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  • 3-Mar-2009
    Free trade deal should exclude shipbuilding, Stoffer says
    Peter Stoffer hopes to turn the tide on a controversial free trade agreement that could sink shipbuilding in Canada.
  • 3-Mar-2009
    Trade unions set terms for EPA talks
    The East Africa Trade Union Congress (EATUC) has joined groups that want the deadline for the signing of the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) between the East Africa Community and the European Commission extended.
  • 3-Mar-2009
    Law firms from FTA partners to open local offices
    The National Assembly passed a bill yesterday allowing law firms from the United States and countries that have free trade agreements with South Korea to set up local branches to provide legal consulting services.
  • 3-Mar-2009 Bangkok Post
    Europe open to Thai trade talks
    The European Union is willing to begin bilateral free trade talks with Thailand in a process that would move together with existing Asean-EU talks, said Philippe Meyer, the directorate-general for trade at the European Commission. "It takes time for a region to behave like a region. So we need to go faster," he said.
  • 2-Mar-2009 Washington Post
    EU takes "realist" tone with Colombia
    While some in the EU have voiced concern about Colombia’s human rights failures, Europe’s top politicians do not seem interested in linking this problem to the FTA.
  • 2-Mar-2009 Bloomberg
    Obama to push Panama accord, work on Colombia, Korea
    President Barack Obama plans to ask Congress to approve a long-delayed free-trade agreement with Panama and work to resolve remaining issues with the South Korea and Colombia accords so they can be ratified.
  • 2-Mar-2009 Palestine Chronicle
    Sustaining global solidarity after Gaza
    In South America, serious pressure is building against the Israel-Mercosur Free Trade Agreement (FTA), threatening to derail it entirely. South American social movements, who have years of experience fighting against free trade, have integrated Palestine solidarity into their general work.
  • 2-Mar-2009 Straits Times
    Taiwan renames trade pact
    The four-letter acronym of a proposed trade pact has sparked such a storm in Taiwan that the government had to change its name.
  • 2-Mar-2009 TVNZ
    Law professor criticises new FTA
    A new 12-member free trade agreement between New Zealand, Australia and the 10 ASEAN countries has not got everybody’s stamp of approval. The agreement has been welcomed by groups such as Federated Farmers of New Zealand. However, Auckland University law professor Jane Kelsey says negative aspects of the agreement are being ignored.
  • 2-Mar-2009 Xinhua
    S Korea, EU to hold talks on inter-session FTA
    South Korea and the European Union (EU) will hold a high-level meeting in Brussels this week to settle controversial issues such as auto trade and rules of origin in their free trade negotiations
  • 1-Mar-2009
    Australia-ASEAN-NZ FTA (2009)
  • 1-Mar-2009 AHN
    ASEAN to forge free trade deal with EU as a group
    The 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations said Sunday it prefers a region to region free trade agreement with the European Union more than bilateral pacts with member countries.
  • 1-Mar-2009 La Prensa San Diego
    Could a sudden collapse of Mexico be Obama’s surprise foreign policy challenge?
    A year-end report by the Pentagon’s Joint Forces Command names two countries as likely candidates for a “rapid and sudden collapse” — Pakistan and Mexico. Arguably, NAFTA is to blame for what could be Mexico’s impending destabilization.
  • 1-Mar-2009 Op-ed News
    Majority oppose Chapter 11 of NAFTA
    A recent binational poll commissioned by the Council of Canadians, found that the majority of Americans and Canadians oppose provisions found in Chapter 11 of NAFTA.
  • 1-Mar-2009 Jamaica Observer
    Jagdeo calls for freeze on EPA in light of global crisis
    Guyana’s President Bharrat Jagdeo believes there should be a delay in implementing the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) trade deal with Europe because of challenges created by the global financial crisis.
  • 1-Mar-2009 EABW
    EAC seeks trade in services with EU
    Business leaders from East Africa have commenced discussions on how best the five member states of East Africa can export services to European markets under the current Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) negotiations.
  • 1-Mar-2009 Dow Jones
    Thailand, Indonesia to sign fishery, food, auto pact by 1st half
    Commerce ministers of Thailand and Indonesia on Saturday agreed to launch a bilateral trade agreement on economic cooperation
  • 1-Mar-2009 Al Jazeera
    Trade deal signed at ASEAN summit
    Australia and New Zealand have signed a free trade agreement with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) — one of Asia’s largest trade arrangements.
  • 28-Feb-2009 Blacklisted News
    Deeper North American Integration Still in the Cards
    There are fears that under an Obama presidency many on the left will go to sleep, now that Bush is out of office. This includes in Canada, where the left have been instrumental in exposing the SPP and fighting deeper integration into a North American Union.
  • 28-Feb-2009 Opednews.com
    Farmers Call For NAFTA Reforms
    NAFTA has produced winners, mostly multinational corporations and a long list of losers, which includes farmers. The trade agreement has been the source of much discontent and has become an easy target.