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U.S. to Accelerate FTA with Panama and Colombia

The U.S. will begin this year a process to resolve outstanding issues preventing the ratification of these treaties.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

This was announced by the U.S. trade representative, Ron Kirk, who added "I can tell you the president (Barack Obama) has instructed me to immediately intensify contacts with Colombia and Panama, in order to resolve this as soon as possible and submit these agreements immediately to Congress for consideration."

The agreement with Panama was signed in 2007.

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