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  • 4-Apr-2008
    Anti-FTA meet in Cuba for integration
    Cuba will host from April 7-11 the 7th Meeting against Free Trade Treaties for Integration that will urge to unite against the US Administration neoliberal policy.
  • 4-Apr-2008
    Singapore offers FTA pact
    President-elect Ma Ying-jeou has expressed his wish to resume talks on a free trade agreement (FTA) with Singapore under the name the island uses at the World Trade Organization (WTO).
  • 4-Apr-2008
    Cuddling up to China
    The "smog and mirrors" surrounding New Zealand’s historic free trade agreement with China is about to lift, along with remnants of the Beijing winter.
  • 4-Apr-2008
    Japan’s free trade agreement tension
    Agriculture Minister Tony Burke has warned the Japanese they cannot have a free trade agreement under the conditions being sought by their negotiators.
  • 4-Apr-2008
    EPA text released
    CARIFORUM states including The Bahamas are now free to perform their respective legal reviews of the Economic Partnership Agreement [EPA] between the grouping and the European Union now that a legal scrub of the document has been completed, the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery [CRNM] Director General Ambassador Richard Bernal confirmed yesterday.
  • 4-Apr-2008
    Girvan: EPA bad deal for region
    The devil is in the detail. That is how former secretary general of the Association of Caribbean States, Professor Norman Girvan, has described the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the European Union (EU) and CARIFORUM countries (CARICOM and Dominican Republic).
  • 4-Apr-2008 AlterNet
    The ravaging effects of capitalism on my hometowns
    What will become of Costa Rica? That’s the question on my mind, now that my adopted country has narrowly accepted CAFTA. Our national slogan is "Pura vida!" meaning "pure life," and it’s commonly used as an affirmation that life is good. It’s easy to understand how such an expression could catch on here: Costa Rica has virtually no enemies, a temperate climate, and a hell of a lot of good beaches. However, as an expatriate whose previous hometowns have been despoiled by global capitalism, I find it difficult to imagine that life will be as pure or as good once the effects of CAFTA begin to kick in.
  • 4-Apr-2008
    Ministers of customs union meet in Botswana this week
    Trade and finance ministers of the five-nation Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) will meet in Botswana tomorrow to discuss deeper regional integration and challenges like the pending trade agreement with the European Union.
  • 4-Apr-2008
    Maori divided over free trade deal
    Ngai Tahu Seafood, the lucrative fisheries arm of one of the largest Maori tribes, says the Government’s controversial free-trade pact with China is a good deal and will earn the iwi millions of dollars.
  • 4-Apr-2008
    Costa Rica telecom market seen opening soon
    Costa Rica, one of the few Latin America countries still with a state-run telephone sector, is expected soon to open to big foreign players as part of a trade deal with the United States.
  • 4-Apr-2008
    Brazil sees EU-Mercosur talks moving later in 2008
    Long-stalled talks on a trade agreement between the European Union and South America’s Mercosur bloc should make progress in the second half of this year, Brazil’s foreign minister said on Thursday.
  • 4-Apr-2008
    Indian minister sees ASEAN free trade deal in months
    India is hoping to conclude a free trade agreement with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations within three months, the country’s minister of commerce and industry said Friday.
  • 4-Apr-2008
    Goff leaves for FTA signing in China
    Trade Minister Phil Goff leaves for China tomorrow to play his part in the signing of the free trade deal between New Zealand and China.
  • 4-Apr-2008
    Bid to revive FTA talks with us
    The Commerce Ministry yesterday indicated to the United States that it is ready to resume talks on a free-trade agreement (FTA) as concerns mount that Thailand may lose its competitive edge to export rivals.
  • 4-Apr-2008
    TLC UE-Centroamérica: capítulo propiedad intelectual (2008) - texto no oficial
  • 4-Apr-2008
    Hopes of fast FTA benefits for NZ
    Business leaders are optimistic that the free trade agreement with China will be comprehensive and have quicker phaseout periods for tariffs than a similar pact New Zealand signed with Thailand in 2005.
  • 3-Apr-2008
    Congressional aide says Korea FTA ’not going anywhere’
    A U.S. congressional aide expressed distrust of the pending free trade agreement (FTA) with South Korea, claiming Wednesday it does not eliminate trade barriers, especially on beef and autos.
  • 2-Apr-2008 Bangkok Post
    FTAs ’ignoring environment’
    While the government moves to strengthen Thailand’s global position through free-trade agreements, more efforts are needed to consider the environmental impact of increased industrial activity.
  • 2-Apr-2008
    China, US move forward on new food safety agreement
    The US and China have agreed to implement a new bilateral food safety system by initially focusing on four product categories, said FDA officials.
  • 1-Apr-2008
    Dominican Republic not eligible for money from DR-CAFTA
    The Dominican Republic and Guatemala are the only two countries in DR-CAFTA that have not been able to access money from the Millennium Account due to internal issues.