Panama News News Panama » Trade: Long Before the Canal, Global Trade Built Panama City
Panama City is often reduced to a canal. That's understandable: The Panama Canal is one of the most consequential pieces of infrastructure ever built. But that's also a misunderstanding. The canal ...
News Panama » Trade: Costa Rica, Panama deepen dispute over farm trade
May 21 (UPI) --Trade relations between Costa Rica and Panama entered a critical phase after negotiations failed to resolve a prolonged dispute over agricultural products, raising concerns about ...
News Panama » Trade: Hillary Clinton Touted Tax Transparency In Supporting Panama Trade Deal, Despite Warnings From Watchdog Groups
Hillary Clinton attends the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO's Convention in Philadelphia on Wednesday, April 6, 2016. During her speech, Clinton made her first reference to the Panama Papers, pledging to crack ...
News Panama » Trade: Panama financial scandal blows up into Democratic skirmishing over trade
The Panama Papers’ detailed revelations of a massive international tax-haven scheme have snowballed this week into a fierce debate among Democrats over President Obama’s trade policies with the tiny ...
News Panama » Trade: U.S.-Panama Free Trade Agreement enters into force Oct. 31
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22, 2012- United States Trade Representative (USTR) Ron Kirk announced today the United States-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement will enter into force on October 31, 2012. Kirk and ...
News Panama » Trade: China, Panama to begin talks on free-trade deal in June 2018
PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Panama and China will begin negotiations in June 2018 to sign a free-trade deal, the two countries' trade ministers said on Thursday, consolidating a relationship that has ...
News Panama » Trade: UPDATE 2-Panama trade minister resigns after mining contract backlash
PANAMA CITY, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Panama's Trade Minister Federico Alfaro announced his resignation on Thursday days after the country's top court ruled a contract between the government and Canadian ...
News Panama » Trade: Why the Panama Canal is a big, long-term prize in Trump's global trade war
The Panama Canal has spent the past few years battling extreme weather, with the El Niño phenomenon and severe drought leading to a water-level crisis. Now, it's President Trump's trade war that is ...
News Panama » Trade: Panama Papers: Obama, Clinton Pushed Trade Deal Amid Warnings It Would Make Money Laundering, Tax Evasion Worse
Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton listens to President Barack Obama speak during a Cabinet meeting at the White House in November 2012. Reuters Years before more than a hundred media outlets ...
News Panama » Trade: Stop pursuit of Panama trade pact
A lot of fiscal conservatives were startled to hear U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Ron Kirk’s comments about the Obama administration plans to consider pushing forward with President Bush’s Panama ...
News Panama » Trade: The U.S.-Panama Free Trade Agreement: A Good Deal for America
James M. Roberts' primary responsibility was to edit the Rule of Law and Monetary Freedom sections of Index of Economic Freedom. For the past nine months, the Obama Administration and Congress have ...