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Peruvian society, and what is worse, most politicians in the Andean countries, do not seem to have adequately grasped the reach of FTAs with the United States, and tend to evaluate them in purely commercial terms.
"The illegal currency subsidies given by China to its manufacturing exporters dwarf the $9 billion in trade covered by the proposed Peru FTA. Rather than focusing on real trade problems, the House instead passed an FTA with a country that only could afford to buy 0.28 percent of U.S. exports in 2006,” American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition Executive Director Auggie Tantillo said
Congress should wait at least one year before voting on a free trade agreement with Colombia because of continuing violence in that country against trade unionists, the largest US labor group said on Friday.
In a rare victory for President Bush since Democrats took control of Congress, the US House of Representatives approved a trade agreement with Peru today in a vote that exposed a rift within the Democratic ranks over the issue.
Japanese and US business leaders said Monday their governments should launch negotiations in 2009 to conclude an all-inclusive economic partnership agreement between the world's two largest economies.
Brussels and Washington have taken steps toward free-trade agreements with ASEAN, but they could be stopped in their tracks if the destination was a deal that had to include Myanmar.
The Bush administration wants congressional Democratic leaders to schedule a vote "as soon as possible" on a controversial free trade agreement with Colombia
A parliamentarian committee in Bahrain has called for the reopening of the Israel boycott office. Manama shut down the office in 2005 as part of the requirements by the US Congress before it ratified a free trade agreement with Bahrain
The US Meat Export Federation estimates that around 50 percent of pork production in Colombia comes from family-owned farms
Letter from Costa Rican citizens to US Congress requesting rejection of the alleged approval of CAFTA through the 7 October referendum
