Mercosur

• Saturday, September 4th 2010 - 05:36 UTC

  South Korea confirms interest in free trade talks with Mercosur

  

  South Korea, Asia’s fourth largest economy is seeking to launch bilateral trade talks with Mercosur in a move to deepen links with Latinamerica according to a report from the Yonhap news agency.

• Thursday, September 2nd 2010 - 21:08 UTC

  Argentina calls on Mercosur to become world’s main agro-food business region

  

  Argentine president Cristina Kirchner called on Mercosur partners to convert the group into the world’s leading agro-food business region and to put an end to asymmetries.

• Wednesday, September 1st 2010 - 19:04 UTC

  Canada satisfied with first contacts for trade agreement with Mercosur

  

  Canada is “satisfied” with contacts held with the Argentine government for the possible beginning of discussions regarding a free trade agreement with Mercosur, said Canadian International Trade minister Peter Van Loan said at the end of a tour of four Latin American countries

• Wednesday, September 1st 2010 - 02:48 UTC

  Lifting Mercosur out of its “institutional paralysis”, Rousseff’s main challenge

  

  Consolidating South American integration would be the main foreign policy priority of the Brazilian ruling party presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff if public opinion polls are confirmed at the ballot box next October 3 and she emerges as the successor of Lula da Silva.

• Wednesday, September 1st 2010 - 00:43 UTC

  Canada, South Africa, India in preliminary trade talks with Mercosur

  

  Canada, South Africa and India are scheduled to begin this year trade talks with Mercosur, according to reports from Ottawa and Johannesburg.

• Wednesday, September 1st 2010 - 00:31 UTC

  Amorim admits Brazil imposes non-trade barriers to its Mercosur associates

  

  Foreign Affairs minister Celos Amorim implicitly admitted that access to the Brazilian market for other Latin American countries, including Mercosur, is not easy because of a proliferation of non trade barriers which has resulted in large surpluses with most of the region’s countries.

• Thursday, August 26th 2010 - 03:41 UTC

  Mercosur spends less that 2% of GDP in defence; “no arms race in the region”

  

  South America and particularly Mercosur spend less than 2% of GDP in military hardware which makes it the world region that less invests in defence, said a high ranking official from the Barak Obama administration visiting Paraguay.

• Wednesday, August 25th 2010 - 04:09 UTC

  Chilean trapped miners families file lawsuit against the state and mining company

  

  Families of 24 of the 33 Chilean trapped miners in the San José mine have filed a lawsuit against the state and the mining company, seeking compensation and justice.

• Thursday, August 12th 2010 - 17:46 UTC

  Uruguay calls for a Mercosur with “open regionalism” for smaller members

  

  Uruguay called on Brazil and Argentina to allow Mercosur junior members to reach unilateral trade agreements with third countries helping to boost the group’s dynamism.

• Thursday, August 5th 2010 - 17:22 UTC

  Chile advances in ‘bi-oceanic’ link projects with Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina

  

  Chilean President Sebastián Piñera made his Mercosur debut this week at the regional trade association’s summit in San Juan, Argentina, delivering a well received speech and holding separate meetings with Bolivian President Evo Morales and Brazil’s Lula da Silva and Argentina’s Cristina Kirchner.