ISDS Case Map
Japan
Various groups around the Philippines have come out with guns blazing, claiming that the proposed Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement will only harm farmers in the countryside.
Thai Foreign Minister Nitya Pibulsonggram insisted the Thailand-Japan free trade agreement, signed by the Surayud administration, is in line with the 2007 constitution and it is not necessary for it to be endorsed by the National Legislative Assembly (NLA).
Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's campaign to persuade the Senate to ratify a landmark free-trade agreement with Japan is looking increasingly hopeless
The jobs of at least 77,000 as well as tens of thousands of iron and steel workers whose livelihoods depend, directly or indirectly, on the automotive industry are imperiled as the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) threatens to destroy the country's automotive industry, said Frank Mero, national president of the Philippine Metalworkers' Alliance and of the Automotive Industry Workers' Alliance.
Legal luminaries insist on the unconstitutionality of the proposed Japan Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA), presently under scrutiny by the Philippine Senate
Filipino health workers hoping to work in Japan or migrate to that country may find it more difficult if the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) is approved, said a national organization of health professionals.
Philippines Sen. Mar Roxas said senators remain unconvinced on ratifying the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) even as the executive branch had created an inter-agency task force to explain the benefits of the bilateral economic agreement.
The multisectoral Fair Trade Alliance calls for a renegotiation of JPEPA
Philippine lawmakers are unlikely to ratify a free trade agreement with Japan in the deal's present form, the president of the Southeast Asian nation's Senate said Tuesday.
Washington needs to "think bigger" than it has in the past few years and look at possible trade deals with countries such as Taiwan, Indonesia, India and Japan, US Senate Democrat Max Baucus said.
