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  • 28-Oct-2007 USA Today
    Caribbean nations grapple with biofuel issues
    In the United States, experts debate whether biofuel growth in the tropics will cut into profits for Midwest producers. Special free-trade agreements with those countries can make it less expensive to ship ethanol from there to the US coasts.
  • 27-Oct-2007 Prensa Latina
    Costa Ricans to strike against FTA
    Trade unions from the Costa Rican Electricity Institute announced a strike against the complementary agenda of CAFTA, so that the company continues to govern in the fields of electricity and telecommunications.
  • 27-Oct-2007 Dow Jones
    Ecuador exporters warn increased duties could derail FTA
    Ecuador’s Federation of Exporters warned Friday that the country’s recent increases in import duties will negatively affect negotiations on a free trade agreement between Andean countries and the European Union.
  • 27-Oct-2007 Bangkok Post
    Activists want FTA with Japan nullified
    Activists opposing the Thai-Japanese free trade area (FTA) agreement yesterday filed a complaint with the Constitution Court, asking it to nullify the deal which they say is unconstitutional.
  • 27-Oct-2007 Panorama
    Free trade agreement between Iran and Armenia to be ratified later
    During the Iranian President’s official visit to Armenia the agreement on free trade between the two states was not signed
  • 27-Oct-2007 Mondaq
    Canada: Potential new impediments to M&A transactions
    On October 9, 2007, Jim Prentice, Minister of Industry, announced that the government of Canada will consider introducing new guidelines on takeovers by foreign state-owned enterprises and amending the Investment Canada Act to permit the review of foreign investments that could compromise Canada’s national security
  • 27-Oct-2007 Dawn
    US Congress may delay Fata zones legislation
    The United States Congress is likely to put on hold for several months, possibly a year, legislation for setting up reconstruction opportunity zones (ROZs) in tribal areas and finalisation of a bilateral investment treaty till a new democratic set-up comes into power in Pakistan
  • 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.