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GMOs
BIO commends USTR for successfully concluding US-Korea free trade agreement
| 17-April-2007
BIO congratulates US Chief Agricultural Negotiator Richard Crowder and his staff for negotiating a separate understanding on several agricultural biotechnology issues. The FTA will go a long way in providing additional market access opportunities in Korea for US biotechnology companies.
Scientist warns of US FTA used to push GE rice
| 10-April-2007
Dr. Michael K Hansen, from US Centre of Consumer Policy, advises a cautious attitude towards an FTA with the US as the US has a hidden agenda in seeking to protect its farmers who now face more than RM4.6 billion in losses due to the lack of demand for GE rice. 
The South Korean government pledged to ease quarantine rules on products containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) under a free trade agreement with the United States struck on April 2. But while negotiations were underway on the deal, the government denied it was discussing the topic.
SK reportedly agrees to nix testing US genetically modified crops
| 3-April-2007
South Korea has reportedly exempted US foods containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) from safety tests in the Korea-US free trade agreement struck on April 2, a move that Korean environmentalists criticised as the government "selling off" the health of the nation.
CAP worries FTA threatens GM food labelling
| 13-March-2007
Consumers Association of Penang is extremely concerned and anxious that Malaysia’s Biosafety Bill and an amendment to the Food Regulations are now threatened by proposals made in the negotiations for a free trade agreement with the United States.
M’sia pressured to ease up on GM food regulations
| 28-February-2007
The Malaysian government has been urged not to bend to US pressure, under their bilateral FTA talks, to scrap its proposed laws that would bring in mandatory labeling of genetically-modified (GM) foods.
Policy space for Mexican maize: Protecting agro-biodiversity by promoting rural livelihoods
| 16-February-2007
With maize trade scheduled to be fully liberalized under NAFTA in 2008, many farm groups are
Mexique: crise nationale autour de la tortilla
| 19-January-2007
Depuis la signature en 1994 de l’Accord de libre-échange nord-américain (ALENA), le Mexique est devenu plus dépendant du maïs américain subventionné. Ainsi, l’augmentation de la production d’éthanol aux États-Unis a considérablement réduit l’approvisionnement en maïs à des fins de consommation, poussant les prix à la hausse, au Mexique comme à l’échelle internationale.
La tyrannie des accords bilatéraux de biosécurité
| 27-December-2006
Comment les entreprises utilisent les circuits des accords de commerce bilatéraux pour affaiblir les réglementations sur les biotechnologies
Gender review of the Economic Partnership Agreements
| 21-December-2006
Paper presented to the European Commission in Brussels by Liepollo Lebohang Pheko from IGTN-Africa on the gender impacts of liberalization of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA).
Mexico shuts the door on GM maize
| 30-October-2006
Mexico has moved to ban experimental fields of genetically modified (GM) maize. But the gateway into Mexico of transgenic maize, in the form of unlabeled grain imports, remains ajar. In 2008, as part of NAFTA, the quotas and other barriers for the entry of US-grown GM maize and beans into Mexico will be eliminated.
Bilateral biosafety bullies
| 30-October-2006
This new briefing from GRAIN and the African Centre for Biosafety looks at how governments, the agribusiness sector and transnational companies are increasingly using bilateral trade agreements to prise open markets for genetically modified crops.
FTA means deeper poverty in Peru
| 17-August-2006
An issue that has received less attention is the implications of the FTA for the entry of genetically modified organisms (GMO’s) into Peru.
WTO is dead, long live free trade: globalisation and its new avatars
| 1-August-2006
Bilateral and unilateral, initiatives are the new avatars of globalisation and free trade. And it is these avatars we must challenge to stop corporate rule, while WTO hangs between intensive care and the crematorium.
NAFTA agreement on trade in GMOs (2004)
| 18-July-2006
Agreement between the US, Canada, and Mexico with respect to the documentation requirements of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety pertaining to living modified organisms intended for direct use as food or feed or for processing (LMO/FFPs), signed in October 2004.
Agreement scarce, dispute persists in SK-US free trade talks
| 14-July-2006
South Korea and the US have agreed to establish a standing committee on sanitary standards for agricultural and food products, which will make it easier for the US to ask for expanded trade of genetically modified crops. However, negotiations on pharmaceuticals have hit a snag, with neither side willing to budge.
BIO letter to USTR on US-Korea FTA
| 20-June-2006
Letter from the US Biotechnology Industry Organisation to the US Trade Representative on intellectual property, GM labelling, biosafety, GM contamination and other issues BIO wants addressed under the US-Korea FTA talks.
BIO letter to USTR on US-Malaysia FTA
| 20-June-2006
Letter from the US Biotechnology Industry Organisation to the US Trade Representative on intellectual property, GM labelling, biosafety, GM contamination and other issues BIO wants addressed under the US-Malaysia FTA talks.
Bilateral free trade and investment agreements and the US corporate biotech agenda
| 3-June-2006
Bilateral free trade agreements are seen by the agricultural biotechnology industry as an
The US-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement (TPA): The intellectual property provisions
| 26-March-2006
Report of the US government’s Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Intellectual Property Rights (ITAC-15) |
L’accord entre l’Union Européenne et l’Inde menace l’accès aux traitements en Afrique du Nord et au Moyen-Orient
| 12-April-2013
Colombia: Nueve propuestas mínimas para la reafirmación de la soberanía frente al capital transnacional
| 26-March-2013
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