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8-Feb-2011
Colombia Reports
Colombian and South Korean representatives meet Monday in Los Angeles for the third mini-round of negotiations to finalize details of a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA).
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7-Feb-2011
Be Your Own Leader
Canada and the US have officially launched negotiations on a trade and security agreement which would take continental integration to the next level.
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7-Feb-2011
IPS
Experts expect Obama and Harper to announce a “new” border partnership to ease the flow of goods and people across the border by harmonizing security, immigration and refugee, surveillance and possibly defense policy across the continent. There’s nothing new about this plan. It’s the regurgitation of the defunct Bush-led Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) without the Mexican “amigo.”
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7-Feb-2011
Reuters
Peru is pushing for a free-trade agreement with with Arab states of the Persian Gulf as it aggressively expands beyond pacts it has implemented with China and the United States, state-run media said on Friday.
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7-Feb-2011
AFP
China, Japan and South Korea will sign a treaty in May to boost cross-border investment and better protect intellectual property, according to a report.
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7-Feb-2011
Radio NZ
A top United States trade official says New Zealand is ready to accept investor-state disputes in the nine-country TransPacific Partnership trade agreement (TPP).
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6-Feb-2011
Telegraph
"Before the Gaza crisis, Miliband had been inclined to support the Agreement, Saoul said, on the grounds that the Syria Arab Republic Government (SARG) had generally exhibited good behavior internationally (despite lack of progress on key issues such exchanging ambassadors with Lebanon), and that Syrian FM Muallem needed a deliverable to strengthen him with President Assad."
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4-Feb-2011
Scoop
“On the international stage, ACP-EU Economic Partnership Agreement negotiations have reached a stalemate in all regions except for the Caribbean,” said the Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat
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3-Feb-2011
Washington Post
Senator Baucus has not said whether he will merely vote against the agreement or will use the full force of his authority as finance committee chairman to block it indefinitely.
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3-Feb-2011
Fresh Plaza
Due to the risk to cultivation health that it represents, producers and packagers who export the Michoacán avocado oppose this fruit being included in the free trade agreements which Mexico will sign with Peru and Brazil.
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3-Feb-2011
The Nation
Thailand will soon start talks with Australia on opening up the two countries’ markets to more goods and services under their five-year-old free-trade agreement.
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3-Feb-2011
Andina
Once the text is finalised, the Peruvian Chancellery is in charge of determining whether the FTA should be ratified by Congress or the Executive, while the EU will determine whether the agreement is “mixed” or not, reports Agencia Andina.
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2-Feb-2011
La Presse Canadienne
La signature d’un traité de libre-échange entre le Canada et l’Union européenne serait néfaste pour le Québec, qui verrait s’effriter sa souveraineté économique, conclut une étude de l’Institut de recherche en économie contemporaine (IRÉC).
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2-Feb-2011
McClatchy
"The government [of Mexico] didn’t so much pull the plug on corn. The government pulled the plug on family farmers who grow corn because the big guys who grew corn got massive subsidies and protection from imports," said Jonathan Fox, an expert on rural Mexico at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
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2-Feb-2011
Textile World
Five organizations representing interests of the US textile industry have sent a letter to members of Congress urging defeat of the pending US-Korea Free Trade Agreement, and a campaign has begun to include the voices of the wider community in a grassroots expression of opposition to the treaty.
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1-Feb-2011
Madhyam
The EC recommendations contain several alarming policy provisions and therefore should receive public attention both in Europe and India. If implemented, these provisions would seriously undermine development priorities and restrict policy space to regulate investments in the public interest.
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1-Feb-2011
Indian Express
Troubling news reports indicate that a newly-minted Free Trade Agreement
between the European Union and India would permit companies to circumvent
visionary safeguards built into India’s 2005 Patents Act, widely seen as one
of the most progressive patent laws in the world.
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31-Jan-2011
SOMO
In contrast with the current wide-ranging financial reform agenda in the European Union, the EU continues to liberalise a wide range of risky and non-risky financial services in the General Agreement on Trade in Services and other Free Trade Agreements as if the financial crisis never happened. This SOMO briefing paper gives specific examples on how new EU regulations are in contrast with the pre-crisis model that is still being applied in the GATS negotiations, the Cariforum-EU Economic Partnership Agreement and the EU-South Korea FTA.
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31-Jan-2011
Be Your Own Leader
Recent Canada-U.S. bilateral talks further deepened security and military ties.
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31-Jan-2011
IPS
In a letter delivered January 31, more than 250 economists urged the Obama administration to reform US trade rules that restrict the use of capital controls.
