm expert lobbies for NAFTA change
    The goal is to reverse adverse effects of NAFTA: save and share traditional farming methods, restore food independence and halt the migration of Mexican farmers to the United States.