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USA, Peru Free Trade Pact needs 'adjustments'
World Business News |
2007/01/18 02:42
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The government of the United States must separately renegotiate specific labor clauses in Trade Promotion Agreements with Colombia and Peru before they can be sent to U.S. Congress for approval.
“It is clear that some substantive adjustments to that chapter are needed before Congress takes itâ€, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative John Veroneau told journalists. The majority of Democrats have always insisted that the agreements to include what they call ''core International Labor Organization standards'' in the texts themselves and since the Democrats took over the majority in Congress and the House in the recent Midterm elections, the current text virtually stands no chance for ratification.
Veroneau said he hopes that "a new model" can be formulated during the next months so that Congress may then agree to the pacts by mid 2007. He said that the governments of Peru, Colombia, and also Panama, have been informed that “substantial adjustments" are necessary.
However, later on, Gretchen Hamel, spokeswoman for Veroneau's office, emitted an official note in which she explained that those adjustments could be made through "some binding instrument and it is not necessary to reopen the text of the agreement''.
Obviously the Bush administration wasn't too pleased with Veroneau's statements, particularly the word "renegotiate" sounded too dramatic within that context. Diplomatic sources indicated that Peru is arranged "to clarify" the labor subjects in some sort of side agreement or add-on to the PTPA, but not to renegotiate the deal by itself.
In Lima, the general coordinator of the PTPA with the U.S., Eduardo Ferreyos, said that a revision of the labor subject could be made via an attached document but not by means of a renegotiation because it would imply to start negotiations from scratch. |
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