Australia: Don't Push PACER

9 Giugno, 2009
AFTINET
Next week, Australia's Trade Minister Simon Crean will attend the Pacific Island Forum Trade Ministers Meeting in Apia, Samoa.

SNR Coalition Statement on the Doha Round Negotiations

Stop the New Round Coalition (SNR)
The Stop the New Round Coalition (SNR) joins peoples’ organizations and movements across the globe in calling for the rejection of the WTO Doha Round and we demand that the Philippine government turn around and walk away from these unfair and unjust negotiations.

Norma Maldonado on the EU Central America Trade Deal

Inviato da verda.cook il 8 June, 2009 - 04:06
Since 2007, the European Commission has been negotiating an agreement with a group of Central American countries (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, with Panama as an observer), a region where 40 per cent of people live on less than US$2 a day. The Commission is desperate to complete this deal and so is piling pressure on Central American countries to finalise it by June 2009.

Statement to the COMESA Summit on the ESA-EC Economic Partnership Agreements Negotiations

1 Giugno, 2009
SEATINI
Statement to the COMESA Summit on the ESA-EC Economic Partnership Agreements Negotiations

India, US to talk WTO deadlock

3 Giugno, 2009
The Economic Times
India and the US will hold bilateral talks soon in an attempt to narrow their differences on the ongoing Doha round of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).

European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) Statement on Colombia

The ETF Congress, meeting in Ponta Delgada from 27-29 May 2009

"Free Trade" Agreements Contribute to Financial and Other Crises (OWINFS Financial Services Brief 2)

8 Giugno, 2009
SOMO
While the financial crisis and its consequences are spreading around the world and even the most erstwhile ‘free market’ governments are discussing how to re-regulate the financial sector, bilateral and regional ‘free trade’ agreements continue extreme deregulation of the financial industry. The terms of these agreements prohibit countries from reforming their financial sector so as to remedy the financial, economic, environmental, food and social crises now growing, and from ensuring that finance is directed towards the transformation to sustainable societies.

The Financial Crisis Does Not Justify a WTO Deal (OWINFS Financial Services Brief 3)

8 Giugno, 2009
SOMO
Many political leaders have been calling for the conclusion of the ‘Doha Round’ negotiations in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) as a solution to the financial crisis, in order to provide a boost to the world economy and a signal of confidence to multilateralism. They argue that WTO rules prevent “protectionist measures”, closing of borders, and beggar-thy-neighbour policies, which led to the economic depression in the 1930s and the consequent wars.