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New Zealand to hold free trade talks with Japan, South Korea next month
21-Apr-2008     IHT
Prime Minister Helen Clark said Monday she will hold exploratory free trade talks in Japan and South Korea next month -- only weeks after securing a comprehensive free trade agreement with China.
'Unity swim' staged vs JPEPA
21-Apr-2008     Inquirer
Protest rallies are common these days in the Philippines, but on Monday, militants staged a different kind of protest as they engaged in a "unity swim" at Manila Bay against the passage of the controversial trade agreement between the Philippines and Japan.
US election looms over North American summit
21-Apr-2008     Reuters
With the US election looming over their annual summit, North American leaders gather in New Orleans this week for what is expected to be a largely symbolic meeting overshadowed by questions about free trade.
A temporary victory: Colombian unions campaign against FTA
21-Apr-2008     Workers World
The postponement of a vote in the US Congress is just a temporary victory for Colombian workers, due primarily to the hard work of many Colombian trade unionists who have risked their lives visiting the United States to expose the crimes and violence against union leaders in their country.
Beef exports to South Korea may suffer
21-Apr-2008     SMH
Soaring Australian beef exports to the lucrative South Korean market could suffer after South Korea lifted restrictions on US imports.
South Korea, Japan fail to agree on free-trade talks
21-Apr-2008     Bloomberg
South Korean President Lee Myung Bak and Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda failed to agree on resuming negotiations for a free-trade agreement when they met today in Tokyo for their first official summit.
EPA - could have dire consequences
21-Apr-2008     Jamaica Observer
Anyone could be forgiven for wanting to fall asleep whenever the new Economic Partnership Agreement between Europe and the Caribbean comes into the conversation. The language is so complex and dry that only professional diplomats can understand it. (And even some of them are pretending). But the Caribbean needs to pay attention, because the economic consequences of this new agreement are heading towards it like an express train with potentially catastrophic consequences.
Japan-ASEAN FTA (2008)
21-Apr-2008     MOFA
Lee, Bush connect FTA to alliance
20-Apr-2008    
President Lee Myung-bak and U.S. President George W. Bush shared the view that the free trade agreement (FTA) is important for the two countries' alliance.
Colombian gov't infiltrated by 'paras'-witness
20-Apr-2008     Reuters
The allegation could increase resistance in Washington to a US-Colombia free trade deal, blocked by House of Representatives Democrats concerned that Uribe is not doing enough to protect labor union members who are often targeted by the paramilitaries.