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  • 10-Oct-2007 Sify
    India: FTA concerns
    With elections likely to be held earlier than scheduled, the prospects for progress on the free trade agreements with Thailand and Asean have weakened further.
  • 9-Oct-2007 Prensa Latina
    Uruguay union staves off US pillage
    Feet firmly planted, Juan Castillo, coordinator of Uruguay’s PIT-CNT central union plugged his nose at the visit of US Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez here Monday.
  • 9-Oct-2007 CTV
    New FTAs could worsen Canadian auto deficit: CAW
    "A free trade deal with Korea will take a bad situation and make it worse...The government should cancel these talks," said Canadian Auto Workers president Buzz Hargrove.
  • 8-Oct-2007 IHT
    Egypt, Israel to amend trade agreement
    Egypt and Israel have agreed to reduce the percentage of Israeli components that must be included in Egyptian-made products that receive duty-free status when exported to the United States
  • 8-Oct-2007
    Costa Rica referendum on CAFTA outcome questioned
    US intervention, corruption, and an internationally financed fear campaign provoke questions about referendum process
  • 8-Oct-2007 Forbes
    Venezuela mulls return to CAN
    President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that Venezuela may return to the Andean Community, or CAN, because leftist leaders in Bolivia and Ecuador who have resisted free trade deals with the United States could help to transform the regional trade bloc.
  • 8-Oct-2007 Inquirer
    Militant groups ask senators to scrap RP-Japan accord
    The jobs of at least 77,000 as well as tens of thousands of iron and steel workers whose livelihoods depend, directly or indirectly, on the automotive industry are imperiled as the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) threatens to destroy the country’s automotive industry, said Frank Mero, national president of the Philippine Metalworkers’ Alliance and of the Automotive Industry Workers’ Alliance.
  • 8-Oct-2007 GMA
    JPEPA unconstitutional, legal luminaries say
    Legal luminaries insist on the unconstitutionality of the proposed Japan Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA), presently under scrutiny by the Philippine Senate
  • 8-Oct-2007 Yonhap
    S. Korea, ASEAN agree on free trade deal on services
    South Korea and Southeast Asian nations have reached a free trade deal on services, raising the possibility of finalizing free trade talks by the end of this year.
  • 8-Oct-2007
    Costa Ricans narrowly back free trade with US
    Costa Ricans narrowly approved — 52% said yes, 48% said no — a free trade deal with the United States in a referendum on Sunday that has split the Central American nation like no other issue in decades.
  • 8-Oct-2007 Scoop
    Costa Rica: ITUC supports "No" to DR-CAFTA in referendum
    Despite the overwhelming evidence of workers’ rights being routinely abused, DR-CAFTA offers no solution.
  • 7-Oct-2007 HuffPost
    Threats, dirty tricks, fake polls: Costa Rica votes under duress on ’free trade’
    It is politically inconceivable that the Democratic majority in Congress — which voted against CAFTA when it was approved here — would move to punish Costa Rica for its voters having rejected the same agreement.
  • 7-Oct-2007 Prensa Latina
    Quiet day in Costa Rican referendum
    Nearly 2.7 million people will vote today to decide whether CAFTA is to be ratified or not, an unprecedented happening in the political history of Costa Rica.
  • 7-Oct-2007 Reuters
    No deal reached in EU-Caribbean trade talks
    The European Union and countries in the Caribbean failed to agree on a new trade and investment deal in two days of talks that ended on Friday. EU officials had expected the Caribbean to become the first of the ACP regions to agree to a new deal.
  • 7-Oct-2007 Yonhap
    Seoul, Ottawa to focus on barley, bean in free trade agreement talks
    South Korea and Canada will focus on barley, bean, potato and other farm products in free trade agreement talks that reopen in Ottawa this week
  • 6-Oct-2007 VietNamNet Bridge
    EU to recognise Vietnam having market economy if...
    "I want to make clear that the EU-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement that we are building is with only seven member nations of ASEAN. Laos and Cambodia have their own trade deals with the EU while we plan to put an embargo on Myanmar," says a member of the European Parliament.
  • 6-Oct-2007 Prensa Latina
    LatAm notables against CAFTA-DR
    Renowned Latin American figures have expressed their solidarity with the Costa Rican people, who are expected to go to the polls Sunday to decide in a referendum whether their country signs a free trade agreement with the US.
  • 6-Oct-2007 Reuters
    West Africa to miss EU trade partnership deadline
    West Africa will miss a Dec. 31 deadline to sign a new trade partnership with the European Union and hopes to keep its preferential commercial privileges for up to two years while it negotiates, a West African official said.
  • 6-Oct-2007 Financial Express
    India, Philippines sign 9 bilateral deals
    The Philippines signed nine bilateral agreements with India on Friday, including a framework agreement for bilateral trade.
  • 5-Oct-2007 Inquirer
    JPEPA makes working in Japan tougher for health workers
    Filipino health workers hoping to work in Japan or migrate to that country may find it more difficult if the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) is approved, said a national organization of health professionals.