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NAFTA | USMCA
Leaders of the four main labor federations in the United States and Korea -- Change to Win, AFL-CIO, KCTU and FKTU -- today joined forces to tell their governments to slow down negotiations of a US-Korea Free Trade agreement (KORUS FTA).
The North American Free Trade Agreement is "a continental tragedy" according to parliamentarians from Canada, Mexico and the United States who are fighting to replace it with a "people-centred approach."
You may be asking yourself: " what is an EPA? " Well, you are not alone. In fact I have just met with a European Member of Parliament who is no more au courant than you. And that’s worrying!
The International Federation for Human Rights has published the report of a fact-finding mission on the effects on human rights of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The mission, conducted in Mexico between 22 and 31 of August 2005, looked specifically at the effects of NAFTA, ten years after its entering into force, on employment and working conditions in the Northern part of the country, in particular in the maquilas and in the informal economy.
Thanks to NAFTA's success, the flood of illegal immigration is up and the standard of living of the average Mexican is down.
A state-run research center said Monday that some of the countries that signed a free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States have lost their export competitiveness.
The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety "is alive," although there were complaints about and criticism of modifications to the final agreement reached at the Third Meeting of the Parties to the Protocol (MOP3). The aim of the compromise that Mexico successfully pressed for is to not hinder the country's free trade agreements with other countries.
With the world's two big multi-country trade liberalization talks stumbling or moribund, Canada's new government should fire up action on bilateral and smaller regional free-trade deals.
The labor side agreement of NAFTA hasn't forced anybody to take responsibility. It's not an effective guarantee of anyone's rights.
US drug agents say that free trade with Mexico has had an ugly and unintended consequence: Just as legitimate business people have flocked to Nuevo Laredo, so have criminals.
