Weekly Report - 23 May 2006

GUATEMALA | Enabling legislation for Cafta not good enough. On 18 May the Guatemalan congress approved legislation designed to enable the implementation of the free-trade agreement with the US (Cafta-DR). However, the office of the US Trade Representative promptly announced that its provisions did not suffice. USTR official Neena Moorjani said on 19 May that additional steps were still required, among them the ratification of at least three international treaties on intellectual property. The draft legislation submitted by the government had included this, but they were dropped as the price for securing approval of the rest.

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