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  • 1-Aug-2007 GBF
    ’EPA is terrorism act’
    The EU is doing almost everything possible, both legally and illegally, to get the EPA signed, according to Kwabena Okai Ofosuhene of the Abibimman Foundation in Ghana. “It is very unfortunate and sad that there are key elements within the ECOWAS Commission who are working secretly to enable the EU achieve this.”
  • 1-Aug-2007 Radio Fiji
    Pacific Forum admits problems sealing a Economic Partnership Agreement
    The Pacific Forum has for the first time publicly admitted there have been problems in sealing an Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union.
  • 1-Aug-2007 Buenos Aires Herald
    Mexico in Mercosur ’essential’
    Mexico’s entry to Mercosur is “essential,” President Néstor Kirchner insisted yesterday after a meeting with his Mexican peer Felipe Calderón in Mexico City.
  • 1-Aug-2007 IPS
    Multilateral still better than bilateral talks
    "When we try to negotiate as individual countries, we give the Europeans the ammunition to divide and discriminate against us", said Zimbabwe’s Deputy Minister of Information and Publicity Bright Matonga.
  • 1-Aug-2007 Afrique en ligne
    Mauritius, Pakistan to create free trade zone
    Mauritius and Pakistan have announced plans to create a free trade zone between the two countries by 2009 and have preferential trade exchanges by 30 November.
  • 1-Aug-2007 Voltaire.net
    The end of the age of free trade
    The Russian government presented three days ago a draft law stipulating that selling the shares of any strategic company to foreign investors is prohibited unless it is approved by a special governmental committee headed by the Prime Minister.
  • 1-Aug-2007 Channel News Asia
    China to seal FTA with ASEAN before signing one with Singapore
    China will likely conclude the free trade agreement (FTA) with ASEAN first before sealing a similar deal with Singapore, said Chinese Ambassador to Singapore, Zhang Xiaokang.
  • 1-Aug-2007 Venezuelanalysis
    ALBA: From dream to reality
    ALBA has become the new historical focus of Latin America and the Caribbean, placing people’s needs above market mechanisms and the accumulation of capital.
  • 31-Jul-2007 WW4 Report
    Colombia: indigenous protest in capital
    Some 1,700 indigenous people participated in a July 23-27 caravan to Bogota from Santander de Quilichao in the southwestern Colombian department of Cauca to demand peace, to call for popular unity and to oppose a "free trade" agreement (TLC, from its initials in Spanish) that the government of President Alvaro Uribe has signed with the US.
  • 31-Jul-2007 People’s Daily
    Peru, Mexico extend economic agreement
    Peru and Mexico have agreed to extend their current Economic Agreement, due to end on Dec 31 this year, until June 30 2008. Meanwhile, talks on a bilateral free trade treaty are set to be reopened in September in Mexico City.
  • 31-Jul-2007 ABC
    Chile free trade agreement will not cost Aust jobs, Truss says
    The peak stonerfruit body, Summerfruit Australia, says cheap fruit and vegetable imports due to an Australia-Chila free trade agreement could wipe out 5,000 jobs.
  • 31-Jul-2007 ABC
    Japanese elections raise doubts over free trade
    The Japanese Liberal Democratic Party has suffered huge election losses in rural areas, where the proposed free trade deal with Australia is highly unpopular.
  • 31-Jul-2007 PDI
    RP-based Korean firms seek free trade deal
    Korean investors want more liberal trade between South Korea and the Philippines through a regional free trade agreement with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations as a meeting among economic ministers in the region approaches.
  • 31-Jul-2007 Kenya Times
    Kenya: Govt should be cautious in free trade negotiations
    To many sugarcane-dependent families in western Kenya, January 2008 will come with adverse consequences to livelihoods and life itself as Kenya joins more efficient sugar producers in the free market regimes of COMESA and EPA.
  • 31-Jul-2007 Prensa Latina
    Costa Rica urged to fess up FTA survey
    The Pro-Liberation Front against the Central America Free Trade Agreement-Dominican Republic (CAFTA-DR) demanded the Costa Rican government publish results of a poll it commissioned about the level of public support for the agreement.
  • 31-Jul-2007 Bernama
    FTA with Australia not moving as fast it should be, says Rafidah
    The conclusion of negotiations for the Malaysia-Australia Free Trade Agreement may take longer than expected as Malaysia cannot agree to Australia’s requests which go beyond the World Trade Organisation agenda, International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz said Monday.
  • 30-Jul-2007 Forbes
    ASEAN urged to make progress on trade deals with China, SKorea, Japan
    Southeast Asia must ratify free trade deals with China and South Korea and make progress on a similar accord with Japan, as the region prepares its own free-trade zone, the Philippine government said Monday.
  • 30-Jul-2007 Khaleej Times
    GCC is fast becoming a regional trading bloc due to recent FTA talks
    The six-nation GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) is fast becoming a regional trading bloc as more countries now want to forge free trade agreements (FTA) with it following its trade negotiations with China and India.
  • 30-Jul-2007 American Chronicle
    The economic integration of SAARC
    By observing the overall mood at the 14th SAARC summit that was held in New Delhi in April of 2007, one might sense that a change in the perception about SAARC may be occurring.
  • 29-Jul-2007 Public Citizen
    Trade deficit in food safety
    Public Citizen has published a new report on the connection between trade agreements that limit US food safety policies to facilitate trade and the growing safety threat posed by US food imports