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FTA approval could be held up by unconstitutional clauses
19-Feb-2008 Hankyoreh
A South Korean parliamentary report says that some of the clauses of a free trade agreement with the United States — National Assembly’s right to dictate taxable items and tax rates — may be unconstitutional.
US-Korea Understanding on Agricultural Biotechnology (2007)
18-Feb-2008 Korean Advanced Farmers Federation
Negotiated on the sidelines of the US-Korea FTA, in March 2007.
Premier forum d’investissement des Etats membres de l’Accord d’Agadir
18-Feb-2008 Business News
L’objectif général du forum serait d’accroître le flux des investissements européens dans les pays de l’Espace Agadir
US Treasury Dept outlines open investment campaign to ward off protectionism
18-Feb-2008 Forbes
Developing a policy response to the concerns surrounding sovereign wealth funds, addressing the national security aspect of foreign investment, and negotiating bilateral investment treaties (BITs) are ’at the forefront of an open investment campaign that must be waged to hold the forces of protectionism at bay,’ a US Treasury Department official said today.
Talks focus on copyright laws
16-Feb-2008 Kuwait Times
Government officials in Kuwait expressed their keenness over signing a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States but a senior US economic representative recently noted that talks with regards to the issue are ongoing.
US labor leaders to Bush: No trade deal with murderers
16-Feb-2008 PWW
Top labor leaders ended a trip to Colombia Feb. 13 by telling that country’s president, Alvaro Uribe, that American unions will not support the US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement until the killing of union members by right-wing death squads there is put to a stop.
Talks with US on for Bipa-like trade treaty
14-Feb-2008 Economic Times
India and the US have begun discussions this week on an agreement to promote bilateral investment. The negotiations are expected to be protracted as the US agenda is highly ambitious.
House panel extends Andean trade pact
14-Feb-2008 AP
A US House panel on Thursday approved a 10-month extension for a trade program providing reduced tariffs for exports from the four Andean nations of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
Ivory Coast says EPA deal will lead way for region
14-Feb-2008 Reuters
Ivory Coast will sign a definitive Economic Partnership Agreement with Europe in June, which it believes will open the door for other West African countries. it is also advising regional powerhouse Nigeria on how to seal an EPA.
Mexican farmers cite surge in corn imports from US
13-Feb-2008 Hoover’s
A group mainly representing Mexican family farmers denounced Monday that imports of white corn from the United States increased 384 percent after last month’s NAFTA-mandated end to trade barriers in agriculture.
About this publication
13-Feb-2008
Learnings from the struggles
13-Feb-2008
Women versus CAFTA: declaration of the “Women of NO”
13-Feb-2008
Mujeres del NO
Resource colonialism and the Chile-Argentina Mining Treaty
13-Feb-2008
GRAIN
Integration or free trade?
13-Feb-2008
Raúl Zibechi
Two years of CAFTA: deep impacts in Central America and the Dominican Republic
13-Feb-2008
GRAIN
The opposition to CAFTA in Costa Rica: Institutionalisation of a social movement
13-Feb-2008
Maria Eugenio Trejos with the collaboration of Eva Carazo, Isaac Rojas, Silvia Rodríguez and Luis Paulino Vargas
Legal (un)certainty - over what?
13-Feb-2008
Margarita Flórez
FTA resistance in Colombia
13-Feb-2008
interview with Aurelio Suárez
Fourteen years of NAFTA and the tortilla crisis
13-Feb-2008
Ana de Ita