ISDS Case Map
EU
European Union
While the ECOWAS governments and the European Commission are still agreeing the road map for the negotiations, EPAs have not been discussed fully with local stakeholders.
Unable to get its own way through the World Trade Organisation, the EU is now shamelessly trying to corral some of the world's poorest nations into bilateral trade agreements that would severely disadvantage them.
Sanitary and phytosanitary standards (SPS) are receiving increasing attention within the framework of international trade. SPS measures are meant to ensure that imports do not undermine national health and safety.
Is it really just the US which pushes its economic interests in fora outside the WTO? No! The European Commission as the power centre of EU trade policy is pursuing its own neo-liberal liberalisation and deregulation scheme multilaterally within the WTO and at the same time in regional and bilateral processes!
No one is admitting it publicly, but there is now little doubt that nine years of negotiations to reach a free trade agreement between South America's Mercosur trade bloc and the European Union have failed, without even leaving any real hope for the coming year.
Thailand needs more lobbyists in the capitals of its major trading partners to protect its interests in the context of global, regional and bilateral forces, a senior official in the Commerce Ministry has said.
It may seem as though a deal is a deal, but experts in the field differ on the relative merits of bilateral and regional agreements, with each having its friends and foes.
In the on-going negotiations for an EU-Mercosur Association Agreement, the EU has today sent Mercosur a completed offer.
This bold new report from Christian Aid explodes the myth that free trade is the answer to poverty.
