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New bilateral safeguard clauses on EU-Mercosur FTA: an ineffective technical proposal against the structural and localised impact of the treaty
27-Oct-2025     European Coordination Via Campesina
Although the European Commission presents these clauses as a safety mechanism to protect farmers, they are designed never to be activated.
Did Trump steal our agenda? Why fighting free trade isn't enough anymore
21-Oct-2025     TNI
As the European Trade Justice Coalition marks 25 years, this reflection asks an unsettling question: how did the right appropriate the language of anti-globalization? It calls on activists to rethink trade, the state, and strategy for a new cycle of struggle.
Method to the madness: How Trump’s chaotic trade agenda benefits big tech
17-Oct-2025     Public Citizen
A close examination of the dizzying chaos surrounding President Trump’s tariff threats and secretive “trade deals” shows a disturbing throughline: this is nothing but a shakedown on behalf of Big Tech.
Not a border crisis, but a “free trade” crisis
17-Oct-2025     Public Citizen
A new report unpacks how decades of corporate-led trade agreements have displaced millions of people, stripping them of their livelihoods and forcing them to migrate to survive.
Revised EU-Morocco trade agreement: ECVC denounces this agreement which goes against the CJEU ruling and will defend the rights of European and Moroccan peasants in solidarity with the Saharawi people
16-Oct-2025     ECVC
ECVC denounces the steps taken by the European Commission and Morocco regarding the EU-Morrocco trade agreement, as they try at all costs to save the interests of a minority of transnational corporations and foreign investors at the expense of the Saharawi people and Moroccan and European peasants.
ETJC statement on Clean Trade and Investment Partnerships (CTIPs)
13-Oct-2025     European Trade Justice Coalition
These fast track trade deals risk serving the business interests of transnational corporations instead of contributing to more sustainable trading relationships.
Free trade agreements pushing UPOV as of 2025
10-Oct-2025     GRAIN
GRAIN has updated its dataset on free trade agreements that push harsh new standards for intellectual property rights over biodiversity, going beyond the international standards set by the World Trade Organisation.
From trade deal to corporate takeover: threats of lawsuit abuse in RCEP
7-Oct-2025     IBON International
This episode unpacks the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, world’s largest free trade agreement, and the dangerous push to insert the Investor-State Dispute Settlement mechanism into its investment chapter.
The corporate siege of Honduras: international arbitration demands, energy transition, and state sovereignty
3-Oct-2025     bilaterals.org
Between July 14 and 17, in the city of Choluteca (Honduras), more than 60 people from 20 local communities and representatives of national and international social movements gathered for the “Meeting of communities affected by energy projects in southern Honduras - Without human rights, there is no energy sovereignty.”
Indonesia-Canada CEPA is not the rules-based trade we need
2-Oct-2025     CCPA
Free trade deal is a gift to mining and fossil fuel companies but sidelines human rights and industrial development.