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An umbrella labor association of the South Korean metalworkers vowed Tuesday to stage a strike next week to block the parliament's ratification of a free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States.
Responding to intense and widespread opposition from both US and Korean workers, a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers is trying to stop the Bush government's proposed "free trade" pact with South Korea.
The Office of the US Trade Representative and the US Department of State has announced that the United States and Rwanda have begun formal negotiations toward a Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) that would strengthen investor protections and encourage the continuation of market-oriented economic reforms in Rwanda.
Atlantica must be stopped
immediately and replaced by a project that would focus on fair trade, secure
employment and decent wages, according to the Public Service Alliance of
Canada (PSAC). Atlantica is a project of in-depth commercial deregulation and
free trade between Atlantic Canada, Eastern Quebec and the Northeast United
States.
The United States has proposed revisions for a free trade agreement with South Korea to reflect Washington's new guidelines that call for stricter labor and environmental standards, officials said Saturday.
A seven-year legal battle by the US postal carrier United Parcel Service of America (UPS) against Canada, brought under a controversial free trade agreement, has been dismissed, but advocacy groups say a provision that allows corporations to sue for lost profits should be permanently dropped.
On April 2, the first US congressional hearing after the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement was concluded and was a complaint-filled affair.
A senior US trade official on Wednesday committed the Bush administration to strengthening trade ties with Taiwan, but was noncosmmittal in terms of the possibility of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Taiwan and the US.
Colombia's Congress on Thursday approved a free trade deal with the United States, leaving the pact's fate in the hands of US congressional Democrats.
Charles Rangel, a Democratic member of the US House of Representatives, accused Thursday the government of US President George W. Bush of pressing the Congress to pass a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Colombia in order to counter Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.
