ISDS Case Map
US
Currently, the US has 37 umbrella S&T Agreements worldwide that establish frameworks to facilitate the exchange of scientific results, provide for protection and allocation of intellectual property rights and benefit sharing, facilitate access for researchers, address taxation issues, and respond to the complex set of issues associated with economic development, domestic security and regional stability.
Labor and environment groups and their allies yesterday lashed out at the Bush administration's trade policy, criticizing both the administration's move to extend the president's trade-negotiating authority and its efforts to negotiate a free-trade agreement with South Korea.
South Korea's negotiators on a free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States reportedly said they would halve the number of agricultural products currently protected from tariff removal from 235 to around 100, sources said.
Peru is making a concerted effort to address labor concerns being raised by U.S. congressional Democrats in order to ensure approval of the U.S.-Peru free trade pact, Labor Minister Susana Pinilla said Tuesday.
The push for a US-Korea Free Trade Agreement, already under fire in South Korea, is being viewed skeptically by US manufacturers, especially carmakers, according to industry and congressional officials.
The Brazilian Foreign Relations Minister, Celso Amorin, argued that Mercosur would prefer to negotiate bilaterally with the US than to try to save the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas.
US business groups began a campaign on Monday to persuade a skeptical Democratic-led Congress to approve at least a short-term extension of White House trade promotion authority to finish world trade talks.
Leaders of labor federations in the United States and Korea today joined forces to protest
the ongoing negotiations for the US-Korea Free Trade agreement (KORUS
FTA).
With two rounds reportedly remaining, many in South Korea fear a 'spree of concessions'
The lead US negotiator in free trade talks with South Korea said Sunday that while she is optimistic about the latest round of negotiations, a final agreement will not be reached this week.
