ISDS Case Map
US
A US business group outlined a plan on Thursday to restore White House trade negotiating authority that was badly damaged in a fight between President George W. Bush and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over a free trade pact with Colombia.
The US and China have signed a framework for an agreement to define cooperation on energy and environmental issues and will soon launch negotiations to reach a comprehensive investment and financial services treaty.
Malaysia is currently negotiating an FTA with the USA and the European Union and as with any North-South FTAs their scope are extensive. The Third World Network has produced a preliminary report looking at the likely impact of these FTAs on small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia.
No one is sure how successful the movement will be in stopping the importation of American beef into Korea but it has certainly fractured the seemingly monolithic aura of President Lee and his neo-liberal bulldozer and will perhaps spark a new generation of class struggle in South Korea.
Written by Luis Alonso Garcia, former head negotiator for Peru for the Intellectual
Property Chapter of the FTA with the United States, this paper examines the US-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement as
an example of the challenges and opportunities, especially for civil
society participation, presented by such negotiations.
Le lien entre « la crise du boeuf » et les accords de libre-échange est évident. « À travers l'un, nous luttons contre l'autre, explique-t-on. Même si c'est un lien que ne font pas tous ceux qui descendent dans la rue aujourd'hui. Notre mouvement exige la rectification des accords conclus en avril de l'an dernier. Ceux-ci concernent durablement la vie de tous les citoyens, les paysans en premier lieu. »
Colombia's dramatic rescue of hostages held for years by a rebel group probably won't lead to quick approval of a U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement that has been snagged for months in the U.S. Congress.
Some 240 tons of beef products from an approved US exporter to Korea suspected of being contaminated with the O-157 strain of E. coli have been recalled, the US Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service said Wednesday.
Costa Rica is saying goodbye to its 84-year-old insurance monopoly as it opens the industry to national and international competition.
A Member of Parliament Wednesday called on the Malaysian government to table in Parliament the results of the Free Trade Agreement negotiations with the US, saying that the approval of the highest council in the country would symbolise the people's consent to the deal.
