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FTA launch boost for regional integration
20-Aug-2008    
The launch of the Sadc Free Trade Area is a momentous occasion for the region as it makes further strides towards regional integration.
EPAs: The new game of divide and rule
20-Aug-2008     LaRRI
It will be critical in the coming months to mobilise resistance to the implementation of the Interim EPA in its current format and thereby strengthen the Namibian Government's hand not to sign a final EPA with the EU. Namibia should also link up with African and international campaigns against EPAs, which have emerged in the past few years. The battle is not lost but there is little time left to prevent EPAs from becoming a new and powerful tool to promote EU interests at the expense of Africa's development needs. A new publication from the Labour Resource and Research Institute (LaRRI).
Pacific civil society organisations statement on trade justice
20-Aug-2008    
Pacific NGOs, churches and trade unions working on trade justice issues are concerned about the push for free trade agreements in the Pacific and the grave risk that these agreements pose for our people.
Fiji: Trade justice statement released
20-Aug-2008     Radio Fiji
Pacific NGOs, churches and unions have released a joint statement on trade justice in the Pacific warning of the costs of a free trade deal with Australia and NZ, and urging Pacific leaders to be wary that a new seasonal workers' scheme could be used as a bargaining chip to enter free trade negotiations.
Australian-Chile Free Trade Agreement - The "new freedom!"
20-Aug-2008     Mondaq
The AC-FTA represents a new generation of Free Trade Agreements and establishes a broad level of market access. Australian companies are certain to benefit,
St Lucia concern about EPA
20-Aug-2008     Radio Jamaica
St Lucia's Prime Minister, Stephenson King says his country wants concerns addressed about the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) the region has negotiated with the European Union.
Junta benefits from regional economic tug-of-war
20-Aug-2008     Mizzima
India and ASEAN have announced that talks on services and investment are set to commence next month ahead of a comprehensive free trade agreement (FTA) to be signed later this year. This latest step in deepening regional economic integration is further evidence of an ever expanding matrix of competing regional economic interests, which Burma finds itself at the heart of.
Peru: Native groups protest laws facilitating sales of land
20-Aug-2008     IPS
Since Aug. 9, indigenous demonstrators have been demanding the repeal of two decree laws that promote private investment in their territory, and the reestablishment of a clause from the 1979 constitution -- which was replaced by the new constitution in 1993 -- which stated that communally owned land in indigenous territory could not be sold or embargoed. The decree laws were approved by the executive branch under special powers granted by the legislature for the implementation of the free trade agreement signed with the United States.
Struggle for the energy resources of Central Asia: possibilities for the EU
19-Aug-2008    
Thai-Korea pact to cabinet
19-Aug-2008     Bangkok Post
The free trade agreement between Thailand and South Korea will be submitted for cabinet approval today, paving the way for the two countries to officially sign the pact at the Asean economic ministers' meeting scheduled for Aug 25-27 in Singapore.