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Bilateral deal-making involving governments of Latin America, the US and Canada.

last update: May 2012

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Will Honduras's new trade deal with Canada spur economic growth?
1-Oct-2014     Forbes
Contrary to what Canadian trade chief Ed Fast says, rising levels of trade have not led to increased prosperity in Honduras.
UNASUR dispute settlement centre will start operating in 2015
30-Sep-2014     El Telégrafo
Next year, the South American Union of Nations (UNASUR) dispute settlement centre will start operating, announced the UNASUR Secretary General
UNASUR representatives analyse the Agreement Establishing the Centre for Investment Dispute Settlement 
25-Sep-2014     Gobierno del Ecuador
The 11th meeting of the UNASUR Working group of highly qualified experts on investment dispute settlement took place in Quito from 23-26 September at the Ministry for External Affairs and Human Mobility.
Latin America reacts to Israel’s massacre in Gaza
4-Aug-2014     Mint Press
Latin American countries are now moving to sever diplomatic ties with the settler-colonial state — as some have done in the past — and Chile has already suspended its existing free trade agreements.
The Alba Fair hosts Venezuela Exporta in Cochabamba
14-Jul-2014     Aporrea
Alvaro Garcia Linera, the vice president of Bolivia, was entrusted with inaugurating in Cochabamba, the Fair of Industrial Complementarity of the Bolivarian Alliance for the People of Our America – a Trade Treaty for the People (Alba – TCP)
Costa Rica rounds out free trade agreements with Europe
27-Mar-2014     Tico Times
The Legislative Assembly has approved a bill sealing a free trade agreement with EFTA, a group of non-EU countries including Lichtenstein, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland.
Costa Rica & Colombia approve free trade agreement
5-Mar-2014     Costa Rica Times
The Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica has approved the country's Free Trade Agreement with Colombia, a prerequisite for Costa Rica to gain admittance into the Pacific Alliance group, composed of Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Chile.
Ecuador: International support crucial in battle with Chevron
23-Jan-2014     EFE
Ecuador's hopes of winning a legal struggle against US oil supermajor Chevron Corp. pertaining to a multi-billion-dollar pollution judgment rest on the degree of "global solidarity" with the Andean nation, Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño said Wednesday.
US mulls wider trade pact with Latin America
18-Dec-2013     Info Sur Hoy
The United States is exploring the idea of setting up a wider regional trade pact with Latin America, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Dec. 15.
We reject the offers made by the Argentine government to pay the ICSID claims
30-Oct-2013     ATTAC Argentina
ATTAC Argentina declare that we reject the offer made by the Argentine government to pay 500 million dollars to five transnational corporations that sued our country before the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).