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5-Jan-2014 Democracy Now!
Zapatista uprising 20 years later: How Indigenous Mexicans stood up against NAFTA "death sentence"
On the same day the North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect on Jan. 1, 1994, the Zapatista National Liberation Army and people of Chiapas declared war on the Mexican government, saying that NAFTA meant death to indigenous peoples. To learn about the impact of the uprising 20 years later and the challenges they continue to face, DN! speak with Peter Rosset, professor of rural social movements in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico. -
5-Jan-2014 Manila Standard
Philippines: Businessmen prepare for free trade accords
The largest group of businessmen in the Philippines is preparing for new trade agreements that will enable the country to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership. -
5-Jan-2014 NPR
How NAFTA helped the Mexican billionaires’ club
When the North American Free Trade Agreement was being negotiated, supporters promised it would increase the income of Mexicans. Two decades later, it’s clear that Mexico’s ultrarich are among its big winners. -
5-Jan-2014 Fibre2fashion
TPP, TTIP could alter US textile & apparel trade
From the view of the textiles and apparel industries, all eyes will be on whether a yarn-forward provision has been included or not in the final documents. -
4-Jan-2014 Public Radio International
A Canadian court is allowing Ecuadorians to pursue their long-running pollution suit against Chevron
Last month, a judge ruled that the Ecuadorians can pursue their case against Chevron in Canada.
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4-Jan-2014 Wall St Journal
Tribunal pushes back Ecuador, Chevron hearing
An international arbitration tribunal in The Hague hearing a claim from Chevron Corp. against Ecuador pushed back a scheduled hearing to Feb. 7 from Jan. 20 and called on both parties to meet in Washington on Jan. 20 instead. -
3-Jan-2014 Associated Press
NAFTA does not fulfil Mexican expectations
Although NAFTA fundamentally changed the country in some ways, it did not meet expectations of putting Mexican wages on the same level as US wages, boosting employment, reducing poverty or protecting the environment. -
2-Jan-2014 The Hindu Business Line
Investment deal? Just watch it
In the last couple of years, South Africa has become the unlikely champion of the anti-BIT movement. -
2-Jan-2014 The Anti-Media
Anti-TPP Twitter Storm Wednesday 1/8/14 @ 10am PST/1pm EST
The goal of this" "hashtag storm" is to get this hashtag trending on both Twitter and Facebook, so we can inform the public about the dangers of the Trans Pacific Partnership and agitate people to ACT to stop the TPP. -
2-Jan-2014 New Straits Times
China hints at joining TPP talks
Foreign Minister Wang Yi, while outlining diplomatic priorities for this year, said that "China will face the member states of the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks with an open attitude". -
31-Dec-2013 Toronto Star
Free trade’s tarnished silver anniversary
On the 25th anniversary of the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement, big corporations have gained at the expense of the public good. -
31-Dec-2013 Toward Freedome
NAFTA’s 20 years of unfulfilled promises
Twenty years after it took effect, NAFTA has failed the vast majority of Mexicans -
31-Dec-2013 El Correo
Les peuples amérindiens mettent en garde sur la destruction de la Terre-Mère
Lors du « 5e Sommet continental », qui s’est tenu récemment dans le département du Cauca en Colombie, 4 000 représentants indigènes du continent américain ont exigé un arrêt des signatures de Traités Bilatéraux d’Investissement et d’Accords de Libre Échange qui créent des politiques d’expropriation de ressources naturelles et des règles permettant le pillage des biens et des cultures des peuples. -
31-Dec-2013 China Post
Envoy calls for free trade pact between Taiwan and Malaysia
The Republic of China representative to Malaysia called on the Malaysian government to consider signing an economic cooperation agreement with Taiwan. -
28-Dec-2013
Mauritius keen to sign free trade accord
Mauritius is keen to develop economic relations with Pakistan and enter into a free-trade agreement (FTA) to tap the bilateral trade potential, Mauritius Deputy Prime Minister Dr Ahmad Rashid Beebeejaun said on Saturday. -
28-Dec-2013
LPG firm’s investor seeks compensation
A shareholder from the United Kingdom of the company Progas Pakistan has initiated international arbitration proceedings of $573 million against Pakistan for alleged expropriation of its LPG infrastructure in Karachi and the government has decided to vigorously contest the case. -
28-Dec-2013 Democracy Now
Indigenous groups win right to seize Chevron’s Canadian sssets over $18 billion in Amazon pollution
A court in Canada has ruled Ecuadorean farmers and fishermen can try to seize the assets of oil giant Chevron based on a 2011 decision in an Ecuadorean court found it liable for nearly three decades of soil and water pollution near oil wells, and said it had ruined the health and livelihoods of people living in nearby areas of the Amazon rainforest. -
27-Dec-2013 Buenos Aires Herald
EU-Mercosur talking across each other over trade agreement
After 31 months of talks, 2013 was supposed to mark the time when the European Union and the Mercosur bloc were going to present their respective offers for a free trade deal all sides claim to want. Yet 2013 will end as it began —without any concrete progress. -
27-Dec-2013 New Straits Times
‘Havoc for palm oil sector’
Palm oil refiners, some of which are owned by the country’s largest conglomerates, may face a bleak future if Malaysia accedes to demand under free trade pacts to dismantle the crude palm oil (CPO) tax. -
27-Dec-2013 InterAksyon.com
PH-EU free trade agreement may start talks in first quarter of 2014 - trade official Cristobal
The initial stages of negotiations for the Philippines-European Free Trade Agreement may start first quarter of 2014, Trade undersecretary Adrian Cristobal Jr. said.