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  • 19-Mar-2008
    Trade clause a coup for NZ
    New Zealand has succeeded in gaining "most favoured nation" status from China in the negotiations for the upcoming bilateral free trade deal.
  • 19-Mar-2008
    National MP to join Clark at Beijing free trade signing
    The National Party is taking a bi-partisan approach to the Free Trade Agreement with China which will be signed next month, and in return it is going to get a piece of the action in Beijing.
  • 19-Mar-2008
    EU warns Sri Lanka trade depends on rights record
    The European Union has told Sri Lanka it has "very serious concerns" about civil war human rights abuses and that lucrative trade concessions could be at risk if they continue.
  • 19-Mar-2008 EUX.TV
    Michel on EPAs: ’I do not accept these excuses’
    Continued opposition to new economic partnership agreements for Europe’s former colonies is too often based on "simplistic" arguments that are not acceptable, according to the European Commission. "I do not accept these excuses," says European Development Commissioner Louis Michel in an interview with EUX.TV. "If they really want to profit from globalization, they have no choice."
  • 19-Mar-2008 USTR
    US-Rwanda BIT (2008)
  • 19-Mar-2008 IPS
    Venezuela: Gov’t celebrates British ruling against Exxon
    Venezuela celebrated, as a triumph for countries of the developing South, Tuesday’s ruling in its favour by a British court in a legal dispute with US oil giant Exxon Mobil, which overturned an earlier court order to freeze around 12 billion dollars in Venezuelan assets.
  • 19-Mar-2008 Scoop
    Locke calls for stronger support for Tibetans
    We can’t separate the oppression of the Tibetan people from the preferential trade agreement New Zealand is about to sign with China.
  • 19-Mar-2008 Costa Rica Pages
    Costa Rica negotiates Free Trade Agreement with EU
    Representatives from Central America and the European Union met yesterday, March 17th, to negotiate new trade policy. One of the key elements being proposed by the Central American committee is the lowering of tariffs imposed on certain agricultural products to allow for more competitive trade.
  • 19-Mar-2008 AIC
    The right to run their own economy: AIC policy paper on Palestinian trade
    Israel is not interested in the supposed “peace dividends” associated with free trade based on the sovereign economic policy of all parties. Israel evidently has other plans, most obvious of which are territorial expansionism and control of the population, both incompatible with Palestinian sovereignty.
  • 18-Mar-2008
    Join the week of strategy planning and action against European Free Trade Agreements
    Over 40 people from movements and organisations from the South will visit Europe and join together with European organisations to sound the alarm on EU Free Trade Agreements (FTAs)
  • 18-Mar-2008
    EPAs: The latest (unspoken) facts
    According to the latest information received, the ACP countries should be under pressure again this year to sign and provisionally implement EPAs before notification to the WTO could take place in order to avoid a challenge by other developing countries — this despite a legal opinion by a renowned WTO legal expert, Dr Lorand Bartels, that initialled interim EPAs could be notified to the WTO.
  • 18-Mar-2008 NZTV
    Activists to protest over China deal
    Human rights activists will take to the footpath outside Helen Clark’s Auckland office on Wednesday to protest against a free-trade deal with China.
  • 18-Mar-2008 Sun Star Cebu
    Speak out: Trade deals
    We should use what we learned from the ZTE deal to analyze JPEPA. We should demand accountability and transparency in all the deals and contracts that our government enters into.
  • 17-Mar-2008 Scoop
    The problem of preferential trade with larger partners
    Chinese repression of Tibetan dissidents has pushed the issue of the impending Free Trade Agreement between New Zealand and the Peoples Republic of China back into the news. In a diplomatic sidestep both Helen Clark and John Key claim that events in Tibet have nothing to do with free trade. Perhaps that is true, but there are other issues to consider.
  • 17-Mar-2008 AlterNet
    The Colombia trap
    There have been a lot of surprising developments in recent days on the Colombia FTA, most recently with Dem leadership seeming to be suggesting that there could be a vote on the Colombia FTA if there is more trade adjustment assistance. (As we’ve argued before, it’s hard to get all worked up for TAA, because it is highly inadequate to the scope of the problem, but that’s for another time.)
  • 17-Mar-2008 NZTV
    Pressure on PM over China
    Violent protests in Tibet have come at a very awkward time for the New Zealand government with Prime Minister Helen Clark about to sign a free trade deal with China. While other government’s around the world were quick to condemn China’s violent response to Tibetan protests, Clark was hesitant for most of Monday, saying she did not have enough information.
  • 17-Mar-2008 Narco News
    “Without corn, there is no country”
    International Women’s Day marchers target NAFTA and free trade on the streets of San Cristóbal, Chiapas
  • 16-Mar-2008 Telegraph
    Free trade talks with EU lose pace
    India and the European Union (EU) will have to give the December deadline for their free trade agreement a miss if differences persist over the negative list and non-tariff barriers to trade.
  • 16-Mar-2008 NewsTalk ZB
    Locke says govt cannot sign FTA
    A Green MP says New Zealand cannot sign a free trade agreement with China while it continues to suppress Tibetan people.
  • 15-Mar-2008 MCOT
    Thailand-Myanmar investment protection agreement signed
    Thailand and its neighbour Myanmar have signed an investment accord aimed at protecting Thai investors and boosting foreign stakes in the diplomatically-isolated country’s economy.