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The climate impact of the EU trade agreement with Colombia, Peru and Ecuador
31-Mar-2025 Power Shift
Instead of supporting sustainable development, the agreement has primarily facilitated trade in environmentally harmful goods, and has also failed to introduce effective mechanisms to address sustainability challenges.
EU-Andean Countries: Council greenlights the conclusion of the trade agreement with Colombia, Peru and Ecuador
15-Oct-2024 European Council
The Council has adopted a decision to conclude the trade agreement between the European Union and its member states, on one hand, and Colombia and Peru, on the other, as well as a decision to conclude the protocol concerning Ecuador’s accession to this agreement.
Ecuadorian VP: EU trade deal ‘is unlike other agreements’
22-Nov-2016 EurActiv
Ecuadorian Vice-President said that the trade agreement recently signed with the EU will generate plenty of opportunities and underpin the changes his country has been working toward in recent years.
MoC seeks trade agreement with South American countries
5-Aug-2012 Daily Times
Pakistan’s Ministry of Commerce is negotiating trading arrangements with Mercosur countries like Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela and Andean Community (CAN) a trade bloc comprising the South American countries of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru to increase it’s trade market access.
Free-trade discord takes toll on flower importers
2-Jul-2011
Since Valentine’s Day, Miami flower importers have watched their expenses climb, contending with rising fuel prices and surcharges and, most vexing of all, the expiration of an Andean trade program that allowed them to bring in flowers from Colombia and Ecuador without paying duties.
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.
The Second Conquest: The EU free trade agreement with Colombia and Peru
25-Oct-2010 TNI
This FDCL/TNI publication contains an overview of the FTA’s history, of human rights violations in Colombia and Peru as well as a critical analysis of the draft agreement which recently leaked to the public.
Peru president proposes a Pacific Rim integration for South America
20-Oct-2010 LIP
Yesterday, Peruvian President Alan García said he wrote letters to the presidents of Panama, Chile, Colombia and Ecuador, proposing the regional integration of the five Pacific rim countries.
Ecuador shakes up international fora
6-Aug-2009 ICTSD
Exiting ICSID and joining ALBA and UNASUR,along with the customs restrictions it applied on its CAN neighbours, are the recent measures that have been taken by the government of Ecuador to demonstrate that there is an alternative trade policy.
The throes of the third round of negotiations of the FTA of Colombia & Peru with the EU
8-Jul-2009 Anarkismo.net
Analysis of the third round of egotiations of a free trade agreement (FTA) between the EU and the Andean countries (Ecuador, Peru and Colombia).
IV Round of Colombia-EU FTA negotiations extended
19-Jun-2009 Semana
The IV negotiating round between Colombia, Perú, Ecuador and the EU will conclude today, Friday. Important topics include bananas, sugar and intellectual property, which have faced some obstacles during the discussion.
EU targets free trade deals under Swedish presidency
6-Jun-2009 Tax-News
The first trade priority for the upcoming Swedish presidency of the European Union is to close the free trade agreement with South Korea
EU-Andean talks inch forward, but Ecuador threatens to pull out
27-May-2009 ICTSD
Negotiations toward a trade-opening deal between the EU and a group of Andean countries hit another snag this week when Ecuador’s president publicly denounced the talks, calling them ‘biased’.
EU’s intellectual property agenda could impair access to medicines in the Andean region
6-May-2009
The EU is more aggressive in its approach to intellectual property in trade agreements than the United States, MEPs learn
FTA: The new Andean disease
25-Feb-2009 RMR
The Free Trade Agreement or the Association Agreement the European Union is promoting with two of the four countries member of the Andean Community of Nations (CAN) risks the continuity of this bloc, but it also represents a threat to access to medications and health of the Andean peoples.
Revised laws ’could promote biopiracy’ in Peru
21-Feb-2009 Eco Earth
Modifications to intellectual property laws that the Peruvian government "rushed through" to enable the go-ahead of a free trade agreement (FTA) between Peru and the United States could facilitate biopiracy and hamper Peru’s position as a protector of traditional knowledge, say experts.
EU, Andean Nations struggle forward in trade talks
20-Feb-2009 ICTSD
Intellectual property, a potential regional customs union, human rights, and bananas triggered heated debate last week in Bogota during the first round of negotiations toward a free trade agreement between the European Union and Andean nations Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
Colombia-European Union FTA on track
18-Feb-2009 Semana
The FTA will not be negotiated taking the three Latin American countries as a block. The new format designed for the negotiations is an unique multi party agreement in which each country’s particular interests will be taken into consideration regarding specific products, but all framed within the same agreement.
Spain expects to sign Peru-EU deal when takes bloc presidency in 2010
8-Feb-2009 Andina
Peru’s Foreign minister Jose Antonio García Belaunde said Saturday that Spain wants to sign formally the Association Agreement between Peru and the European Union (EU), when this country takes on presidency of the bloc in 2010.
Ecuador, EU to explore trade
26-Jan-2009 Prensa Latina
Ecuador President Rafael Correa approved negotiation of a bilateral agreement with the European Union because of the impossibility to do it in a block through the Community of Andean Nations.