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Mary Robinson concerned about EU approach to EPAs
9-Dec-2007     IPS
A recent study by Realizing Rights, an ‘‘ethical globalisation'' body set up by the former UN commissioner for human rights and former Irish president Mary Robinson, forecasts that an EPA could harm Ghana's development prospects by narrowing its scope to create more and better-paid jobs.
Korea, Mexico hold free trade negotiations
8-Dec-2007     Korea.net
Korea and Mexico held their first round of negotiations this week on a free trade agreement aimed at tearing down market barriers between the two countries
Bush wields Colombia trade deal to halt Venezuela
8-Dec-2007     AFP
Bush is now presenting the FTA to Congress as the main US policy tool to halt the influence of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
Peru free trade agreement is disaster for farmers everywhere
7-Dec-2007     Topeka Capital Journal
The same international grain traders who dumped below-cost grain into Mexico after NAFTA, driving over a million farmers off the land and fueling illegal migration into the United States, will now do the same in Peru.
CARICOM leaders again negotiate with EU
7-Dec-2007     Prensa Latina
The complexity of the negotiations of an Accord of Economic Association with the European Union will mobilize the Heads of State of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Friday, for the third time in the last two months.
Trade row casts shadow over EU-Africa summit
7-Dec-2007     IC
A row over new trade rules risks souring the mood at this weekend's EU-Africa summit and underlines the problems Europe faces in forging new relations with its former colonies, according to analysts.
Japan aide urges US Congress approve Korea trade deal
7-Dec-2007     IHT
Japan hopes the US Congress will approve a free trade deal with South Korea that it believes could be a "building block" toward a larger US-East Asian free trade zone, a Japanese official said on Thursday.
Short end of stick for Peru farmers
7-Dec-2007     Prensa Latina
The Peruvian government's happiness was contrasted today by the solemnity of agrarian producers after the ratification of the US-Peru Free Trade Agreement by the US Senate.
Best safety net is complete rejection of JPEPA
7-Dec-2007    
Philippines government negotiators now finally acknowledge that the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) will have adverse effects, hence the need for “safety nets”. But no amount of safety nets will be enough precisely because Japan's intention is to create conditions for the maximum exploitation of the Philippines' natural and human resources through JPEPA.
EU-SADC interim FTA (2007)
7-Dec-2007    
Initialled by Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and Mozambique on 23 November 2007