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Private Equity Fund Of Funds MIAMI - The scaled down plan given the nod at the end of a meeting here Thursday on a proposed pan-American common market marks a U.S. retreat on its ambitious trade policies in the western hemisphere but Washington's new aggressive push for bilateral deals could be a greater threat to the region's developing countries.

We open our trade coverage with the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) as leaders of 34 countries are set to meet in Quebec City to negotiate the most far reaching trade agreement to date. The FTAA is based on the North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA) but far surpasses it in scope and size. It would encompass 800 million people in the Americas, and incorporate powers even broader than those of the World Trade Organization. The FTAA would give transnational corporations the power to challenge every public service currently provided by governments, from health care, education and social security to environmental protection and workplace safety. In short, democracy is at stake throughout the hemisphere, according to critics.

Curve Equity Exposed Fund Trade ministers from the 34 Americas nations (minus Cuba) who assembled to forge ahead with the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) wrapped up talks one day ahead of schedule with a far less comprehensive draft agreement than originally envisioned -- now dubbed "FTAA lite".

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Capital Casebook Equity But analysts say the weeklong eighth ministerial meeting here barely managed to dodge a resounding collapse of the controversial talks that would have echoed September's breakdown of negotiations at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Cancun, Mexico.

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Equity Mutual Funds The watered down blueprint for the trade area now allows member countries to pick and choose which obligations they will commit to rather than having to sign on to an all-embracing pact.

Birmingham Contact Equity "The FTAA is in such a state of crisis that at the Miami Ministerial the U.S. was forced to choose between no FTAA and FTAA-lite," said Lori M. Wallach, director of Global Trade Watch for non-governmental organisation (NGO) Public Citizen.

Private Equity Investment Firm "All that was agreed was to scale back the FTAA's scope and put all of the hard decisions to an undefined future venue so as to not make Miami the Waterloo of FTAA," she added in a statement Friday.

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Equity Msn Private Wyoming "U.S. negotiators may try to put a happy face on the Miami talks, but the 'FTAA lite' deal will not please the big business lobby that has been the driving force behind the proposed trade pact," said Sarah Anderson of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington.

American Equity Investment "By allowing countries to opt out of obligations on investment and other contentious issues, U.S. negotiators have dashed the Fortune 500's hopes of gaining new investment opportunities and protections in Brazil, South America's largest economy," she added Friday.

Equity Index Funds But the National Association of Manufacturers, a powerful U.S. business group, was more upbeat. In a statement the association said Thursday's outcome avoided having "the door slam shut, and gives us a chance for what can still be a very high quality agreement''.

Equity Private Team Wyoming Critics of the proposed FTAA say it threatens public health, the environment and workers' rights by giving overwhelming powers to large corporations and by pushing a sell-off of essential public services like health care, education and water.

Equity Group Investment They also argue the agreement could force the less developed Latin American and Caribbean countries to accept provisions giving special rights to foreign investors, mostly from the United States and Canada, wishing to challenge domestic policies.

Capital Development Equity While forcing changes to the FTAA might be seen as a success by some developing countries, like Brazil, which oppose a sweeping one-size-fits-all agreement, this week's meeting also marked the official birth of a more forceful U.S. strategy of bilateral trade talks -- potentially more dangerous for the economies of developing nations.

Article Between Difference In Miami, U.S. officials unveiled plans to hold talks with four Andean countries -- Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia -- and with Panama and the Dominican Republic. Washington also said it would start talks with Uruguay over a bilateral investment treaty early next year.

Contact Equity Private Wyoming "Unfortunately, the U.S. has violated the spirit of the ministerial declaration by undertaking a strategy of negotiating bilateral and mini-regional agreements containing exactly the horrific proposals on intellectual property, investment and other areas that the U.S. has failed to ram through in the FTAA," said Robert Weissman, co-director of Essential Action, a Washington-based organisation that campaigns for health rights, in a statement Friday.

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Business Equity Funds "Left to fend for themselves, many fear that small countries will be so much chum for the sharks," Eric Dannenmaier of the Tulane Institute for Environmental Law and Policy at Tulane Law School in New Orleans told media in Miami.

Private Equity Fund Yet, even with the spectre of bilateral agreements lurking over Miami, some activists attributed the shift in U.S. policy away from a comprehensive FTAA to campaigning by civil society groups and NGOs, many of which were here, either protesting on the streets or holding non-violent actions.

Investment Property Home "The (U.S. President) Bush trade team has gone to plan B for bi-lateral, forced to abandon negotiation for the FTAA as a whole because of Latin American nations' opposition and the peoples' resistance across the hemisphere," said Sara DeSantis, an organic farmer and activist with Stopftaa.org.

Managed Equity Funds Wallach predicted that the future of the modified FTAA might not be any brighter than the original plan, as social movements in many FTAA-target countries are gaining strength. Those groups will also fight bilateral deals, she added.

Capital Entrepreneurial Equity There is a real possibility, Wallach said, that elections occurring before the FTAA deadline of Jan. 1, 2005 in several countries could add to the growing bloc of nations who will either have to represent their public's interests at the FTAA table or face electoral or governing crises.

Private Equity Hedge Funds "Our goal is to replace it (FTAA) altogether, not allow for its expansion either through a watered down FTAA or via bilaterals," she added.

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