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WikiLeaks on Panama: Laying bare the paranoid, pro-corporate agenda
31-Dec-2010 Inside Costa Rica
Faced with widespread social opposition, governments adopt an anti-democratic stance as they push through the free trade agenda, becoming so paranoid in the process that they seek to enact illegal wiretaps.
El Salvador to concrete six trade agreements in 2011
31-Dec-2010 Inside Costa Rica
The government of El Salvador aims to concrete in 2011 trade agreements with Canada, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, the European Union (EU) and the countries of the Pacific Rim.
KORUS FTA: wrong deal, wrong time
31-Dec-2010 Korea Times
"The labor movement is not opposed to trade or globalization ― but our country cannot continue to negotiate trade agreements that favor corporate profits over people," says AFL-CIO
Letter from senior European officials supports BDS approach on Israel
31-Dec-2010 warisacrime.org
"We consider it simply inexplicable that such products still enjoy benefits under preferential trade agreements between the EU and Israel."
National Family Farm Coalition strongly opposes the Korea-US free trade agreement
30-Dec-2010 NFFC
The National Family Farm Coalition, representing 26 grassroots farmer, rancher, and fisher organizations in the United States, strongly opposes the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement.
Korean free trade agreement threatens family farmers
30-Dec-2010 Change.org
A sign-on petition from Change.org to stop US Congress from ratifiying the US-Korea FTA
EU to import Palestinian products duty free
30-Dec-2010 Ahram Online
The European Union signed an agreement with the Palestinian Authority to import some Palestinian products duty free
PA looks to expand free-trade networks
30-Dec-2010 Ma’an News Agency
The Palestinian Authority Cabinet on Tuesday instructed a committee to complete negotiations for economic cooperation with South American trade bloc Mercosur.
Constitutional Court nods disputed Korea-US FTA bill
28-Dec-2010 Korea Times
Korea’s Constitutional Court ruled Tuesday the Seoul-Washington free trade bill unilaterally submitted to the National Assembly in 2008 remains valid despite procedural errors.
North American Integration Back on the Front Burner
28-Dec-2010 BeYourOwnLeader
In the last year, the U.S. has channelled many of the the Security and Prosperity Partnership’s (SPP) trilateral negotiations to parallel bilateral discussions with both Canada and Mexico. Recent reports of a Canada-U.S. security and trade agreement has once again highlighted the whole process of deep continental integration. The U.S. is formulating a strategy with the aim of implementing a North American security perimeter.
Peru, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador discuss progress of free trade area initiative
27-Dec-2010 Andina
Trade ministers of Peru, Chile, Colombia and Ecuador will meet next month to monitor progress of Peru’s initiative to create a free trade area between the four Pacific nations
Vice economics minister quizzed over FTA plans
26-Dec-2010
Some Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) lawmakers yesterday challenged officials over the government’s post-Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) plan to seek free-trade agreements (FTAs) with as many countries as possible.
Seoul to seek more FTAs next year
26-Dec-2010
South Korea will seek to clinch more free trade agreements (FTAs) with emerging countries, including those from South America and Africa, in a bid to boost trade, the main engine behind the country’s rapid economic growth.
Sweden eyes stronger relations with UAE, supports EU-GCC FTA agreement
26-Dec-2010
Swedish officials have expressed their country’s desire for wider trade and investment relations with the UAE and for a stronger presence in the Gulf country for Swedish businesses seeking to further expand into the whole Gulf region.
Crisis pushed GCC to slow down Turkey FTA talks
26-Dec-2010
The global economic crisis of 2009 was a major reason behind Turkey’s stalled Free Trade Agreement (FTA) talks with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which began in 2005, Foreign Trade Undersecretariat officials have said.
First trade talks with US on TPP slated for mid-January
24-Dec-2010 Japan Times
Japan and the US are making preparations to hold bilateral talks in Washington in mid-January on Tokyo’s possible participation in negotiations for an expanded trans-Pacific free-trade pact, sources said Wednesday.
Relations Afrique-UE : les APE toujours en panne, relations commerciales en baisse et confiance « au plus bas »
24-Dec-2010 Ouestaf News
Les relations entre l’Afrique et l’Union européenne restent toujours difficiles, la conclusion des Accords de partenariat économique, initialement prévue au plus tard en décembre 2007 faisant toujours face à des résistances, alors que le volume des échanges entre ces deux entités est en constante baisse et la confiance à son « plus bas » niveau, selon des experts.
Bilateral investment : Unfair treaties could drain national exchequer
24-Dec-2010 Express Tribune
Pakistan has faced claims worth $1 billion and could lose hundreds of millions of dollars more because of international investment treaties that are contrary to the interests of the country, asserted UK-based corporate lawyer Mahnaz Malik.
Pfizer’s pforeign intrigue: Tried to scupper US trade deal in price control protest
24-Dec-2010 CBS News
Pfizer lobbied to scupper a free trade deal between the US and New Zealand because it was angry at the New Zealand government’s healthcare system, which strictly controls prices and new drug approvals, according to diplomatic cables leaked by Wikileaks.
Opposition calls for nullifying KORUS FTA
21-Dec-2010
A group comprising of 43 opposition lawmakers Tuesday called on the government to nullify the free trade agreement (FTA) between South Korea and the United States.