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Ibsa partners boost trade, gird themselves for global crisis
3-Nov-2011
South Africa is achieving significant success in trade with its Ibsa part- ner countries, India and Brazil, President Jacob Zuma highlighted at a press conference in Pretoria last week. (South Africa hosted the fifth Ibsa Dialogue Forum summit on October 17 and 18.)
Free-trade backers eye trans-Pacific
14-Oct-2011 Washington Times
Now that US Congress approved free-trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama, trade experts want lawmakers to harness the momentum and turn their attention to other potential deals in what is seen as a way to boost the economy and create jobs: sealing the Trans-Pacific Partnership, getting Russia to join the WTO, and creating FTAs with the EU and Brazil.
Canada-Brazil CEO forum to consider trade agreement with Mercosur
10-Aug-2011
In a show of the importance the Canadian government places on relations with Brazil and Mercosur the delegation includes four cabinet ministers and a cadre of business leaders. Canada has reiterated its interest in reaching a trade agreement with Brazil and Mercosur, which will be one of the main points of the recently created Brazil-Canada CEO forum.
PM jetting off to Latin America to build trade ties
7-Aug-2011
Hopes are high that Stephen Harper can help build Canada’s trade with Brazil, the world’s seventh-biggest economy, as he launches a Latin American tour this weekend.
Kirk says US-Brazil accord will ‘open the doors’ of constrained market
22-Mar-2011
The trade and economic cooperation deal signed by the US and Brazil will open a constrained market and help reach the administration’s goal of doubling exports by 2015, US Trade Representative Ron Kirk said.
US-Brazil ATEC (2011)
21-Mar-2011 USTR
US, Brazil sign trade, economic agreement as Obama visits
21-Mar-2011 Bloomberg
The US and Brazil signed a trade and economic cooperation agreement which is considered "among the first steps on the road to a free-trade agreement".
Obama to announce framework trade deal in visit to Brazil
19-Mar-2011 Reuters
US President Obama hopes to lay the groundwork for more trade with Brazil when he visits there this weekend, with announcements of a framework for negotiating future trade deals and a new round of US-backed financing for American companies bidding on Brazilian projects, foreign trade sources said Thursday.
Mexican opposition party to vote against FTA
14-Feb-2011 Fresh Fruit Portal
One of Mexico’s opposition parties, the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), has vowed to vote against a potential free trade agreement (FTA) with Peru, Colombia and Brazil on the grounds of food sovereignty, national public health, as well as food and plant sanitation.
Mexico-Brazil begin free trade talks on Feb. 28, Reforma says
11-Feb-2011 Bloomberg
The governments of Mexico and Brazil will begin formal negotiations on Feb. 28 to reach a free-trade agreement, newspaper Reforma reported.
S. Korean PM, Brazil’s new president discuss FTA, bullet train project
3-Jan-2011 Yonhap
South Korean Prime Minister Kim Hwang-sik, who was in Brazil to attend the inauguration ceremony of President Dilma Rousseff, emphasized the need to begin FTA negotiations with Mercosur.
Brazil, Argentina seek to bring Cuba into Mercosur trade bloc
17-Dec-2010
Member nations of Mercosur will seek to boost economic and political ties with Cuba in a bid to make the communist island an associate member of the South American trade bloc.
Big trade opportunity for Mexico and Brazil
23-Nov-2010 FT
Experts say a deal with Mexico could provide important access for Brazilian products to the US and Canadian markets through the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Mexico, Brazil launch talks toward bilateral trade deal
9-Nov-2010 Reuters
Brazil and Mexico said on Monday they would start talks toward a bilateral trade deal in a bid to draw Latin America’s top two economies closer together.
Global insider: Brazil-EU relations
31-Aug-2010 World Politics Review
Both Brazil and the EU find themselves in a bit of a fix on the question of accommodating Mercosur within their bilateral relations.
Brazil to promote FTA between Mercosur, SICA
29-Jul-2010 Xinhua
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Wednesday he will promote negotiations on a free trade agreement between the Central American Integration System (SICA) and Mercosur, where he will take the interim presidency.
Brazilian president calls for FTA between Mercosur, CARICOM
27-Apr-2010 Xinhua
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Monday called for a free trade agreement between the four-member bloc Mercosur and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).
Access: Fighting free trade agreements
22-Apr-2010 MSF
Fatima Mello of the Brazil Network for the Integration of Peoples worked with other civil society groups across South America in order to bring down the proposed Free Trade Agreement of the Americas. Here she discusses the campaign and lessons learned:
Civil society groups in India and across the world protest against EU-India FTA
21-Apr-2010
Civil society and public health groups from India, Brazil and several other countries today vehemently objected to the proposed India-European Union Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
GTPI petition against the FTA between European Union and India
2-Apr-2010
In light of the meeting with members of the International Trade Commission of the European Parliament, scheduled for April 9th at the office of the Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association, the Working Group of Intellectual Property (GTPI) decided to promote a on-line petition (in Portuguese and English) as form of protest against the negotiations of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between India and European Union.