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Are EU trade talks behind the pressure to end local procurement?
12-Jun-2009 rabble
European corporations and the EU have made clear their top objective is access to procurement within provincial jurisdiction.
Peru to suspend land laws after violence
12-Jun-2009 FT
Peru’s Congress is moving to suspend the passage of laws at the heart of a lands right dispute with Amazonian indigenous tribes that sparked the worst violence the country has seen since the Maoist Shining Path insurgency.
Canada and India explore a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement
11-Jun-2009 Blakes
Earlier this year, Canada’s Minister of International Trade, Stockwell Day, and Mr. Kamal Nath, India’s Minister of Commerce and Industry, jointly announced the agreement of both countries to initiate exploratory discussions aimed at creating a comprehensive economic partnership agreement (CEPA).
’South Africa has no right’
11-Jun-2009 Swazi Observer
South Africa has no right to enforce ’punishment’ on the other Southern African Customs Union members for signing an interim economic partnership agreement with the European Union, an economist says.
Goldcorp loses bid for $50 mln NAFTA compensation
11-Jun-2009 Reuters
A unit of Goldcorp has lost a bid to get $50 million in compensation after a US trade tribunal rejected claims the gold miner’s operations were hampered by environmental regulations
Canada, EU launch free trade talks
11-Jun-2009 AFP
Canadian International Trade Minister Stockwell Day and European Union Trade Commissioner Catherine Ashton formally launched Canada-EU free trade talks on Wednesday.
Harper touts free trade, shies away from terrorism reports in Colombia talks
11-Jun-2009 Montreal Gazette
As he blasted the "ideological" opponents of his free-trade deal with Colombia, Prime Minister Stephen Harper played down recent reports of a Colombian terrorism infiltration into Canada.
Stop the lethal repression against indigenous Peruvians
11-Jun-2009 FOEI
Call on the government of Alan Garcia to end the massacre of the indigenous peoples of Peru, and to pay for its crimes.
NGOs claim the Philippine-Japan free trade agreement is unconstitutional
10-Jun-2009 ITN
A petition lodged with the Philippine Supreme Court by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) argues that the investment chapter of the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) violates the Philippine constitution.
Negotiation of an EU-India FTA: Will India accept TRIPS-plus protection?
9-Jun-2009 EED
The negotiating texts so far known do indicate that India is resisting many aspects of the EU demands of higher IPRs standards. Analysis by Carlos Correa.
Massacre in Peru in the name of free trade
9-Jun-2009 Daily Kos
We in America need to be aware of the effects our economic imperialism has around the world. Instead of looking to move away from free trade agreements such as the one in Peru, we are working to establish new agreements, such as those in Panama or Colombia. The pork industry, for example, is lobbying very hard for a Panama FTA, so it can open up Panamanian markets to American pork.
Blood at the blockade: Peru’s indigenous uprising
8-Jun-2009 NACLA
Protestors’ top demand is the repeal of a series of decrees, known collectively as the "Law of the Jungle," signed by García last year using extraordinary powers granted to him by Peru’s Congress to enact legislation required by the 2006 US-Peru Free Trade Agreement. Under the government’s current plan, oil and gas concession blocs alone would cover 72 percent of Peru’s Amazon.
Perú: Solidarity with the struggle of the Amazonian peoples of Peru!
8-Jun-2009 Unión Socialista Libertaria
We ask our libertarian comrades to organise mobilisations and demonstrations outside Peruvian embassies in every country, in coordination with other sectors in struggle, in order to denounce the actions of the State and the multinationals in this country
50 days of protest and one massacre in the Peruvian Amazon
8-Jun-2009 rabble
Many Indigenous groups, human rights organizations, and environmental groups have called for President Garcia to step down and have issued calls for demonstrations at Peruvian embassies around the world "until the bloodbath is stopped and the legislative decrees for the Free Trade Agreement with the United States are repealed."
India seals free-trade pact with Thailand
8-Jun-2009 ToI
India took its trade diplomacy up several notches with negotiators wrapping up a free trade deal in goods with other BIMSTEC countries, ie. Thailand, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Nepal.