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  • 15-Jun-2007
    Dominican Republic seeks Caribbean consensus on Free Trade with EU
    Dominican Republic should manage a consensus with the Caribbean Community countries (Caricom) to establish a joint negotiation that leads to the Economic Association Agreement with the European Union.
  • 15-Jun-2007
    NAFTA claim dismissed, dicey clause remains
    A seven-year legal battle by the US postal carrier United Parcel Service of America (UPS) against Canada, brought under a controversial free trade agreement, has been dismissed, but advocacy groups say a provision that allows corporations to sue for lost profits should be permanently dropped.
  • 15-Jun-2007
    We can’t win the race for trade deals
    David Emerson, minister of international trade, announced last week that Canada has successfully concluded a free trade agreement with the members of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA): Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. This is Canada’s first FTA in six years, and it took nine years to negotiate.
  • 15-Jun-2007
    Gaesong inclusion like “handing out cash to the North”
    On April 2, the first US congressional hearing after the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement was concluded and was a complaint-filled affair.
  • 15-Jun-2007
    Honduras, Panama sign free trade
    Presidents Manuel Zelaya, Honduras, and Martin Torrijos, Panama, will sign a free trade agreement in this capital on Friday, after bilateral negotiations that concluded last month in the Panamanian capital.
  • 15-Jun-2007
    Europe rallies behind Roux, as Meatco sticks to its guns
    The international community is rallying behind the suspended Wallie Roux with a European parliamentarian calling upon Meatco “to reconsider the suspension” of the economist.
  • 15-Jun-2007
    Open Letter To Meatco
    The undersigned organisations would like to express their serious concern with regard to Mr Wallie Roux, internationally renowned economic analyst with Meatco Namibia, who has been suspended and faces a disciplinary hearing (with the possible result of his dismissal) for publishing articles critical of the negotiations with the European Union (EU) over the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA’s).
  • 15-Jun-2007
    Japan, Brunei to sign FTA in Tokyo
    Japan and Brunei will sign a free trade agreement next week aimed at cutting tariffs and ensuring a stable supply of natural gas to Japan from the Southeast Asian country, an official said Friday.
  • 15-Jun-2007
    Washington still non-committal on FTA with Taiwan
    A senior US trade official on Wednesday committed the Bush administration to strengthening trade ties with Taiwan, but was noncosmmittal in terms of the possibility of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Taiwan and the US.
  • 15-Jun-2007 NDV
    Colombia approves FTA with US
    Colombia’s Congress on Thursday approved a free trade deal with the United States, leaving the pact’s fate in the hands of US congressional Democrats.
  • 15-Jun-2007 The Hindu
    India wants EU to get internal consensus on FTA issues
    Learning from its Asean experience, India has asked the European Union to reach an internal consensus before putting offers on the negotiating table for the proposed comprehensive trade and investment agreement, for which talks will start later this month.
  • 15-Jun-2007 El Universal
    US Congressman: Bush wants FTA with Colombia to curb Chávez
    Charles Rangel, a Democratic member of the US House of Representatives, accused Thursday the government of US President George W. Bush of pressing the Congress to pass a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Colombia in order to counter Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.
  • 15-Jun-2007 Movimiento Boliviano por la Soberanía y la Integración solidaria de los pueblos: Contra el TLC y el ALCA
    The TCP and small soy producers of Santa Cruz
    After one year of the TCP, a preliminary study done by CIPCA Santa Cruz shows that 108 million tonnes of Bolivian soybean have been sold at the preferential price of US$217 per tonne. The going market price is US$160 per tonne. This means that a net benefit of US$57 million has been generated through the programme as an alternative to the conventional market.
  • 14-Jun-2007
    Canada Post NAFTA win sets precedent
    A landmark NAFTA decision this week dismissing allegations that Canada Post is competing unfairly has significantly restricted the rights of foreign investors to elbow their way into markets served by Crown corporations and other government enterprises.
  • 14-Jun-2007
    Bolivia offers compromise at trade summit
    Bolivia’s willingness to bend its anti-globalization stance allowed Andean leaders work out a common stand on a trade deal with the European Union at a summit here Thursday.
  • 14-Jun-2007
    Four trade deals on the horizon
    International Trade Minister David Emerson says the successful completion of Canada’s first free trade deal in six years will signal the country’s re-emergence as a player on the global trade scene.
  • 14-Jun-2007
    Mercosur trade bloc in limbo
    South America’s 15-year-old Mercosur trade bloc — made up of Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Venezuela — recently inaugurated a European Union-styled regional parliament here amid hopes by many Uruguayans that this capital will become ``the Brussels of South America.’’
  • 14-Jun-2007
    Free trade for Comesa members in offing
    President Mwanawasa alongside other Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) heads of State endorsed Zambia’s commitment to the launch of the COMESA Customs Union (CU) by December 8 next year during the recently-held COMESA summit in Nairobi, Kenya.
  • 14-Jun-2007
    SK cattle prices fall in anticipation of US beef imports
    The price of Korean cattle fell for the first time in eight years below that of bulls. The drop is largely attributable to concerns that the cattle market will likely be hard-hit by a recently signed free trade agreement (FTA) between South Korea and the United States.
  • 14-Jun-2007
    Pak-German trade agreement mutually beneficial
    Federal Minister for Commerce, Humayun Akhtar Khan met with Dr Bernd Pfaffenbach, State Secretary of German Federal Ministry of Economy and Technology here today. During the meeting they exchanged views on bilateral trade and issues related to free trade agreement.