ISDS Case Map
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Caribbean foreign ministers will discuss a possible free trade agreement with the US when they meet next week with the US trade representative.
Thailand's new Thai Rak Thai government will proceed with the negotiations of free trade agreements.
USTR has recently released its latest annual country-by-country assessment of barriers to US trade around the world, Washington's basis for unilateral trade sanctions.
More than three years after President George W Bush unveiled an initiative to forge free-trade agreements with Southeast Asian nations, a deal aimed at prising open the 500-million-strong regional market remains elusive.
A new study by the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry analyses the impact of the UAE's FTA with the US.
Venezuela has accused the United States of attempting to undermine the unity of the five-nation Andean Community in the way of free trade deals.
Amidst rising anti-trade sentiment in Congress, House Republicans and Democrats wrangled over labor rights issues Wednesday demanding that a US free trade deal with the Omani government include stronger provisions to protect workers rights.
An examination of the globalised approach by both EU countries and the US to bilateral FTAs shows that acceleration has occurred as the WTO has lost its effect. While it is easy to rationalise that the global north is acting independently because the WTO is failing, it is more fun to speculate that the global north is acting to stall the WTO since they get much better terms on a one-to-one basis in their agreements with developing countries.
Unless this FTA is blocked, Korean economy, nay, the
whole Korean society will soon fall under US unilateralism built
upon transnational capital, Korea-US military alliance, and of course
the new gained strategic flexibility of the US forces in Korea.
