Panama Advances On Free Trade Dialogue With
European Countries
PANAMA - Panama will negotiate a free
trade agreement (FTA) with members of the
European Free Trade Association (EFTA),
Panaman's Ministry of Commerce and
Industries said on Sunday.
The EFTA Council announced it would offer a
joint declaration on cooperation with
Panama, which represented the first step to
FTA negotiations, the ministry said.
Panama Minister of Commerce and Industries
Roberto Henriquez said he would order
Panamanian negotiators to start coordination
and work out an agenda for negotiations.
Meanwhile, Vice Minister of International
Trade Negotiations Francisco Alvarez de Soto
expressed confidence in Panama's capacity to
do a deal that some nations had been
pursuing with EFTA for years.
EFTA is a commercial bloc created in 1960 by
Austria, Denmark, Britain, Norway, Portugal,
Sweden and Switzerland as an alternative to
the European Economic Community.
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