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

last update: May 2012

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Panama and Colombia to restart FTA talks
1-Mar-2013     Newsroom Panama
Panama and Colombia are about to restart talks on a free trade agreement From March 11-15 the sixth round of negotiations will take place In Medellin, Colombia.
Costa Rican lawmakers approve free trade agreement with Mexico
28-Feb-2013     Tico Times
Costa Rica already had a free trade agreement with Mexico, in force since January 1995, which now is unified with the rest of Central American countries.
Caricom maintains independence in external negotiations
20-Feb-2013    
The 15-nation Caribbean Community (Caricom) will be funding all future negotiations itself, according to Guyana’s Foreign Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett. She recently informed the 65-seat National Assembly, current negotiations between Caricom and Canada for a Trade and Development Agreement are being funded by the region.
Argentina: Loss of sovereignty
26-Nov-2012     Página 12
The neoliberal political plan, of which BITs are an integral and specific component, is highly incompatible with the nation-state and furthermore with the national-democratic state.
Fin de la guerra del banano
19-Nov-2012    
Los 10 países productores de banano de América Latina (Brasil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, México, Nicaragua, Panamá y Venezuela) suscribieron con la Unión Europea la ‘solución mutuamente acordada’ que le puso punto final a la ‘guerra del banano’, la disputa más antigua del sistema multilateral de comercio.
Argentina: Unidad Popular thinks the country should withdraw from ICSID
9-Nov-2012     Parlamentario.com
During a public hearing, a member of parliament, Claudio Lozano made the request to follow in the footsteps of countries such as China, India and Brazil, all countries that have not ratified bilateral investment treaties.
Panama protests against free-trade zone land sales
23-Oct-2012     RT
Police in the sea-port of Colon have fired tear-gas and rubber bullets to disperse angry protesters. A total of 50 were arrested during the clashes, a continuation of public outcry against the governments decision to sell land in the free-trade zone.
¿Desintegración latinoamericana?
8-Aug-2012    
Los visionarios sueños de integración regional se convirtieron en instituciones de naturaleza política, diseñadas para contrarrestar, ciega e ideológicamente, la influencia norteamericana
Azerbaijan, Argentina sign agreement on trade and economic cooperation
28-Jul-2012    
The Azerbaijani and Argentine foreign ministers signed an intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in trade-economic sphere.
Colombia-Costa Rica FTA in the offing
26-Jun-2012     Tax News
Colombia and Costa Rica have agreed to rapidly conclude negotiations towards a free trade agreement which will cut tariff barriers to trade from as early as the first half of 2013, and pave the way for Costa Rica to become the fifth member of a regional trade bloc.