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  • 29-Oct-2008
    NAFTA challenge won’t stop Ont. from going ahead with pesticide ban: minister
    Ontario won’t back down from its plan to prohibit the cosmetic use and sale of weed killer 2,4-D despite a NAFTA challenge to Quebec’s pesticide ban, Ontario’s environment minister said Tuesday.
  • 29-Oct-2008
    GCC Secretary General: EU responsible for obstructing the free trade deal
    GCC Secretary General H.E. Abdurrahman bin Hamad Al-Attiyah laid the responsibility on the European Union for obstructing the conclusion of the free trade agreement between the two sides which was signed in 1988 despite the developed economic and cultural bilateral relations during the last two centuries.
  • 29-Oct-2008
    Foreign Ministry Calls for Speedy Ratification of Korea-U.S. FTA
    The Foreign Ministry has again urged National Assembly lawmakers to pass the Korea-U.S. free trade agreement as soon as possible.
  • 28-Oct-2008
    African Trade Zone Welcome, But...
    Following the recent establishment of the SADC free trade zone in August, just last week, the leaders of three African trading blocs - SADC, EAC, and Comesa - agreed to create a free trade zone of 26 countries.
  • 28-Oct-2008
    Extend Kashmir initiative to Pakistan, Bangladesh
    For the first time in 60 years, 30 trucks rolled across the Line of Control in Kashmir on Tuesday, carrying mostly fruit and vegetables. It is a small beginning but a very significant one. More trucks will run regularly on routes between Srinagar and Muzafarrabad and between Poonch and Rawalakote.
  • 28-Oct-2008
    Colombia ambassador pushes free-trade pact
    Colombia’s U.S. ambassador visited Huntsville on Monday to urge support for a U.S.-Colombia free-trade agreement and to document her country’s recent success in reducing violence and spurring business growth.
  • 28-Oct-2008
    Palace rushes EO on tariff changes sought by Jpepa
    Malacanang is rushing to issue before November 9 an executive order that will implement the tariff modifications required under the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (Jpepa).
  • 28-Oct-2008
    EU reassures Pacific on economic agreements
    The European Union has publicly assured Pacific island nations they are not at a disadvantage if they do not sign Economic Partnership Agreements.
  • 28-Oct-2008
    OXFAM unconvinced by EU stand on EPAs
    New Zealand aid agency Oxfam is unconvinced by the European Union’s claims that forming Economic Partnership Agreements, or EPAs, will be in the best interests of the Pacific nations who choose to sign up.
  • 28-Oct-2008
    Costa Rica and Panama ratify free trade agreement
    Costa Rica’s Legislative Assembly ratified in second and final debate a free trade agreement with Panama that will open up the commercial channels between the neighboring nations.
  • 28-Oct-2008
    Pak, China to seal FTA on services
    Islamabad-Pakistan and China will hold final talks in December to seal Free Trade Agreement on services sectors.
  • 26-Oct-2008
    S. Korea, EU to hold talks on free trade deal next month
    Trade ministers from South Korea and the European Union (EU) are expected to meet in Brussels early next month to iron out divisive issues related to their free trade negotiations, officials said Sunday.
  • 25-Oct-2008
    Diaz-Balart courts voters via trade deal
    A free trade agreement with Colombia has become a campaign issue in Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart’s bid to hold his seat in the congressional district that represents the largest number of Colombian-American voters in the country.
  • 25-Oct-2008 Periodico 26
    From protest to proposals for integration
    The ALBA offers a broad space to recover the public sector and consolidate Latin American identity through dialogue.
  • 25-Oct-2008
    Pacific ACP States committed to continue negotiating EPA with EU as single region
    The Pacific ACP States have reaffirmed their commitment to continue the negotiations of an Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union “as a single region” based on existing negotiating positions as agreed last March.
  • 25-Oct-2008
    PM: Megaprojects will go on
    Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat has told European Union delegates his government will solve Thailand’s political crisis through democratic means to ensure the country’s planned megaprojects can proceed.
  • 25-Oct-2008
    Pacific ACP countries keen on single agreement with EU
    The Pacific members of the African Caribbean and Pacific group of nations that rely on aid assistance from the European Union say they will continue to push for a single Economic Partnership Agreement, or EPA, for the region.
  • 25-Oct-2008
    Hage versus the EU
    It should come as no surprise that Namibian Trade and Industry Minister Hage Geingob and European Union Ambassador Elizabeth Pape almost came to verbal blows this week.
  • 24-Oct-2008 RMR
    Free trade, suicide clause and growing hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean
    The free trade agreements that the US and the European Union “propose” to Latin America and the Caribbean include waiving sovereign control on food flows. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization admits that although food production increased in the region, the number of people suffering hunger also did.
  • 24-Oct-2008 IPS
    Uribe agrees to talks with indigenous protesters
    "The police did fire" on indigenous protesters, said Colombian President Álvaro Uribe, who yielded to pressure to meet next Sunday with the leaders of a two-week-long demonstration by native groups.