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  • 21-Feb-2008 VOP
    "Via Campesina, from anti-WTO to anti-FTA"
    Interview with Jun Gi-Hoan, General Secretary of Korean Peasants League
  • 20-Feb-2008 Alberta Farmer Express
    Canada, Jordan start free trade talks
    Canada and Jordan on Wednesday officially launched negotiations toward a free trade agreement (FTA) that could boost ag trade between the two countries.
  • 20-Feb-2008 Thaindian News
    No free trade pact with India for now: US
    It is “premature” for the US to consider a free trade agreement with India, United States Trade Representative Susan C. Schwab said Wednesday
  • 19-Feb-2008 Bloomberg
    Peru declares state of emergency on farm protests
    Peru’s government declared a state of emergency after a farmers’ protest left at least four dead and more than 700 under arrest. Farmers called the nationwide protest to push for state subsidies as part of a free-trade agreement with the US, for lower prices for fertilizers and for a halt to farm seizures by banks. "The government has lost all credibility,’’ protest organisers said.
  • 19-Feb-2008 UPI
    US, Rwanda sign investment agreement
    The presidents of the United States and Rwanda signed a trade agreement Tuesday, saying the pact urges US companies to consider Rwanda a good investment.
  • 19-Feb-2008 AME Info
    Yemen lost $145m due to Arab Free Trade Zone
    Yemen lost $154m during 2005-2007 due to gradual reduction for customs and tax tariff within the agreement of the biggest Arab Free Trade Zone
  • 19-Feb-2008 AllAfrica.com
    Southern Africa: African nations endorse plan to merge trade blocs
    Trade ministers from Comesa have passed a resolution setting the stage for the establishment of what would be Africa’s largest common market. The ministers want trade regimes within the Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa), the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the East African Community (EAC) harmonised.
  • 19-Feb-2008 The Independent Bangladesh
    Bangladesh: FTA offers little benefits to weaker economies
    "There is no compelling case for an FTA with India" warns Dr Hamid Rashid, director general of the Bangladesh ministry of foreign affairs
  • 19-Feb-2008 The Island
    Sri Lanka: The cost of free trade
    India’s Minister of Commerce was in Colombo last week. He had the usual few words to say about the benefits that are supposed to have accrued to pretty much everybody since the entry into force of the free trade agreement with Sri Lanka in 2000. Unfortunately, the story isn’t so simple. Taking a closer look at what has happened in practice would prompt even the most ardent believer to question the undoubtedly beguiling theory of free trade.
  • 19-Feb-2008 Reuters
    Striking farmers shut access to Peru’s Machu Picchu
    Peruvian farmers upset over a free trade deal with the United States blocked rail service to the famous Inca ruins at Machu Picchu on Monday and paralyzed vast swaths of the Andean country by halting traffic on key highways.
  • 19-Feb-2008 Hankyoreh
    FTA approval could be held up by unconstitutional clauses
    A South Korean parliamentary report says that some of the clauses of a free trade agreement with the United States — National Assembly’s right to dictate taxable items and tax rates — may be unconstitutional.
  • 18-Feb-2008 Korean Advanced Farmers Federation
    US-Korea Understanding on Agricultural Biotechnology (2007)
    Negotiated on the sidelines of the US-Korea FTA, in March 2007.
  • 18-Feb-2008 Business News
    Premier forum d’investissement des Etats membres de l’Accord d’Agadir
    L’objectif général du forum serait d’accroître le flux des investissements européens dans les pays de l’Espace Agadir
  • 18-Feb-2008 Forbes
    US Treasury Dept outlines open investment campaign to ward off protectionism
    Developing a policy response to the concerns surrounding sovereign wealth funds, addressing the national security aspect of foreign investment, and negotiating bilateral investment treaties (BITs) are ’at the forefront of an open investment campaign that must be waged to hold the forces of protectionism at bay,’ a US Treasury Department official said today.
  • 16-Feb-2008 Kuwait Times
    Talks focus on copyright laws
    Government officials in Kuwait expressed their keenness over signing a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States but a senior US economic representative recently noted that talks with regards to the issue are ongoing.
  • 16-Feb-2008 PWW
    US labor leaders to Bush: No trade deal with murderers
    Top labor leaders ended a trip to Colombia Feb. 13 by telling that country’s president, Alvaro Uribe, that American unions will not support the US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement until the killing of union members by right-wing death squads there is put to a stop.
  • 14-Feb-2008 Economic Times
    Talks with US on for Bipa-like trade treaty
    India and the US have begun discussions this week on an agreement to promote bilateral investment. The negotiations are expected to be protracted as the US agenda is highly ambitious.
  • 14-Feb-2008 AP
    House panel extends Andean trade pact
    A US House panel on Thursday approved a 10-month extension for a trade program providing reduced tariffs for exports from the four Andean nations of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
  • 14-Feb-2008 Reuters
    Ivory Coast says EPA deal will lead way for region
    Ivory Coast will sign a definitive Economic Partnership Agreement with Europe in June, which it believes will open the door for other West African countries. it is also advising regional powerhouse Nigeria on how to seal an EPA.
  • 13-Feb-2008 Hoover’s
    Mexican farmers cite surge in corn imports from US
    A group mainly representing Mexican family farmers denounced Monday that imports of white corn from the United States increased 384 percent after last month’s NAFTA-mandated end to trade barriers in agriculture.