Bilateral & Regional Trade

Trade and Africa: Achieving Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa - OWINFS event at WTO Public Forum 2014

Manicandan — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 12:02:07 +0000

1 October, 2014

On 3 October 2014 OWINFS organized an event, "Trade and Africa: Achieving Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa", at WTO Public Forum 2014

1 October, 2014 (All day)

Public services unions open new trade agreements to public debate

Manicandan — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 08:54:13 +0000

16 September, 2014

Public Services International (PSI)

At Public Services International (PSI) Global Trade Summit 2014, in Washington, D.C., union leaders from all over the world called for public scrutiny of new wave of global trade agreements, which are now being discussed behind closed doors.

16 September, 2014 (All day)

PSI and OWINFS Releases a Special Report on Trade in Services Agreement (TISA)

Manicandan — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 15:05:36 +0000

15 September, 2014

Public Services International (PSI)

On the occasion of Global Trade Summit convened by PSI and it's affiliates in Washington, D.C., on 15-17 September 2014, PSI and Our World is not For Sale (OWINFS) launched a new Special Report by Ellen Gould entitled "The Really Good Friends of Transnational Corporations Agreement" on the first day of the Global Summit. The report was launched with the objective to overcome the secrecy and complexity surrounding the negotiations on trade in services agreement (TISA) and bring it into the public sphere for a democratic debate.

15 September, 2014 (All day)

TiSA: The threat to public services by the backdoor

Manicandan — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 10:57:29 +0000

11 September, 2014

Confédération Européenne des Syndicats Indépendants (CESI)

Following a hearing on TTIP in the Luxemburgish Parliament, CESI President Romain Wolff sees TTIP as a distraction to another important trade agreement, the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA). Here, Mr Wolff warns of a threat to public services by the back door.

11 September, 2014 (All day)

Why International “Trade in Services Agreement” (TISA) is Dangerous to Democracy, Development, and the Public Interest, and Must Be Stopped!

Manicandan — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 01:10:36 +0000

14 June, 2014

A memo on International “Trade in Services Agreement” (TISA) that provides details as to why this proposed Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in services is dangerous to democracy, development, and the public interest, and must be stopped!

14 June, 2014 (All day)

PSI Special Report: TISA versus Public Services

Manicandan — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 09:34:08 +0000

28 April, 2014

Public Services International (PSI)

A new report TISA versus Public Services by Public Services International (PSI) warns that governments are planning to take the world on a liberalisation spree on a scale never seen before. According to the report, this massive trade deal will put public healthcare, broadcasting, water, transport and other services at risk. The proposed deal could make it impossible for future governments to restore public services to public control, even in cases where private service delivery has failed. It would also restrict a government’s ability to regulate key sectors including financial, energy, telecommunications and cross-border data flows.

28 April, 2014 (All day)

Experts caution against rush into a trade facilitation agreement

Manicandan — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 05:21:14 +0000

20 November, 2013

TWN Info Service on WTO and Trade Issues (Nov13/09)

A group of eminent trade experts from developing countries has advised developing countries to be very cautious and not be rushed into an agreement on trade facilitation (TF) by the Bali WTO Ministerial Conference, given the current internal imbalance in the proposed agreement as well as the serious implementation challenges it poses.

20 November, 2013 (All day)

What's Going on at the WTO? : Opportunities and Risks Before the 9th Ministerial Meeting

Manicandan — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 07:36:21 +0000

18 November, 2013

The Huffington Post

In this critical blog Deborah James, Director, International Programs at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, writes on some of the key messages from the Global civil society, trade unions and people's movements on What's Going on at the WTO? Opportunities and Risks Before the 9th Ministerial Meeting.

18 November, 2013 (All day)

Global civil society says no to binding rules on Trade Facilitation in WTO, FTAs and EPAs

Manicandan — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 08:48:58 +0000

6 June, 2013

Refuse signatories

Global civil society organizations, representing hundreds of millions of members across the globe, urge WTO members to abandon the negotiations towards a binding agreement on Trade Facilitation in advance of the upcoming 9th Ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Bali. Further they call upon governments not to promote binding rules on Trade Facilitation either inside the WTO through the proposed Trade Facilitation (TF) agreement, nor through other avenues such as bilateral or regional Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) or Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs).

6 June, 2013 (All day)

International civil society opposes binding rules on “Trade Facilitation” in the WTO

Manicandan — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:32:19 +0000

6 June, 2013

In a letter to WTO member governments, 188 organizations representing a wide diversity of civil society from developing and developed countries, called on government representatives in Geneva to “abandon the negotiations towards a binding agreement on Trade Facilitation in advance of the upcoming 9th Ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Bali." The letter was organized by the Our World Is Not for Sale (OWINFS) network. The letter states “binding rules on Trade Facilitation should not be promoted either inside the WTO through the proposed Trade Facilitation (TF) agreement, nor through other avenues such as bilateral or regional Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) or Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs)."

6 June, 2013 (All day)

BITs, FTAs and damaging effects of their investment chapters

Manicandan — Mon, 27 May 2013 11:27:36 +0000

2 October, 2012

The damaging effects of Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) and the investment chapters of North-South Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) were highlighted at a World Trade Organisation (WTO) Public Forum event on "Investment provisions and agreements: What is the right 21st century approach?" jointly organised by Our World Is Not for Sale Network, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), and Public Citizen on Tuesday, 26 September 2012.

2 October, 2012 (All day)

European Union urged to reconsider its role in Central America

verda.cook — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:14:46 +0000

1 July, 2009

Friends of the Earth International

Versión española abajo.

FRIENDS OF THE EARTH INTERNATIONAL
MEDIA ADVISORY
For immediate release: Wednesday July 1, 2009

*****
EUROPEAN UNION URGED TO RECONSIDER ITS ROLE IN CENTRAL AMERICA
*****

1 July, 2009 (All day)

Trade Act provides road map to new American trade model

verda.cook — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:05:03 +0000

29 June, 2009

Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch

WOW - when's the last time 106 congressional Representatives - 9 full committee chairs and 40 subcommittee chairs included - were original cosponsors of any legislation, much less agreed on a new way forward on the contentious issue of trade?

29 June, 2009 (All day)

Call to Indian Government: No WTO-Doha compromise

verda.cook — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:42:45 +0000

18 June, 2009

Focus on the Global South

Date: 18 June, 2009 Dear Prime Minister Mr. Manmohan Singh, As the newly formed UPA coalition government is just settling in to govern for the next five years, there is news that Commerce Minister Anand Sharma is already on his way to the United States (US) to bilaterally iron out differences to seal the trade deal that was launched during the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) 4th Ministerial Meeting in Doha. At stake in these trade negotiations are hundreds of millions of livelihoods in the farming and non-agriculture sectors that India has fought hard to preserve over the past eight years since the launch of the Doha Development Round.

18 June, 2009 (All day)

Biggest emitters fail to show the way forward

verda.cook — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:54:44 +0000

10 June, 2009

Financial Times

Kathrin Hille in Beijing and Edward Luce in Washington

China and the US failed to achieve a breakthrough at their latest round of
climate talks on Wednesday, raising the stakes in the global effort to fight
global climate change.

The two countries responsible for almost half of the world¹s greenhouse gas
emissions ended three days of negotiations in Beijing.

While there are still months to go until the December meeting in Copenhagen,
where 181 countries, led by the United Nations, plan to work out a new

10 June, 2009 (All day)