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setembro 10th, 2006

Japan-RP economic pact brings dubious gain

9 September, 2006
The Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) will bring dubious gain to the local economy while severely limiting government’s policy options to develop domestic industries.

setembro 9th

Economic partnership with Japan will not benefit Filipinos; JPEPA spells intensified human labor export and liberalization of economy

8 September, 2006
It is contemptible how the Philippine government trades its citizens for export goods that will only push the country to even greater disaster.

For Arroyo, the future of Filipinos is cheap — Migrante-Japan

8 September, 2006
For Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, the future of the Filipino people has a very cheap price. So cheap that she has opted to sell it to Japan by further opening up the local economy in exchange for the annual deployment of

setembro 5th

Lamy senses will to revive WTO talks

4 September, 2006
WTO chief Pascal Lamy says the political will may exist to revive stalled global trade talks, but negotiations can resume only if countries compromise on the main stumbling block of agriculture.

setembro 4th

GM Alert: US Using WTO to Push GM Food into India

3 September, 2006
Both notifications assert that these regulations are trade restrictive for countries like the US planning to export GM products to India.

Agricultural issues poised to heat up in 3rd FTA talks

3 September, 2006
Despite the expected challenges, Seoul will push for certain exemptions over sensitive agricultural products during the upcoming third round of free trade agreement talks with Washington, the Korean government said.

agosto 30th

A G-20 Test For Resuming DDA

29 August, 2006
Trade ministers of the developing-country Group-of-20 coalition will meet in Rio de Janeiro September 9 and 10 to finalize a position on how to revive the suspended Doha Development Agenda trade negotiations - a first indication of whether a turnaround in the negotiations is possible.

US presses China to take Doha role

29 August, 2006
China would damage its robust economy and hinder its own policy objectives if it embraced economic nationalism, Susan Schwab, the US trade representative, said in Beijing yesterday.

US may cut farm subsidies, says Das

29 August, 2006
(Bhagirath Lal Das) says the WTO negoiations are likely to resume in September and conclude in time to enable the US fast track authority to approve of the decision before June 2007.

agosto 29th

ASEAN framework deal with US may be disastrous to economy, warns IBON

28 August, 2006
The recently-signed trade and investment framework agreement (TIFA) between the US and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will sooner or later lead to a free trade agreement (FTA), and this will prove disastrous to the vulnerable sectors of the region, according to independent think-tank IBON Foundation.