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Groups' letter criticizes Senate's ratification of Peru free trade pact
1-Jul-2009     Straight.com
All senators but one were more concerned about investor protections for Canadian oil and mining companies, and why Canada did not get as good a deal as the US on pork and other agricultural exports, than they were with the fact that communities in the Amazon were protesting against the current and future presence of these very corporations on their ancestral lands.
GCC, ASEAN eye new trade bloc based on food, oil
1-Jul-2009     Reuters
Gulf Arab states and the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) moved toward building a trade bloc based on food and oil at a joint meeting of foreign ministers on Tuesday.
Showdown in Honduras: The rise and uncertain future of the coup
30-Jun-2009     Upside Down World
Nation-wide mobilizations and a general strike demanding that Zelaya -- a defender of the Bolivarian Alternative of the Americas (ALBA) and of Honduran workers and peasants, according to Via Campesina -- be returned to power are growing in spite of increased military repression.
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa on Democracy Now!
30-Jun-2009     DN!
"I reiterate, we’re not negotiating a free trade agreement with the European Union."
Pakistan, Nepal mull over free-trade pact
30-Jun-2009     The Hindu
Pakistan and Nepal are considering a free-trade agreement, said the Pakistan Foreign Ministry on Monday.
Honduran coup threatens to delay EU trade deal
30-Jun-2009     EU Observer
The coup throws a curve ball at EU plans to wrap up an Association Agreement with the six-country Central American bloc this year, whose members included Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama.
S. Korea, Japan to hold working-level talks on free trade pact
30-Jun-2009     Yonhap
South Korea and Japan will hold a working-level meeting this week to look into ways to resume stalled negotiations for a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA), Seoul's trade ministry said Tuesday.
Obama 'confident' FTA with Colombia will go ahead
30-Jun-2009     Colombia Reports
US President Barack Obama said Monday following a meeting with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, that he is confident that a free trade agreement with Colombia can ultimately be reached.
When managed investment funds are not "investors" for the purpose of seeking protection under BITs
30-Jun-2009     Clayton Utz
Some managed investment funds may not be able to seek protection under bilateral investment treaties when investing abroad, according to a recent award rendered in an investment treaty arbitration between a various Spanish investment funds and the Russian Federation (Renta 4 S.V.S.A v Russian Federation).
FICCI pushes for FTA with US sans agriculture
30-Jun-2009     The Hindu
The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry is pushing for a Free Trade Agreement with the United States without agriculture to bypass differences over farm subsidies.