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

last update: May 2012

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Ecuador for alternatives to bilateral investment treaties
23-Oct-2013     Prensa Latina
Foreign minister Ricardo Patiño announced today that Ecuador looks for alternatives to the Bilateral Investment Treaties (BIT) -TIB in Spanish- signed with other countries and considered dangerous to national sovereignty.
Ecuador establishes commission to audit investment treaties
9-Oct-2013     Dow Jones
Ecuador has established a special commission to audit bilateral investment treaties, or BITs, signed with different countries and by several governments, the country's Foreign Minister said.
Argentina: what to do with the BITs?
24-Sep-2013     Rebelión
Why do we continue to be bound to this investment protection regime when it is not a determinant of FDI and makes it harder for us to retain our resources?
Guatemala opts into Central American FTA with Mexico
5-Sep-2013     Tax News
As Guatemala has now approved its participation in the free trade agreement between Mexico and the other Central American countries – Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua – the agreement entered into effect on September 1, 2013.
Regional free trade agreement with Mexico enters into force
2-Jul-2013     Tico Times
A free trade agreement between Central America and Mexico entered into force this week, the Costa Rican Foreign Trade Ministry (COMEX) reported on Monday.
Ecuador waives US trade rights over Edward Snowden asylum request
27-Jun-2013     Reuters
Ecuador said it was waiving preferential rights under a US trade agreement to demonstrate its principled approach to the asylum request of former American spy agency contractor Edward Snowden.
CARICOM-US to sign trade accord
27-May-2013     Jamaica Observer
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries will sign a trade investment framework agreement with the United States during the visit of Vice President Joe Biden to Trinidad and Tobago next week.
Costa Rica and Colombia sign free trade deal
23-May-2013     AFP
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla on Wednesday evening penned a bilateral free trade agreement that will help pave the way for Costa Rica to become a full member of the Pacific Alliance, a Latin American trade bloc launched in 2012.
Panama-Colombia free trade talks stall
21-Mar-2013     Newsroom Panama
The sixth round of negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement between Panama and Colombia in Medellin, closed in Medellin last Friday without any agreement being reached.
Ecuador plans legal challenge on foreign investment, oil
10-Mar-2013     AFP
Ecuador's president on Saturday said he planned to challenge several bilateral investment treaties after the South American country was ordered to pay billions of dollars in damages by overseas courts.