ALÉNA
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12-aoû-2005
US poised for trade war
Washington says it has no plans to obey a NAFTA ruling that compels the United States to refund an estimated $5-billion in illegally collected duties to Canadian lumber producers — setting up a potential trade war that experts say could threaten the future of the North American trading bloc.
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4-aoû-2005 CIEPAC
El TLCAN Plus también llamado ASPAN : el futuro que las elites preven para México, Estados Unidos y Canadá (parte 2)
Segunda de dos partes
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17-jui-2005 Hollister Free Lance
Go slow on Central America Free Trade Agreement
A few words of unsolicited advice to Congress and the President, who appear bent on approving a Central America Free Trade Agreement to go along with the North American one best known as NAFTA : Please go slowly.
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29-jui-2005 Voice of San Diego
CAFTA on the ropes : Agreement must protect people and the environment
The lack of worker and environmental protections leads the list of concerns as CAFTA is modeled after the failed 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA. At its 10-year anniversary, the verdict on NAFTA is in : It is an economic, social and environmental failure.
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17-jui-2005 Red Mexicana de Accion Frente al Libre Comercio
Urgente : ¡El TLCAN-Plus contra los pueblos !
Las distintas organizaciones seguimos luchando porque los derechos de los pueblos, la soberanía nacional, la democracia y participación ; y el desarrollo sustentable sean los principios básicos en los cuales se sustente cualquier acuerdo de integración y "libre comercio"
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3-jui-2005 Economic Policy Institute
Will CAFTA be a boon to farmers and the food industry ? NAFTA’s failed promises are doomed to be repeated
Promoters of the proposed Dominican Republic/Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) have asserted that it will provide significant benefits to the U.S. economy, especially to the agricultural sector. Similar promises were made in the debate on the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1992 and 1993. However, since that time NAFTA has failed to live up to these promises, and similar promises made for CAFTA are even less likely to be fulfilled.
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27-mai-2005 El Diario de Yucatán
Cepal : el TLC no mejoró las exportaciones
El aumento de las exportaciones agrícolas mexicanas a EE.UU. se debió, sobre todo, a la devaluación del peso, no al Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC), afirmó ayer la Comisión Económica para América Latina.
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13-mai-2005 Forbes
Argentina to seek annulment of ICSID ruling in favour of CMS Energy
The Argentine government said it will try to annul a ruling by the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in favour of US company CMS Energy Corp.
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23-fév-2005 Public Citizen
NAFTA Chapter 11 investor-state cases : Lessons for the CAFTA
A new study by Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch analyzes 42 NAFTA investor-state challenges and illustrates how the proposed CAFTA would extend the threat.
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7-fév-2005 Straight Goods
Investment : NAFTA illegal ?
On January 24, the Council of Canadians and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) launched a constitutional challenge against NAFTA’s Chapter 11 rules before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. This is the first time that a court will consider the constitutionality of international trade rules.
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4-fév-2005 CETIM
Mobilisations des peuples contre l’ALCA-ZLEA - Traité$ de libre-échange aux Amériques
La Zone de libre échange des Amériques (ALCA-ZLÉA-FTTA) entre 34 pays du continent américain est en négociation. Peu d’informations sur ce sujet arrivent jusqu’au public francophone, alors que les intérêts en jeu sont immenses.
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4-oct-2004 Toronto Star
How free trade changed us
Jobs are only one part of the trade equation. As the U.S. chips away at Canada’s economic independence, we’re slowly losing our sovereignty, says David Orchard
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23-sep-2004 Campaña Continental contra el ALCA
Coloquio « Los 10 años del TLCAN : Balance social y Perspectivas
El Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte (TLCAN) entre Estados Unidos, Canada y México, y que entro en vigor el primero de enero de 1994, planteaba un gran objetivo : crear la zona comercial más importante del mundo, que favoreceria el crecimiento y la prosperidad economica en la region y aseguraria un mejoramiento de las condiciones de vida de las poblaciones de esos paises.
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21-sep-2004 ADITAL
Los efectos del Tratado de Libre Comercio de Norteamérica (TLCAN) sobre el desarrollo rural
Una versión ligeramente distinta del siguiente ensayo se presento el pasado 9 de septiembre en el “Primer Encuentro Nacional sobre tratados de libre comercio y desarrollo rural”, realizado por la Facultad de Agronomía de la Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, en la Ciudad de Guatemala.
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11-mai-2004 ALCA/IIRSA, Plan Colombia y el Eje de Desarrollo Occidental
ALCA/IIRSA, Plan Colombia y el Eje de Desarrollo Occidental
El Tratado de Libre Comercio para América del Norte (TLCAN, enero 1994), el Área de Libre Comercio para las Américas (ALCA, diciembre 1994), el Plan Colombia (1999), la Integración de la Infraestructura Regional Suramericana (IIRSA, septiembre 2000) y el Plan Puebla Panamá (PPP, marzo 2001) son distintos elementos estructurantes de la política hegemónica de los Estados Unidos para las Américas y el Caribe.
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11-mai-2004 ALCA/IIRSA, Plan Colombia y el Eje de Desarrollo Occidental
FTAAs/IIRSA, Plan Colombia and the Axis of Western Development
The North American Free Trade Treaty (NAFTA, Jan 1994), the Free Trade Area for the Americas (FTAAs, December 1994), Plan Colombia (1999), the Regional Integration of Infrastructure in South America (RIISA, September 2000) and the Plan Puebla Panamá (PPP, March 2001) are the building blocks of the US hegemonic policy for the Americas and the Caribbean.
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18-avr-2004
NAFTA Tribunals Stir US Worries
After the highest court in Massachusetts ruled against a Canadian real estate company and after the United State Supreme Court declined to hear its appeal, the company’s day in court was over.
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24-mar-2004
Analysis : Sleeping Beauty And Prince Charming : Bilateral Deals Are No Fairytale
The recent explosion of bilateral investment and trade agreements and investor-state disputes is of growing concern. Many mobilisations against the World Trade Organisation (WTO) aim to stop attempts by industrialised countries to kickstart talks on a multilateral investment agreement at September’s Cancun Ministerial meeting.
