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Perils of the US-India free trade agreement for Indian farmers
5-Jun-2020 GRAIN
US-India deal would greatly compromise India’s huge diversity of local seeds and plants which are conserved and reused by millions of Indian farmers year after year. It will also destroy India’s hope for food sovereignty.
Tricky trade ties
28-Feb-2020 The Hitavada
India have to determine its way forward in this situation. Trump is focused on opening Indian markets for the imports of US agricultural products. India have to decide what we will ask in return from the US.
A trade deal with Trump could hurt our farmers
25-Feb-2020 NewsClickin
Benny Kuruvilla from ’Focus On The Global South’ sits down for a discussion with Prof. Biswajit Dhar on a potential trade deal between India and US.
Protest condemning free trade agreement between India and US
25-Feb-2020 City Today
A protest was staged to condemn the free trade agreement between India and United States of America in the fields of animal husbandry, poultry and other sectors.
Trump says working on a very big trade deal with India, but will take time
19-Feb-2020 Reuters
President Trump said the United States and India were working on a major trade deal, but he was not sure if it would be completed before the US presidential election in November.
Farmers’ coalition threatens agitation if India goes ahead with US trade deal
14-Feb-2020 BusinessLine
A farmers’ coalition, which represents millions of farmers nationwide, has urged the Government to desist from negotiating an interim trade deal with the US, saying it would be detrimental to the interests of Indian farmers.
India offers US dairy, chicken access in bid for elusive trade deal with Trump
14-Feb-2020 Reuters
India has offered to partially open up its poultry and dairy markets in a bid for a limited trade deal during US President Donald Trump’s first official visit.
Keep agri, dairy products out of trade deal with US, govt. told
10-Feb-2020 The Hindu
Farmers groups and lobbies are now urging the Centre to ensure that agricultural products stay out of the ongoing Indo-U.S. trade negotiations as well.
What does India’s RCEP withdrawal tell us? – Analysis
21-Jan-2020 Eurasia Review
Given the current ease and widespread access to information as well as the social media-facilitated civil mobilizations across the globe, political elites of the RCEP countries should be consistently mindful of such risk from the grassroot level.
India’s withdrawal from RCEP a breather on many fronts
7-Jan-2020 Down To Earth
India’s decision to pull out of RCEP means its policy on access to inexpensive drugs will not be under pressure.
Rejecting RCEP preserved India’s milk self-sufficiency’
9-Dec-2019 Times of India
The decision of keeping India out of the Regional Comprehension Economic Partnership (RCEP) has helped crores of farmers and prevented the likely shift shift of India from a self-sufficient milk producer to importer.
Decision to keep away from RCEP, right move on part of India
5-Dec-2019 The Hans India
India, in recent days, is faced with Hamletian dilemma. To join or not to join the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), a free trade association consisting of 16 nations including India.
After RCEP, farmers’ body seeks termination of existing FTAs
4-Dec-2019 The Hindu
After prevailing upon the Centre to drop out of the RCEP treaty, farmers organizations has urged the MPs to prevail upon the Union government to terminate the other existing FTA inimical to the livelihood of farmers in the country.
India has to withdraw formally and fully from RCEP negotiations & similar FTAs: Indian Coordination Committee of Farmers’ Movements (ICCFM)
18-Nov-2019 La Via Campesina South Asia
Reacting to the developments in Thailand, with countries in RCEP negotiations deciding to go ahead for now without India, farmer leaders in India stated that this is a good development, and that India will not lose in any manner.
China urges RCEP members to include India in trade bloc
7-Nov-2019 The Economic Times
A Chinese state-run English daily said, “the countries involved in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership shouldn’t lose the chance to include India."
RCEP: A rural disaster
5-Nov-2019 The Hindu Business Line
The disastrous impact of the Indo-Sri Lanka FTA and ASEAN FTA on Indian farmers especially in the plantation sector is well known. RCEP would be worse than ASEAN FTA
Why Australia and India haven’t settled an FTA yet
30-Oct-2019 The Diplomat
It has been more than eight years since Australia and India began negotiations on a free trade deal, but the two countries have yet to reach a settlement that both New Delhi and Canberra feel comfortable with.
Peasants and small scale food producers in India intensify their protest against RCEP free trade agreement
29-Oct-2019 South Indian Farmers’ Movements
On 24th October and thereafter, thousands of farmers organized under the Indian Coordination Committee of Farmers’ Movement (ICCFM) and ally groups carried out coordinated actions and demonstrations reject RCEP.
Farmers’ organisations call for rejecting RCEP agreement
29-Oct-2019 The Hindu
The leaders of various farmers’ associations in the State have called upon the Union government to reject the proposed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement.
Farmers’nation-wide protests against RCEP go unnoticed
28-Oct-2019 The Hindu Business Line
The widespread protests by hundreds of farmers across the country against the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) went unnoticed by and large.