ISDS Case Map
agriculture | farmers | food
plus livestock, forestry, etc
China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are making encouraging progress with the early harvest programme (EHP), which the two economies launched in January 2004.
Vegetable growers stood to lose $500 million a year and 5,000 jobs if Australia struck a free trade deal with China, the industry says.
Prudish about bilateral free-trade agreements just five years ago, Tokyo is now fielding partnership requests from 25 economies and regional blocs. But there is no denying an element of haphazardness in the way it is selecting some of the candidates.
The South Australian Farmers Federation (SAFF) says the introduction of a comprehensive free trade agreement (FTA)with China could decimate the state's horticulture industry.
The National Farmers Federation says a free trade agreement (FTA) between Australia and Japan would be counterproductive if it did not include agriculture
There is no point proceeding with a feasibility study into a free trade agreement between Australia and Japan if agriculture is excluded from the deal, Labor says.
Agriculture might not feature in a free trade deal between Australia and Japan, with Prime Minister John Howard acknowledging it may be too big an obstacle to overcome.
Fifteen years. That is how long China dragged out negotiations for its entry into the World Trade Organization. And there's no reason to believe that finalizing a comprehensive free-trade agreement with Australia will be any less painstaking.
During the ninth round of negotiations of a free trade agreement between the United States and three South American nations in the Andean region -- Colombia, Peru and Ecuador -- Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo called for ”greater flexibility” on the part of Washington.
There is no point proceeding with a feasibility study into a free trade agreement between Australia and Japan if agriculture is excluded from the deal, Labor says.
