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Bilateral deal-making involving governments of Latin America, the US and Canada.
last update: May 2012
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Americas
Bilateral deal-making involving governments of Latin America, the US and Canada.
See also
- Americas
- ALBA / TCP
- Brazil
- Canada
- Canada-Colombia
- Canada-India
- Canada-Korea
- Chile
- Colombia
- CPTPP
- EU-CAN
- EU-Canada
- EU-Central America
- EU-Mercosur
- EU-US
- FTAA
- IBSA
- Japan-Mexico
- Mercosur
- Mexico
- North & South America
- Pacific Alliance
- Peru
- Uruguay
- US-Andean countries
- US-Australia
- US-Bahrain
- US-Chile
- US-China
- US-Colombia
- US-DR-CAFTA
- US-India
- US-Korea
- US-Malaysia
- US-Morocco
- US-Oman
- US-Panama
- US-Peru
- US-SACU
- US-Taiwan
- US-Thailand
- US-UAE
- USMCA (NAFTA)
A free trade agreement between Costa Rica and Barbados, that essentially eliminates barriers to trade and facilitates cross-border movement of goods and services between the territories, went into effect this week.
From July onwards, Colombia will form part of the one-sided geopolitical mega-project that seeks to consolidate the neoliberal model in the western Latin America with the aim of privatizing highway infrastructure, public services and natural resources.
Is South American integration doomed, as much of the press reports? Or is there steady progress towards wider and deeper union, as the agenda of the Mercosur summit in Cordoba, Argentina, on 20-21 July, suggests?
Dominican ambassador in Panama, Virgilio Alvarez Bonilla, affirmed that governments from both nations are making advances in the negotiations of a Free Trade Agreement, which in his esteem, will be ready to be implemented by the beginning of next year.
The Caribbean Community, known as CARICOM, informed that it intends to seek a free trade deal with the United States, after Central American countries and the Dominican Republic sign the latter.
Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller has endorsed a proposal for regional states to pursue more bilateral arrangements with the United States.
Jamaica's Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller will chair the prime ministerial sub-committee on External Trade Negotiations today, according to a Caribbean Community (Caricom) Secretariat statement issued here yesterday.
Two years after Caribbean Community leaders meeting here refused to recognize Haiti's interim government, they returned here Monday to embrace its new president and re-engage CARICOM's poorest member-state.
In recent months, there has been much ado about foreign investment considerations, though the issues have not always presented themselves directly, or exclusively, as investment questions. Some of them touch on significant Jamaican interests, so we need to be especially careful in our analysis.
Although certain FTAs, such as the NAFTA, or the faltering negotiations over the FTAA, are prominently featured in popular media reports, the United States has negotiated additional FTAs with countries around the world, which offer an assortment of direct benefits to companies taking advantage of these agreements. The purpose of this article is to provide a background on these FTAs and how they can help US and foreign businesses.
Referenced sites
Trrade for People and Planet
We want trade deals to be democratic, to benefit working people and the environment. We need to revolutionize the trade model and create a new global economy...
US-Japan Business Council
USJBC has been pushing for a US-Japan FTA
US State Department Office of Bilateral Trade Affairs
The Office of Bilateral Trade Affairs ensures that the overall foreign policy goals of the U.S. Government are factored into the development of U.S. bilatera...
USTR National Trade Estimate Report
Annual assessment of obstacles to US trade interests in foreign countries
