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A year after implementation of FTA, US and Peru left with broken promises, no new trade model
3-Feb-2010 Public Citizen
Environmental and labor conditions in Peru have deteriorated rapidly since the congressional passage of the FTA in late 2007 and implementation in early 2009.
Peru to start negotiations to join the P4 trade agreement in March 2010
27-Jan-2010 Andina
In March, Peru will start negotiations to join the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement (TPPA), previously known as P4, announced Peru Deputy Trade Minister, Eduardo Ferreyros.
Minister: Peru set to sign EU free trade accord in May
7-Jan-2010 Dow Jones
Peru’s free trade agreement with the European Union should be signed in Madrid in May, Foreign Affairs Minister Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde said Thursday.
Peru to negotiate FTA with Central America in May
28-Dec-2009 Andina
Peru will begin negotiations to sign a Free Trade Agreement with Central America in May next year, Peru’s Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism
Peru seeks to close free trade agreement with EU by Jan. 2010
19-Dec-2009 LIP
"I think negotiations with the European Union will be completed by the end of January 2010," pointed out the Peruvian trade minister, who added that only two or three issues are still yet to solve by both part’s ministers.
China may displace the US as main trading partner of Peru
14-Dec-2009 Andina
On December 7, Peru’s government ratified a free trade agreement with China, noting that this decision "favors Peru’s interests." Peru is one of China’s major trading partners in Latin America.
China-Peru FTA comes into effect
7-Dec-2009 CCTV
Peruvian President, Alan Garcia, has declared the free trade agreement between Peru and China in effect from Sunday.
Peru signs agreement with European free trade pact nations
29-Nov-2009 Wall Street Journal
Peru formally concluded a joint free trade agreement with Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland on Friday, said trade and tourism minister Martin Perez.
Japan, Peru agree to work on EPA
11-Nov-2009
Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and Peruvian President Alan Garcia have agreed to move forward on an economic partnership agreement that is being negotiated and to strengthen bilateral cooperation in assisting small and midsize firms.
Close attention to final round of Peru-EU FTA required
2-Oct-2009 La Primera
The Peruvian Network for a Just Globalization says that both public opinion, as well as members of Congress, have to make sure that no conditions that restrict access to medicines for thousands of Peruvians are included in the text of the EU-Peru trade agreement.
Peru seeks conclusion of FTA with S. Korea within this year
1-Sep-2009
Peruvian Foreign Minister Jose Garcia Belaunde said Tuesday his government hopes to conclude free trade agreement (FTA) talks with South Korea before November.
Peru-Singapore free trade pact to take effect Aug
22-Jul-2009 Reuters
A free trade agreement between Peru and Singapore will take effect on Aug. 1, the first pact between the resource-rich Latin American nation and Asia, Peruvian Trade & Tourism Minister Martin Perez said on Wednesday.
Peru’s cold war against Indigenous People
20-Jul-2009 WorldPress
Besides a racist propaganda campaign and violent repression, the Pervian government has tried highly suspect legal mechanisms to disarticulate indigenous power.
156 arrested in Peru anti-government protests
9-Jul-2009 Stuff
Peru’s national police chief says 156 people were arrested during anti-government and anti-free trade protests called by the country’s largest labour union.
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).
Groups’ letter criticizes Senate’s ratification of Peru free trade pact
1-Jul-2009 Straight.com
All senators but one were more concerned about investor protections for Canadian oil and mining companies, and why Canada did not get as good a deal as the US on pork and other agricultural exports, than they were with the fact that communities in the Amazon were protesting against the current and future presence of these very corporations on their ancestral lands.
Peruvian violence prompts concerns over Canada’s push for free trade deals
24-Jun-2009 Embassy Magazine
While a great deal of scrutiny has been directed toward Canada’s free trade agreement with Colombia, there has been little said about a similar deal with Peru. In fact, last Wednesday, on one of the final days of Parliament, that agreement barely made a ripple as it quietly received Royal Assent.
Protest supports Peru’s Indigenous
21-Jun-2009 Workers World
Indigenous peoples, solidarity movement activists and environmentalists filled the sidewalks outside the Peruvian Consulate in New York June 10. It was New York’s turn to join the international solidarity movement that has sprung up since Peruvian President Alan Garcia ordered police to attack a demonstration of 5,000 Indigenous people in Peru’s Amazon region.
Indigenous struggle shakes up Peru
21-Jun-2009 Workers World
Indigenous uprisings in both Bolivia and Ecuador led to the removal of right-wing neoliberal governments and the installation of progressive presidents who then, together with the input of the people, created new constitutions. Will it happen in Peru?
Peru revokes Amazon mining laws
20-Jun-2009 LA Times
Peru’s Congress voted Thursday to revoke two laws enacted last year to open the Amazon to mining, oil and timber development, measures that enraged many indigenous groups and led to a bloody confrontation this month.