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Philippines eyes free trade agreement with US
17-Jul-2017 Philippines Star
The Philippines is looking to take its bilateral relations with the US a notch higher as it eyes to secure a free trade agreement (FTA) with the world’s largest economy.
Canada blinks in face of US/Pharma pressure
14-Jul-2017 Info Justice
The cool reasoning of the Canadian Supreme Court does not acknowledge or reference “external” pressures or the Eli Lilly v. Canada ISDS case. However, courts do not decide cases in a vacuum. This case seems to have been decided in a pressure cooker.
Unifor-UAW statement on auto and the re-negotiation of NAFTA
13-Jul-2017 UAW
It’s essential for auto workers in the United States and Canada to not be persuaded by those who wish to portray Mexican auto workers as the problem. Workers in every country have the right to to seek a higher standard of living.
USTR formally demands negotiation to revise FTA with Korea
13-Jul-2017 Korea Herald
The United States formally notified South Korea that it wants to start the process of revising the free trade agreement between the two countries, the office of the US Trade Representative said.
Small business leaders to Trump: in renegotiating NAFTA, end unfair competitive edge for multinational companies over US small businesses
12-Jul-2017 Green America
100 small businesses: NAFTA currently privileges multinational corporations over U.S. small business unfairly under “Investor-State Dispute Settlement” preferential treatment.
Negotiating objectives regarding modernization of NAFTA - written submission of Cargill
12-Jul-2017 Cargill
Cargill urges the Administration to seek improvements to NAFTA in the following four areas: market access; non-tariff barriers and technical barriers to trade; customs and trade facilitation; and enforcement and dispute settlement.
White House continues its Asia-Pacific outreach
12-Jul-2017 Politico
US and Philippines officials met in Manila under their Trade and Investment Framework Agreement to discuss eliminating trade barriers and promoting increased bilateral trade
Following summit, S. Korea and US to form consultation group on KORUS FTA
7-Jul-2017 The Hankyoreh
US apparently will want the group to revise KORUS FTA while South Korea seeking analysis of the agreement‘s impact.
Malaysia in bilateral consultations with US, says US ambassador
7-Jul-2017 The Sun Daily
Bilateral consultations are underway between Malaysia and the US to enhance the economic and trade relationship between the two countries in a bilateral channel.
Bilateral agreements: Where’s the US?
7-Jul-2017 Farm Journal’s Pork
National Pork Producers have let the administration know that the U.S. should focus on the Asian-Pacific area, starting with Japan.
U.S. trade policy fails workers
6-Jul-2017 AFL-CIO
This decision drives home the fact that U.S. trade deals do not protect workers. In truth, this failure is by design—labor chapters were not meant to work efficiently or effectively.
Can NAFTA be improved? Some activists are hopeful about renegotiation
4-Jul-2017 The Progressive
Regardless of the short-term outcome, the movement for a progressive new NAFTA will hand progressives a dynamic issue—and a mobilized base—in the 2018 and 2020 elections. The current renegotiation could set the stage for future battles, perhaps for deeper change.
After nine years, arbitrators bounce AFL-CIO complaint on Guatemala labor conditions
3-Jul-2017 People’s World
“The panel’s decision flies in the face of common sense. Guatemala’s failure to protect its workers and enforce its own laws is apparent to nearly everyone except the arbitrators.”
US junks Bilateral Investment Treaty talks
29-Jun-2017 The Hindu
Talks deadlocked on investor dispute settlement.
U.S. grain groups testify at NAFTA hearings
29-Jun-2017 Food Business News
US Grains Council outlined improvements suggestions for the agreement, including elements drawn from the TPP text as well as updated sanitary and phytosanitary, biotechnology synchronization and energy provisions.
Trump is trying to make NAFTA even worse. It’s time to throw sand in the gears
29-Jun-2017 In These Times
While the people who gathered in Mexico City have long opposed NAFTA for its pro-corporate bent, a consensus emerged that President Trump and his team are cooking up something even worse.
Guatemala off the hook in CAFTA labor case
28-Jun-2017 Politico
The U.S., for the most part, lost its first challenge of another country’s adherence to the labor rules under a trade deal.
As NAFTA hearings open, more than 100,000 petitions delivered and 50,000 public comments filed demanding a new deal to benefit working people, not just corporations
27-Jun-2017 Public Citizen
Unprecedented public response to administration request for comment spotlights political stakes of NAFTA renegotiation.
US Brazilian beef ban casts doubt on Mercusor trade agreement
27-Jun-2017 Farmers Weekly
A move by the US Department of Agriculture to ban imports of fresh Brazilian beef has added weight to calls to remove agriculture from a free trade agreement between the EU and countries in the Mercosur trading-bloc.
India, US and a five-point plan
26-Jun-2017 The Indian Express
Modi and Trump must build on convergence between their nations’ interests.