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  • 27-Dec-2007 AllAfrica.com
    Uganda: Workers get nod for Epas talks
    The government is to involve labour unions in all future Economic Partnership Agreement (EPAs) negotiations with the European Union.
  • 27-Dec-2007 Canadian Press
    Free trade with US a boom for elites, a bust for most: report
    Canada’s 20-year-old free trade agreement with the United States has not lived up to its billing and the promises of its proponents, says a new report that seeks to debunk the conventional wisdom that the deal was the best thing for Canada since sliced bread.
  • 26-Dec-2007 IPS
    Grim present, dim future for Andean integration
    The Andean countries are passing through the gates of the new year with their trade bloc, the Andean Community of Nations (CAN), fraying at the edges.
  • 25-Dec-2007 Korea Times
    Lawmakers to clash over US FTA
    Korea’s parliamentary "yes-or-no without amendment" vote on the Korea-US FTA motion may not be carried out before Roh’s term expires on Feb. 25.
  • 25-Dec-2007 Korea Times
    FTA talks with Japan to resume
    Korea’s stalled and deadlocked free trade talks with Japan might see a breakthrough under the economic stewardship of President-elect, and former Hyundai CEO, Lee Myung-bak.
  • 24-Dec-2007 Prensa Latina
    Mexican lawmakers fear social destabilization
    The president of the Agriculture Committee at the House of Deputies, Hector Padilla, said on Sunday that the agricultural chapter of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) will cause social destabilization in Mexico.
  • 24-Dec-2007 Korea Times
    Seoul, New Delhi to resume trade talks in April
    South Korea is holding back on farm products
  • 24-Dec-2007 Business 24/7
    US puts UAE free trade deal on ice
    Negotiations for a free trade agreement between the US and the UAE will not be resumed under the current US administration, according to the US Trade Representative office
  • 24-Dec-2007 Mexidata
    NAFTA at fourteen: Historic Mexico-USA showdown looms
    As the 14th anniversary of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) fast approaches, rural opponents of the trinational pact are stepping up their mobilizations on both sides of the US-Mexico border. Mexican farm groups and their supporters are gearing up for border-wide actions on January 1, 2008 to protest the final elimination of tariffs on corn, bean, sugar and powdered milk.
  • 23-Dec-2007 Gulfnews
    US benefits most from free trade pact with Bahrain
    The US-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement (FTA) has proven to be beneficial to the American side. The deal came into effect at the start of August 2006. Available statistics indicate that American exports have increased a hefty 28 per cent during the first year of FTA’s implementation. Bahrain’s exports dropped by 10 per cent in the same period.
  • 21-Dec-2007
    India’s FTA rush: Kerala’s farmers and fishworkers stand to lose
    New FTAs such as the EU-India Trade and Investment Agreement, India-Thailand FTA and the ASEAN-India Regional Trade and Investment Area pose threats to the fishing community in Kerala.
  • 20-Dec-2007 Reuters
    Duty-free US corn imports force Mexico GMO debate
    Cheap US corn will flood into Mexico in January when trade barriers are lifted under NAFTA, pitting local farmers against each other over how to protect the crop that has fed Mexico for thousands of years.
  • 20-Dec-2007 AllAfrica.com
    ACP ministers express concern over EPA negotiations
    The ACP Council of Ministers deplores the enormous pressure that has been brought to bear on the ACP States by the European Commission to initial the interim trade arrangements, contrary to the spirit of the ACP-EU partnership.
  • 20-Dec-2007 Bloomberg
    Mercosur, EU to restart free-trade talks in May, Estado reports
    The Mercosur trade bloc, made up of Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, plans to restart talks with the European Union on a free-trade agreement in May, Estado de S. Paulo reported
  • 20-Dec-2007 Al-Ahram
    Joining the fold
    The US since 2000 espoused even closer links between its strategic interests and trade liberalisation. Europe is not far behind.
  • 20-Dec-2007 Farms.com
    NPPC urges Australia not to restrict pork imports
    Citing the US-Australia Free Trade Agreement, which became effective Jan. 1, 2005, the US National Pork Producers Council said, in advance of an Australian government report that may recommend protecting Australia’s pork industry, that US pork should be excluded from any such action.
  • 20-Dec-2007 Embassy Magazine
    Colombia thanks Harper for trade deal lobbying
    Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s role in lobbying the United States Congress to ratify its free trade deal with Colombia has been warmly acknowledged by the Latin American nation’s government amidst mounting opposition to Canada’s efforts to ink an agreement of its own.
  • 19-Dec-2007 AllAfrica.com
    Demerits of the EU trade agreements
    The EU used a variety of unsavoury negotiating tactics to get its interim agreements with East African countries to the signing stage.
  • 19-Dec-2007 African Manager
    Le président de Sao Tomé rejette les APE
    "Pour l’instant, je dois dire qu’après analyse au niveau de la sous-région, nous avons trouvé que les conditions n’étaient pas réunies pour la signature des APE", a affirmé le chef de l’Etat saotoméen, appuyant les positions des présidents sénégalais, Abdoulaye Wade, et sud-africain, Thabo Mbeki, qui rejettent les termes proposés par l’UE.
  • 19-Dec-2007 AllAfrica.com
    Africa united against EU arrogance
    The recent summit between African heads of states and the EU has shown that Europe has failed to move beyond their colonial-era past-times of economic and political bullying.