http://www.bilaterals.org/ en http://www.bilaterals.org/IMG/ruboff0.gif http://www.bilaterals.org/ http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=12771 2008-07-23 15:58:19 A review of the potential direction and impacts of an EU-ASEAN FTA, particularly on Thailand, commissioned by FTA Watch 2008-07-23T14:58:19Z text/html en http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=12770 2008-07-23 15:22:58 2008-07-23T14:22:58Z text/html en http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=12769 2008-07-23 15:04:32 A Joint Study Group of Pakistan and Japan considering the feasibility of Free Trade Agreement between Islamabad and Tokyo would submit its draft report to the two governments by the end of November 2008. 2008-07-23T14:04:32Z text/html en http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=12768 2008-07-23 11:40:07 The EPA will be disastrous for Africa. Its acceptance would amount to locking the continent into some kind of economic vacuum where its manouevring space would be drastically limited because of the exclusivity of such a deal, especially since the evidence shows that no country in the world has taken off with such bogus and demeaning arrangements. 2008-07-23T10:40:07Z text/html en http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=12767 2008-07-23 07:40:31 Article 149 requires the EC Party and the Signatory CARIFORUM states to provide for the protection of plant varieties in accordance with the TRIPS Agreement and to consider, in this connection, accession to UPOV, 1991. 2008-07-23T06:40:31Z text/html en http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=12766 2008-07-23 07:34:47 The East Asia Summit, a “leaders-driven forum” with India, as also China and Japan in its fold, “is studying the feasibility of a free trade area among its 16 countries.” 2008-07-23T06:34:47Z text/html en http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=12765 2008-07-23 07:30:47 How is it that in a land with such a shameful history of exclusion and institutional racism against the Chinese, the NZ Government is suddenly bending over backwards to become party to a free trade agreement with China?, the Maori Party asks 2008-07-23T06:30:47Z text/html en http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=12764 2008-07-23 06:50:33 The Caribbean could suffer economically if a proposed free trade agreement between several regional countries and the European Union is signed because of damaging flaws in the deal, according to Bharrat Jagdeo, Guyana's president. “Europe negotiated in bad faith. We were bullied into this.” 2008-07-23T05:50:33Z text/html en http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=12763 2008-07-22 19:06:08 La ganadería bovina de carne debe considerarse una actividad estratégica para el país y por lo tanto se requiere una revisión de los términos del TLCAN 2008-07-22T18:06:08Z text/html es http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=12762 2008-07-22 18:36:38 Los obreros siderúrgicos se unen a los activistas de Los Ángeles para exigir que Occidental Petroleum cese su complicidad en el abuso contra los derechos humanos de Colombia 2008-07-22T17:36:38Z text/html es http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=12761 2008-07-22 18:26:04 A los prelados les preocupa que los acuerdos sobre propiedad intelectual vayan más allá de lo que establece la Organización Mundial de Comercio y se restrinja la producción de drogas genéricas 2008-07-22T17:26:04Z text/html es http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=12760 2008-07-22 18:20:59 Esta reforma va de la mano con el TLC. Perfectamente podríamos incluirla en la agenda de implementación. La petrolera Harken había intentado demandar a Costa Rica por $57 mil millones ante los tribunales privados internacionales del Banco Mundial. Pero como el TLC no estaba aprobado, no pudo obligarnos a ir a estos juicios desiguales donde Mr. Zoellick nombra los jueces. Ahora las trasnacionales de las marinas sí podrán, cada vez que nuestras autoridades no den viabilidad ambiental “express” a sus proyectos. 2008-07-22T17:20:59Z text/html es http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=12759 2008-07-22 18:02:42 Este ADA, es "un TLC con rostro más humano", según los negociadores europeos, visto que más allá del intercambio de mercancías incluye diálogo político y cooperación internacional. Pero la sociedad civil centroamericana no traga el anzuelo y como dice el diputado salvadoreño por el FMLN Sygfrido Reyes "en realidad se trata del típico TLC envuelto en papel de regalo" 2008-07-22T17:02:42Z text/html es http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=12758 2008-07-22 13:22:34 “WE must overcome the entropy of the old tradition of secrecy,” counseled Philippine Supreme Court Chief Justice Reynato Puno in his lengthy argument on the petition to have the government disclose details of the negotiations between the Philippines and Japan in relation to the Japan-Philippine Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA). Obviously, it was an advice that went largely unheeded as majority of his colleagues upheld for a second time the Arroyo government's invocation of executive privilege. 2008-07-22T12:22:34Z text/html en http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=12757 2008-07-22 13:08:08 Costa Rican food companies are focusing on major trends like organics and social values to build their export platform, as an association agreement between the EU and Central America is expected to be reached in 2009. 2008-07-22T12:08:08Z text/html en http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=12756 2008-07-22 13:01:56 “I don't think they are going to adopt a very hardline approach with respect to us. I think they look at Malaysia as a modern Muslim country and want to have successful trade negotiations,” the director of the Malaysian Institute of Economic Research told Bernama. The problem is that the US is not confining the negotiations to purely trade matters. 2008-07-22T12:01:56Z text/html en http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=12755 2008-07-21 19:31:57 Para el Presidente de la Comisión de Desarrollo Rural, la política de agresión contra productores de frutas y vegetales cosechados en México, por parte de autoridades norteamericanas, tiene su explicación en la falta de equidad del Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC), sobre todo en el rubro agropecuario 2008-07-21T18:31:57Z text/html es http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=12754 2008-07-21 19:27:43 A 14 años del Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC) la migración a Estados Unidos se ha elevado a más de 600 mil trabajadores del campo cada año y la dependencia alimentaria se ha incrementado más de un 50 por ciento, aseguró Cruz López Aguilar, dirigente de la Confederación Nacional Campesina (CNC) 2008-07-21T18:27:43Z text/html es http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=12753 2008-07-21 19:24:10 Legisladoras nacionalistas rechazaron los decretos legislativos emanados por el ejecutivo dentro del marco del TLC con Estados Unidos 2008-07-21T18:24:10Z text/html es http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=12752 2008-07-21 19:20:25 En el marco del TLC, el gobierno peruano ha asumido el compromiso de fortalecer la capacidad institucional, mejorar el desempeño del sistema de concesiones forestales, aumentar la participación del público y mejorar la transparencia, y mejorar la gestión y el control de los bosques para combatir la tala y el comercio ilegal; no obstante lejos de ello como se ha señalado estos compromisos se han incumplido e incluso se han reducido los niveles de la Ley N° 27308 2008-07-21T18:20:25Z text/html es http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=12751 2008-07-21 19:13:49 "Rechazamos permanente y radicalmente el libre comercio, en especial las actuales “negociaciones” de un Acuerdo de Asociación entre la Unión Europea y Centroamérica, que a pesar de la retórica que los gobiernos de ambas regiones proyectan en sus declaraciones públicas, no es más que un tratado de libre comercio de características semejantes e impactos idénticos que los que acostumbra imponer a los pueblos los Estados Unidos, pero que incluso va más allá al imponer nuevas obligaciones en ámbitos como propiedad intelectual, servicios públicos y protección de las inversiones extranjeras" 2008-07-21T18:13:49Z text/html es http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=12750 2008-07-21 13:25:10 South Korean hospital workers on Monday threatened to strike this week to press demands including a ban on the use of US beef for patients' meals. 2008-07-21T12:25:10Z text/html en http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=12749 2008-07-21 08:54:31 The Fair Trade Alliance (FairTrade), whose affiliates are among the petitioners on the lack of government transparency in trade negotiations, denounces the cowardly decision of the Supreme Court on the Japan-Philippine Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA). Said decision upholds the secrecy of executive treaty-making exercise even if such treaty puts Philippine jobs and industries at risk. 2008-07-21T07:54:31Z text/html en http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=12748 2008-07-21 07:42:15 Back in June 2003, then Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz, who had signed the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement on Pakistan's behalf, said that Pakistan hoped the TIFA would eventually lead to a Free Trade Agreement between the two countries. But neither at that time nor in all the years since then has there been any promise from the US side to follow-up on a Free Trade Agreement. 2008-07-21T06:42:15Z text/html en http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=12747 2008-07-21 07:38:04 Malaysia and the United States have achieved progress at the eighth round of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations with both sides showing willingness to resolve outstanding issues. 2008-07-21T06:38:04Z text/html en