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Trade deficit in food safety
29-Jul-2007     Public Citizen
Public Citizen has published a new report on the connection between trade agreements that limit US food safety policies to facilitate trade and the growing safety threat posed by US food imports
Peru, China to negotiate FTA early 2008
29-Jul-2007     Shanghai Daily
Peru and China will begin negotiations on a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in the first months of 2008
China deal hurting farm sector
29-Jul-2007     Bangkok Post
A new study finds that more than 100,000 Thai farming families cannot compete with cheap Chinese produce dumped in the market under Thailand's FTA with China.
US-Peru economic relations and the US-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement
28-Jul-2007     Open CRS
A Congressional Research Service report for US Congress
Orchardists oppose Chile free trade plans
27-Jul-2007     ABC Rural
Australian orchardists say thousands of jobs and millions of dollars could be lost if the Federal Government signs a free trade agreement with Chile.
Concluding the Economic Partnership Agreements: prospects and challenges for the Central Africa (CEMAC) regional negotiating group
26-Jul-2007    
On Monday 16 July 2007, EU and CEMAC Negotiators met in Yaounde to advance on the EPA negotiations. On the sideline of the meeting was a public manifestation by CSOs of the region to rise public awareness and especially that of the EU Negotiators on the likely impacts on EPAs on the development prospects of the region.
Australia, Indonesia to look into possible free trade agreement
26-Jul-2007     IHT
Australia's prime minister said he wants to discuss the possibility of setting up a free trade agreement with Indonesia when he meets with the country's president on Friday.
UK exporters losing out over EU's protracted Free Trade Agreements with Gulf nations
26-Jul-2007     AME Info
UK businesses are increasingly likely to lose out to the US on valuable Gulf export opportunities because it is taking so long for the EU to negotiate a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the region's key states, says Trowers & Hamlins, the international law firm.
Costa Rica opposition leader calls for renegotiation of Cafta
26-Jul-2007    
The top opposition leader in Costa Rica said he wants to renegotiate a free-trade agreement with the US, citing as a precedent the US revamping of a similar agreement with Peru.
The Australia-Japan FTA negotiations: What do they really mean?
26-Jul-2007     Japan Focus
Ono Kazuoki, veteran of Japanese and Asian farmer movements, comments on the projected Australia-Japan FTA.