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  • 29-Feb-2008 Prensa Latina
    Costa Rican Indigenous protest FTA
    Hundreds of Costa Rican indigenous people began a protest against the Free Trade Agreement between Central America, the Dominican Republic and the United States. They accused the FTA of imposing the use of patented seeds that prevent traditional crops and warned that the use of transgenic seeds from the United States would affect ancestral crops closely linked to the people’s view of the world and spirituality.
  • 29-Feb-2008 Daily Star
    Saarc ministers to talk outlines of investment protection accord
    Broad outlines of an investment promotion and protection agreement among Saarc countries are expected to be discussed at a meeting of South Asian commerce ministers this week.
  • 29-Feb-2008 China Daily
    Peru ready for 2nd round FTA talks with China
    Peru is ready for a second round of talks for a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) with China and has requested the presence of Peru’s Intellectual Property Institute (Indecopi) in the negotiations.
  • 29-Feb-2008 Gulf News
    Australia-UAE: Third round of FTA talks in March
    The third round of talks for a possible free trade agreement (FTA) between the UAE and Australia is likely to take place next month
  • 29-Feb-2008 The Australian
    Japan stance threatens free trade
    The Japanese Government has refused to offer Australia any serious concessions on agricultural import tariffs, the major barrier to a free trade agreement between the two countries.
  • 29-Feb-2008 ANBA
    Jordan wants agreement with the Mercosur
    The Arab country sent to the secretariat of the Mercosur, at the end of last year, a request for a framework agreement with the South American bloc, which includes Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina. The Mercosur is gong to start talks for a treaty with another Arab country, Morocco, in April, during a meeting in Rabat.
  • 28-Feb-2008
    New US push for Mideast free trade deal
    US officials are engaged in "informal" talks with several GCC countries on possibly concluding a Middle East Free Trade Agreement (Mefta) by 2014, it was revealed yesterday.
  • 28-Feb-2008
    Crean spruiks free trade in Pacific
    The tiny island nations of the south Pacific should have high ambitions heading into free trade negotiations with Australia, Trade Minister Simon Crean says.
  • 28-Feb-2008
    FTA with El Salvador effective tomorrow
    The free trade agreement (FTA) between Taiwan and El Salvador is set to take effect tomorrow, Ministry of Economic Affairs officials said yesterday.
  • 28-Feb-2008 Swazi Observer
    ’We’ve messed up’ on EPAs - trade experts
    Even though Swaziland initialled an interim economic partnership agreement (EPA) with the European Union, trade experts acknowledge that the country ’messed up’ by doing so.
  • 28-Feb-2008 Mangalorean
    Private sector for India-US investment treaty by year-end
    The US-India Private Sector Advisory Group has asked the two governments to negotiate a bilateral investment treaty by end of 2008 while continuing to promote sectoral openings.
  • 28-Feb-2008 AFP
    Brussels proposes first ever framework for EU-Libya ties
    The European Commission said it would begin negotiating an agreement covering political, social, economic, commercial and cultural relations with Libya once it has received the green light from the bloc’s 27 member nations.
  • 28-Feb-2008
    Caricom ’carry go bring come’
    Tomorrow, the Caribbean Community (Caricom) member states will assemble in Kingston to spend two days in a retreat on the conduct of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) negotiations. This is hard to believe.
  • 28-Feb-2008
    House approves trade pact extension
    The US House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a 10-month extension of a trade program aimed at promoting imports from four Andean nations and thus discouraging the cultivation and production of illegal drugs.
  • 28-Feb-2008
    AU ambassadors endorse AU stance on EPAs
    African group of ambassadors who on Friday met in Brussels expressed satisfaction at declaration of the AU assembly of heads of state and government on EPA negotiations.
  • 28-Feb-2008
    Costa Rica wins 7-month CAFTA deadline extension
    Costa Rica has won a seven-month extension from its U.S. and regional trade partners to pass laws required for its entry into the CAFTA free trade pact, President Oscar Arias said on Wednesday.
  • 28-Feb-2008
    Emerson hints oil would be back on table if U.S. reopens NAFTA
    Trade Minister David Emerson suggested the United States has a sweet deal over access to Canada’s oil under the North American Free Trade Agreement, saying the two Democratic presidential candidates calling for renegotiations may not know just how good the U.S. has it under the deal.
  • 28-Feb-2008
    USTR says beef can change timing of FTA approval
    The United States does not intend to change the order of ratifying the three remaining free trade agreements (FTA), but South Korea’s resolution of the beef issue would definitely change the timing of congressional approval of its FTA, the top trade negotiator said Wednesday.
  • 27-Feb-2008 NFU
    “Free Trade”: Is it working for farmers? Comparing 2007 to 1988
    For farmers, so-called “Free Trade” agreements do two things simultaneously: By removing tariffs, quotas, and duties, these agreements erase the economic borders between nations and force the world’s one billion farmers into a single, hyper-competitive market. At the same time, these agreements facilitate waves of agribusiness mergers that nearly eliminate competition for these corporations.
  • 27-Feb-2008 IPS
    EU aims to rope in African states resisting EPAs
    The European Union is determined to get those African countries on board which have so far kicked against the economic partnership agreements. A two-part article from Aileen Kwa.