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Peru and Mexico negotiate free trade pact
4-Sep-2006 MercoPress
Mexican Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez said Thursday that his country and Peru are "90 percent" of the way to concluding a free trade agreement.
Mexico’s corn farmers see their livelihoods wither away
31-Aug-2006 San Francisco Chronicle
An estimated 1.5 million agricultural jobs have been lost since NAFTA went into effect in 1994.
Politics of corn loom for divided Mexico
9-Aug-2006 ABC News
The disputed election has raised tensions over a pending NAFTA deadline to halt corn and bean import tarriffs.
Brazil says Mexico may join Mercosur
9-Aug-2006
Brazil Trade and Industry Minister Luiz Fernando Furlan said Monday that Mexico could join the South American trade block Mercosur within a year.
Farmers in poorer southern region demand changes to free-trade treaty
7-Aug-2006 Charlotte Observer
Felipe Calderon’s contested, razor-thin victory in Mexico’s presidential election last month is likely to force his attention toward the underdeveloped south, where poor farmers want to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Mexico bid to join Mercosur as associate member
23-Jul-2006 People’s Daily
Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez said on Friday that his government had formally requested the accession to the Common Market of the South (Mercosur) as an associate member.
Mexico, Argentina sign extended agreement
11-Jun-2006 AP
Mexico and Argentina signed an extended trade and investment agreement Thursday increasing the number of products given preferential tariff treatment by the two countries.
Mexico to replace Venezuela in trade pact
22-May-2006 Houston Chronicle
Mexican officials said Monday they will seek a replacement for Venezuela after the South American nation decided to quit the G-3 trade pact.
Venezuela says it will pull out of G-3
22-May-2006 AP
President Hugo Chavez said Sunday Venezuela will pull out of a trade bloc with Colombia and Mexico, its latest move to abandon trade deals with countries that have free-trade pacts with the United States.
FIDH report on the effects on human rights of the NAFTA
18-May-2006 FIDH
The International Federation for Human Rights has published the report of a fact-finding mission on the effects on human rights of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The mission, conducted in Mexico between 22 and 31 of August 2005, looked specifically at the effects of NAFTA, ten years after its entering into force, on employment and working conditions in the Northern part of the country, in particular in the maquilas and in the informal economy.
UK and Mexico sign trade agreement in Vienna
13-May-2006 MercoPress
United Kingdom and Mexico signed Friday a bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (IPPA) in Vienna.
Blame NAFTA
13-Apr-2006 AlterNet
Thanks to NAFTA’s success, the flood of illegal immigration is up and the standard of living of the average Mexican is down.
Mexico, Canada have seen few benefits in US FTA, says report
10-Apr-2006
A state-run research center said Monday that some of the countries that signed a free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States have lost their export competitiveness.
Mexican envoy praises fruits of FTA
8-Mar-2006
Japan’s second free-trade agreement, the one with Mexico that is approaching its first anniversary, has been a big success with a 30 percent jump in bilateral trade, Mexican Ambassador Miguel Ruiz-Cabanas said Wednesday.
Hunger on the border
19-Feb-2006 ZNet
The labor side agreement of NAFTA hasn’t forced anybody to take responsibility. It’s not an effective guarantee of anyone’s rights.
Free trade fuels drug smuggling
13-Feb-2006 Houston Chronicle
US drug agents say that free trade with Mexico has had an ugly and unintended consequence: Just as legitimate business people have flocked to Nuevo Laredo, so have criminals.
Mexico-EU: Not everyone happy with results of free trade treaty
9-Feb-2006 IPS
Five and a half years after the implementation of the Mexico-European Union free trade agreement, the first such accord between Europe and a country in Latin America, the partners tout its success, while social activists complain that it has failed to deliver on its promises.
Australia, Mexico to explore FTA
8-Jan-2006 Sydney Morning Herald
Australia and Mexico will explore the viability of a free trade agreement between the two countries.
Fox wants Mexico in the Mercosur in 2006
8-Nov-2005 Agência Brasil
On the final day of the 4th Summit of the Americas, in Mar del Plata, Argentina, the president of Mexico, Vicente Fox, said that he is negotiating his country’s entry into the Mercosur in the middle of next year.
Low prices force Mexicans from fields
30-Oct-2005 St Louis Post Dispatch
But in just over a decade, an estimated 1 million farmers in rural Mexico have lost their livelihoods.