Tag: FTA

Friday, May 13th 2011 - 01:01 UTC
US trade deals with Colombia, Panama and Korea could be approved ‘by August’

The United States free trade deals with Colombia, Panama and South Korea will pass through Congress by August if Republicans renew funding for the retraining of displaced workers, the chief U.S. trade official said Thursday.
Friday, May 13th 2011 - 00:54 UTC
US farmers lobby strongly for FTA, which could generate 22.500 jobs

The inability of the United States Congress and the administration to move three stalled free trade agreements is hurting US economic growth, testified American Farm Bureau Federation President Bob Stallman before the House Agriculture Committee.
Thursday, April 21st 2011 - 06:54 UTC
WTO Lamy launches ‘confessionals’ of hope to try and salvage the Doha Round

Pascal Lamy head of the World Trade Organization is holding talks to try and salvage the ailing Doha Round of trade liberalization talks that have been stalled for almost a decade.
Wednesday, April 13th 2011 - 23:04 UTC
EU, Colombia, Peru sign ambitious trade agreement; saves half a billion Euros in tariffs

EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gutch together with Colombian Minister for Trade Sergio Diaz-Granados Guida and Peruvian Deputy Minister for Foreign Trade Carlos Posada Ugaz, celebrated Wednesday in Brussels the initialling of an ambitious trade agreement between the EU, Colombia and Peru.
Friday, April 8th 2011 - 22:45 UTC
Peru/Mexico sign trade agreement, fist step for a regional expansion towards Asia

Peru and Mexico signed this week a trade agreement with the aim of jointly reaching out to Asia, an undertaking that they want Chile and Colombia to join
Thursday, April 7th 2011 - 09:01 UTC
Colombia and Obama closer to having US Congress approve free trade agreement

White House officials said the United States and Colombia have reached a deal on a free trade agreement. President Barack Obama and Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos are to meet Thursday to discuss the deal.
Monday, March 21st 2011 - 22:17 UTC
US farmers concerned with Mercosur expanding farm exports to Colombia

United States farmers have called on the US government to approve the free trade agreements with Colombia and Panama because Mercosur countries are taking a bigger share of US agriculture exports to those countries.
Friday, March 11th 2011 - 04:43 UTC
How Argentina torpedoed Uruguay’s FTA with the US, according to Wikileaks

Although in public former Argentine president Nestor Kirchner was supportive of Uruguay’s negotiations for a free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States, members of his cabinet warned the US embassy in Buenos Aires that Argentina would block such an initiative in Mercosur, according to the contents of several Wikileaks cables published in Montevideo and Buenos Aires.
Friday, February 18th 2011 - 04:55 UTC
EU/Korea trade agreement effective next July; eliminates 98% of barriers

Having pushed through a strong safeguard clause to protect European industry and received guarantees from Seoul that the new Korean legislation on car CO2 emission limits would not be detrimental to European car makers, the Parliament on gave its consent to the most ambitious trade agreement the EU has ever negotiated.
Thursday, July 1st 2010 - 06:46 UTC
Syria’s Assad in Brazil proposed close economic links with Mercosur

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on his first-ever tour of Latin America proposed a free trade agreement with Mercosur after meeting Wednesday in Brasilia with his Brazilian counterpart Lula da Silva and giving a conference at the Foreign Ministry seat in Itamaraty Palace.