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11-Apr-2011
Sen. Sherrod Brown, a longtime critic of trade pacts such as the North American Free Trade Agreement, last week assailed the new agreement between the Obama administration and Colombia, charging that "it merely represents another example of Washington being out-of-touch with concerns and values of most Americans."
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11-Apr-2011
The history of the British Chamber of Commerce in Korea, or the BCCK, dates back to 1977 when seven British businessmen began holding regular meetings to discuss issues about promoting business in Korea.
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11-Apr-2011
Peru and the European Union will officially sign a bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA) on Wednesday, April 13, in Brussels, Belgium, according to a ministerial resolution published Sunday by the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism (Mincetur).
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9-Apr-2011
Panama Newsroom
The list of US criticisms of human rights infringements in Panama under the Martinelli administration continues to grow and the president, unlike the leaders of other countries seeking an FTA, has still not been invited to the White House.
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9-Apr-2011
Business Standard
The agreement, if pulled off, is widely seen as a way for the EU to steal a march over its transatlantic cousin, the United States.
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9-Apr-2011
Czech Position
The Finance Ministry wants to cancel the bilateral investment agreement with the US, but that idea faces powerful opposition
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9-Apr-2011
ENPI
The EU must reassess its bilateral relations with Syria in light of the violent repression of demonstrators, while talks on a future Association Agreement must be suspended, according to a resolution passed by the European Parliament today.
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8-Apr-2011
The Council of Canadians is encouraged the federal and provincial governments have postponed an exchange of offers with the European Union before a seventh round of Canada-EU free trade negotiations next week.
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8-Apr-2011
A new U.S. deal with Colombia to address longstanding labor concerns should clear the way for Congress to pass three long-stalled free trade agreements by July, industry officials said on Friday.
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8-Apr-2011
Korean Trade Minister Kim Jong-hoon, who is considered his government’s leading trade expert, is on the brink of resignation over translation errors in the Korean version of the Korea-European free trade agreement.
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8-Apr-2011
Stating that incentives should be given for setting up manufacturing bases in the country, SIAM today said it opposes any lowering of customs duty on fully imported cars in the proposed India-EU free trade agreement.
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8-Apr-2011
Economic Times
Canadian Industry Minister Tony Clement has reiterated his country’s commitment to signing a free trade agreement with India by 2013.
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7-Apr-2011
AFL CIO
"We have no doubt that if 51 CEOs had been murdered in Colombia last year, this deal would be on a very slow track indeed," says AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka
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7-Apr-2011
USW
The United Steelworkers is both disappointed and outraged to learn that the Obama Administration has apparently reached an agreement with Colombia over a free trade agreement.
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7-Apr-2011
IPS
"My brother was murdered, and we’re still the victims of threats and harassment, which is why we filed the petition" under the free trade agreement signed with the United States by Central America and the Dominican Republic, (DR-CAFTA), said Guatemalan trade unionist Noé Ramírez.
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7-Apr-2011
IPS
Largely hailed by Republican lawmakers, the preliminary details of the deal, dubbed an "Action Plan for Labour Rights", were received sceptically by some Democrat representatives, while labour and rights groups noted that they lacked breadth, depth, and accountability measures.
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7-Apr-2011
Dow
The agreement will remove 90% of current tariffs assessed to Dow’s more than $200 million in American manufactured goods exported to Colombia.
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7-Apr-2011
AP
The United Steelworkers called news of the amended Colombia pact "devastating" and said they, as well as the AFL-CIO, would continue to oppose the deal.
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7-Apr-2011
MSF
As free trade agreement talks between Europe and India resume in Brussels today, the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is deeply concerned about new measures Europe is pushing to restrict the production of affordable generic medicines that MSF and others rely on to treat patients across the developing world.
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7-Apr-2011
Bloomberg
Colombia and the US may announce a deal as soon as today on measures clearing the way for a stalled free-trade agreement, according to six people familiar with the talks.
