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  • 15-Oct-2007 Korea.net
    Korea, EU open 4th round of free trade talks
    The EU is demanding that Korea match reductions on beef and car-import tariffs that it granted the US in June.
  • 15-Oct-2007 IPS
    India, Brazil, South Africa - the power of three
    IBSA was conceived in 2003 to counterbalance the powerful Group of Eight alliance of industrialised countries and to promote South-South cooperation. But a reality check reveals that all three IBSA members still do by far most of their business with industrialised countries.
  • 14-Oct-2007 SunStar
    Farmers: JPEPA is anti-Filipino
    In the series of consultations made by the Philippine Peasant Institute (PPI) with farmers, most of them believe that it is anti-Filipino, anti-farmer, and contrary to the Constitution.
  • 14-Oct-2007 Reuters
    SAfrica won’t ’roll over’ on services trade with EU
    The European Union needs to scale down its ambitions for accessing the service sector in southern Africa as it negotiates an economic partnership agreement (EPA) with the region, said South Africa’s deputy trade minister Rob Davies.
  • 14-Oct-2007 Dominican Today
    Dominican Republic and Taiwan to sign trade accord soon
    Taiwan’s President Chen Shui-bian said he hopes Taiwan and the Dominican Republic will sign a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) as soon as possible to benefit enterprises in both countries.
  • 14-Oct-2007 Daily Times
    First Pakistan-EFTA meeting concludes: Negotiations to continue in 2008
    Pakistan and European Free Trade Association (EFTA) have entered into a market access dialogue
  • 13-Oct-2007 AllAfrica.com
    Zimbabwe: White farmers appeal to Sadc
    The last remaining white commercial farmers have appealed to the regional Southern African Development Community (Sadc) Tribunal in an effort to stop government from expropriating their properties.
  • 13-Oct-2007 Upside Down World
    Costa Rica’s CAFTA “Si” vote called into question
    While free trade proponents cheered, opponents called foul in Costa Rica’s 51.5 percent vote Oct. 7 in favor of ratifying the Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA).
  • 13-Oct-2007
    Debate rages as Jpepa stirs up a hornet’s nest
    Various groups around the Philippines have come out with guns blazing, claiming that the proposed Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement will only harm farmers in the countryside.
  • 12-Oct-2007 Washington Post
    Free-trade fight reflects broader battle
    The vote was barely 24 hours away when President Bush’s aides held an emergency conference call at 10:45 p.m. last Friday. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid had sent a letter that could sink a US-led free trade agreement up for referendum in Costa Rica. The Bush team decided to put out its own statement to save it. The trade pact went on to pass narrowly Sunday, but the last-minute drama capped a furious few weeks in which the White House and Congress fought a proxy war in the tiny Central American nation.
  • 12-Oct-2007 Upside Down World
    Protest US intervention and dirty campaign in Costa Rican CAFTA Referendum
    Take action from October 15-20 to demand that the Costa Rica referendum results NOT be certified by the OAS
  • 12-Oct-2007 Dow Jones
    Interview: Argentina seeks diplomatic exit from ICSID suits
    Facing a flood of unfavorable arbitration rulings, Argentina is shifting from a legal strategy to a diplomatic one in a bid to dismiss billions of dollars in foreign investor claims arising from its 2002 financial crisis.
  • 12-Oct-2007 PR Newswire
    Teamsters challenge Bush on free trade arguments: Hoffa responds to Bush
    "When President Bush says the economy benefits from trade deals, he must mean the part of the economy he cares about — the top one percent," Teamsters President Jim Hoffa said. "It’s not competition we’re afraid of, but the global capitalists who rig the system against the American worker."
  • 12-Oct-2007 Reuters
    Bush tries to build support for Latam trade deals
    Bush urged Congress on Friday to approve free-trade agreements with Peru, Panama and Colombia "as soon as possible," saying failure to do so would diminish US leadership in the hemisphere.
  • 12-Oct-2007 AHN
    China sets up new harbor area for planned free trade zone with ASEAN
    China has started construction of a bonded harbor area that will form part of a future free trade zone with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
  • 12-Oct-2007 MCOT
    Thai food exports to reach Bt600 billion
    Thailand’s food exports are expected to increase by 7.8 per cent from last year to Bt600 billion this year and to further rise by 10 per cent next year due to the free trade area (FTA) agreements and an increased demand for products as a result of global warming, according to industry executives.
  • 12-Oct-2007 IPS
    Caribbean may sue to reinstate EU sugar deal
    Caribbean Community leaders may try to reinstate the EU sugar protocol through an international court.
  • 12-Oct-2007 Bangkok Post
    NLA nod ’not needed for JTEPA’
    Thai Foreign Minister Nitya Pibulsonggram insisted the Thailand-Japan free trade agreement, signed by the Surayud administration, is in line with the 2007 constitution and it is not necessary for it to be endorsed by the National Legislative Assembly (NLA).
  • 12-Oct-2007 Monsters and Critics
    Taiwan, Nicaragua ratify free-trade agreement
    Taiwan and Nicaragua ratified their free-trade agreement in Taiwan Thursday, further liberalizing trade.
  • 11-Oct-2007 LA Times
    US-Panama trade pact looks shaky
    Washington officials say that even if Gonzalez — the president of Panama’s National Assembly, who is wanted on murder charges in the US — were to quit, attitudes in Congress and in the Bush administration have hardened against the free trade deal.