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SPS issues and free trade agreements
25-Nov-2004
While the main US goal on agriculture in many FTA negotiations often is to secure non-SPS related concessions such as lower tariffs, the foreign partners often see the FTA as an opportunity to resolve outstanding SPS issues with the US as well as seek accelerated new market access to the US for their animal and plant products.
Agriculture: Thais urged to reject political parties which support bilateral FTAs and GM crops
24-Nov-2004 MCOT
Thailand’s leading agricultural activist network has urged Thais not to vote for political parties which back free trade agreements and genetically modified (GM) crops research at next February’s general election.
Trading in food safety? The impact of trade agreements on quarantine in Australia
12-Nov-2004 The Australia Institute
Australia has always enjoyed rigorous national food standards that were applied equally to both domestically produced and imported food. The capacity to maintain and apply these standards, however, is now being undermined by international trade agreements and procedures for settling trade disputes with a result that challenges to public health are being significantly increased.
The Thai dairy sector under liberalised trade conditions
11-Nov-2004 FTAmonitoring.org
Special report by Rabobank - PDF file
Bush won’t dissolve sugar jobs
2-Nov-2004 GFH
Handled with care. That is the best way to describe how the Bush administration has dealt with sugar in America’s international trade agreements.