6-Aug-2004
CAFTA: Recolonizing Central America
Managua, Nicaragua -- "Prices are so low we have to grow more and more just to meet ends." That's how a leader of a new Nicaraguan campesino organization, FEDICAMP, describes the current situation for small farmers here.
6-Aug-2004
Letter urging IP be excluded from US-SACU trade negotiations
Re: Excluding Intellectual Property from negotiations over
a U.S.- Southern African Customs Union (SACU) Free Trade Agreement
5-Aug-2004
Thailand: Opposition to Bilateral Trade Agreement Grows Strong
Trade and consumers' right activists who were at the forefront campaigning on FTA, called on the government to reveal all the terms and conditions of Tafta, voicing their grave concern that the local farm sector appear to be the losers while the winners are a handful of Thai big businessmen.
5-Aug-2004
US Free Trade Initiatives and their implications for the multilateral trading system
The rationale for regional integration between two or more countries would suggest that such agreements would need to be based on substantial trading interests.
5-Aug-2004
Bilateral investment agreements: Agents of new global standards for the protection of intellectual property rights?
Developing countries have entered into a large number of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) as well as free trade agreements (FTAs) that include explicit obligations for the protection of intellectual property rights as "investments".
5-Aug-2004
Drug spat stalls Australia-US free trade deal
A long-awaited Australia-US free trade agreement (FTA) hit a new snag in Canberra, just hours after US President George W. Bush reaffirmed Washington's commitment to a pact he called "a milestone in the history of our alliance".
2-Aug-2004
Hotline invites views on FTA
People can now have their say on Bahrain's Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the US.
2-Aug-2004
What's the big deal?
John Garnaut cuts through the politics of the free trade agreement with the United States to find the winners and losers.
2-Aug-2004
Vannessa drops all Las Cristinas Venezuelan appeals
In order to meet the requirements to submit its Las Cristanas dispute to international arbitration, junior explorationist Vanessa Ventures [VV] of Calgary, Alberta, has dropped five appeals to Venezuela's Supreme Tribunal of Justice.
