ISDS Case Map
agriculture | farmers | food
plus livestock, forestry, etc
When the idea of a free trade agreement with Japan was floated four years ago, there was not much enthusiasm in Tokyo.
Agriculture minister Peter McGauran's lightning trip to Xian, home of the famed terracotta warriors, yesterday was to open a joint agriculture conference intended to persuade the Chinese that Australian farmers are no threat to their 800 million peasant counterparts, most of whom are barely above the poverty line and who form a potentially volatile force in Chinese politics.
All agricultural products remain on the table in talks for a free trade agreement with China - which Agriculture Minister Peter McGauran describes as the "single most important thing" anyone can do for Australia's farming industry.
A proposed free-trade deal between Australia and Japan is looking shaky, with agriculture again the most contentious issue.
Canada Agri-Food Trade Alliance Comments on Free Trade Negotiations with Korea, House Standing Committee on International Trade, June 14 2006.
Some 11,700 tobacco farmers in Malaysia - most of them in Kelantan - will be affected come 2010 when the original Asean members of Malaysia, Brunei, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand and Singapore enact zero tariff rates on virtually all imports.
Viet Nam's farm produce are facing challenges in the Chinese market as a result of the ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (AC-FTA), in particular stronger competition from the products of other ASEAN countries.
South Korea needs to make a much better offer to open up its agricultural sector to U.S. imports in talks aimed at reaching a free trade agreement by the end of the year, a U.S. trade official said on Monday.
Foreign food products are making their way into the country under the Free Trade Agreements and market liberalisation, while Malaysian products are struggling to penetrate foreign markets.
Over the past four months members of the CAFTA Monitoring Working Group have coordinated the
drafting of this report with friends and allies in Central America. While it is far too early to detail
long-term trends in labor, textiles, agricultural practice and policy, investment patterns, services, and
environmental consequences of CAFTA, in this report we have looked primarily at the process of
implementing CAFTA since January 1, 2006 and some early trends and concerns that have emerged,
many of which we will continue to monitor.
