2-Jul-2008
GRAIN
In the food safety arena, both the US and the EU are pressing their standards on other countries through bilateral free trade agreements.
2-Jul-2008
The launch of a SADC Free Trade Area in August this year will usher in a new era of economic integration with an enlarged market of more than 200 million people.
1-Jul-2008
While acrimony persists over trade talks with the European Union (EU), the Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) has had a breakthrough with bilateral negotiations with the Latin American trade bloc Mercosur.
1-Jul-2008
Backed by values of sovereignty and integration, presidents of the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) member countries meet Tuesday in this city, 186 miles northeast of Buenos Aires.
1-Jul-2008
Leaders of the South American trade bloc Mercosur meeting at a summit in Argentina have signed trade agreements with the Southern African Customs Union, as well as with Turkey and Jordan.
1-Jul-2008
Southern African Development Community (SADC) is on course to achieving a free trade area by August 1 this year, the regional bloc's trade adviser, Paul Kalenga has said.
1-Jul-2008
The Emergency Committee for American Trade, a group of large U.S. exporters, spent more than $594,000 in the first quarter lobbying on international trade issues, according to a recent disclosure report.
1-Jul-2008
Some of the Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) the country has got into in recent years have resulted in unintended adverse consequences, primarily because of non-application of mind at the time of negotiations and signing of the agreement as also lackadaisical enforcement of rules subsequently.
1-Jul-2008
The Vietnam-US Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) Council held a regular meeting in Washington from June 18-20.
1-Jul-2008
Having just spent time south of the border in a poor country whose major export is people, I've seen firsthand what's driving people north - and why conventional political solutions aren't going to deter desperate Salvadorans from coming to the U.S. Largely missing from this year's campaign is any serious reappraisal of our foreign, military, and trade policies that have forced millions Latin Americans to uproot themselves and seek opportunities for a better life far from home.
