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US unions oppose free trade with Malaysia
22-Jan-2007 IPS
Trade unions from the United States have joined forces with their Malaysian counterparts to strongly oppose ongoing negotiations for bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) until workers’ concerns are first addressed.
Documento explicativo del TPC entre Panamá y EEUU
22-Jan-2007 MICI
El Ministro de Comercio e Industrias, Alejandro Ferrer, entregó hoy ejemplares del documento explicativo del Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC) acordado con los Estados Unidos a los representantes de los partidos políticos del país.
US-Panama FTA (2007)
22-Jan-2007 USTR
Draft as of 19 January 2007
New anti-FTA protests in Colombia
22-Jan-2007 Prensa Latina
Senator Jorge Robledo announced on Sunday new demonstrations against the congressional approval of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the governments of Colombia and the US.
Chávez, Morales seek transformation of MERCOSUR trade bloc
21-Jan-2007 ZNet
As South American presidents gathered in Rio de Janeiro this week to negotiate regional trade and integration strategies, including the possible ascension of Bolivia as a full member of the Southern Cone trade bloc MERCOSUR, Presidents Hugo Chávez and Evo Morales challenged the bloc to abandon its free market neoliberal roots.
Unification remains elusive at Mercosur
21-Jan-2007 AP
Discord at the two-day Mercosur summit that ended Friday left many to wonder about the future of a trade bloc that has never lived up to its promise of integrating much of South America into an influential body like the European Union.
US, Japanese bosses call for ambitious trade pact
20-Jan-2007 The News International
Powerful US and Japanese business leaders called Friday for a free-trade agreement to link the world’s two largest economies.
US Business Roundtable and Nippon Keidanren position statement on US-Japan EPA
20-Jan-2007 US Business Roundtable
Business Roundtable and the Nippon Keidanren believe that a United States-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) holds tremendous potential for the US, Japanese, and world economies, and urge their governments to begin discussion toward a framework for negotiation of such an agreement as soon as possible.
ALBA: Justice in deeds
20-Jan-2007 Granma
The Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) welcomed Nicaragua as its fourth full member as the FSLN returned to power in that country, while in Ecuador, President Rafael Correa adds new support to the movement for Latin America integration.
Afrique de l’Ouest: APE - Ce que les paysans attendent de la CEDEAO
20-Jan-2007 AllAfrica.com
Le Réseau des organisations paysannes et des producteurs de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (ROPPA). Cette organisation est en campagne contre les APE dans leur formule actuelle, et propose de ne pas les signer. Basiaka Dao est le président de la Confédération paysanne du Faso, membre du ROPPA. Il dit en quoi ces accords ne sont pas bons pour les agriculteurs et les économies des pays de la CEDEAO.
West Africa to seek delay to European trade deal
20-Jan-2007 Reuters
West Africa plans to ask the European Union for a two-year delay to a planned economic partnership agreement (EPA), leaders said at a summit on Friday, but the EU’s executive Commission ruled out a postponement.
The US-Korea FTA’s public conclusion
20-Jan-2007 Hankyoreh
The FTA negotiations are nearing an end and, as a result, more Korean citizens are expressing their opposition to it. Even now, however, our government has yet to produce an effective proposal for how it would secure the public’s interest and welfare. Instead, it has actually become more secretive and is trying to quiet the opposition of civil society. Has it given up being a government at all?
Letter from RECALCA to US Rep Charles Rangel
19-Jan-2007 Mingas
As a coalition of union, environmental, peasant, and small business organizations, communities of Afro-Colombians and indigenous people, and women’s and human rights groups, we would like to give you our views about some of the impacts that the US-Colombia FTA will have on Colombia.
EU pact to open floodgate of imports
19-Jan-2007 AllAfrica.com
Thousands of farmers, jua kali artisans and hundreds of thousands of workers and their families will end up in deeper poverty if the Kenyan government signs an agreement that will allow farm and industrial products from Europe into the local market.
Bolivia’s entry adds to pressure on Mercosur
19-Jan-2007 IPS
The economic inequalities undermining unity among the countries of Mercosur will become more urgent with the likely acceptance of Bolivia as a full member at the bloc’s summit being held Thursday and Friday in this Brazilian city.
Uruguay/US sign TIFA agreement next week
18-Jan-2007 MercoPress
Uruguay and United States will sign next week a trade and investment agreement, short of a full free trade agreement, to strengthen bilateral trade relations. If Uruguay finally signs a free trade agreement, it would help United States break Mercosur unity.
Agreement with the GGC is important for all in the Mercosur, says Brazilian Foreign Minister
18-Jan-2007 ANBA
Representatives of the Mercosur and the Gulf Cooperation Council met yesterday in Rio de Janeiro to discuss a free trade agreement between both blocs.
South America leaders head to Rio Summit
18-Jan-2007 The Guardian
South America’s lunge toward the left is overshadowing the goal of free trade as the continent’s most prominent leaders arrived in Rio for a two-day summit of the fractured Mercosur economic bloc.
‘FTA to force 210,000 to stop rice farming’
18-Jan-2007 Korea Times
A lawmaker claimed Thursday that almost all South Korean rice farmers would lose their jobs if the rice trade were fully liberalized as a result of the free trade agreement (FTA) that is currently under negotiation with the United States.
S Korea retracts key demand on anti-dumping rules: leaked gov’t report
18-Jan-2007 Yonhap
South Korea has virtually retracted its demand for the United States to change its anti-dumping laws, clearing a major obstacle to a proposed free trade agreement between the two countries.