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7-aoû-2006 Charlotte Observer
Farmers in poorer southern region demand changes to free-trade treaty
Felipe Calderon’s contested, razor-thin victory in Mexico’s presidential election last month is likely to force his attention toward the underdeveloped south, where poor farmers want to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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20-jui-2006 Global Research
Thinking the unthinkable about Canada’s future
With the thorough integration of the Canadian and US economies through NAFTA, and a common military command and control structure, Canadian sovereignty will cease to exist by definition.
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18-jui-2006 CBD Biosafety Clearinghouse
NAFTA agreement on trade in GMOs (2004)
Agreement between the US, Canada, and Mexico with respect to the documentation requirements of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety pertaining to living modified organisms intended for direct use as food or feed or for processing (LMO/FFPs), signed in October 2004.
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17-jui-2006 Telesur TV
Un muro que signa el fracaso del NAFTA
Recientemente los parlamentarios canadienses del Nuevo Partido Democrático y del Bloque de Quebec se reunieron con sus homólogos estadounidenses y mexicanos para declarar que el Tratado Norteamericano de Libre Comercio, conocido por su sigla inglesa NAFTA, constituye una "tragedia continental". "Si hubiera sido un éxito no haría falta la muralla que Estados Unidos quiere construir en su frontera con México ni habría tampoco necesidad de militarizarla", dijo el legislador mexicano Víctor Suárez
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14-jui-2006 Canadian Business Online
TSX CEO urges PM to discuss adding securities trading to free trade agreement
The head of Canada’s largest stock exchange wants Prime Minister Stephen Harper to discuss the possibility of adding securities trading to the North American Free Trade Agreement when he meets with US President George W Bush next month.
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13-jui-2006 Univisión
EEUU rechaza renegociar capítulo maíz y fríjol TLCAN con México
Estados Unidos rechazó hoy la petición de México de renegociar la liberalización arancelaria total del maíz y del fríjol blanco en el Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte (TLCAN)
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8-jui-2006 indymedia.ecuador
La integración latinoamericana vs. el ALCA (TLC)
Ocho sugerencias para enfrentar al Área de Libre Comercio de las Américas o ALCA.
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7-jui-2006 Change to Win
US and Korean labor say ’NO’ to NAFTA repeat
Leaders of the four main labor federations in the United States and Korea — Change to Win, AFL-CIO, KCTU and FKTU — today joined forces to tell their governments to slow down negotiations of a US-Korea Free Trade agreement (KORUS FTA).
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7-jui-2006 CanWest
NAFTA hasn’t delivered : legislators
The North American Free Trade Agreement is "a continental tragedy" according to parliamentarians from Canada, Mexico and the United States who are fighting to replace it with a "people-centred approach."
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6-jui-2006 abc Burkina
Bush envoie 6 000 soldats à la frontière du Mexique. Où l’Europe enverra-t-elle les siens quand les APE seront signés ?
Peut-être vous demandez-vous : "Qu’est-ce qu’un APE ?" Vous n’êtes pas le seul. Je viens en effet de rencontrer un député du parlement européen qui n’était pas plus au courant que vous. Mais là, c’est inquiétant !
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1er-jui-2006 abc Burkina
Bush sends 6, 000 soldiers to the Mexican border. Where will Europe send its soldiers when the EPAs are signed ?
You may be asking yourself : " what is an EPA ? " Well, you are not alone. In fact I have just met with a European Member of Parliament who is no more au courant than you. And that’s worrying !
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18-mai-2006 FIDH
FIDH report on the effects on human rights of the NAFTA
The International Federation for Human Rights has published the report of a fact-finding mission on the effects on human rights of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The mission, conducted in Mexico between 22 and 31 of August 2005, looked specifically at the effects of NAFTA, ten years after its entering into force, on employment and working conditions in the Northern part of the country, in particular in the maquilas and in the informal economy.
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13-avr-2006 AlterNet
Blame NAFTA
Thanks to NAFTA’s success, the flood of illegal immigration is up and the standard of living of the average Mexican is down.
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10-avr-2006
Mexico, Canada have seen few benefits in US FTA, says report
A state-run research center said Monday that some of the countries that signed a free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States have lost their export competitiveness.
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19-mar-2006 IPS
Biosafety protocol alive, but restricted
The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety "is alive," although there were complaints about and criticism of modifications to the final agreement reached at the Third Meeting of the Parties to the Protocol (MOP3). The aim of the compromise that Mexico successfully pressed for is to not hinder the country’s free trade agreements with other countries.
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17-mar-2006 Financial Post
Time is right for trade deals with Asia-Pacific
With the world’s two big multi-country trade liberalization talks stumbling or moribund, Canada’s new government should fire up action on bilateral and smaller regional free-trade deals.
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19-fév-2006 ZNet
Hunger on the border
The labor side agreement of NAFTA hasn’t forced anybody to take responsibility. It’s not an effective guarantee of anyone’s rights.
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13-fév-2006 Houston Chronicle
Free trade fuels drug smuggling
US drug agents say that free trade with Mexico has had an ugly and unintended consequence : Just as legitimate business people have flocked to Nuevo Laredo, so have criminals.
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27-jan-2006
El TLCAN : Libro de Apocalipsis para el Ecuador
Para prever lo que sucederá en el caso de que Ecuador firme su Tratado de Libre Comercio con EE.UU., no se necesita tener gran imaginación ni gozar de una gran capacidad econométrica. Ya todo está escrito a grosso modo al respecto para el Ecuador (así como para todos los presentes y futuros firmantes de un TLC con EE.UU.) en el Gran Libro de Apocalipsis llamado TLCAN.
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19-jan-2006 REDES-AT
Comercio : Las implicancias de un TLC
Mientras se discute un posible Tratado de Libre Comercio entre Uruguay y Estados Unidos, evaluamos, con el filósofo Alberto Arroyo, las implicancias que la protección de inversiones extranjeras ha tenido para México en términos de economía, desarrollo, justicia social y soberanía.
