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Powerful Panasonic calls for a free trade agreement with Peru
22-Feb-2008 IPCDigital
The Japanese appliances giant, Panasonic, has called for the establishment a free trade agreement between Japan and Peru.
Peru declares state of emergency on farm protests
19-Feb-2008 Bloomberg
Peru’s government declared a state of emergency after a farmers’ protest left at least four dead and more than 700 under arrest. Farmers called the nationwide protest to push for state subsidies as part of a free-trade agreement with the US, for lower prices for fertilizers and for a halt to farm seizures by banks. "The government has lost all credibility,’’ protest organisers said.
Striking farmers shut access to Peru’s Machu Picchu
19-Feb-2008 Reuters
Peruvian farmers upset over a free trade deal with the United States blocked rail service to the famous Inca ruins at Machu Picchu on Monday and paralyzed vast swaths of the Andean country by halting traffic on key highways.
Peru: Free trade deal an Andean tragedy
5-Feb-2008 Green Left Weekly
Hypocritical euphemisms belie the real intent of PeruFTA, which is to strike a blow against the growing movement toward the creation of a regional trading block in Latin America.
Peru, Canada sign free trade agreement
27-Jan-2008 AFP
Peru and Canada have signed a free trade agreement at the the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland
Canada and Peru conclude negotiations of a Free Trade Agreement
27-Jan-2008
On January 26, 2008, Canada announced that Canada had concluded its negotiations of a free trade agreement with Peru. The Canada-Peru Free Trade Agreement (CPFTA) follows the Canada-Peru bilateral investment treaty (called a Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA)) on June 20, 2007. The CPFTA is Canada’s sixth free trade agreement (after the North American Free Trade Agreement, Canada-Chile Free Trade Agreement, Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement, Canada-Costa Rica Free Trade Agreement and Canada-EFTA Free Trade Agreement)
Peru : FTA wih Canada nearing conclusion
24-Jan-2008 Fibre2Fashion
Peru’s Foreign Minister Ms Mercedes Araoz made an announcement to the effect that Peru and Canada were close to concluding negotiations on the Free Trade Agreement.
China, Peru to set up free trade agreement
24-Jan-2008 CCTV
Talks between China and Peru to set up a free trade agreement are well underway. The Andean country says it hopes to become China’s most important commercial link in Latin America.
IDB to support Peru in implementing FTA with US
16-Dec-2007 Fibre to Fashion
The President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Luis Alberto Moreno, announced that the Bank will assist the government of Peru in launching the free trade agreement (FTA) signed with the United States in Washington, DC.
Peru-US free trade agreement to enter into force in 2009
12-Dec-2007 LIP
The US-Peru free trade agreement is to enter into force January 1, 2009, said Peru’s Minister of Foreign Trade, Mercedes Aráoz. The Minister explained, "Obviously we want to move faster but there is a lot of work we have to do with the US government to make things compatible."
Peru free trade agreement is disaster for farmers everywhere
7-Dec-2007 Topeka Capital Journal
The same international grain traders who dumped below-cost grain into Mexico after NAFTA, driving over a million farmers off the land and fueling illegal migration into the United States, will now do the same in Peru.
Short end of stick for Peru farmers
7-Dec-2007 Prensa Latina
The Peruvian government’s happiness was contrasted today by the solemnity of agrarian producers after the ratification of the US-Peru Free Trade Agreement by the US Senate.
Senate approves Peru trade deal
5-Dec-2007 NY Times
The US Senate gave overwhelming final approval Tuesday to a trade agreement with Peru, as most Democrats joined nearly all Republicans in handing President Bush an unusual victory
Debate begins on US-Peru free trade agreement
4-Dec-2007 Reuters
The US Senate began debate on Monday on a free trade agreement with Peru the Bush administration hopes will be its first legislative trade victory since Democrats took control of Congress in January.
What a vote for free trade means for the U.S.
22-Nov-2007
In the 2006 elections, aspiring Democrats attacked the Bush administration’s free trade policies, and more than 20 new members of Congress were elected, giving the Democratic Party its new majority in the House of Representatives. Yet, nearly two weeks ago, Democratic Party leaders urged those same members of Congress to vote for a new free trade agreement with Peru.
Church World Service urging citizen action on Peru Free Trade Agreement
20-Nov-2007 WFN
As a result of the Nov. 8 House of Representatives passage of a trade agreement that would harm resource-poor Peruvians, humanitarian agency Church World Service is urging people to Contact their Senators and ask them to oppose the US-Peru Free Trade Agreement (Peru FTA).
Be careful what you wish for: Peru gets its free trade agreement with the United States
13-Nov-2007 Americas Program
Peruvian society, and what is worse, most politicians in the Andean countries, do not seem to have adequately grasped the reach of FTAs with the United States, and tend to evaluate them in purely commercial terms.
USA : Combating China more vital than Peru FTA - AMTAC
12-Nov-2007 Fibre to Fashion
"The illegal currency subsidies given by China to its manufacturing exporters dwarf the $9 billion in trade covered by the proposed Peru FTA. Rather than focusing on real trade problems, the House instead passed an FTA with a country that only could afford to buy 0.28 percent of U.S. exports in 2006,” American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition Executive Director Auggie Tantillo said
Teaching leaders oppose Peru-US FTA
9-Nov-2007 Prensa Latina
Peru-US Free Trade Agreement, ratified by the US House of Representatives, is a mechanism of subjugation, the leader of Peruvian teaching Luis Munoz affirmed Thursday.
Workers union in Peru rejects free trade agreement with the US
9-Nov-2007 Living in Peru
One of Peru’s strongest workers unions, the General Workers Confederation of Peru (CGTP) announced today that it did not agree with the approval of the US-Peru free-trade pact passed by the US House of Representatives today.