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Colombia to start new FTA approval lobby
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.
WSJ: Obama administration expected to submit Korea-US FTA to Congress in January
6-Jan-2011 Arirang
The Wall Street Journal says that the Obama administration will possibly ask for approval of the trade deal in January and that Congress is expected to kick off a months-long process to determine how the US will move ahead with the agreement.
Beef, trade on table in Uruguay for South Korean PM
6-Jan-2011 AFP
South Korean Prime Minister Kim Hwang-Sik was to open three days of talks in Uruguay Tuesday to advance plans for a trade pact with the region and to hear pleas to end Seoul’s ban on Uruguayan beef.
Public health related TRIPS-plus provisions in bilateral trade agreements: A policy guide for negotiators and implementers in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean region
5-Jan-2011 WHO
The main focus of this comprehensive policy guide—the first of its kind solely dedicated to the region—is to analyze the effect of bilateral trade agreements on public health regimes and access to medicines in the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region.
Gov’t win vs Fraport voided
4-Jan-2011 Malaya
The International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes in Washington DC has vacated or voided its ruling made on Aug. 16, 2007, finding no cause in the complaint of Fraport, a German company, that the Philippine government violated a bilateral treaty with Germany when it voided Fraport’s contract to build and operate Terminal 3 of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport.
India pushing for services pacts with individual Asean members
4-Jan-2011 IIFL
Changing its strategy, India is aiming to enter comprehensive bilateral trade agreements with more individual members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or Asean, as a services agreement with the multilateral body remains elusive.
The pitfalls of bilateral deals
4-Jan-2011 LiveMint
India’s economic integration with several of its partners is set to enter a new phase in 2011 as the country seeks to conclude comprehensive economic partnership agreements (Cepas) during the year, writes Biswajit Dhar
Kan vows to push free-trade deal
3-Jan-2011 WSJ
Japan’s prime minister Naoto Kan said he will focus this year on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement and will seek the overhaul of Japan’s agricultural sector that would be required to join the pact.
S. Korean PM, Brazil’s new president discuss FTA, bullet train project
3-Jan-2011 Yonhap
South Korean Prime Minister Kim Hwang-sik, who was in Brazil to attend the inauguration ceremony of President Dilma Rousseff, emphasized the need to begin FTA negotiations with Mercosur.
New Zealand launches Hong Kong trade agreement
3-Jan-2011 AFP
New Zealand and Hong Kong launched a Closer Economic Partnership (CEP) Monday which New Zealand Trade Minister Tim Groser said was part of a regional drive towards trade growth through liberalisation.
WikiLeaks on Panama: Laying bare the paranoid, pro-corporate agenda
31-Dec-2010 Inside Costa Rica
Faced with widespread social opposition, governments adopt an anti-democratic stance as they push through the free trade agenda, becoming so paranoid in the process that they seek to enact illegal wiretaps.
El Salvador to concrete six trade agreements in 2011
31-Dec-2010 Inside Costa Rica
The government of El Salvador aims to concrete in 2011 trade agreements with Canada, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, the European Union (EU) and the countries of the Pacific Rim.
KORUS FTA: wrong deal, wrong time
31-Dec-2010 Korea Times
"The labor movement is not opposed to trade or globalization ― but our country cannot continue to negotiate trade agreements that favor corporate profits over people," says AFL-CIO
Letter from senior European officials supports BDS approach on Israel
31-Dec-2010 warisacrime.org
"We consider it simply inexplicable that such products still enjoy benefits under preferential trade agreements between the EU and Israel."
National Family Farm Coalition strongly opposes the Korea-US free trade agreement
30-Dec-2010 NFFC
The National Family Farm Coalition, representing 26 grassroots farmer, rancher, and fisher organizations in the United States, strongly opposes the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement.
Korean free trade agreement threatens family farmers
30-Dec-2010 Change.org
A sign-on petition from Change.org to stop US Congress from ratifiying the US-Korea FTA
EU to import Palestinian products duty free
30-Dec-2010 Ahram Online
The European Union signed an agreement with the Palestinian Authority to import some Palestinian products duty free
PA looks to expand free-trade networks
30-Dec-2010 Ma’an News Agency
The Palestinian Authority Cabinet on Tuesday instructed a committee to complete negotiations for economic cooperation with South American trade bloc Mercosur.
Constitutional Court nods disputed Korea-US FTA bill
28-Dec-2010 Korea Times
Korea’s Constitutional Court ruled Tuesday the Seoul-Washington free trade bill unilaterally submitted to the National Assembly in 2008 remains valid despite procedural errors.
North American Integration Back on the Front Burner
28-Dec-2010 BeYourOwnLeader
In the last year, the U.S. has channelled many of the the Security and Prosperity Partnership’s (SPP) trilateral negotiations to parallel bilateral discussions with both Canada and Mexico. Recent reports of a Canada-U.S. security and trade agreement has once again highlighted the whole process of deep continental integration. The U.S. is formulating a strategy with the aim of implementing a North American security perimeter.