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

last update: May 2012

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Venezuela to withdraw from Andean trade bloc
20-Apr-2006     Reuters
Venezuela, which has criticized Andean nations as being overly aligned with the United States, plans to withdraw from the Andean Community of Nations, President Hugo Chavez said on Wednesday.
A US-Caricom free trade agreement?
18-Apr-2006    
US Trade Representative, Robert Portman, met Trade Ministers of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) countries on 12 April giving rise to speculation that a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the US and Caricom countries might be in the offing.
Caribbean bloc considers free trade talks
13-Apr-2006     Miami Herald
The CARICOM bloc already enjoys preferential access to the US market through the Caribbean Basin Initiative. But key textile concessions are set to expire in 2008, and the region has been losing ground to competitors in Central and South America as those countries sign free trade deals with Washington.
Colombia, Cuba agree to discuss trade talks
8-Apr-2006     AP
Colombia and Cuba may seem strange bedfellows but the stalwart US ally and its oldest adversary in Latin America are putting aside their differences to negotiate a trade deal.
Caricom to talk possible deal with US
8-Apr-2006     AP
Caribbean foreign ministers will discuss a possible free trade agreement with the US when they meet next week with the US trade representative.
Focus on bilateral trade deals, Bush is urged
4-Apr-2006    
Bill Thomas, President George W. Bush's most important congressional ally on trade liberalisation, is urging the administration to focus its energy on concluding bilateral trade deals, warning on Monday that the Doha multilateral round of talks was heading for failure because of conflicts between the US and the European Union.
Colombia and Guatemala plan free trade talks in June
28-Mar-2006     Bloomberg
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said in January the South American nation would negotiate free trade agreements with Guatemala and El Salvador.
Rally against partnership agreement
27-Mar-2006     CBC
Members of the islands public sector union and other Barbadians will be showing their dissent towards the most recent process of negotiations between Barbados and Cariforum countries this week.
Venezuela's Chavez lashes out at free trade pacts while agreeing to El Salvador fuel sales
22-Mar-2006     AP
Chavez argues that US-proposed free-trade pacts would help big US companies at the expense of Latin America's poor.
Trade deals we need to close
9-Mar-2006    
This week US Trade Representative Rob Portman announced that the Bush administration will pursue free-trade talks with Malaysia. Last month talks on a free-trade agreement (FTA) were inaugurated with South Korea. In a global economy awash in trade deals designed to open markets and build alliances, FTAs with these countries are particularly desirable.