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Peru sees ’ambitious’ trade deal with Australia as early as 2018
29-Aug-2017 Reuters
Peru expects a “very ambitious” free trade deal with Australia that covers goods, services and investments to be implemented as early as next year, Peru’s deputy trade minister said
India, Peru to start FTA negotiations this week
8-Aug-2017 India Today
India and South American nation Peru would start formal negotiations for a proposed free trade agreement (FTA) from this week.
Harsh sentencing of Aymara leader reveals the politics of criminalization in Peru
27-Jul-2017 Intercontinental Cry
This past month, eighteen Aymara community leaders endured the final stages of a trial that had them facing up to 28 years in prison and massive fines for their alleged roles in the 2011 ‘Aymarazo’ protests against the Santa Ana silver mine on the Peru-Bolivia border.
Six years after the ‘Aymarazo’ protests in Peru
28-Jun-2017 Radio Mundo Real
Criminal charges pending against 18 community leaders and a billion-dollar court case at ICSID.
Australian miners hail Peru trade talks
29-May-2017 Tax-news
The Minerals Council of Australia has said that the country’s mining sector will benefit from the proposed new free trade agreement with Peru.
Australia to pursue free trade agreement with Peru
24-May-2017 Xinhua
The Australian government confirmed it will be pursuing a free trade agreement with Peru, with the nation’s Trade Minister Steve Ciobo to visit Lima for the first round of negotiations in July.
Peru, Indonesia to start meetings towards trade agreement
23-May-2017 Andina
Peru and Indonesia will soon begin a series of bilateral meetings to reach a free trade agreement.
Labor union calls out Peru over land bond dispute
11-Apr-2017 Politico
The Teamsters labor union has escalated an investor dispute against Peru, arguing that its members’ pensions could be thrown into jeopardy as a result of the government’s alleged failure to pay investors $5 billion worth of debt tied up in land bonds.
Peru "prefers" FTA with Asia through Pacific Alliance
10-Mar-2017 Latin America Herald Tribune
Peru will try to expand its free trade agreements with countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), but "preferably" through the Pacific Alliance
Peru, India begin meetings towards trade agreement
8-Mar-2017 Andina
Peruvian and Indian governments held the first technical meetings aimed to reach a trade agreement.
Peru free trade agreement could help India diversify in LatAm region
8-Feb-2017 Financial Express
A proposed comprehensive free trade agreement between India and Peru covering goods, services and investments may not only raise India’s export volumes to the western South American nation
Peru to work with China, others on TPP alternative: president
3-Feb-2017 Reuters
Peru will work with China and other Asian and Pacific Rim countries to incorporate elements of the Trans-Pacific Partnership into a new agreement.
India to start negotiations for FTA with Peru
19-Jan-2017 Business Standard
Approval for the talks was given by the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Peru will define the roadmap for the FTA with India this quarter
10-Jan-2017 Fresh Plaza
"Peru and India should have a first technical meeting in the first three months of 2017 to establish the roadmap of this process so that they can properly start negotiations," the Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade said
Australia interested in FTA with Peru
3-Jan-2017 Andina
The Australian government said it considers the possibility of negotiating an FTA with Peru, as the Asia-Pacific faces the potential collapse of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
Peru’s trade agreement with Honduras takes effect in 2017
2-Jan-2017 Peru Reports
The negotiations broke off in June 2011 and the two countries signer the agreement in Lima in May 2015.
Indonesia to finalize five trade deals next year in hunt for wider markets
8-Dec-2016 Jakarta Post
As Indonesia accelerates talks with 15 Asia-Pacific nations, it is prioritizing the conclusion of five trade deals to open access to foreign markets and lure inflows of investment.
Japan, Peru to forge ahead with TPP procedures
23-Nov-2016 NHK
The leaders of Japan and Peru have agreed to press ahead with efforts to implement the Trans-Pacific Partnership, despite a pledge by President-elect Donald Trump to pull the US out of the free trade deal.
China, Peru to look at updating FTA
22-Nov-2016 ECNS
China and Peru on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding in Lima to conduct a feasibility study on upgrading the China-Peru Free Trade Agreement.
Amid dying TPP, APEC summit to focus on China’s trade deal
17-Nov-2016 teleSUR
In a blow to the suspended U.S.-backed TPP, several countries in the Pacific Rim are now looking to join China’s free trade agreements.