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  • 9-Nov-2007 Inquirer
    Senators urged to hear out peasants on JPEPA
    The greatest benefit from any increased banana and pineapple exports resulting from JPEPA will go to the big foreign agribusiness TNCs like Dole and Del Monte, not to Filipino workers and farmers as a whole, militant groups say.
  • 9-Nov-2007 Gulf News
    UAE still keen on Gulf-EU free trade agreement
    The delay in signing the EU-GCC FTA has resulted in a chain reaction as the European Union will now apply new standards in negotiating trade agreements, according to Sweden’s minister of "free" trade
  • 9-Nov-2007 The Guardian
    The EU is trying to trick developing countries into poor trade deals
    The dirtiest trick is the spurious insistence on a December deadline. On top of this, the commission’s latest approach — that individual countries should sign up to EPAs without their weaker neighbours — reveals how shallow their commitment to ACP regional integration is.
  • 9-Nov-2007 ABC
    Australia, Japan hammer out FTA details
    Japan has again raised concerns about energy security and the viability of its agriculture industry in free trade talks with Australia.
  • 9-Nov-2007 Prensa Latina
    Teaching leaders oppose Peru-US FTA
    Peru-US Free Trade Agreement, ratified by the US House of Representatives, is a mechanism of subjugation, the leader of Peruvian teaching Luis Munoz affirmed Thursday.
  • 9-Nov-2007 FWI
    Zimbabwe farmers a step closer to compensation
    A group of Dutch farmers is one step closer to gaining compensation for land and farms lost to the government of Zimbabwe, after a recent hearing in Paris.
  • 9-Nov-2007 Living in Peru
    Workers union in Peru rejects free trade agreement with the US
    One of Peru’s strongest workers unions, the General Workers Confederation of Peru (CGTP) announced today that it did not agree with the approval of the US-Peru free-trade pact passed by the US House of Representatives today.
  • 9-Nov-2007 AllAfrica.com
    Chaos on eve of EPA deadline
    On the eve of the deadline of the finalisation of the economic partnership agreement (EPA) negotiations, chaos reigns.
  • 9-Nov-2007 Business Daily Africa
    EU boss to Kituyi: Take our deal or hit the road
    The European Union reacted sharply to Trade minister Mukhisa Kituyi’s Tuesday revelation that Kenya will no longer pursue an interim trade pact with Europe but a comprehensive agreement ahead of the expiry of the one on December 31.
  • 8-Nov-2007 LA Times
    House passes trade pact with Peru
    In a rare victory for President Bush since Democrats took control of Congress, the US House of Representatives approved a trade agreement with Peru today in a vote that exposed a rift within the Democratic ranks over the issue.
  • 8-Nov-2007
    As Senate resumes public hearings, new anti-JPEPA group slams effects on agriculture
    Members of No Deal! JPEPA, Movement Against Unequal Economic Agreements, slammed the effects on agriculture of the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA).
  • 8-Nov-2007 Financial Express
    Biotech to figure in new EU-India S&T cooperation
    Biotechnology in agriculture, bio-fuel, climate change and energy security are top on the agenda of the European Union’s new offer for science and technology cooperation with India.
  • 7-Nov-2007 Bernama
    Japan, US business leaders call for 2009 start of free-trade talks
    Japanese and US business leaders said Monday their governments should launch negotiations in 2009 to conclude an all-inclusive economic partnership agreement between the world’s two largest economies.
  • 7-Nov-2007 Business Standard
    Indo-Asean FTA slips on palm oil
    It is now certain that negotiations to conclude the agreement will spill over to the next year, due to disagreements over reduction of duties on palm oil.
  • 6-Nov-2007
    Human rights body uneasy about impacts of CAFTA-DR in Costa Rica
    As furore continues in Costa Rica about ratification of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR), members of a leading UN human rights body have been expressing their concern to Costa Rican officials today in Geneva, about the human rights impact of the trade agreement.
  • 6-Nov-2007 Inquirer
    ASEAN health warning: Myanmar stunts your growth
    Brussels and Washington have taken steps toward free-trade agreements with ASEAN, but they could be stopped in their tracks if the destination was a deal that had to include Myanmar.
  • 6-Nov-2007 ACP-EU Trade
    “Love is blind”?
    A two-stage agreement between EU and ACP countries risks being an ‘EPA tight’ rather than an ‘EPA light’
  • 6-Nov-2007 Modern Ghana
    ‘Ghana may lose $150m to EPA’
    Nigeria could also lose $680 million annually if the agreements were implemented, according to the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria
  • 6-Nov-2007 Reuters
    Bush seeks Colombia trade vote as soon as possible
    The Bush administration wants congressional Democratic leaders to schedule a vote "as soon as possible" on a controversial free trade agreement with Colombia
  • 6-Nov-2007 Yonhap
    Han says time running out for parliamentary approval of Korea-US FTA
    Korea’s prime minister is concerned that the presidential election slated for Dec. 19 may divert parliamentary attention away from the FTA deal and other pending bills.