ISDS Case Map
agriculture | farmers | food
plus livestock, forestry, etc
The United States, Australia, New Zealand and Canada are all vying for Korea's beef market through FTAs, with Australia currently gaining ground.
The most affected from the EU-India FTA will be India's dairy farming sector, where regularly five million women and 15 million men work to meet their daily needs.
Canadian ag exports such as wheat, barley, lentils, peas and some boneless beef could get "immediate duty-free access" to the Peruvian market as early as July 1.
Canada's agriculture industry is eyeing free-trade talks with the European Union as a rare chance to open a big high-income market, but for the beef sector a major production shift may also be at stake.
The National Pork Producers Council is pushing for passage of the Panama Free Trade Agreement, saying it will level the playing field for U.S. pork producers.
The pending free trade agreement for Colombia could increase market access for soy products, but what would the impact really be? That was one of the goals of a fact-finding mission conducted by two US soybean farmers that participated in a Free Trade Agreement fact-finding mission to the South American country last week.
The European Union-Association of South East Asian Nations (EU-ASEAN) Free Trade Agreement (FTA) may pose difficulties for the Philippine rice sector while favoring that of Thailand.
Assurances by the Korean Government, that agriculture will be included in a Free Trade Agreement with Australia, is sure to please local beef producers.
The new swine flu epidemic that threatens to spread to more regions of the world is nothing new. It is part of an overall crisis, and it stems from industrial animal farming, which is dominated by transnational companies.
The Canadian Agri-food Trade Alliance (CAFTA)
welcomes the news that Canada and the European Union will begin negotiating a
new economic partnership agreement aimed at liberalizing trade and expanding
market access between Canada and the EU.
