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Two Caribbeans emerge at EPA signing
20-Oct-2008     Haitie-Diplomatie
Setting aside the character assassination, suggestions that Caribbean heads had agreed a flawed document, letters questioning the role of senior figures and damaging inter-institutional rivalry, what is clear is that a more fundamental philosophical divide has emerged in the context of the EPA over the direction in which the region and its integration process is headed.
World Food Day a reminder of a global crisis further sidelined by campaign frenzy, financial woes
20-Oct-2008     DN!
These free trade agreements that the US government is continuing to negotiate, most of the emphasis is usually on the industrial-in the trade in consumer goods, but not in the impact on farming. In the debate this week, for instance, Barack Obama made a distinction that he opposed the Colombia Free Trade Agreement, but he supported the Peru Free Trade Agreement, because it had supposed labor safeguards in it. What is the impact of these free trade agreements on farming in this country, as well as in the other countries that are a part, signatories?
Business grouping facilitates US-Vietnam investment treaty
20-Oct-2008     Thanh Nien News
The US Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) is set to hold in Ho Chi Minh City today a roundtable with Vietnamese officials on a planned bilateral investment treaty between the two countries.
EU free trade agreement with Central America to include ethanol
20-Oct-2008     New Energy Finance
The European Commission has offered to permanently scrap import duties on ethanol from Central America as part of ongoing discussions over an Association Agreement between the two regions.
CEFTA fails to meet expectations
20-Oct-2008     Bosnia News
The Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA), a trade agreement between Non-EU countries in Central and South-Eastern Europe, has failed to deliver positive impacts for Bosnia.
Sri Lanka develops cold feet on CEPA
20-Oct-2008     Economic Times
Concerns are growing that an economic pact between India and Sri Lanka has been indefinitely put off.
What next after EPA?
19-Oct-2008    
Finally, the on-and-off official signing ceremony for a full Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the Caribbean and the European Union (EU) is over.
Sarkozy upbeat on trade pact
19-Oct-2008    
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, declaring his love for Canada and touting his use of the Canadian model as an inspiration to reform France, says today's Quebec City summit with Prime Minister Stephen Harper will result in a "decisive impetus" toward an "ambitious" economic partnership agreement between Canada and the European Union.
China signs zero-tariff trade deal with Senegal
19-Oct-2008    
China signed Friday a trade deal with Senegal to offer zero-tariff treatment to more than 400 categories of goods imported from Senegal.
Serbia to enact EU trade deal
19-Oct-2008    
Serbia's government yesterday decided to put the country's interim trade agreement with the European Union into full effect from January 1 2009.