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US Treasury Dept outlines open investment campaign to ward off protectionism
Developing a policy response to the concerns surrounding sovereign wealth funds, addressing the national security aspect of foreign investment, and negotiating bilateral investment treaties (BITs) are ’at the forefront of an open investment campaign that must be waged to hold the forces of protectionism at bay,’ a US Treasury Department official said today.
Talks focus on copyright laws
Government officials in Kuwait expressed their keenness over signing a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States but a senior US economic representative recently noted that talks with regards to the issue are ongoing.
US labor leaders to Bush: No trade deal with murderers
Top labor leaders ended a trip to Colombia Feb. 13 by telling that country’s president, Alvaro Uribe, that American unions will not support the US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement until the killing of union members by right-wing death squads there is put to a stop.
Talks with US on for Bipa-like trade treaty
India and the US have begun discussions this week on an agreement to promote bilateral investment. The negotiations are expected to be protracted as the US agenda is highly ambitious.
House panel extends Andean trade pact
A US House panel on Thursday approved a 10-month extension for a trade program providing reduced tariffs for exports from the four Andean nations of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
Ivory Coast says EPA deal will lead way for region
Ivory Coast will sign a definitive Economic Partnership Agreement with Europe in June, which it believes will open the door for other West African countries. it is also advising regional powerhouse Nigeria on how to seal an EPA.
Mexican farmers cite surge in corn imports from US
A group mainly representing Mexican family farmers denounced Monday that imports of white corn from the United States increased 384 percent after last month’s NAFTA-mandated end to trade barriers in agriculture.
Integration or free trade?
Raúl Zibechi
The opposition to CAFTA in Costa Rica: Institutionalisation of a social movement
Maria Eugenio Trejos with the collaboration of Eva Carazo, Isaac Rojas, Silvia Rodríguez and Luis Paulino Vargas
Legal (un)certainty - over what?
Margarita Flórez
FTA resistance in Colombia
interview with Aurelio Suárez
The Mediterranean Union: Dividing the Middle East and North Africa
The Middle East and North Africa are in the process of being divided into spheres of influence between the European Union and the United States. Essentially the division of the Middle East and North Africa are between Franco-German and Anglo-American interests. There is a unified stance within NATO in regards to this re-division.
Morocco’s FTA fever
GRAIN