ISDS Case Map
Chile
Chile and Colombia on Tuesday began a series of free trade talks which they aimed to complete within two months, Carlos Furche, who heads Chile's negotiating team, said. "The bilateral free trade agreement with Colombia will be the broadest and deepest in the region," he noted.
China and Chile's free trade agreement, which is expected to eventually exempt 97 percent of all trade goods from import tariffs, went into effect on Sunday.
Chile and Japan have negotiated a free trade agreement that among other facilities will sever bilateral exchange tariffs by 92 percent.
A council of Andean foreign ministers yesterday approved Chile's re-entry to the Andean Community of Nations trade group after a three-decade absence.
Japan's Cabinet approved a bilateral free trade pact with Chile on Friday, an official said.
Colombia and Chile will sign a free-trade agreement on Nov. 27 instead of in January as originally announced because negotiations are going faster than expected, President Alvaro Uribe said in New York on Thursday.
Japan and Chile have agreed on a bilateral free trade pact, a Foreign Ministry official said Thursday.
The Canada-Chile Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA), signed 10 years ago, has some discouraging lessons to offer would-be bilateralists. And lesson No. 1 would be: Don't expect such agreements to boost trade.
Chile plans to add Australia, Thailand and Malaysia to a growing list of free -trade partners as it pushes to become Asia's gateway to Latin America, Foreign Minister Alejandro Foxley said on Thursday.
Little by little, South America is dividing itself into two very different trade blocks. Mercosur, based on Brazil and Argentina and recently joined by Venezuela, is relatively protectionist and suspicious of bilateral trade deals with the United States. Most countries on the Pacific seaboard are committed to free trade with both el norte and Asia.
