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  • 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.
  • 27-Feb-2008
    Call to action against Europe’s aggressive economic agenda in Africa
    Declaration of civil society organisations at the meeting of the Africa Trade Network, Cape Town, South Africa, 22 February 2008
  • 27-Feb-2008 IPS
    Trade-EU: Deals with Africa a ’PR disaster’
    Trade talks between the European Union and African countries have been a public relations "disaster" for the Brussels bureaucracy, a high-ranking official confessed Feb. 26.
  • 27-Feb-2008 Tico Times
    Panama-Guatemala free trade a ’historic step’
    Panama’s government has signed a free-trade agreement with Guatemala, Central America’s biggest economy with 11 million residents.
  • 27-Feb-2008 Upside Down World
    Peru: Four dead after government crackdown on protests against US trade deal
    A two-day national agrarian strike against a pending Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States ended on Wednesday February 20th, leaving four farmers dead after President Alan Garcia declared a state of emergency and ordered a violent crackdown.
  • 27-Feb-2008 Gulf Daily News
    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.
  • 27-Feb-2008 Globes
    Olmert in free-trade talks with Japan
    Japanese officials have expressed interest in Israel’s water and aerospace industries.
  • 27-Feb-2008 CanWest
    French heavyweights pressing for EU trade deal with Canada
    A former French prime minister and now a confidant of President Nicolas Sarkozy have endorsed the push for a Canada-Europe free trade agreement.
  • 27-Feb-2008 Prensa Latina
    Central America, EU face off on penal court
    Central America and the European Union may have difficulties reaching an association agreement due to European requirement for ratification of the Statutes of Rome of the International Penal Court.
  • 26-Feb-2008
    Peters talks of free trade with Korea
    New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters says his trip to South Korea gave him the chance to broach the topic of free trade with the country’s new government
  • 26-Feb-2008
    EU Warns Continent Over Sluggish Pace of New Trade Deal Talks
    The European Union has raised concerns about the speed at which African countries are moving towards negotiating for a comprehensive trade deal with Europe, which is expected to fast-track economic integration in the region ahead of the December deadline.
  • 26-Feb-2008
    ’EPAs Are Not About Partnership’
    The economic partnership agreements (EPAs) currently being negotiated between Europe and its former colonies in the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) regions are not about equal partnerships but about enabling "big giant Europe to gain better access to African markets".
  • 26-Feb-2008
    African Liberal Parties Want Benefits From Partnerships
    African Liberal parties, meeting in a General Assembly, that closed in Maputo on Saturday, have demanded that partnership agreements with the European Union should bring real advantages to Africa.
  • 26-Feb-2008
    SA-EU Trade Row Puts Customs Union At Risk
    The future of the Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) hangs in the balance, even as engagement takes place at the highest political level to save the world’s oldest customs union from collapsing.
  • 26-Feb-2008
    In 1 year, Dominican Republic lost RD$2.54B from Dr-Cafta trade pact
    Dominican Republic has lost from the Dr-Cafta trade pact, which took effect one year ago on Saturday, RD$2.54 billion from lost tax revenues, the Customs Agency (DGA) said in a statement.
  • 26-Feb-2008
    NZ-China trade pact on track for April
    New Zealand and China are still planning to sign a trade deal in April, though final agreement on the detail is yet to be reached.
  • 26-Feb-2008
    Japan eyes exemptions in Aust FTA talks
    Australia is expected to oppose the exemption of five items from the envisaged FTA with Japan: wheat, rice, beef, dairy and sugar.
  • 25-Feb-2008
    Clark set to sign deal with China
    New Zealand is poised to sign a trade deal with powerhouse economy China, in what is being touted as our biggest trade breakthrough in 25 years.
  • 24-Feb-2008 Korea Times
    KORUS FTA baton passed on to Lee
    What was once a possibility has become a reality, as Seoul carries over one of the most burdensome agendas from its former President Roh Moo-hyun’s administration. Now facing more uphill conditions, prospects for the deadlocked Korea-U.S. free trade agreement (FTA) look even dimmer, experts say.