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Stiglitz: New trade pacts betray the poorest partners
19-Oct-2004
In negotiating trade agreements with Morocco, Chile and other countries, the Bush administration has used the same approach that earned us the enmity of so much of the rest of the world. The bilateral agreements reveal an economic policy dictated more by special interests than by a concern for the well-being of our poorer trading partners.
USCIB Applauds Free Trade Agreement With Morocco
14-Sep-2004
The United States Council for International Business (USCIB) welcomed completion of a comprehensive U.S.-Morocco free trade agreement.
Zollick letter on territorial coverage of US-Morocco FTA
17-Aug-2004
"The FTA will cover trade and investment in the territory of Morocco as recognized internationally, and will not include Western Sahara."
Hold your breath
17-Aug-2004 Al-Ahram Weekly
Arabs have been trying for decades to establish some sort of economic cooperation between them, but without much luck.
Morocco gets US free trade deal
24-Jul-2004 Morocco gets US free trade deal
A free trade agreement between Morocco and the United States has come into immediate effect.
A debate about more than trade
21-Jul-2004
It would be easy to dismiss the hesitation we see in Congress over the Bush administration’s proposed free trade agreement (FTA) with Morocco as just another chapter in the ongoing debate between free traders and protectionists.
Moroccans unsettled by free-trade deal with US
27-Apr-2004
The debate over the bilateral free-trade agreement (FTA) signed March 2 between Morocco and the US took the Moroccan national scene by storm. Never did the choice of a foreign commercial policy generate such a controversial reaction in the Moroccan public opinion.
USA-Morocco deal may extend drug patents to 30 years
4-Apr-2004
A free trade agreement due to be signed between Morocco and the USA by the end of this year could threaten access to medicines, several non-governmental organisations (NGOs) warned last week.
Assessment of Morocco’s Technical Assistance Needs in Negotiating and Implementing a Free Trade Agreement with the United States
30-Mar-2004
The purpose of this USAID-funded Trade Capacity-Building (TCB) Needs Assessment is to identify Morocco’s trade-related needs and prioritize among those needs as part of a technical assistance strategy to be considered by the Government of Morocco, USAID, other U.S. Government agencies, and other development donor organizations in Morocco.
U.S.-Morocco FTA: Michael Koplovsky, Economic Counselor, U.S. Embassy, Rabat, Morocco
27-Mar-2004 US Embassy, Rabat, Morocco
You are conducting your sister city partnership during an extremely timely week, for it was just days ago that the United States and Morocco elevated their already robust and vibrant bilateral relationship to a new level by completing a bilateral free trade agreement.
Government spokesman deplores false ideas about free-trade agreement with USA
27-Mar-2004
Morocco’s communication minister, Nabil Benabdellah, deplored on Thursday the "false ideas being circulated" about the free-trade agreement (FTA) that Morocco is currently negotiating with the USA.
EU-Morocco Association Agreement (2000)
20-Mar-2004
US-Morocco BIT (1991)
20-Mar-2004
Police break up Morocco protest against trade deal.
13-Mar-2004 Friends of Morocco
Moroccan police armed with truncheons on Wednesday broke up a sit-in by protesters opposed to a free trade deal with the United States which they say could hurt the North African country’s most vulnerable people.
King’s reforms had positive impact on Morocco-US FTA, prime minister
13-Mar-2004
Initiatives and reforms conducted by Moroccan king Mohammed VI in various fields have had "a positive and decisive impact" on the conclusion of a free trade agreement with the United States, said, here Thursday, Moroccan Premier Driss Jettou.
Stick approach: Police break up free trade demo in Morocco
12-Mar-2004 raioo.com
Witnesses say police used batons to break up 200 people protesting in Rabat against US-Morocco free trade deal.