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  • 27-Sep-2007 IPS
    World Bank asks for more time on EPAs
    Senior World Bank staff have asked the European Union to consider extending the end-of-year deadline it has set for a series of free trade agreements with Africa.
  • 27-Sep-2007 Upside Down World
    Referendum in Costa Rica: Countdown to CAFTA?
    Even if Costa Ricans vote not to adopt CAFTA on Oct 7, they may still suffer economically from it.
  • 27-Sep-2007 AllAfrica.com
    Govt turns to Comesa as tax threat looms in EU
    Africa’s largest trade bloc may hold the future for Kenya’s growing exports sector that is facing an uncertain future in traditional markets such as Europe, latest trade data indicates.
  • 27-Sep-2007 Reuters
    Peru trade pact clears major hurdle in Congress
    A key US House of Representatives committee gave preliminary approval on Tuesday to a free trade pact with Peru hailed by senior Democrats as the first installment of a new trade policy.
  • 26-Sep-2007 Economic Times
    India, EU to talk services agreement
    “For India, services is the most important aspect of the India-EU bilateral pact,” a commerce department official said.
  • 26-Sep-2007 Reuters
    Africa feels pain of trade talks with Europe
    Africa is in a catch-22 situation. The Economic Partnership Agreements will ensure continued tariff-free exports to Europe, but may kill domestic production.
  • 26-Sep-2007 Australian
    Israeli deal to boost defence
    A surge in Israeli hi-tech investment and the transfer of world-leading military technology is set to be unleashed next year with the expected sealing of a free trade agreement between Australia and Israel.
  • 26-Sep-2007 IndyBay
    Central America Free Trade Agreement dividing Costa Rican society
    For the first time in the history of world, a voting population will have the opportunity to vote on a free trade agreement in a referendum.
  • 25-Sep-2007 Zawya
    GCC, Seoul set to start FTA talks
    As part of an ambitious plan to widen economic cooperation, the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council and South Korea are all set to start negotiations after Ramadan to implement a free trade agreement
  • 25-Sep-2007 Bloomberg
    India, Sri Lanka aim to broaden free-trade agreement
    Discussions on a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement have been inconclusive for about three years as India seeks to restrict the export of pepper and hydrogenated vegetable oil from Sri Lanka, which is concerned about jobs being lost to Indians.
  • 25-Sep-2007 IRC Americas Program
    CAFTA in Costa Rica would cause deepening inequality
    CAFTA is a legal instrument that favors multinational expansion without limits, leaving the most underprivileged sectors of Costa Rica totally unprotected, among them women and the poor. The strong movement against ratification of CAFTA will not end with the approval or rejection of the agreement on 7 October 2007, but could well be the seed of broader social transformation.
  • 25-Sep-2007
    Press release by FTA Watch
    The Thai government has decided to conduct an exchange of diplomatic notes with the Japanese government on 2 October 2007, which will put the Japan-Thailand Economic Partnership Agreement (JTEPA) into effect within 30 days without bringing the matter under the scrutiny of the National Legislative Assembly. Prime Minister Surayut Chulanont defiantly announced that he would resign if ever a petition was made to the Constitutional Court and his decision proved to be in violation of the constitution.
  • 25-Sep-2007 Thanh Nien
    US eyes bilateral investment treaty with Vietnam
    The US aims to ink a bilateral investment treaty with Vietnam, according to the US ambassador.
  • 25-Sep-2007 Prensa Latina
    CAFTA a danger says Nobel Prize winner
    Nobel Peace Prize winner Argentine Adolfo Perez Esquivel (1980) called on Costa Ricans to reject the free trade agreement with the United States or submit themselves to the US market.
  • 24-Sep-2007 AJN
    Envoy hints at free-trade deal for Israel’s 60th
    Israeli Ambassador Yuval Rotem has hinted that a free-trade agreement between Israel and Australia could be finalised in time for the Jewish State’s 60th anniversary next year.
  • 24-Sep-2007 Bangkok Post
    PM urged to take trade deal to parliament
    Thailand’s Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont should think carefully before effecting the Japan-Thailand Economic Partnership Agreement (JTEPA) on November 1 without legislative body approval because such an action could violate the constitution, according to the FTA Watch group.
  • 24-Sep-2007 AllAfrica.com
    Ghana: Poultry sector to be hardest hit by EPAs, stakeholders kick against it
    For the last few years, the Ghanaian market has been flooded with cheap imported chicken from the European Union and the United States. These are usually fatty chicken parts that come in packages without labels. Demand for local poultry has collapsed, threatening the livelihoods of over 1,000 poultry farmers in both small and large-scale poultry farming in Ghana. The current situation will be compounded when the EPAs take effect in 2008 with the removal of tariffs across board.
  • 24-Sep-2007 IPS
    This is the way some agreements should end
    Elaborate funeral rituals were performed in central Brussels over the past week to show how a planned free trade accord between the European Union and the Korean government should, in the view of anti-poverty campaigners, be buried.
  • 24-Sep-2007 Reuters
    Senate panel gives initial okay to Peru trade deal
    The US Senate Finance Committee approved on Friday a draft of a free trade agreement with Peru. Sen. Kent Conrad, a North Dakota Democrat and critic of most trade deals, urged colleagues to support the agreement as a bulwark against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, an ardent foe of the United States.
  • 24-Sep-2007
    Development challenges of competition policy in the Economic Partnership Agreements
    A brief critique of the EU’s proposal on Competition Policy in the EPAs.