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  • 28-Feb-2008
    FTA with El Salvador effective tomorrow
    The free trade agreement (FTA) between Taiwan and El Salvador is set to take effect tomorrow, Ministry of Economic Affairs officials said yesterday.
  • 28-Feb-2008 Swazi Observer
    ’We’ve messed up’ on EPAs - trade experts
    Even though Swaziland initialled an interim economic partnership agreement (EPA) with the European Union, trade experts acknowledge that the country ’messed up’ by doing so.
  • 28-Feb-2008 Mangalorean
    Private sector for India-US investment treaty by year-end
    The US-India Private Sector Advisory Group has asked the two governments to negotiate a bilateral investment treaty by end of 2008 while continuing to promote sectoral openings.
  • 28-Feb-2008 AFP
    Brussels proposes first ever framework for EU-Libya ties
    The European Commission said it would begin negotiating an agreement covering political, social, economic, commercial and cultural relations with Libya once it has received the green light from the bloc’s 27 member nations.
  • 28-Feb-2008
    Caricom ’carry go bring come’
    Tomorrow, the Caribbean Community (Caricom) member states will assemble in Kingston to spend two days in a retreat on the conduct of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) negotiations. This is hard to believe.
  • 28-Feb-2008
    House approves trade pact extension
    The US House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a 10-month extension of a trade program aimed at promoting imports from four Andean nations and thus discouraging the cultivation and production of illegal drugs.
  • 28-Feb-2008
    AU ambassadors endorse AU stance on EPAs
    African group of ambassadors who on Friday met in Brussels expressed satisfaction at declaration of the AU assembly of heads of state and government on EPA negotiations.
  • 28-Feb-2008
    Costa Rica wins 7-month CAFTA deadline extension
    Costa Rica has won a seven-month extension from its U.S. and regional trade partners to pass laws required for its entry into the CAFTA free trade pact, President Oscar Arias said on Wednesday.
  • 28-Feb-2008
    Emerson hints oil would be back on table if U.S. reopens NAFTA
    Trade Minister David Emerson suggested the United States has a sweet deal over access to Canada’s oil under the North American Free Trade Agreement, saying the two Democratic presidential candidates calling for renegotiations may not know just how good the U.S. has it under the deal.
  • 28-Feb-2008
    USTR says beef can change timing of FTA approval
    The United States does not intend to change the order of ratifying the three remaining free trade agreements (FTA), but South Korea’s resolution of the beef issue would definitely change the timing of congressional approval of its FTA, the top trade negotiator said Wednesday.
  • 27-Feb-2008 NFU
    “Free Trade”: Is it working for farmers? Comparing 2007 to 1988
    For farmers, so-called “Free Trade” agreements do two things simultaneously: By removing tariffs, quotas, and duties, these agreements erase the economic borders between nations and force the world’s one billion farmers into a single, hyper-competitive market. At the same time, these agreements facilitate waves of agribusiness mergers that nearly eliminate competition for these corporations.
  • 27-Feb-2008 IPS
    EU aims to rope in African states resisting EPAs
    The European Union is determined to get those African countries on board which have so far kicked against the economic partnership agreements. A two-part article from Aileen Kwa.
  • 27-Feb-2008
    Call to action against Europe’s aggressive economic agenda in Africa
    Declaration of civil society organisations at the meeting of the Africa Trade Network, Cape Town, South Africa, 22 February 2008
  • 27-Feb-2008 IPS
    Trade-EU: Deals with Africa a ’PR disaster’
    Trade talks between the European Union and African countries have been a public relations "disaster" for the Brussels bureaucracy, a high-ranking official confessed Feb. 26.
  • 27-Feb-2008 Tico Times
    Panama-Guatemala free trade a ’historic step’
    Panama’s government has signed a free-trade agreement with Guatemala, Central America’s biggest economy with 11 million residents.
  • 27-Feb-2008 Upside Down World
    Peru: Four dead after government crackdown on protests against US trade deal
    A two-day national agrarian strike against a pending Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States ended on Wednesday February 20th, leaving four farmers dead after President Alan Garcia declared a state of emergency and ordered a violent crackdown.
  • 27-Feb-2008 Gulf Daily News
    New US push for Mideast free trade deal
    US officials are engaged in "informal" talks with several GCC countries on possibly concluding a Middle East Free Trade Agreement (Mefta) by 2014, it was revealed yesterday.
  • 27-Feb-2008 Globes
    Olmert in free-trade talks with Japan
    Japanese officials have expressed interest in Israel’s water and aerospace industries.
  • 27-Feb-2008 CanWest
    French heavyweights pressing for EU trade deal with Canada
    A former French prime minister and now a confidant of President Nicolas Sarkozy have endorsed the push for a Canada-Europe free trade agreement.
  • 27-Feb-2008 Prensa Latina
    Central America, EU face off on penal court
    Central America and the European Union may have difficulties reaching an association agreement due to European requirement for ratification of the Statutes of Rome of the International Penal Court.