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Costa Rica to capitalize on free trade agreement with Colombia?
21-Jul-2016 The Costarican Times
The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Costa Rica and Colombia will become effective this August 1.
Korea-Colombia FTA to take effect this week
14-Jul-2016 Korea Herald
The Korea-Colombia free trade agreement will go into effect from July 16. The agreement will eliminate tariffs on 4,390 Korean export products to the South American country.
Colombian campesinos: change the constitution, end ’free trade’
20-Jun-2016 Tele Sur
“We hold free trade agreements responsible for the bankruptcy of small producers, and we want them renegotiated”
Korea-Colombia FTA to be effective July
16-Jun-2016 Korea Herald
Colombia informed South Korea earlier in the day that it has completed the ratification process of the deal clinched in 2013, adding that the deal will go into effect on July 15.
Canadian junior miner, Colombia in trade dispute over rights at national park
8-Jun-2016 Financial Post
A small Canadian mining company has found itself at the centre of a highly charged dispute over its rights to mine for gold in a Colombian nature reserve.
No deal is better than a bad deal: 4 years of US-Colombia free trade pact
18-May-2016 Colombia Reports
Since a free trade agreement between the United States and Colombia came into force on May 15, 2012, exports from Colombia to the US have been cut in half while violence against labor rights workers persists.
Colombia not enforcing US trade deal labor standards - unions
18-May-2016 Reuters
Colombia has failed to enforce worker protections in a free trade agreement with the United States, U.S. and Colombian labor unions said, raising questions about similar provisions in the massive Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.
Letter from Colombian Embassy regarding Senate Finance, USTR pressure on Novartis compulsory license
12-May-2016 KEI
The letter says that this dispute over the compulsory license could prejudice resources for a new initiative called "Paz Colombia", as well as the US FTA with Colombia, and access to the TPP.
Colombia: there’s no place for clean water under ’free trade’
15-Apr-2016 The Ecologist
The latest country to be hooked under ’free trade’ agreements is Colombia sued for tens of billions of dollars for valuing its national parks and the high-altitude Andean wetlands that provide 70% of the nation’s water above the profits of foreign corporations.
Protecting the Santurban páramo from Angostura mining project
18-Mar-2016 AIDA
High-altitude wetlands that provide drinking water to more than two million people could become one of the world’s biggest gold and silver mines.
Organisations condemn Eco Oro Minerals’ warning that it could sue Colombia over efforts to protect water sources
16-Mar-2016 CIEL
The Canadian company’s Angostura mining project in the high-altitude wetlands, or páramo, of Santurbán, has announced that it could file an international arbitration suit against Colombia over measures to protect the páramo, which are important sources of water in the country.
US-Colombia trade down 19% since free trade deal
11-Feb-2016 Colombia Reports
Instead of increasing, trade between the United States and Colombia dropped 19% following the implementation of a controversial free trade agreement between the two countries.
Canada’s foreign policy fails to support human rights in Colombia
25-Sep-2015 CNW
A new report Colombia in the Shadow of Human Right Abuses confirms that human rights violations have not abated over the four years since the implementation of the Canada-Columbia Free Trade Agreement
Colombia and Japan to begin 12th round for Economic Partnership Agreement
15-Jul-2015 EFE
Colombia and Japan will begin the 12th round of negotiations for Economic Partnership Agreement on Tuesday, Colombian Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism announced on Monday.
CUPE delegates in Colombia to oppose secret trade deal
14-Jul-2015 Canadian Union of Public Employees
Four national public sector unions have joined forces with sister unions in Colombia to fight against the privatization of public services and to strengthen each other’s struggles to defend human and labour rights.
China, Colombia launch free trade talks
25-May-2015 Tax-News
China and Colombia have agreed to conduct a feasibility study on an FTA.
Impacts of the US-Colombia FTA in the farm sector: The portraits
17-May-2015 La Silla Rural
A new book “puts faces” on the realities rural people are experiencing two years into the US-Colombia FTA.
Impacts of the US-Colombia FTA in the farm sector
17-May-2015 Biodiversidad en América Latina
This report looking at specific cases that reflect the farming reality of Colombia allows us to verify what happened with the promises around the US FTA and open a broad debate about it.
Book alleges donor cash influenced Hillary’s stance on Colombia trade deal
23-Apr-2015 Politico
While stopping short of a direct accusation, conservative author Peter Schweizer implies there was a blurred line between Bill Clinton’s charity work and Hillary Clinton’s work at the State Department — ultimately leading to her support of the US-Colombia trade deal.
105 Colombian trade unionists killed in 4 years: NGO
20-Apr-2015 Telesur
Colombia’s National Union School presented a report to the US Congress denouncing the killing of at least 105 trade unionists since the implementation of the US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement.