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Japan should continue its push for economic integration in East Asia while at the same time solidifying its relations with the United States, with an eye toward a bilateral free-trade agreement with the U.S., said participants in a recent symposium in Tokyo.
On paper, the Dominican Republic is one of most dynamic countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Last year the economy of this country of 9 million people, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, expanded at 10 percent. Politically the Dominican Republic is seen as one of the region's most stable democracies.
U.S. lawmakers have begun talks on whether to extend a 15-year-old trade preference program for Andean countries while free trade deals with Colombia and Peru remain up in the air, congressional aides said on Wednesday.
The local automotive market hasn't benefited in the 3 months of the since the Dr-Cafta trade pact took effect, said the ex-president of Acofave, which groups the auto maker's representatives.
A senior US trade official said Friday that putting Washington's new trade policies into a tentatively-reached free trade agreement (FTA) with South Korea does not constitute "re-negotiations."
For the next 10 months, the US and China will be following Taiwanese politics closely. Economic differences between political parties will be an issue -- most importantly how they affect Taiwan's political future. At the same time, Taiwan and China will be watching how the US pursues its geopolitical interests in relation to both of them.
The US-Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS) continues the practice of corporate hijacking global trade negotiations to the benefit of transnational drug and tobacco companies, and at the expense of people's health. It threatens core protections for public health, long under fire from NAFTA's notorious Chapter 11.
Why would the business community be applauding an agreement that guaranteed workers' rights in FTAs -- something they'd been fighting against for years? Because they'd been given assurances, relative to American workers, "that the labor provisions cannot be read to require compliance with ILO Conventions."
The Korea-US free trade agreement (FTA) means a lot more than the simple scrapping of tariffs. The full text of the pact released by the government showed that the strengthened protection on intellectual property rights will affect our daily lives.
We are very worried about the Korea-US FTA's IPR chapter and its confirmation letters. They have very dangerous things which the former US FTA didn't have. If this Korea US FTA is passed, then the US will request other countries to include these things in the following FTA.
