Panamanian businessmen forming a trade mission will visit the country from the 24th through the 26th of February.
The project director of the Center for Exports and Investment in Nicaragua (CEI), Maritza Flores Obando, pointed out that they are preparing a broad agenda which includes business roundtables.
The director told Prensalibre.com, "Since last year, when a Nicaraguan mission visited Panama, the visit was scheduled with both public and private institutions of this country, as well as other participating organizations to deepen and establish contacts trade between both countries."
"All human interaction involves negotiation, from children to relationships, from work to travel, from politics to diplomacy."
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The event will take place at the International Fairs and Conventions Center of El Salvador, From the 9th to the 14th of November.
FIES 2010 is an International exhibition of various economic and social developments, focusing on conservation and environmental recovery.
Laprensagrafica.com reported, "... 15 conferences will be held. Among categories participating in the exhibition are food, the recycling industry as well as clothing and medical equipment.”
“Compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that each party thinks they get a bigger piece." Harvey Mackay
A dog with a bone comes to a pond and sees its reflection in the water. It thinks it sees another dog with a bone and tries to grab that one too. In doing so, it drops its bone in the water and winds up with nothing.
T the fable is used by Harvey Mackay at the beginning of his article to illustrate the concept of what an agreement is. According to this, we cannot go to a negotiation with empty hands, we should expect to give something in order to get something else.
In the first meeting held no important issues are ever discussed, rather parties seek to build a relationship based on mutual trust and a sprinkling of friendship.
Trade with China is unavoidable. The Asian giant's economy is the second largest in the world and nobody can afford to ignore it, both for the power of its exports and the size of its consumer market.
Meanwhile, a new meeting between the economy and trade ministers of Central America will take place on May 5th, in Guatemala.
Even though there are many rumours about it, there still nothing confirmed regarding the resumption of the negotiations between Central America and Europe, after the parties failed to reach an agreement on the most sensitive topics for both.
The European Commission informed in a press release that they plan to resume the negotiation process on February 22.
Honduras will participate fully and Panama will take part as an observer.
“EU wants a ‘comprehensive association agreement’ with the region, which includes political dialogue in Human Rights, climate change and development cooperation, plus a free trade agreement”, reported Nacion.com.
The Association Agreement between EU and Central America, including Honduras, would be signed on May 18th, 2010.
Benita Ferrero-Waldner, European Foreign Commissar, expressed the Union's intent of concluding the negotiations and signing the agreement on the planned date.
Authorities from the EU are touring the region, seeking to resume the negotiations between both blocks.
The negotiations for an Association Agreement between Central America and the European Union will resume in February.
The next negotiation round is scheduled for "the end of February in Brussels", detailed Mendel Goldstein, ambassador for the European Commission for Central America.
Elnuevodiario.com.ni reported that the European block expects to "schedule another meeting, hopefully by the end of April", and "make it to the summit between Latin America and the European Union (May 18th, Madrid), with the text approved".
In the next negotiation round, to take place in Costa Rica, negotiators expect to complete the Free Trade Agreement.
Fernando Ocampo, chief negotiator for Costa Rica, informed they have consulted with the private sector, and the main concern of the businessmen, and key point in the negotiation, is the definition of rules of origin, as Singapore imports lots of food and other products in order to reprocess them.
"The European Union will not admit a mandate change for Central America to negotiate without Honduras".
Such were the words of Marco Vinicio Ruiz, Costa Rican Commerce Ministry, "who had insisted on that idea with his homologous in the region", according to PrensaLibre.cr.
EU's decision will stagnate, for a second time, negotiations between the isthmus and the European Union.
The new offer increases the quota for sugar from Central America that can enter the European Union without tariffs to 100,000 tons.
According to La Prensa Gráfica, the president of the Sugar Association of El Salvador, Armando Arias, indicated that "the Minister of the Economy said publicly that he knew–off the record-that the EU might offer up to 100,000 tons to Central America.”
The European Union would allow Panama to enter into the Agreement by lifting the prerequisite that it should be part of SIECA.
Panama has been an observer thus far in the negotiation for an Association Agreement between Central America and the European Union because the country had not fulfilled the European Union’s prerequisite of signing the protocol for the "economic integration with Central America, i.e.
Executives from the Al Ahli Group, a consortium of some 20 companies, arrived in Panama to explore business opportunities.
According to a communiqué from the Ministry of Trade and Industry published in Prensa.com: "The group will be in the country for five days and will hold meetings with various business sectors. The deputy minister of Foreign Trade, Severo Sousa, highlighted Panamanian advantages such as location, modern laws that promote investment and logistics that facilitate business in the region."