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GCC, India FTA talks on track for early deal
21-Sep-2008    
Talks on a free trade agreement (FTA) between the six-nation Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) and India have made substantial progress with the two sides committing to conclude the deal as early as possible.
Displaced people: NAFTA's most important product
21-Sep-2008     NACLA
Since the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1993, the US Congress has debated and passed several new bilateral trade agreements with Peru, Jordan and Chile, as well as the Central American Free Trade Agreement. Congressional debates over immigration policy have proceeded as though those trade agreements bore no relationship to the waves of displaced people migrating to the United States, looking for work.
NLC, Liberian labour oppose signing of EPAs
21-Sep-2008     The Punch
The Nigerian Labour Congress and the Liberia Labour Congress have joined their voices in the clamour for West African governments not to sign the Economic partnership Agreements, as proposed by the European Union.
Turkey aims to sign free trade deal with ASEAN members
21-Sep-2008     World Bulletin
Turkey expressed its views to sign free trade agreement with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries, indicating that serious initiatives may be launched within the scope of Asia-Pacific strategies.
EU-Canada free trade could change US-Canada relations
21-Sep-2008     Epoch Times
Canada is moving toward a far-reaching free trade agreement with the European Union that advocates say will end a long-standing dependency on the US market.
Cafta: Trade deal has hidden qualities
21-Sep-2008     FT
In May 2004, when government officials from the US, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala gathered in Washington to sign a 2,400-page trade agreement, there was a sense of achievement in the air. Four years later, that early enthusiasm and optimism has come down several notches.
Caterpillar hoping for US-Colombia free trade agreement
21-Sep-2008     Colombia Reports
Coal mines in Colombia may not become the gold mines they could have been for Caterpillar Inc should a stalled US-Colombia free trade agreement fail to progress through Congress.
Labor and the Colombia free trade agreement
21-Sep-2008     FPIF
The only way the Colombian deal will remain the first accord of its kind defeated in Washington, it's clear, is if organized labor continues to play the central role in establishing the terms of debate around basic human rights and keeping Democratic members of Congress in line.
Trade Unions told to recommit themselves to protecting poor and underprivileged in society
20-Sep-2008     CBC
The President of the National Union of Public Workers says the Barbados trade union movement missed a golden opportunity to make its views known on the proposed economic partnership agreement between Caricom and the European Union.
Trade pact with Japan to open door wider for Vietnamese exports
20-Sep-2008     Thanh Nien
A free trade agreement between Vietnam and Japan will bring new opportunities for Vietnamese products to enter the Japanese market thanks to lower tariffs, a senior official says.