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The countries of the region that comprise the Grupo CA-4, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Honduras, have begun a ninth round of free-trade negotiations with Canada. The players took their seats without concrete expectations of a signing date. The current round, taking place in Ottawa, takes up issues that had been left pending.
Irving Guerrero, Honduran undersecretary of foreign trade, said that the goal is a good treaty, rather than meeting a deadline. "We have all this year to negotiate," Guerrero said, speaking of a process that began in 2001 in the hope of seeing signatures at the end of 2002. The plan was to have a treaty in effect by now, but Central America was looking for bigger fish and got hooked on US President George W. Bush's bait, the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA).
This round promised to be thorny because some of the most difficult issues had been left for last in favor of quick progress on less volatile matters. Consequently,...
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