Topics in this issue
   • Democrats and Bush administration reach compromise on trade
   • Enforcing labor standards
   • Revising intellectual property rights
   • Environment
   • Effects on Trade Promotion Authority

Topics in this issue
   • Senators debates immigration reform
   • Major legislative provisions
   • The Mexican perspective

Immigration, pending hemispheric free-trade agreements, economic policy, and Latin American development initiatives were discussed at the Washington Launch of the new AS/COA policy journal, Americas Quarterly, on Wednesday, May 30, and covered live by C-SPAN 2.

Canadian Minister of International Trade David Emerson emphasizes that strategic interests reach well beyond North America. His country is committed to helping its hemispheric partners create opportunities and reduce poverty through greater economic cooperation.

In testimony to the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs, COA Vice President Eric Farnsworth calls on Congress to pass the pending bilateral trade agreement and re-authorize Plan Colombia. “The time to act is now” to support one of the strongest U.S. allies in the region.

Making Mexico a foreign policy priority can increase U.S. security and prosperity, write COA’s Eric Farnsworth and Monica Guevera in Latin Business Chronicle.

U.S. ability to address significant global challenges would be directly enhanced by closer coordination with willing Latin American partners. An enhanced relationship with Brazil is central to this new strategic approach.