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  • 20-Sep-2007 Reuters
    China to lend Congo $5 billion in latest Africa foray
    The draft accord signed on Monday foresees Chinese companies gaining copper/cobalt, gold and nickel concessions under repayment deals that would also include toll revenues from the roads and railways to be constructed.
  • 20-Sep-2007 AllAfrica.com
    Flower industry may wilt if EPA deadline is missed
    Kenya faces tariff increases of between two and 24 percent on its exports to the European Union if it fails to conclude an Economic Partnership Agreement with the EU by the end of the year.
  • 20-Sep-2007 Chosun Ilbo
    EU hardens stance in trade talks with Korea
    Free trade talks between Korea and the EU have hit an unexpected snag after the EU turned from a generous negotiating partner in the first two rounds into a stubborn, picky one in the third round.
  • 20-Sep-2007 Korea Times
    Korea-EU FTA: Delegates need to maintain unitary stance for negotiations
    A sudden influx of European pork will lead to Korea’s livestock industry crumbling.
  • 20-Sep-2007 Seattle Post Intelligencer
    Washington a winner in Korean trade deal
    When Chile and South Korea signed a free trade agreement four years ago, the management at Washington’s oldest winery, Chateau Ste. Michelle, paid sharp attention — acutely aware of how world economics touch Washington.
  • 20-Sep-2007 Mail & Guardian
    The perils of free trade in agriculture
    It’s the kind of unfair situation that makes poorer nations wonder where the payoff is with free trade: demand for coffee, tea, cocoa, cotton and sugar — which is what many such countries have to offer the world — has risen. Prices paid in the supermarket have risen. Yet the share paid to the farmers who grow these basic agricultural commodities has fallen.
  • 20-Sep-2007 Malaysia Sun
    India calls for the formation of an Asian Economic Community
    India has called for greater economic cooperation with fellow East Asian countries saying regional groupings like ASEAN and others were pursuing separate goals, and this would not serve the larger economic interests of Asian nations.
  • 19-Sep-2007 Telegraph
    Canada hopes for free trade debut
    Even as the Congress and the Left parties stake the future of the UPA government on how close India should get to the US, neighbouring Canada is deftly stepping into the breach.
  • 19-Sep-2007 AFP
    US envoy to Malaysia urges conclusion to free-trade pact
    The United States’ new ambassador to Malaysia on Wednesday urged both countries to conclude negotiations for a free trade agreement after a missed deadline appears to have slowed the pace of talks.
  • 19-Sep-2007 RECALCA
    The pro-FTA visit of US congresspersons to Colombia
    Once again the Bush-Uribe administration has launched a propaganda offensive to pressure for approval of the FTA in the United States.
  • 19-Sep-2007 Global Research
    Nicaragua’s Sandinista government allies with anti-imperialist forces
    A review of the first six months of the new Sandinista government and the support from allies through ALBA.
  • 19-Sep-2007 The Hill
    Labor groups differ on Peru free trade deal
    A coalition of US labor groups that split from the AFL-CIO several years ago is urging Congress to oppose the Peru free trade agreement while AFL-CIO will not.
  • 19-Sep-2007 El Universal
    Negroponte fears that Chávez would win if FTA fails at US Congress
    US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte warned Tuesday that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez would win and Latin American democracies would lose if the US Congress does not pass the Free Trade Agreements with Peru, Panama and "especially with Colombia."
  • 19-Sep-2007 Ghana News
    Ghana will lose 1.8 trillion cedis annually from import duties
    The Ghanian government will lose 1.8 trillion cedis annually from import duties as result of withdrawal of tariffs after joining the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) of European Union next year.
  • 18-Sep-2007 Prensa Latina
    Bolivia for sovereignty in EU talks
    The Bolivian Deputy Minister of Economic Relations and Foreign Trade Pablo Guzman said that his country will demand sovereignty of natural resources, public services and intellectual property in its negotiations with the European Union.
  • 18-Sep-2007 AllAfrica.com
    Some Gambian farmers oppose EPAs
    Some commercial farmers in The Gambia have raised objection to the Economic Partnership Agreements presently being negotiated between the European Union and the African Caribbean and Pacific countries.
  • 18-Sep-2007 Trading Markets
    India Inc. dreams of reaching US market through Mexico
    A large number of Indian companies like Tata, Wipro, Ranbaxy and Reliance are dreaming to expand their presence in the US and vast Latin American market by investing in Mexico, through NAFTA and other trade pacts.
  • 18-Sep-2007 People’s Daily
    CAN, EU begin talks toward free trade and association
    Negotiators from the four CAN nations — Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia — and from the EU will meet all week in Bogota to talk about goals, procedures, timetables and negotiation terms.
  • 18-Sep-2007 Xinhua
    Joint study paves way for Sino-ROK FTA talks
    The next round of talks on a joint study of a free trade area between China and the Republic of Korea will take place next month in Beijing, the ROK deputy prime minister and minister of finance and economy has told China Daily.
  • 18-Sep-2007 Donga
    “Beef and automobile issues could derail Korea-US FTA”
    Interview with US Congressman Charles B. Rangel