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  • 6-Mar-2008
    ’EPAS a threat to services, investment’
    The European Union (EU) continues to come under fire for employing ’under-handed’ tactics to get African countries, including Swaziland, to conclude a comprehensive economic partnership agreement (EPA) with it.
  • 6-Mar-2008 AllAfrica.com
    Stop ’re-colonising’ Africa, civil society tells EU
    Nine civil society organisations in southern Africa have called on the European Union and its Trade Commission to align its economic partnership proposals with Africa’s economic integration plans.
  • 6-Mar-2008 Scoop
    Govt commits to putting FTA to parliamentary vote
    New Zealand Green Party MP Keith Locke has welcomed the Government’s commitment in the House today to put the free trade agreement with China, to be signed in April, to a Parliamentary vote.
  • 5-Mar-2008
    EPA harmful’ - Academics lobby for renegotiation of trade deal
    A group of academics, while stopping short of labelling the trade pact an outright failure, are proposing that Cariforum renegotiate the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), saying it gives up too much to the Europeans in exchange for too little.
  • 5-Mar-2008
    Mexico’s Calderon pushes for Panama trade deal
    Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Wednesday said Mexico was ready to talk to Panama about restarting stalled discussions on a free trade deal.
  • 5-Mar-2008
    U.S. lawmaker says FTA approval impossible this year
    A senior U.S. Democrat lawmaker said Tuesday the free trade agreement (FTA) with South Korea has no chance of passing the Congress this year, a contention strongly disputed by the South Korean ambassador to the U.S. who said he was confident Seoul can garner enough votes.
  • 5-Mar-2008
    Caricom eyes Brazil’s alert
    When Ministers of Caricom’s Council for Finance and Planning (COFAP) meet in The Bahamas tomorrow, they are expected to consider the implications for this region of reservations expressed by Brazil at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on provisions of the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) being negotiated with the European Commission (EC).
  • 5-Mar-2008
    Mandelson in eggdance to placate SA, Namibia
    EU trade commissioner Peter Mandelson spoke of a "significant development" at the Southern African Development Community (SADC) ministerial meeting held in Botswana yesterday.
  • 5-Mar-2008
    Pawar urges SAARC countries to strengthen SAFTA
    Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Wednesday urged the SAARC countries to strengthen the regional trade and pointed out that the region does not correspond to the so-called natural trading partner hypothesis and "SAFTA’s economic relevance is being questioned".
  • 5-Mar-2008
    Thai Exhibition 2008 begins in city: Bangkok proposes FTA with Dhaka
    The four-day Thailand Exhibition 2008 began at Dhaka Sheraton Hotel yesterday with Bangkok renewing its proposal for bilateral FTA with Dhaka for boosting the two-way trade.
  • 5-Mar-2008 Latin Business Chronicle
    Ecuador and investment treaties
    The government of Ecuador recently announced plans to withdraw from at least nine bilateral investment treaties, a move that follows the country’s partial withdrawal last October from the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and comes amid growing discontent among some South American governments with the system for international investment protection. What’s wrong with the system?
  • 4-Mar-2008
    Bush urges Congress to pass Colombia trade pact
    President George W. Bush urged U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday to put aside differences over a free trade agreement with Colombia and approve the pact to show support for a strong U.S. ally at the center of a crisis in Latin America.
  • 4-Mar-2008
    Shoemakers fear FTA
    Carcar City’s shoemakers are looking with dread at 2010, the year the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean)-China Free Trade Area is set to be created.
  • 4-Mar-2008
    Jean Charest disturbed by U.S. talk of reopening free-trade deal
    Premier Jean Charest is using talk of reopening the North American free-trade deal to help his efforts to get a free-trade accord between Canada and the European Union.
  • 4-Mar-2008
    ESA Region Keen to Conclude EPA Mission - Minister
    Commerce, Trade and Industry Minister, Felix Mutati, has reiterated Eastern and Southern African (ESA) countries’ commitment to conclude a comprehensive, inclusive and development friendly Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU).
  • 4-Mar-2008
    India looks to new Govt. in Pak to implement SAFTA
    India on Monday exuded confidence that the new government in Islamabad will take immediate steps to implement the South Asian Free Trade Agreement with New Delhi and take necessary measures, including duty changes, to facilitate trade.
  • 4-Mar-2008
    Trade deals spark warning
    The Pacific Network on Globalisation warned Pacific governments to be wary of viewing Pacific Island Countries Trade Agreement as "stepping stone" towards free trade deals with rich nations.
  • 4-Mar-2008
    Gildan may get caught up in U.S. election politics on Honduras tariff ruling
    Canadian sock manufacturing giant Gildan Activewear Inc. (TSX:GIL) could get caught in the middle of U.S. election-year politics as the Bush administration decides whether to end the company’s duty-free shipments of socks from Honduras.
  • 4-Mar-2008
    Rudd may be pinning his hopes on trade policy that is past its use-by date
    Kevin Rudd and his Trade Minister, Simon Crean, are very clear on the direction for trade liberalisation under a Labor Government.
  • 4-Mar-2008
    EU won’t push India on FTA
    Brussels, March 3. The European Commission will not rush the talks with Delhi for a free-trade agreement even though India’s proposed FTA with Japan could happen sooner and affect the European Union member-countries’ presence in the Indian market.