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25-Nov-2008
CUPE
Harper says that workers’ protection has been written into the trade deal. But whether these stipulations will be enforced is another story.
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25-Nov-2008
AidWatch
The Rudd government has made much of its ’new approach’ to Australia’s island neighbours, but the view from the Pacific — especially of the aggressive pursuit of a new free trade deal as part of the Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations (PACER) — is that not much has changed.
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24-Nov-2008
Manila Standard
A number of Japanese firms have expressed intention to move their businesses to the Philippines once the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement takes effect next month, an official said yesterday.
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24-Nov-2008
Multinational Monitor
British water giant Biwater cannot use an investment treaty to make Tanzania pay millions for an abrogated water privatization contract, an international tribunal ruled in July.
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24-Nov-2008
TMC Net
Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe agreed Saturday to launch talks on a treaty to increase protection of their bilateral investments, a Japanese official said.
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24-Nov-2008
Daily Nation
The European Union is veering toward condoning colonialism. Worse, the African Union hardly notices. Meanwhile, the United Nations limps in pursuit of Morocco-occupied Western Sahara’s de-colonisation.
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24-Nov-2008
AFP
Chinese President Hu Jintao has left Latin America with one free trade agreement in hand, another in the works and a deeper Chinese footprint in a region long seen as the US backyard.
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24-Nov-2008
Bloomberg
Mexican President Felipe Calderon warned Barack Obama against trying to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, saying restricting commerce would only encourage illegal Mexican emigration to the US.
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24-Nov-2008
Epoch Times
Canada and Colombia signed a free-trade agreement in Lima, the Peruvian capital, on Friday.
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24-Nov-2008
A national coalition of 14 fisher federations in the Philippines warned against mandatory "sectoral" talks in the World Trade Organization, saying that it would only benefit rich countries that wanted more market access for their products. On Friday, which was World Fishers Day, about 200 members of Kilusang Mangingisda also picketed the offices of the Department of Trade and Industry, Department of Agriculture and Asian Development Bank to protest against policies promoting fisheries trade liberalization.
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24-Nov-2008
Prensa Latina
The Andean Coordination of Indigenous Organizations (CAOI) ratified rejection of a free trade agreement that governments of Colombia and Peru want to sign with the European Union. This reiteration is contained in a letter CAOI representative Miguel Palacin addressed to Peruvian Foreign Minister Jose Garcia Belaunde, referring to the latter’s threats to expel Bolivian social leaders allegedly in Peru to take part in protests against the agreement.
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24-Nov-2008
Reuters
US President George W Bush left Peru on Sunday without nailing down a clear date for when a US free trade agreement with the Andean country would finally go into effect.
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24-Nov-2008
Bloomberg
Peru and Japan signed an investment protection agreement that may clear the way for free-trade negotiations, the Andean nation’s government said.
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24-Nov-2008
CNA
Singapore, Brunei, Chile, New Zealand and the US have warmly welcomed the announcement by Australia and Peru that they intend to join negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership (TPP).
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23-Nov-2008
Enlanzando alternativas
Sign-on declaration demanding the European Union and the Governments of Peru and Colombia not to desintegrate the Andean Community of Nations.
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23-Nov-2008
Estatuto Advancado Nao!
Several Swedish parliamentarians from one of the parties in the Swedish government, have motioned that the Swedish Government should work to prevent the EU from signing any new agreements or agreements of advanced status with Morocco "as long as the country occupies Western Sahara".
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22-Nov-2008
IPS
A demonstration in the Peruvian capital by left-wing political movements against US President Bush’s visit to the country turned into a protest Friday by hundreds of laid-off workers and trade unions in conflict with local and foreign companies.
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22-Nov-2008
ALAINET
The Andean Community is in crisis as a result of the attitude of the European Union and the governments of Colombia and Peru, who in a meeting of foreign ministers held in Europe proposed to negotiate the FTA bilaterally, breaking with the Guayaquil Agreement, which ratified block by block negotiation. This attitude undermines Andean integration.
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22-Nov-2008
Seeking to upgrade relations to a new level, India and Turkey today decided to start talks for a free trade accord, double bilateral trade to six billion dollars by 2010 and deepen cooperation in counter-terrorism.
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22-Nov-2008
Peruvian Foreign Minister Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde called on Japan to start negotiations on a bilateral free-trade agreement when he met Thursday with his visiting Tokyo counterpart, Hirofumi Nakasone, officials said.
