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Free trade pacts bad for business: Colombian milk association
5-Nov-2011
Colombia’s dairy sector needs government assistance to be able to compete with European farmers, said the president of the national milk producers’ association Friday.
US union tells Clinton Colombian colleagues face ’elevated threat’
24-Oct-2011 Colombia Reports
US labor union United Steelworkers sent Hillary Clinton an "emergency alert" Friday warning Secretary of State that Colombian unionists are under an "elevated threat" after Washington approved a free trade deal between the two countries.
US-Colombia FTA to be signed in days: Adviser to Obama
18-Oct-2011 Colombia Reports
The US Free Trade Agreement with Colombia will be signed into law within days, according to the US President’s senior adviser on Latin America.
Results of the fifth round of FTA negotiations between Korea and Colombia
17-Oct-2011 ISRIA
The two countries engaged in intensive discussion on outstanding issues in the areas of trade in goods, trade remedies, intellectual property rights, investment, rules of origin, cooperation, and sanitary and phytosanitary measures.
The mixed nature of the agreement: a question of democracy
13-Oct-2011 RECALCA
The start of the approval process for the European Union’s Multiparty Agreement with Colombia and Peru has reignited the debate about the mixed nature of the agreement.
Biggest US free trade legislation since 1994 eases protectionist concern
13-Oct-2011 Bloomberg
The U.S. Congress approved free-trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama, bringing an end to years of stalemate and offering what supporters said was the biggest opportunity for exporters in decades.
Colombia not ready for US, EU FTAs: Agriculture minister
11-Oct-2011 Colombia Reports
Colombia’s Agriculture Minister Juan Camilo Restrepo said Monday the country is not prepared for the effects of the free trade agreements with the United States and the European Union.
An agreement to be resisted
10-Oct-2011 Morning Star
The US Republican-dominated Congress appears likely to approve the agreement, which makes it more vital than ever to press MEPs not to ratify the EU-Colombia FTA.
Canada travellers to face US surcharge from US-Colombia trade pact
5-Oct-2011 WSJ
"Assuming this free-trade agreement gets passed, this will increase imports from Colombia to the United States ... and Canada will pay for the cost of Colombian goods shipped to the US," said Birgit Matthiesen, a US-based adviser for the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters, a Canadian business lobby.
Trade pacts set for heated fight
4-Oct-2011 WSJ
The AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest labor federation, opposes all three agreements and will hold a Capitol Hill demonstration Tuesday to protest them. But the short timeline mapped out for passage gives opponents little time to block the deals.
CWA: Colombia free trade agreement is a flawed plan, will not improve workers’ lives in Colombia
4-Oct-2011 CWA Union
Communications Workers of America calls on Congress to reject the US-Colombia FTA
Study: Colombia anti-union violence undeterred
3-Oct-2011 AP
A new study challenges claims from the administration of President Barack Obama that Colombia is making important strides in bringing to justice killers of labor activists and so deserves U.S. congressional approval of a long-stalled free trade pact.
Colombia-EU-Peru trade pact approved by commissioners
23-Sep-2011 Colombia Reports
The European Commission has approved the European Union’s free trade agreement with Colombia and Peru, international media reported.
’Colombia and China ready to begin FTA process’
16-Sep-2011 Xinhua
China and Colombia have taken significant steps toward strengthening their bilateral trade and are expected to soon start negotiations on a free trade agreement, a Colombian economist and diplomat said Thursday.
The pending US-Colombia free trade agreement: False claims versus hard realities
9-Sep-2011 Upside Down World
Corporate leaders and US and Colombian government officials with their public relations operatives are peddling lie after lie to justify passage of the US-Colombia FTA. This guide will help people counter the falsehoods in the coming weeks.
A critical look at pending free trade agreements
9-Sep-2011 WBEZ
We sift through the facts and myths of free trade agreements with Laura Carlsen, director of the Americas Program of the Center for International Policy and a columnist for Foreign Policy in Focus.
Commerce secretary Rahul Khullar heads to LatAm in Panama and Colombia for FTA talks
31-Aug-2011
After shunning Latin America two years ago, the government is now seeking closer economic ties with the region as part of its initiative to diversify markets for Indian merchandise.
US wants FTA with Colombia while human rights deterioration culminates in massacre
29-Aug-2011 Colombian Reports
While the United States considers a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Colombia, the human rights situation in the Magdalena Medio region of Colombia has deteriorated dramatically, culminating on the 17th of August with a massacre in the township of El Dorado.
Camp says Canada-Colombia free trade puts US at disadvantage
15-Aug-2011
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp said a free-trade accord between Canada and Colombia that takes effect today puts the U.S. at a disadvantage and underscores the need to pass the nation’s own stalled agreements.
MAC applauds progress by Canadian government in the Americas
11-Aug-2011
The Mining Association of Canada today offered congratulations to the federal government on the formal entry into force of the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement effective August 15 2011.