Tag: FTA

Tuesday, August 26th 2025 - 10:08 UTC
Brazil and Canada to resume talks for FTA with Mercosur

Brazilian authorities, exercising the pro tempore presidency of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur), and representatives from Canada are to resume talks about a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) that was initiated in 2018 but suspended during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Friday, January 31st 2025 - 09:24 UTC
Swiss minister tells Peña her country interested in dealing with Mercosur

Switzerland's Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Helen Budlinger told Paraguayan President Santiago Peña that her country was interested in expanding businesses with Asunción and with all of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur). She made those remarks Thursday as she welcomed Peña to the non-European Union nation which thus covets a separate Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
Tuesday, March 12th 2024 - 18:35 UTC
FTA negotiations between Japan and Mercosur to start next month, Paraguayan FM says

The South American Common Market (Mercosur) will start negotiating a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Japan next month, Paraguay's Foreign Minister Rubén Ramírez Lezcano acknowledged in an interview with the Nikkei economic newspaper. Paraguay currently holds the rotating presidency of the regional bloc.
Wednesday, January 11th 2023 - 10:45 UTC
Beijing pushing Brazil for a quick FTA with Mercosur or individually, but consensus is elusive

An official document from Beijing states that China is ready to negotiate a free trade agreement (FTA) with Mercosur or separately with any member of the bloc. This contentious topic most probably will be included in the bilateral agenda when President Lula da Silva visits China in the near future.
Wednesday, December 21st 2022 - 09:14 UTC
Biden, Lasso discuss deepening bilateral ties between US and Ecuador

US President Joseph Biden Monday told his Ecuadorian colleague Guillermo Lasso at the White House that his country was interested in strengthening ties with one of its staunchest South American allies.
Saturday, May 28th 2022 - 10:15 UTC
FTA with China would not make Uruguay dependent, Lacalle tells BBC

Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou said in an interview with the BBC that in case or reaching a Free Trade Agreement with China, it would not generate dependence, because in his country politics and economics were separate issues.
Monday, October 18th 2021 - 23:59 UTC
Brazil, Uruguay FMs stay mum after Montevideo meeting: rumors soar

Silence prevailed Monday in Montevideo after Uruguay's Foreign Minister Francisco Bustillo Monday welcomed his Brazilian counterpart Carlos França to discuss bilateral issues, particularly a possible 10% reduction of Common External Tariffs among Mercosur members.
Monday, May 7th 2018 - 20:24 UTC
Uruguay: No position on the FTA with Chile after an official plenary

The plenary of the leftist coalition Broad Front concluded on Sunday with a motion that postergates de decision over the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Chile, defining to leave the decision on whether or not to support the agreement, delaying the debate to a future plenary whose date is not yet defined. The decision was voted after counting an erroneous sum of the votes in the first instance in which the motion to debate the issue in the plenary had won. However, the votes of the Communist Party of Uruguay (PCU) had been put on the wrong side.
Friday, October 13th 2017 - 12:04 UTC
Recession ahead for UK economy, be it a soft or hard Brexit, forecasts leading investment bank

The Conservative Party’s plans for a “no deal” hard Brexit would plunge the UK into immediate recession, cost the British economy £400 billion and wipe 18% off GDP growth by 2030, a leading investment bank has warned.
Monday, August 19th 2013 - 13:12 UTC
Uruguay calls on Mercosur to sign a free trade agreement with United States

Uruguayan Vice-President Danilo Astori said Mercosur must decisively address the signing of a free trade agreement with the United States, but also admits that “opportunities must be built”.