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Latin America Now: An Interview with Raúl Zibechi
17-Aug-2006     Upside Down World
In this interview, Raúl Zibechi discusses the challenges of the Evo Morales administration in Bolivia, the power and role of Bolivian social movements, projects for regional integration such as People's Trade Agreement and the Bolivarian Alternative for Latin America and the region's new situation after the electoral victories of various "progressive" governments.
When free trade sinks into the 'noodle bowl'
17-Aug-2006     IHT
FTAs are supposedly meant to substitute for lack of progress at the WTO. In practice they are mostly preferential arrangements that run counter to APEC's principle of "open regionalism," which allows members to pursue liberalization at their own pace but on a nondiscriminatory basis.
Pressure on SADC states to clear way for free trade area
17-Aug-2006    
Pressure was mounting on Southern African Development Community (SADC) leaders to get economic integration back on track in a bid to meet the 2008 target date for a free trade area in the region, said Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad yesterday.
Chile eyes Viet Nam free trade deal
17-Aug-2006     VNS
Viet Nam will receive priority under Chile's plans to develop its free trade agreement (FTA), according to the Chilean Foreign Ministry's External Economic Department.
FTA means deeper poverty in Peru
17-Aug-2006    
An issue that has received less attention is the implications of the FTA for the entry of genetically modified organisms (GMO's) into Peru.
Asean to set deadline for India to decide on FTA talks
17-Aug-2006     Bernama
Asean will set a time frame for India to decide whether it wants to continue with negotiations on the Asean-India Free Trade Agreement (FTA), a Philippine economic official said Wednesday.
Plan B for world trade
16-Aug-2006     Financial Times
The indefinite suspension of the Doha round of world trade talks creates big risks for the world economy. A new explosion of discriminatory bilateral and regional agreements is likely to substitute for global liberalisation, eroding the multilateral rules-based system of the World Trade Organisation.
Negotiate, negotiate and negotiate
16-Aug-2006     Gulf News
The EU has brought up new subjects that "hasn't really made the GCC side too happy" in terms of delaying the EU-GCC FTA negotiations. "You saw the negotiations being filled with all kinds of issues that really shouldn't have been a part of an FTA agreement: human rights, political reform and (anti-) terrorism strategies."
Frente Amplio rejects FTA with US
16-Aug-2006    
The Political Board of Uruguay's Frente Amplio on Tuesday ratified its rejection of the US-sponsored Free Trade Agreements within the framework of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).
Goff: The current state of trade negotiations
16-Aug-2006     Scoop
New Zealand has never put all its eggs in one basket and has always maintained an active regional and bilateral agenda, parallel to the WTO. In current circumstances, that is likely to intensify.