ISDS Case Map
Thailand
If a bilateral free trade agreement with the United States is so great for us consumers, why is the telecom industry, which is controlled by our premier's family, excluded from the deal? If Thailand had to join hands with other developing countries to fight for our people's access to affordable life-saving medicines until the World Trade Organisation finally allowed it under the Doha Declaration, why is it that Mr Thaksin is so eager to ink a trade deal with the US that would tie our hands from doing so?
EGAT's privatization and the US trade talks represent the most ambitious efforts of two of Thaksin's core economic platforms: the privatization of state-owned enterprises and the proliferation of bilateral FTAs. So it is no surprise that both issues crystallize the wider debate on the state of democracy and the country's development path.
Australia's booming trade relations with Thailand are in doubt as a constitutional court challenge against the countries' free trade pact looms in Bangkok.
The Thai-US free-trade talks hit a snag yesterday after the head Thai negotiator for intellectual-property rights declared demands by the US for Thailand to tighten up drug patenting as “unacceptable”.
Thai AIDS activists and their international allies are
seeking suspension of scheduled trade talks that threaten to undermine
Thailand's lawful ability to produce, import/export, and market low-cost
generic versions of life-saving medicines.
Australia's booming trade relations with Thailand are in doubt as a constitutional court challenge against the countries' free trade pact looms in Bangkok.
Demonstrators scuffled with police at a downtown hotel, forcing a brief halt in bargaining on the proposed Free Trade Area (FTA) agreement between Thailand and the United States, and negotiators from the two countries decided to change the venue of their meeting.
Protesters from 11 civil society groups opposing the proposed Free Trade Area (FTA) agreement talks between Thailand and the United States forced negotiators to move out of town Wednesday. Then they called off their three-day protest.
Today, around 8000 people were demonstrating in Chiang Mai. A couple of people trying to enter the hotel where the US and Thai negotiating teams were meeting were beaten by the police. 30 people tried to swim across the river to reach the hotel and were beaten too.
Negotiations on the Thai-US free trade area (FTA) pact were forced to halt briefly yesterday as protesters used any means they could to disrupt the talks.
