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  • 2-Jul-2008 Antigua Sun
    Trade unions call for renegotiation of EPA
    Regional trade unionists have called for a review and renegotiation of the recently initiated Economic Partnership Agreement, negotiated between the EU and the Caribbean Forum countries, Caribbean Community member states and the Dominican Republic.
  • 2-Jul-2008 GRAIN
    Food safety - rigging the game
    In the food safety arena, both the US and the EU are pressing their standards on other countries through bilateral free trade agreements.
  • 2-Jul-2008
    Free trade on the horizon
    The launch of a SADC Free Trade Area in August this year will usher in a new era of economic integration with an enlarged market of more than 200 million people.
  • 1-Jul-2008
    Trade Accord Boosts Latin America Ties
    While acrimony persists over trade talks with the European Union (EU), the Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) has had a breakthrough with bilateral negotiations with the Latin American trade bloc Mercosur.
  • 1-Jul-2008
    MERCOSUR presidents meet today
    Backed by values of sovereignty and integration, presidents of the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) member countries meet Tuesday in this city, 186 miles northeast of Buenos Aires.
  • 1-Jul-2008
    Mercosur signs trade deals with SACU, Turkey, Jordan
    Leaders of the South American trade bloc Mercosur meeting at a summit in Argentina have signed trade agreements with the Southern African Customs Union, as well as with Turkey and Jordan.
  • 1-Jul-2008
    SADC’s Free Trade Area Bid On Course - Kalenga
    Southern African Development Community (SADC) is on course to achieving a free trade area by August 1 this year, the regional bloc’s trade adviser, Paul Kalenga has said.
  • 1-Jul-2008
    Int’l trade group spent over $594,000 lobbying
    The Emergency Committee for American Trade, a group of large U.S. exporters, spent more than $594,000 in the first quarter lobbying on international trade issues, according to a recent disclosure report.
  • 1-Jul-2008
    ‘Indian entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka flouting spirit of FTA’
    Some of the Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) the country has got into in recent years have resulted in unintended adverse consequences, primarily because of non-application of mind at the time of negotiations and signing of the agreement as also lackadaisical enforcement of rules subsequently.
  • 1-Jul-2008
    Vietnam-US TIFA council convenes in Washington
    The Vietnam-US Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) Council held a regular meeting in Washington from June 18-20.
  • 1-Jul-2008
    Report from El Salvador: Why They All Keep Coming
    Having just spent time south of the border in a poor country whose major export is people, I’ve seen firsthand what’s driving people north - and why conventional political solutions aren’t going to deter desperate Salvadorans from coming to the U.S. Largely missing from this year’s campaign is any serious reappraisal of our foreign, military, and trade policies that have forced millions Latin Americans to uproot themselves and seek opportunities for a better life far from home.
  • 1-Jul-2008
    Bimstec meet will focus on poverty, food security
    Seven countries of the Bay of Bengal rim will plan a common agenda for agriculture development to ensure food security and measures aimed at poverty alleviation at their first ministerial meeting here on 9 July.
  • 1-Jul-2008
    European trade bloc EFTA eyes closer ties with Asia
    Ministers from the four-nation European economic grouping EFTA agreed on Monday to extend their network of free-trade and investment pacts to India and key Southeast Asian countries.
  • 1-Jul-2008
    $1bn under threat
    The Fiji Sugar Corporation might not be able to meet the first quota under the billion-dollar export deal with the European Union if cane supply problems continue.
  • 1-Jul-2008
    McCain to talk free trade in Latin America
    John McCain has changed his mind about the president’s tax cuts and drilling for oil off the U.S. coast, but the Republican presidential hopeful says his advocacy of free trade is unyielding.
  • 1-Jul-2008
    China deal lacking support
    The number of no votes, have outnumbered the yes votes in submissions on the government’s Free Trade Agreement with China.
  • 1-Jul-2008
    Action alert: Write a letter to the President of South Korea
    Please write a letter to the President of South Korea to immediately stop the police crackdown and imprisonment of people engaged in protest against the Korea-US beef.
  • 1-Jul-2008
    Economic Partnerships Matter
    We are told that the fundamental principles and objectives of the Economic Partnership Agreement between the European Union and CARIFORUM states are defined by the Cotonou Agreement. We are advised that this agreement seeks to create sustainable development of the states, their smooth and gradual integration in the world market, and eradication of poverty.
  • 1-Jul-2008
    Indonesia-Japan economic partnership agreement goes into effect tomorrow
    Tomorrow will be a historic day for Indonesia and Japan as the two countries sign an economic partnership agreement (EPA) which will go into effect on July 1, 2008.
  • 1-Jul-2008
    Govt ‘must include workers in EPA talks’
    The Fiji Trades Union Congress (FTUC) has written to the interim Government to include workers in talks regarding the various trade agreements Fiji is treaty to.