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  • 9-Aug-2007 Scoop
    Evaluation of the impact of NAFTA on manufacturing
    The evidence is overwhelming: NAFTA has damaged the manufacturing industry in the US and Mexico. As the maquiladora industry thrives and human rights are continuously eroded in sweatshops across the globe, it is the responsibility of the US, the world’s most insatiable consumer, to call attention to this injustice in the manufacturing sector and correct it.
  • 9-Aug-2007
    Argument vs. JPEPA: Not only environmental impact but unfairness of pact
    The main argument against ratifying JPEPA is not only that it would turn the country into Japan’s landfill, but that the pact is blatantly unfair against the Philippines.
  • 9-Aug-2007 Prensa Latina
    Peruvian workers warn about national strike
    The General Confederation of Peruvian Workers (CGTP) warned on Tuesday that it will stage a national strike to demand higher salaries and to protest against the Free Trade Agreement with the United States.
  • 9-Aug-2007 Korea Times
    S Korea, Mexico agree to resume free trade talks
    South Korea and Mexico officially have agreed to resume their negotiations for a full free trade agreement (FTA), which is expected to contribute not only to economic ties but the political partnership between the two countries
  • 9-Aug-2007 The Statesman
    India-Japan CEPA on the anvil
    The second round of negotiations for an India-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement - covering trade, investment and services - will take place in September.
  • 9-Aug-2007 The Nation
    Thailand prepares for Asean-EU talks on free-trade deal
    "The talks might be called a Closer Economic Partnership Agreement as the European Union wants the agreement as a comprehensive package which will cover not only trade, but also services and investment," Thailand’s chief negotiator said.
  • 9-Aug-2007 Daily Times
    Bilateral trade talks FTA partnership sought from US govt
    During the ongoing round of bilateral trade talks at Washington, US Administration is being pressed to designate Pakistan as a potential Free Trade Agreement (FTA) partner to attract investment and promote trade relations between the two countries.
  • 9-Aug-2007 Bloomberg
    Democratic candidates say they would change Nafta trade pact
    US Democratic presidential contenders said they would revise the North American Free Trade Agreement if elected in 2008.
  • 9-Aug-2007 Hankyoreh
    Research institute recommends inter-Korean trade agreement
    A private think-tank claims that South and North Korea should work on signing a free trade pact to prompt changes in the communist country and eventually achieve consolidation of the two divided Koreas.
  • 8-Aug-2007
    Iran-Armenia FTA (1995)
  • 7-Aug-2007 IPS
    Mercosur-Venezuela: Integration - Easier said than done
    Above and beyond the political rhetoric in favour of South American integration, Mercosur and Venezuela have not eliminated their mutual suspicions, which are delaying Venezuela’s admission to the trade bloc as the fifth full member
  • 7-Aug-2007 New Kerala
    CARICOM, CentAm to discuss free trade agreement
    Countries from Central America and the Caribbean will come together to discuss a free trade agreement
  • 7-Aug-2007 APL
    “Free trade” to deepen poverty and inequality in Southeast Asia
    Statement of the Asia-Europe Peoples Campaign vs. FTAs on the 40th ASEAN Minister’s Meeting in Manila (July 30-August 2, 2007)
  • 7-Aug-2007 Reuters
    Pakistan hopes for US action on trade zones
    Pakistan wants the United States to pass legislation on "reconstruction opportunity zones" that would allow it and Afghanistan to export textiles, clothing and other goods without paying US duties.
  • 7-Aug-2007 KMP
    KMP calls for junking of RP-China economic agreements
    The RP-China agricultural agreement, for example, provides China with the capability to produce food using Philippine territorial lands and waters.This would inevitably mean massive displacement of peasants from their lands, and the crops to be planted are not for Filipino consumption but for export to China.
  • 6-Aug-2007 IHT
    South Pacific, European Union aid funds wrangle ends
    Samoa’s Deputy Prime Minister said the Pacific trade ministers "have had some schooling and know how to read English. It is untrue that the Pacific misinterpreted the meaning (of the EC warning)."
  • 6-Aug-2007 Bulatlat
    ASEAN hype
    The press releases churned out about the 40th Ministerial Meeting of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the annual ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) last week give the impression that ASEAN is well on the way to becoming a formidable economic bloc and a force to reckon with in the geopolitical landscape. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
  • 6-Aug-2007 People’s Daily
    El Salvador to sign FTA with three countries
    El Salvador’s President Elias Antonio Saca will travel this coming week to Colombia to sign a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras
  • 6-Aug-2007 Green Left
    ALBA = real fair trade
    At the APEC protests in September, while APEC leaders discuss new ways to exploit poor countries and increase profits for rich countries, we should demand our own ALBA-style agreement for the Asia Pacific as a way to build a world based on justice and equality.
  • 6-Aug-2007 Economic Times
    Indo-Swiss pact on IPRs on anvil
    India is likely to sign an agreement with Switzerland on intellectual property rights (IPRs) to improve the bilateral economic cooperation with Switzerland.