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Emerson hints oil would be back on table if U.S. reopens NAFTA
28-Feb-2008    
Trade Minister David Emerson suggested the United States has a sweet deal over access to Canada's oil under the North American Free Trade Agreement, saying the two Democratic presidential candidates calling for renegotiations may not know just how good the U.S. has it under the deal.
USTR says beef can change timing of FTA approval
28-Feb-2008    
The United States does not intend to change the order of ratifying the three remaining free trade agreements (FTA), but South Korea's resolution of the beef issue would definitely change the timing of congressional approval of its FTA, the top trade negotiator said Wednesday.
“Free Trade”: Is it working for farmers? Comparing 2007 to 1988
27-Feb-2008     NFU
For farmers, so-called “Free Trade” agreements do two things simultaneously: By removing tariffs, quotas, and duties, these agreements erase the economic borders between nations and force the world's one billion farmers into a single, hyper-competitive market. At the same time, these agreements facilitate waves of agribusiness mergers that nearly eliminate competition for these corporations.
EU aims to rope in African states resisting EPAs
27-Feb-2008     IPS
The European Union is determined to get those African countries on board which have so far kicked against the economic partnership agreements. A two-part article from Aileen Kwa.
Call to action against Europe's aggressive economic agenda in Africa
27-Feb-2008    
Declaration of civil society organisations at the meeting of the Africa Trade Network, Cape Town, South Africa, 22 February 2008
Trade-EU: Deals with Africa a 'PR disaster'
27-Feb-2008     IPS
Trade talks between the European Union and African countries have been a public relations "disaster" for the Brussels bureaucracy, a high-ranking official confessed Feb. 26.
Panama-Guatemala free trade a 'historic step'
27-Feb-2008     Tico Times
Panama's government has signed a free-trade agreement with Guatemala, Central America's biggest economy with 11 million residents.
Peru: Four dead after government crackdown on protests against US trade deal
27-Feb-2008     Upside Down World
A two-day national agrarian strike against a pending Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States ended on Wednesday February 20th, leaving four farmers dead after President Alan Garcia declared a state of emergency and ordered a violent crackdown.
New US push for Mideast free trade deal
27-Feb-2008     Gulf Daily News
US officials are engaged in "informal" talks with several GCC countries on possibly concluding a Middle East Free Trade Agreement (Mefta) by 2014, it was revealed yesterday.
Olmert in free-trade talks with Japan
27-Feb-2008     Globes
Japanese officials have expressed interest in Israel's water and aerospace industries.