ISDS Case Map
agriculture | farmers | food
plus livestock, forestry, etc
US ambassador to Korea Christopher Hill said on Monday that the Korean government and people had to choose between an FTA and Korea's screen quota system.
Handled with care. That is the best way to describe how the Bush administration has dealt with sugar in America's international trade agreements.
The fifth round of negotiations for a free trade agreement (FTA) between the United States and Ecuador, Colombia, and Peru ended Friday without progress in the Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil. The controversial issues were agriculture and intellectual property.
The Philippines reported significant progress in talks to sign a free-trade pact by the end of the year with Japan.
Japan's ongoing negotiations over free trade agreements with Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand are entering a crucial stage.
Talks between the European Union and the four-nation South American Mercosur trade bloc, aimed at building the world's largest free-trade area, will be extended into 2005
On May 18, 2004, trade representatives from the United States and the Andean region met in Cartagena, Colombia to begin negotiations for a new set of bilateral trade agreements known collectively as the Andean Free Trade Agreement.
Thailand and Peru have edged closer to forming a free trade area (FTA) following discussions between Thai Trade Representative Kantathir Suphamongkhon and Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo, in which the Peruvian leader promised to exercise greater trade flexibility with Thailand than with other countries, and to review a ban on the import of Thai rice.
Talks of a possible trade-off between the local agriculture and industrial sectors in the on-going trade negotiations for the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) are worrying various sectors.
US Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has promised to scrap the controversial US-Central American Free Trade
Agreement (CAFTA) if elected president November 2.
