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Bilateral deal-making involving governments of Latin America, the US and Canada.

last update: May 2012

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Trump administration must choose between Big Tech and US sovereignty as industry seeks to weaponize trade policy to attack data security, privacy policies in other nations that US has also adopted
12-Sep-2025 Rethink Trade
Congress and federal agencies and US states have adopted the same sorts of data security and privacy policies that Big Tech lobbyists are pushing President Trump to attack as the “illegal trade barriers.”
The tech lobbying is coming from inside the house
12-Sep-2025 The American Prospect
Emails from the US trade representative’s office show a cozy relationship with Amazon, Google, and Facebook.
US and Ecuador: A trade agreement nears
5-Sep-2025 Devdiscourse
The United States and Ecuador have announced advancements in their trade agreement and tariff discussions.
Battling for farmers’ seed systems: UPOV 91 and trade agreements
4-Sep-2025 IATP
A IATP report on on how the U.S. and its seeds companies use free trade agreements to undermine the policy space available for farmers to save, use, exchange, and sell farm-saved seeds.
Mounting corporate pressure on Honduras threatens community rights
25-Jul-2025 Mongabay
New data on foreign arbitration claims in Honduras reveal that the lawsuits filed by corporations against the country now total $19.4 billion in legal claims, equivalent to roughly 53% of Honduras’ GDP in 2024.
Trump announces trade agreement with the Philippines and terms of deal with Indonesia
23-Jul-2025 CNN
President Donald Trump said he and President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of the Philippines have reached a trade agreement. Shortly after, he also revealed more detailed terms of an agreement with Indonesia.
Trump’s bizarre, authoritarian, Big Tech-friendly tariffs on Brazil
21-Jul-2025 Common Dreams
Trump’s actions are not motivated by any real economic or legal factors, but are instead about pushing his authoritarian agenda and doling out favors to Big Tech companies and other corporate cronies.
Trump threatens extra tariffs on BRICS-aligned countries
21-Jul-2025 The New York TImes
President Trump said nations that support the group’s “Anti-American policies” would face an additional 10 percent tariff. He did not elaborate.
Trump seeks to extract “payment” for reciprocal tariffs by 1 August
11-Jul-2025 SUNS
The Trump administration’s trade war appears to be replete with geopolitical and geoeconomic undertones in which countries with strong links with China in Asia are being severely punished.
Trump announces tariffs of at least 25 percent on 14 countries
8-Jul-2025 The Washington Post
President Trump threatened tariffs between 25 percent and 40 percent on imports from 14 countries, the first of what he said would be a series of higher duties as the administration continues negotiating trade deals ahead of a new Aug. 1 deadline.

    Links

  • Americans For Free Trade
    A broad coalition of American businesses, trade organizations, and workers united against tariffs.
  • Americas Policy Program
    The Americas Program of the Center for International Policy is a leading source of information for activists, academics and citizens concerned about US foreign policy toward Latin America and movements for social justice within the hemisphere.
  • Biodiversidad en América Latina
  • Bloque Verde
    No hay ambiente para el TLC en Costa Rica
  • Citizens Trade Campaign - Bilateral Agreements
    The Citizens Trade Campaign is a US coalition of environmental, labor, consumer, family farm, religious, and other civil society groups founded in 1992 during the fight over the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
  • Consejo de Investigaciones e Información en Desarrollo -CIID -
    Institución que impulsa el desarrollo de Guatemala y Centroamérica, a través de la investigación y la promoción de programas de desarrollo
  • Costa Rica Solidaria - NO al TLC
    Esta semana lo más relevante de nuestra lucha
  • Ecuador contra el TLC - Movilizaciones de Marzo 2006
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  • GMA
    The Grocery Manufacturers of America is a major lobby group on US FTAs
  • LATN
    The Latin American Trade Network is an independent and interdisciplinary research network
  • Movimiento Cultura frente al TLC
    El Movimiento Cultura frente al TLC es un colectivo de artistas que viaja por las comunidades llevando música, teatro, poesía, danza, pintura y talleres, informando a l@s costarricenses sobre las graves consecuencias que tendría para nuestro país la aplicación del Tratado de "Libre" "Comercio" (TLC)
  • NFTC
    The National Foreign Trade Council is a US business organisation lobbying the US government on its foreign trade policy
  • Trrade for People and Planet
    We want trade deals to be democratic, to benefit working people and the environment. We need to revolutionize the trade model and create a new global economy based on collaboration and ecological well-being.
  • US State Department Office of Bilateral Trade Affairs
    The Office of Bilateral Trade Affairs ensures that the overall foreign policy goals of the U.S. Government are factored into the development of U.S. bilateral trade policy.
  • US-Japan Business Council
    USJBC has been pushing for a US-Japan FTA
  • USTR
  • USTR National Trade Estimate Report
    Annual assessment of obstacles to US trade interests in foreign countries