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  • 6-Apr-2008
    Momentous trade deal signing tomorrow
    New Zealand will sign up to its biggest bilateral trade deal in 25 years in a ceremony in Beijing tomorrow.
  • 5-Apr-2008 WSJ
    Clinton aide met on trade deal
    Hillary Clinton’s chief campaign strategist met with Colombia’s ambassador to the US on Monday to discuss a bilateral free-trade agreement, a pact the presidential candidate opposes. Mark Penn wasn’t there in his campaign role, but in his separate job as chief executive of Burson-Marsteller Worldwide, an international lobbying firm. The firm has a contract with Colombia to promote congressional approval of the trade deal.
  • 5-Apr-2008
    Paraguay backs Venezuela’s bid for full membership of Mercosur
    Paraguay supports Venezuela’s bid for full membership of the Common Market of the South (Mercosur), visiting Paraguayan Foreign Minister Ruben Ramirez said here Tuesday.
  • 5-Apr-2008
    Pakistan, Mauritius to activate FTA in 18 months
    Pakistan and Mauritius on Friday agreed to operationalise a free trade agreement between the two countries within 18 months to boost South-South trade.
  • 5-Apr-2008
    Pakistan-Malaysia FTA in final stages
    Government is working on Pakistan-Malaysia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) Technical Support Project to exploit the potential at the optimum level under this arrangement.
  • 5-Apr-2008
    Cautious approach needed on FTA with China: Assocham
    India should be cautious while signing free trade agreements (FTAs), specially with China as it could affect the interest domestic industry, a report released by industry chamber Assocham said on Saturday.
  • 5-Apr-2008 TV3
    Last minute protests over China’s free trade deal
    Protestors in Auckland and Wellington have made a last minute plea to stop a free trade agreement between New Zealand and China. They say the Government is ignoring human rights for the sake of selling a few pounds of butter.
  • 4-Apr-2008
    Dominican business criticizes FTAs
    Dominican businesspeople do not see any advantages on the Free Trade Agreement signed between the Dominican Republic, the US and Central America (CAFTA-DR), said Ignacio Mendez, president of the Dominican Industrials Association.
  • 4-Apr-2008
    Anti-FTA meet in Cuba for integration
    Cuba will host from April 7-11 the 7th Meeting against Free Trade Treaties for Integration that will urge to unite against the US Administration neoliberal policy.
  • 4-Apr-2008
    Singapore offers FTA pact
    President-elect Ma Ying-jeou has expressed his wish to resume talks on a free trade agreement (FTA) with Singapore under the name the island uses at the World Trade Organization (WTO).
  • 4-Apr-2008
    Cuddling up to China
    The "smog and mirrors" surrounding New Zealand’s historic free trade agreement with China is about to lift, along with remnants of the Beijing winter.
  • 4-Apr-2008
    Japan’s free trade agreement tension
    Agriculture Minister Tony Burke has warned the Japanese they cannot have a free trade agreement under the conditions being sought by their negotiators.
  • 4-Apr-2008
    EPA text released
    CARIFORUM states including The Bahamas are now free to perform their respective legal reviews of the Economic Partnership Agreement [EPA] between the grouping and the European Union now that a legal scrub of the document has been completed, the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery [CRNM] Director General Ambassador Richard Bernal confirmed yesterday.
  • 4-Apr-2008
    Girvan: EPA bad deal for region
    The devil is in the detail. That is how former secretary general of the Association of Caribbean States, Professor Norman Girvan, has described the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the European Union (EU) and CARIFORUM countries (CARICOM and Dominican Republic).
  • 4-Apr-2008 AlterNet
    The ravaging effects of capitalism on my hometowns
    What will become of Costa Rica? That’s the question on my mind, now that my adopted country has narrowly accepted CAFTA. Our national slogan is "Pura vida!" meaning "pure life," and it’s commonly used as an affirmation that life is good. It’s easy to understand how such an expression could catch on here: Costa Rica has virtually no enemies, a temperate climate, and a hell of a lot of good beaches. However, as an expatriate whose previous hometowns have been despoiled by global capitalism, I find it difficult to imagine that life will be as pure or as good once the effects of CAFTA begin to kick in.
  • 4-Apr-2008
    Ministers of customs union meet in Botswana this week
    Trade and finance ministers of the five-nation Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) will meet in Botswana tomorrow to discuss deeper regional integration and challenges like the pending trade agreement with the European Union.
  • 4-Apr-2008
    Maori divided over free trade deal
    Ngai Tahu Seafood, the lucrative fisheries arm of one of the largest Maori tribes, says the Government’s controversial free-trade pact with China is a good deal and will earn the iwi millions of dollars.
  • 4-Apr-2008
    Costa Rica telecom market seen opening soon
    Costa Rica, one of the few Latin America countries still with a state-run telephone sector, is expected soon to open to big foreign players as part of a trade deal with the United States.
  • 4-Apr-2008
    Brazil sees EU-Mercosur talks moving later in 2008
    Long-stalled talks on a trade agreement between the European Union and South America’s Mercosur bloc should make progress in the second half of this year, Brazil’s foreign minister said on Thursday.
  • 4-Apr-2008
    Indian minister sees ASEAN free trade deal in months
    India is hoping to conclude a free trade agreement with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations within three months, the country’s minister of commerce and industry said Friday.