ISDS Case Map
medicines
Thai academics called on the government on Friday to temporarily suspend ongoing free trade area (FTA) negotiations with the United States, and suggested it to identify impacts on the country's intellectual property rights and agricultural products.
Today 57 organizations sent a letter to the trade and foreign ministers of EFTA member states urging them not to include provisions that would restrict access to medicines and farmers rights under the EFTA-SACU FTA
Barring major turns, any deal emerging from the talks will be a disaster for most Colombians.
The United States' continuing concern about Australian laws is threatening to delay the countries' free-trade agreement.
Korean trade union and social organisations have worked together in recent months to stop the Japan-Korea FTA, arguing that it will result in the abolition of more regulations protecting workers rights, and more privatisation of public services. They also say the average citizens' access to medical treatment and drugs will also be undermined by the FTA's excuse to “protect” intellectual property rights.
Prime Minister John Howard may bow to a concerted campaign by American drug companies against the amendments that the government was forced into accepting upon pressure from the Labor Party.
In negotiating trade agreements with Morocco, Chile and other countries, the Bush administration has used the same approach that earned us the enmity of so much of the rest of the world. The bilateral agreements reveal an economic policy dictated more by special interests than by a concern for the well-being of our poorer trading partners.
The European Commission has decided to increase pressure on Israel to adopt more stringent intellectual property protection for the benefit of EU pharmaceutical companies.
Civil groups yesterday called for intellectual property (IP) to be excluded from the second round of the Thai-US Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiation because of fears it would give unjustified protection to rich IP developers at the expense of Thais.
HIDDEN at the back of the 1000 page Australia-US Free Trade
Agreement, is a strange article, numbered 21.2(c). Usually,
in a legal document such as a treaty, dispute proceedings
only arise if a party has breached a formal obligation in the text.
