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Colombia, South Korea move to finalize trade deal
8-Feb-2011     Colombia Reports
Colombian and South Korean representatives meet Monday in Los Angeles for the third mini-round of negotiations to finalize details of a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA).
A North American security perimeter threatens national sovereignty
7-Feb-2011     Be Your Own Leader
Canada and the US have officially launched negotiations on a trade and security agreement which would take continental integration to the next level.
We need to rethink, not rearm NAFTA
7-Feb-2011     IPS
Experts expect Obama and Harper to announce a “new” border partnership to ease the flow of goods and people across the border by harmonizing security, immigration and refugee, surveillance and possibly defense policy across the continent. There's nothing new about this plan. It's the regurgitation of the defunct Bush-led Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) without the Mexican “amigo.”
Peru seeks trade pact with Arab states of Gulf
7-Feb-2011     Reuters
Peru is pushing for a free-trade agreement with with Arab states of the Persian Gulf as it aggressively expands beyond pacts it has implemented with China and the United States, state-run media said on Friday.
China, Japan, S. Korea to sign investment accord
7-Feb-2011     AFP
China, Japan and South Korea will sign a treaty in May to boost cross-border investment and better protect intellectual property, according to a report.
Law suit prospects seen in TPP deal
7-Feb-2011     Radio NZ
A top United States trade official says New Zealand is ready to accept investor-state disputes in the nine-country TransPacific Partnership trade agreement (TPP).
Wikileaks: UK undecided on EU-Syria Association Agreement
6-Feb-2011     Telegraph
"Before the Gaza crisis, Miliband had been inclined to support the Agreement, Saoul said, on the grounds that the Syria Arab Republic Government (SARG) had generally exhibited good behavior internationally (despite lack of progress on key issues such exchanging ambassadors with Lebanon), and that Syrian FM Muallem needed a deliverable to strengthen him with President Assad."
Work intensifies in preparation for EPA negotiations
4-Feb-2011     Scoop
“On the international stage, ACP-EU Economic Partnership Agreement negotiations have reached a stalemate in all regions except for the Caribbean,” said the Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat
White House, key senator in standoff over South Korean trade deal
3-Feb-2011     Washington Post
Senator Baucus has not said whether he will merely vote against the agreement or will use the full force of his authority as finance committee chairman to block it indefinitely.
Mexico: Avocado producers opposing the FTA with Peru and Brazil
3-Feb-2011     Fresh Plaza
Due to the risk to cultivation health that it represents, producers and packagers who export the Michoacán avocado oppose this fruit being included in the free trade agreements which Mexico will sign with Peru and Brazil.