NAFTA
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22-Feb-2019 CIAR Global
Tribunal del arbitraje de un grupo de 27 inversores contra México en Ciadi
La demanda de arbitraje de inversiones de un grupo de 27 inversores contra Mexico, notificada en abril de 2018 y presentada ante el Centro Internacional de Arreglo de Diferencias relativas a Inversiones (Ciadi) en junio, ya tiene tribunal.
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22-Feb-2019 Resilience
Tosepan: Resistance and renewal in Mexico
Mexico has signed 12 free trade agreements with 44 nations and 28 bilateral investment treaties. The grim consequences of globalization in Mexico are by now familiar and yet, throughout Mexico, there is a florescence of inspiring resistance and alternatives.
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22-Feb-2019 USA Today
How drug prices could derail new trade pact to replace NAFTA
Democrats in Congress contend that the new pact would force Americans to pay more for prescription drugs, and their argument has dimmed the outlook for one of Trump’s signature causes.
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20-Feb-2019 IATP
Agribusiness’s secretive plans to unravel food safety and worker protections
Little-known council linked to NAFTA subverts public safety to free trade.
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19-Feb-2019 Alternatives Economiques
Le Far West de l’arbitrage privé international
Usage de faux, manipulation de la jurisprudence, gonflement des pertes... Les multinationales ne lésinent pas sur les moyens pour obtenir un arbitrage en leur faveur.
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19-Feb-2019 ALAINET.ORG
¿Bilateralismo o asimetría histórico-estructural? La desigualdad de niveles de desarrollo como detonante de la movilidad humana
Economía política de las movilidades en el marco del bilateralismo neoliberal y desigual
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18-Feb-2019 VOA Noticias
Precios de las medicinas podrían amenazar el nuevo TLCAN
Dicen que el acuerdo hará que los estadounidenses paguen más por dichos productos.
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8-Feb-2019 The Star
Provision that could raise drug costs emerges as key obstacle to NAFTA approval
Some Democrats in the US, like Canada’s generic drug industry, warn that the new biologics rule would keep drug prices high by requiring citizens to wait longer before they can get their hands on lower-cost similar drugs known as biosimilars.
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31-Jan-2019 TNI
Globalización del control de las fronteras y resistencia desde los Pueblos
Un taller pretendió propiciar un análisis colectivo del control de las fronteras, enfocando el poder y la impunidad de las empresas transnacionales, la militarización, la externalización de las fronteras, y el vínculo del libre comercio con la migración.
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24-Jan-2019 Real Food Media
Eating NAFTA: Trade, food policies, and the destruction of Mexico
In her new book, Alyshia Gálvez exposes how changes in policy following implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) have fundamentally altered one of the most basic elements of life in Mexico—food.
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22-Jan-2019 Public Citizen
More than 70 US health, consumer and other groups demand elimination of NAFTA 2.0 terms that would lock in high US medicine prices
In a letter to Congress, the groups demand that the pact’s giveaways to Big Pharma that would keep medicines unaffordable be removed before the pact is sent to Congress.
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21-Jan-2019 The Bullet
NAFTA 2.0: Nothing for workers
A failure to seriously resist NAFTA 2.0’s passage into law in Canada, the US and Mexico will amount to capitulation and the acceptance of an agreement that by design, like the original NAFTA, intrinsically serves the interests of Capital.
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21-Jan-2019 A l’encontre
Etats-Unis-Canada. NAFTA 2.0: rien pour les travailleurs
L’échec d’une résistance sérieuse à la ratification de l’ALENA représenterait une capitulation et l’acceptation d’un accord qui, dans sa conception même, à l’instar du premier ALENA, sert intrinsèquement les intérêts du Capital.
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17-Jan-2019 IATP
Bold farm plans in Mexico offer a ray of hope in 2019
Mexican farmers are on the verge of bold, new plans to completely transform their food and farm system. Will NAFTA 2.0 challenge them?
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16-Jan-2019 Platerforme Altermondialiste
Les dessous de l’ALÉNA 2.0
Le résultat du « moment Trump » risque, malgré toute sa rhétorique protectionniste, de légitimer davantage le libre-échange.
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14-Jan-2019 Food Secure Canada
Our changing food trade landscape
How do new technologies and renegotiated supply management rules affect our food system? And, how do we move past the black/white, good/bad binaries that so often frame debates about trade-related issues?
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14-Jan-2019 Chicago Tribune
We can’t afford to let the new NAFTA drive up drug prices
NAFTA 2.0 would effectively tie the US Congress’ hands in the struggle against rising drug prices.
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11-Jan-2019 Lexology
The IP implications of the USMCA: Who needs to do what
The USMCA most closely reflects US IP laws, subjecting the US to almost no revisions of its current domestic intellectual property laws.
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10-Jan-2019 Nation of Change
An historic opportunity to transform trade when we stop NAFTA II
We can stop NAFTA II and replace corporate trade with a new model that raises working conditions and protects the environment.
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9-Jan-2019 IQS Directory
A no-go for the US: What is the Trans-Pacific Partnership and why did it fail?
With the US as the centerpiece, the TPP would have given the country a more significant stake in Asia and the Pacific in much the same way as NAFTA did in America.
