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Having just concluded a free-trade agreement with Chile, Panama finds itself pressed, pressured, and wooed by others to do the same with them. The boy next door on the list of suitors is Central America. Pining from afar is the US.
Central America has grown insistent. "We have pressed Panama to continue negotiating by way of a note sent to the authorities of that nation, and we are awaiting a reply," said Costa Rica's Foreign Trade Minister Manuel Gonzalez. Costa Rica is the current president pro tem of the Sistema de Integracion Economica Centroamericana (SIECA).
Gonzalez acknowledges that Panama is under no obligation to reply, but his country is particularly eager to take the relationship to another level because of a shared border that has been the scene recently of a dispute. Panamanian truckers have blocked the border protesting the imposition of a Costa Rican tariff.
Trade agreements between Panama and the rest of the isthmus are outdated, going back in some cases to the 1960s. The minister seemed irritated at having been kept dangling. "Before, Panama's explanation was that...
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