Tag: Free Trade Association of the Americas, FTAA

• Thursday, November 16th 2017 - 08:39 UTC

  China and Chile agree to upgrade trade accord to take advantage of new technologies

  

  China and Chile have agreed to upgrade their free trade agreement (FTA), a move that will boost both economies, a former official of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) said.

• Friday, December 20th 2013 - 06:28 UTC

  US planning a new trade agreement with Latam, but through NAFTA

  

  The President Barack Obama administration is “exploring” a regional trade plan for the Americas that would be the most ambitious hemispheric initiative in years, but contrary to the failed experience of George Bush's FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas), this time it would be instrumented through Nafta (North American Free Trade Agreement) partners Mexico and Canada, according to a Miami Herald interview of Andres Oppenheimer with Secretary of State John Kerry.

• Monday, December 3rd 2012 - 05:11 UTC

  Brazil ‘trapped and isolated’ in Mercosur, should try trade agreements with US, says former president

  

  Former Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso said it was convenient to consider a trade integration with the Unites States given the very modest advances with Mercosur, where open trade has stalled or is far less than was expected when the original idea and is subjected to protectionist lobbies.