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Politicians, labor activists and ice cream makers gather to influence free-trade agreement
Warning of a new "NAFTA for the Pacific Rim," labor and its allies are demanding a new free trade deal being negotiated for the Pacific region include protections for workers rights, health care and the environment.
This Labor Day, the Pacific Rim will wash into the Midwest’s flagship city, and activists will confront the tides of global commerce with a demand for global economic justice.
US negotiators are hardliners against capital controls in current Trans-Pacific trade talks with eight other countries.
Rival parties agreed Thursday to begin the ratification process for the long-pending free trade agreement with the United States at the same pace with the U.S. Congress, officials said.
Chevron Corp., the second-largest U.S. energy company, said it won a $96 million judgment against Ecuador in an international arbitration case stemming from a 1990s oil-export dispute with the Latin American nation.
Australia leads the world in many areas of public health but the Federal Government could be negotiating our achievements away, according to Dr Patricia Ranald, Convenor, Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network
According to an anonymous source in Washington Thursdaythe US House of Representatives has tentatively agreed to vote on the country's three pending trade deals with Korea, Colombia and Panama in mid October.
In June, the US and South Korean governments clarified that US cheese manufacturers will be able to continuing shipping to Korea a wide variety of cheeses of importance to the US dairy industry despite the EU-Korea FTA's provisions on geographical indications
Opening up the Korean market to cheap US citrus imports would simply wipe out most of the farm economy on Jeju Island.
