ISDS Case Map
automobiles
Duty concessions offered to some auto components from China under the Bangkok Agreement from September 1 this year have led to Indian companies alleging dumping.
After plantations and agriculture, its now the turn of the auto sector to protest against free trade agreements (FTA).
A free-trade deal Ottawa is negotiating with South Korea could cost Canada up to 33,000 jobs -- including 4,000 in the auto industry -- this country's largest private sector union warned yesterday.
The US is likely to push for the exclusion of its automobile industry from the ongoing negotiations on a proposed free trade agreement (FTA) with South Korea, trade sources said.
The militant Filipino labor group Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) said it fears more retrenchments and lower wages with the impending liberalization of the country's automotive and steel sectors under the recently signed Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA).
South Korea and the United States ended a third round of free trade talks on Saturday, acknowledging that they failed to make "practical progress" in certain "sensitive areas" such as automobiles, agricultural products and pharmaceuticals.
For Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, the future of the Filipino people has a very cheap price. So cheap that she has opted to sell it to Japan by further opening up the local economy in exchange for the annual deployment of 400-500 caregivers and nurses to Japan.
The Ontario government is demanding that Ottawa exclude the auto sector from free trade talks with Korea because of potential harm to the industry.
Japan has agreed with the Philippines to set an upper limit on the number of Philippine nurses and caregivers -- 400 to 500 annually -- it will accept under a bilateral free trade agreement which is scheduled to be signed by leaders of the two countries on Sept. 9, government sources said Thursday.
Two months after voting for its release, opposition MPs are still waiting for an Industry Canada study outlining the impacts a proposed free trade agreement with the Asian nation would have on Canada's car manufacturing and ship-building industries.
