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’Reckless’ to restart US-UK trade talks in midst of pandemic, campaigners say
4-May-2020 Global Justice Now
Coronavirus has exposed the flaws in the pro-corporate agenda that this trade deal is intended to entrench.
EU-Mexico agreement: Serious concerns for European civil society
30-Apr-2020 Global Campaign
European civil society organisations are deeply concerned about the renewal of the European Union-Mexico trade agreement.
Sustainable regulation and trade agreements for the EU-UK relationship
30-Apr-2020 Trade Justice Movement
The Trade Justice Movement has published model Sustainable Regulation and Trade Agreements for the EU-UK relationship, which have been developed in partnership with trade unions, environmental organisations and justice groups.
Indonesia’s response to coronavirus threatens to increase illegal logging
29-Apr-2020 Fern
It is critical that the EU, which is currently negotiating a free trade agreement with Indonesia, uses these negotiations to ask how Indonesia will protect forests, mitigate climate change and respect community tenure rights.
Stop all trade and investment treaty negotiations during COVID-19 crisis and focus on access to medical supplies and saving lives
22-Apr-2020 Friends of the Earth International
An open letter to Trade Ministries and the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
Pandemic profiteers: how foreign investors could make billions from crisis measures
20-Apr-2020 TNI
Governments’ emergency actions in the wake of COVID-19 could prompt a wave of arbitration lawsuits for billions of dollars by multinational corporations and investment lawyers.
Crimes against Human Rights and the renegotiation of the free trade agreement Chile-EU
17-Apr-2020 Chile Mejor sin TLC
As is the case in all of the treaties, the parts that are not directly related to trade are non-binding, as the chapter on human rights is.
Silent expansion
15-Apr-2020 CEO
Many countries, particularly in the global south, are in the process of joining the Energy Charter Treaty despite the sweeping powers it grants to foreign investors.
Putting an end to the EU’s neo-colonial policies in the field of trade and investment
14-Apr-2020 CADTM
The destructive effects of these free trade agreements signed with the EU are already clearly visible in the majority of countries of the South.
The European Commission’s manipulations of the interim Economic Partnership Agreements of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana
3-Apr-2020 SOL
This analysis aims to uncover the many tricks used by the European Commission to impose the Interim Economic Partnership Agreements of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana.
Will Canada’s grain farmers be collateral damage in the rush to pass Bill C-4?
26-Mar-2020 NFU
Bill C-4 - the legislation to implement the Canada-US-Mexico trade agreement - makes it so Canada must treat all American-grown grain as if it were Canadian-grown.
Intellectual property rights: Potential implications of the DCFTA for access to medicine
25-Mar-2020 Observatoire Tunisien de l’Economie
If the intellectual property provisions of the DCFTA are applied, this will have an impact on both the cost of patented medicines and undermine access to affordable medicines.
A fast track to weaker food standards
20-Mar-2020 CEO
Will the EU concede to the demands of US negotiators on food standards? The Commission can in fact circumvent the mandate by using other methods that make it much easier to weaken standards.
Brexit UK risks copying EU’s Sahara flaws
10-Mar-2020 WSRW
The UK Government is in the final stages of entering into a new trade agreement with Morocco including the territory of Western Sahara, without consideration of recent EU and British court rulings, or of the people of the occupied land.
What Deputy PM Somkid didn’t say: disasters loom large as Thai government eager to join CPTPP
3-Mar-2020 FTA Watch
FTA Watch and Thai civil society slammed government’s attempt to push Thailand into CPTPP FTA while the country have no negotiating power; risking negative impacts on Thai small farmers, rights over seeds and breeds, and access to medicine.
Pacific shouldering burden in unbalanced PACER-Plus Trade Deal
27-Feb-2020 PANG
The Pacific Island Countries (PICs) are taking on disproportionate binding commitments in exchange for false promises of benefits from the regional free trade deal known as PACER-Plus.
There’s nothing “mini” about the US plan to unravel Europe’s precautionary principle
26-Feb-2020 IATP
US trade negotiators, Agriculture Secretary, and American farm interests have all been crystal clear: the precautionary principle must go, and now is the time to finally axe it.
PACER-Plus development assistance analysis: No new money but still with strings attached
26-Feb-2020 PANG
What the development assistance arrangement results in, is aid money, tightly controlled by Australia and New Zealand to flow to areas that will make Forum Island Countries uphold their commitments on market access, ultimately benefiting the two metropolitan Parties.
PACER-Plus labour mobility analysis: Unbound promises and an annual meeting
26-Feb-2020 PANG
PACER-Plus itself achieved little by way of actual improvements for Pacific Islander workers to access the labour markets of Australia and New Zealand.
CETA: "Fake news" and "Canada bashing"?
24-Feb-2020 Council of Canadians
Many are getting the message that being against CETA is not being against Canadians or European friendship but about being against a blueprint for trade that usurps power from democratic bodies and gives it to large multinational companies.