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1. Colonisation redux: new agreements, old games
13-Feb-2008    
East Africa: Ministers propose bigger regional trading bloc
13-Feb-2008     AllAfrica.com
East Africa's trade ministers have proposed the formation of a larger trading bloc to eliminate friction among states over deals signed with partners outside the continent. The proposal made at a meeting of the Trade ministers in Arusha last week calls for the formation of a grand Free Trade Area (FTA) consisting of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) and the Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc).
Canberra wants Thai services sector opened
12-Feb-2008     Bangkok Post
The Australian government will negotiate for greater opening of Thailand's services sector this year under the Thailand-Australia Free Trade Agreement
The specter in JPEPA
12-Feb-2008     The specter in JPEPA
One does not have to be a constitutionalist, a legalist, an economist, an environmentalist, and, yes, even a pundit to see that many provisions in the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement are so frightfully flawed and to realize that it could very well become an environmental and economic nightmare for this country and its people.
Liberal party blocks talks on Korea-US FTA ratification
12-Feb-2008     Yonhap
A scheduled parliamentary discussion on the ratification of a South Korea-US free trade deal was called off Monday as members of the Democratic Labour Party blockaded the meeting venue. Meanwhile, the head of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions -- a militant labor umbrella group -- left for a trip to the United States Monday, vowing to nullify the motion in cooperation with US labor groups.
Sugar industry drops bid to restrict trade
12-Feb-2008     The Statesman
The US sugar industry announced Friday it was abandoning efforts to insert a provision in the federal farm bill that would renew restrictions on the sugar trade between the United States and Mexico.
TRIPS, bilateralism and patents: how they are failing both the developed and the developing world and what to do about it
11-Feb-2008     ANU
Luigi Palombi discusses TRIPS, post-TRIPS bilateralism and patents in the context of biological resources and traditional knowledge and seeks to provide a solution to the present intellectual property deadlock between the developed and developing worlds.
El Salvador's “American-made” Terrorism Act in corporate play
11-Feb-2008     MWC News
Critics of CAFTA say it was no coincidence that the anti-terrorism legislation was enacted six months after the trade agreement. Update on the case against the Suchitoto 13.
Africa: Mass protests against EU-enforced neo-liberalism
11-Feb-2008     Socialist Youth
A part of the mass movement against the EU EPAs is drawing the conclusion that they have to find other partners in the fight against neo-liberalism. The coalition we need is an international one, of the working people and poor, that struggles against capitalism.
The European party agrees amending the Association Agreement
9-Feb-2008     El Khabar
The EU says it will revise the its Association Agreement with Algeria, pointing out competition from China and enhanced 'security' interests