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13-Feb-2008
Fighting FTAs: the experience in Thailand
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13-Feb-2008
Australia-US Free Trade Agreement - fair trade or foul?
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13-Feb-2008
Social activism around FTAs
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13-Feb-2008
Changing South-South trade and investment dynamics
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13-Feb-2008
What is going on where?
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13-Feb-2008
FTAs and Biodiversity
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13-Feb-2008
Today’s FTA frenzy
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13-Feb-2008 Times of India
GM trials in India threaten trade ties
India finds itself increasingly on the defensive in agricultural trade for permitting field trials across the country in a host of genetically modified food crops — rice, brinjal, okra, potato, tomato and groundnuts — and thereby exposing conventional crops to the risk of transgenic contamination. A case in point is a rather dodgy no-contamination certificate that the regulator, Genetic Engineering Approval Committee, was forced to give two months ago in response to a restriction imposed by Russia on import of rice, groundnuts and sesame seeds from India. -
13-Feb-2008 CounterPunch
Corporate globalisation: Standing at the end of the road
Corporate globalization, savagely embodied by NAFTA, is not just a threat to Mexican farmers and rural villagers. The economic, health, and social damage created by industrial agriculture, corporate globalization, and the patenting and gene-splicing of transgenic plants and animals, are inexorably leading to universal "bioserfdom " for farmers, deteriorating health for consumers, a destabilized climate (energy intensive industrial agriculture and long-distance food transportation and processing account, directly or indirectly, for 40% of all climate-disrupting greenhouse gases), tropical deforestation, and a rapid depletion of oil supplies. -
13-Feb-2008 AFP
SKorea MP stages sit-in protest to block US free trade deal
A South Korean lawmaker has locked himself inside a parliamentary committee room to try to block moves to ratify a free trade deal with the United States -
13-Feb-2008 Maghrebia
Tunisian and Algerian businessmen discuss free-trade zone
Businessmen from Algeria and Tunisia are pushing for an FTA between the two countries -
13-Feb-2008 Prensa Latina
Panama, Guatemala ready free trade
Panama said Tuesday that negotiations for a free trade agreement with Guatemala is 90 percent advanced. Panama plans to negotiate a similar accord with the EU en bloc. -
13-Feb-2008
Colonisation redux: new agreements, old games
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13-Feb-2008 AllAfrica.com
East Africa: Ministers propose bigger regional trading bloc
East Africa’s trade ministers have proposed the formation of a larger trading bloc to eliminate friction among states over deals signed with partners outside the continent. The proposal made at a meeting of the Trade ministers in Arusha last week calls for the formation of a grand Free Trade Area (FTA) consisting of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) and the Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc). -
12-Feb-2008 Bangkok Post
Canberra wants Thai services sector opened
The Australian government will negotiate for greater opening of Thailand’s services sector this year under the Thailand-Australia Free Trade Agreement -
12-Feb-2008 The specter in JPEPA
The specter in JPEPA
One does not have to be a constitutionalist, a legalist, an economist, an environmentalist, and, yes, even a pundit to see that many provisions in the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement are so frightfully flawed and to realize that it could very well become an environmental and economic nightmare for this country and its people. -
12-Feb-2008 Yonhap
Liberal party blocks talks on Korea-US FTA ratification
A scheduled parliamentary discussion on the ratification of a South Korea-US free trade deal was called off Monday as members of the Democratic Labour Party blockaded the meeting venue. Meanwhile, the head of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions — a militant labor umbrella group — left for a trip to the United States Monday, vowing to nullify the motion in cooperation with US labor groups. -
12-Feb-2008 The Statesman
Sugar industry drops bid to restrict trade
The US sugar industry announced Friday it was abandoning efforts to insert a provision in the federal farm bill that would renew restrictions on the sugar trade between the United States and Mexico. -
11-Feb-2008 ANU
TRIPS, bilateralism and patents: how they are failing both the developed and the developing world and what to do about it
Luigi Palombi discusses TRIPS, post-TRIPS bilateralism and patents in the context of biological resources and traditional knowledge and seeks to provide a solution to the present intellectual property deadlock between the developed and developing worlds. -
11-Feb-2008 MWC News
El Salvador’s “American-made” Terrorism Act in corporate play
Critics of CAFTA say it was no coincidence that the anti-terrorism legislation was enacted six months after the trade agreement. Update on the case against the Suchitoto 13.