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Canada to negotiate free-trade deal with Caribbean
19-Jul-2007    
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is expected to announce that Canada will begin negotiating a free-trade agreement with the 15 countries of the Caribbean Community.
Guatemala and Costa Rica: in and out of CAFTA
19-Jul-2007     IRC Americas Program
The growth in exports being celebrated by the Bank of Guatemala has nothing to do with CAFTA.
Guatemalans say US free trade costly
19-Jul-2007     Prensa Latina
One year after CAFTA-DR took effect in Guatemala, the Guatemalan Social Organizations Collective (COS) presented evidence on Wednesday that its alleged benefits are deceptive and false.
FTA push moves to top of Bush agenda
18-Jul-2007     The Gate
With the president's top domestic priority -- immigration overhaul -- in tatters, the Bush administration is intensifying efforts to move its trade agenda on Capitol Hill, using national security as an argument for four free-trade deals it wants Congress to pass as quickly as possible.
Canadian and Colombian labour jointly reject trade talks
18-Jul-2007    
In a joint statement, the largest labour federations in Canada and Colombia reject the announced trade negotiations between Canada, Colombia and Peru as “an extreme free-market trade and investment model which guarantees the rights of investors over the human, social, economic, cultural and labour rights of its citizens.”
EC grants Ecowas 44.8m Euros
18-Jul-2007    
The European Commission has approved a total of 44.8 million Euros to support regional integration in West Africa over a period of five years, from 2007 to 2011.
SA faces R80m claim for Zimbabwe farm loss
18-Jul-2007    
A Free State farmer who had farms in Zimbabwe repossessed is taking SA's government to court to try to force it to ratify a treaty designed to protect South African investments abroad.
Free trade agreement with EU possible only after Azerbaijan's WTO accession, deputy foreign minister says
18-Jul-2007    
“There are common factors in Azerbaijan's integration into Europe and accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO),” Deputy Foreign Minister Mahmud Mammadguliyev told journalists, APA reports. He said that European Union approves the idea of Azerbaijan's WTO membership.
OECS trade ministers discuss European trade
18-Jul-2007    
OECS Trade Ministers accommodated the European Commission's principal negotiator for the Economic Partnership Agreement, Karl Falkenburg on Wednesday.
Govt goes ahead with Chile free trade deal
18-Jul-2007    
Australia and Chile will go ahead with the drafting of a bilateral trade deal.