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  • 26-Oct-2007 FPIF
    Fear and voting in Costa Rica
    Costa Rica’s recent referendum was supposed to decide once and for all whether that country should enter into the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). Instead, the Oct. 7 vote polarized and politicized this small country of four and a half million people more than anything since neighboring Nicaragua’s war between the Sandinistas and the Contras two decades ago. And even though supporters of the treaty prevailed by a slim margin, CAFTA opponents still have a few cards to play and may yet block its implementation.
  • 26-Oct-2007 Magkaisa Junk JPEPA
    JPEPA: Gross violation of the Constitution
    The JPEPA was based on the Japan-Singapore Economic Partnership Agreement, literally employing the "cut-and-paste" method. Page 71 of the Working Draft of the JPEPA still contains the word Singapore in one of the provisions.
  • 26-Oct-2007 Workers World
    Colombia’s workers, peasants need int’l solidarity
    Even the New York Times, which has reported very little about the horrendous violence against Colombia’s workers and campesinos, in an Oct. 8 editorial recommended that the pending Free Trade Agreement with Colombia be delayed because “President Álvaro Uribe and his government have not done enough to bring to justice the paramilitary thugs-and their political backers-responsible for widespread human rights violations.”
  • 26-Oct-2007 NYT
    Using Chávez as counterpoint, Bush pursues Latin trade pacts
    The Bush administration has enlisted an unlikely ally in its international trade agenda: Hugo Chávez, the leftist president of Venezuela, who makes a practice of denouncing United States’ influence in Latin America.
  • 26-Oct-2007 Radio New Zealand
    NZ: Free-trade agreement with India on agenda
    New Zealand Trade Minister Phil Goff will be pushing forward with a proposal for a study into a free-trade agreement with India when he meets representatives of the Indian business community on Friday. Mr Goff says India is potentially a huge market for New Zealand and is becoming even more significant with growth of between 8% and 9% every year.
  • 26-Oct-2007 China Daily
    China, Costa Rica to begin FTA process
    China and Costa Rica said they will conduct a feasibility study on a free trade agreement — four months after the two established formal diplomatic ties.
  • 25-Oct-2007 Tico Times
    EU negotiations launch, so does opposition
    As negotiations between the European Union and Central America over an association agreement kicked off this week, so did something else: opposition.
  • 25-Oct-2007 Alliance for Democracy
    Free Trade undermining democracy in Costa Rica
    Democracy in Costa Rica was undermined after several violations to costarrican law.
  • 25-Oct-2007 Business Daily Africa
    Legal obstacles emerge over free trade deal with Europe
    A landmark case has entered the Kenyan corridors of justice as a group of farmers and a human rights watchdog move to challenge the State over ongoing negotiations for a new trade agreement with Europe.
  • 25-Oct-2007 GMANews
    Nurses pray for Senate rejection of RP-Japan pact
    Some 2,000 Filipino nurses holding a convention in Cagayan de Oro lit candles and prayed on Wednesday for the Philippine Senate to reject the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement.
  • 25-Oct-2007 AC
    EU tries to establish Mediterranean free trade zone, meets fierce opposition
    Friends of the Earth MedNet has lodged a fierce protest against European Union Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson for his part in attempting to establish a free trade zone encompassing the countries around the Mediterranean, including non-EU member countries.
  • 24-Oct-2007 DG Trade
    European Commission presents roadmap for negotiating trade agreements with ACP countries
    For the European Commission, the end of 2007 represents a firm deadline for negotiating the goods market access element of the Economic Partnership Agreements
  • 24-Oct-2007 Jakarta Post
    FTA with EFTA states would benefit Indonesia: Etter
    A free trade agreement with the European Free Trade Association would be of benefit to Indonesia, Switzerland’s trade negotiator Ambassador Christian Etter says.
  • 24-Oct-2007 Guardian
    NGOs accuse miffed Mandy of neo-imperialism
    Peter Mandelson is feeling misunderstood. As EU trade commissioner, he stands accused of being a neo-colonialist trying to railroad through Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with 78 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries within the next few weeks.
  • 24-Oct-2007 Red Bolivia
    Bolivia: Chancellor Choquehuanca travels to Mexico to sign bilateral agreements
    Choquehuanca’s trip has the purpose of open better markets that go beyond the Free Trade Agreement signed with Mexico ten years ago.
  • 24-Oct-2007 Radio Zealand International
    Vanuatu/Taiwan bilateral trade agreement still in place, says Taipei
    Taiwan says the bilateral trade agreement it signed with Vanuatu in 2004 still needs to be implemented. However the current Government led by Ham Lini is a staunch supporter of the One China Policy.
  • 24-Oct-2007 Chosun Ilbo
    US Congress to approve FTA with Korea ’in 2008’
    Korea’s ambassador to Washington Lee Tae-sik believes the free trade agreement between Korea and the US will be ratified sometime next year.
  • 24-Oct-2007 Reuters
    France backs Morocco push for closer EU ties
    Sarkozy said he hoped Morocco would play a "leading role" in a Mediterranean Union.
  • 24-Oct-2007 CAW
    Canada-Korea FTA would destroy jobs in all provinces and regions
    If the Canadian federal government proceeds with a free trade agreement with Korea as promised, the impact on Canadian communities would be disastrous, according to a new study released by the CAW on October 23.
  • 24-Oct-2007 Canada Press
    Canada-South-Korea free trade deal would cost thousands of jobs, says union study
    The Canadian Auto Workers has called on the three opposition parties in Ottawa to vote down any Canada-Korea free trade agreement in order to save Canadian jobs. CAW’s internal analysis predicts the trade deal would cost over 33,000 jobs.