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Q & A on IPEF (“Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity”)
5-Sep-2022    
The IPEF is the US’s latest strategy to be the global rule-maker on trade, food production, digital and data, the climate crisis, regulating services, corporate power to influence new laws, multinationals’ tax rates, and much else.
US looking to lock in Pacific with new economic framework
5-Sep-2022     PANG
This week Trade Ministers from eleven countries will meet with the view to launch negotiations for an Indo-Pacific economic agreement.
Some implications of the digital economy paragraph of the leaked draft ministerial text for IPEF trade pillar
2-Sep-2022    
The US will host the first in-person IPEF Ministerial meeting in Los Angeles from 8-9 September 2022, which is expected to launch formal negotiations. Some countries may decide not to remain involved in some or all of the IPEF’s “pillars”.
Ratification of RCEP and Indonesia-Korea CEPA is not democratic and violate public rights
1-Sep-2022     Indonesia for Global Justice
The Civil Society Coalition for Economic Justice condemned the plenary session of the Indonesian House of Representatives which ratified the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership and the Indonesia-Korea CEPA agreement.
Hogging the gains from trade in Mexico
26-Aug-2022     Medium
The multinational pork giant Smithfield, now owned by a Chinese firm, took advantage of trade, investment, labor, environmental, and immigration policies, after NAFTA, to expand its low-wage factory farming model on both sides of the US-Mexico border.
Stop the ratification of CETA! A joint statement by German and Canadian civil society groups
23-Aug-2022     Trade Justice Network
We Canadian and German civil society organizations express our continued opposition to CETA, which protects corporate interests at the expense of climate, environmental and social action and democratic decision-making.
Joint UK and Indian civil society statement on the proposed Free Trade Agreement
29-Jul-2022     Traidcraft Exchange
We, as organisations representing Indian and UK civil society, call on the Indian and UK Governments to rethink the Free Trade Agreement currently being negotiated.
KCA, a Reno Nevada based mining company, suspended gold mine in Guatemala
28-Jul-2022     Sierra Nevada Ally
However, locals feel latent tension that the imminent consultation process or the arbitration suit could revive earlier threats, violence, and legal persecution from company employees and contractors.
Government set to ram through Australia trade deal defying public cries for scrutiny
28-Jul-2022     Global Justice Now
New polling reveals only one-fifth (21%) of UK public are satisfied with the current parliamentary process of scrutiny for the UK-Australia trade deal.
100+ civil society groups ask White House for transparency in IPEF deal
25-Jul-2022     Public Citizen
Public, congressional input is essential to prevent another TPP.