ISDS Case Map
agriculture | farmers | food
plus livestock, forestry, etc
Canada has pushed for wider access to Korea's agriculture market during the eighth round of talks for a bilateral free trade agreement last week.
Most of the bananas from Davao are exported to Japan by Japanese companies such as Sumitomo. These companies and their contract growers or affiliates in Mindanao will benefit from any lowered tariff under JPEPA, not the farmers and plantation workers.
Commerce Minister Krirkkrai Jirapaet on Wednesday reiterated that Thailand would not sign an ASEAN-Korea free trade area (FTA) agreement unless Korea agrees to liberalise its policies on agricultural products, especially rice.
Free access for all Australian farm products to the Japanese market will be on the table when free trade agreement negotiations start, but some won't be there at the finish.
Four private-sector members of Japan's key governmental economic panel insist that Tokyo should triple the number of its FTA partners in two years.
Thailand's Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont has advised farmers to study the impacts of the China-ASEAN free trade area (FTA) and find ways to handle them.
About 20 Filipino farmers picketed outside the Japanese embassy Friday to protest the Japanese-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA).
While the 4th US-Kore FTA were in progress in Jeju Island, 101 scholars related to sociology issued a statement, urging the suspension of the negotiations. They noted that “the ROK-US FTA are highly universal problems directly related to the food safety and sovereignty of all people.”
In the wake of protests from thousands of farm activists and unionists, South Korean and U.S. negotiators resumed controversial free-trade talks on Monday, on the resort island of Cheju.
As the host of ongoing free trade talks with the United States, the South Korean island of Jeju appealed on Monday for Washington's negotiators to exclude oranges from a bilateral trade pact that is being planned.
