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
15-Feb-2011
Financial Times
China is in talks to build an alternative to the Panama Canal that would link Colombia’s Atlantic and Pacific coasts by rail – a move that Bogotá also hopes will spur Washington to push for Congressional approval of a US-Colombia free-trade pact.
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.
8-Feb-2011
Colombia Reports
Colombian and South Korean representatives meet Monday in Los Angeles for the third mini-round of negotiations to finalize details of a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA).
22-Jan-2011
People’s World
Congress should delay the proposed US-Colombia "free trade" agreement until a key Colombian law that leads to workers’ oppression changes and law enforcement there improves, a top Colombian union leader says.
22-Jan-2011
Colombia Reports
Colombian Vice President Angelino Garzon said Thursday that if the US congress decides not to ratify a free trade agreement with Colombia, the country’s government will not "sit down and cry."
13-Jan-2011
Post Chronicle
A senior Democratic lawmaker opposed to a US free trade agreement with Colombia headed to that country on Wednesday to see what progress has been made on labor concerns related to the pact.
6-Jan-2011
Colombia Reports
Colombia’s Vice President Angelino Garzon will travel to Washington to lobby the ratification of a free trade agreement (FTA) between the US and Colombia, Caracol Radio reported on Tuesday.
18-Dec-2010
Colombia Reports
Republicans in the US Senate are trying to block the extension of a trade preference agreement which allows many Colombian goods to enter the country duty-free.
9-Dec-2010
Colombia Reports
Members of the European Parliament say that the EU’s free trade agreement with Colombia should not be approved as there has been little progress on human rights in the Andean nation, reports ABC.
24-Nov-2010
Straits Times
Singapore has begun negotiations with Colombia on a free trade agreement (FTA), Colombian press said on Monday.
23-Nov-2010
Colombia Reports
Colombia’s trade minister told business newspaper La Republica that recently-started talks on initiating a free trade agreement with Singapore could clear the path to Colombia’s membership of the APEC Pacific Rim trading bloc.
29-Aug-2010
California Progress Report
Yesterday, California state legislators took action to block the trade agreement with Colombia by voting to approve Assembly Joint Resolution 27, which urges the US Congress to oppose the Colombia Free Trade agreement.
