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13-Feb-2008
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13-Feb-2008
Times of India
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.
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13-Feb-2008
CounterPunch
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.
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13-Feb-2008
AFP
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
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13-Feb-2008
Maghrebia
Businessmen from Algeria and Tunisia are pushing for an FTA between the two countries
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13-Feb-2008
Prensa Latina
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.
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13-Feb-2008
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13-Feb-2008
AllAfrica.com
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).
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12-Feb-2008
Bangkok Post
The Australian government will negotiate for greater opening of Thailand’s services sector this year under the Thailand-Australia Free Trade Agreement
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12-Feb-2008
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.
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12-Feb-2008
Yonhap
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.
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12-Feb-2008
The Statesman
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.
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11-Feb-2008
ANU
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.
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11-Feb-2008
MWC News
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.
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11-Feb-2008
Socialist Youth
A part of the mass movement against the EU EPAs is drawing the conclusion that they have to find other partners in the fight against neo-liberalism. The coalition we need is an international one, of the working people and poor, that struggles against capitalism.
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9-Feb-2008
El Khabar
The EU says it will revise the its Association Agreement with Algeria, pointing out competition from China and enhanced ’security’ interests
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9-Feb-2008
Business Standard
India’s commerce ministry has endorsed India Inc’s stand against signing a free trade agreement (FTA) with China until it becomes a market economy that follows transparent pricing of manufactured goods and services.
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8-Feb-2008
Yonhap
The Japanese government hopes to reopen free trade negotiations with South Korea that have been stalled for over three years due to differences between the two sides, a Japanese newspaper said Friday.
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8-Feb-2008
FPIF
Despite various and sometimes divergent interests, the Mexican campaign against NAFTA is finding a focus.
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8-Feb-2008
The Hill
The US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement is considered a non-starter in the US Congress because the country is the world’s deadliest for union activists. Less known, but equally disturbing is the systematic violence now confronting Afro-Colombians.
