NewsRack: 'Trade' news in 'Economics and Jobs-Independent' topic for user flenvcenter

On One-Year Anniversary of U.S. Free Trade Agreement, Colombia Remains Deadliest Country for Union Members	16.5.2013	Commondreams.org Newswire
The number of Colombian union members violently displaced from their homes has increased and death threats against unionists have remained appallingly high since the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) was implemented one year ago today, according to the Escuela Nacional Sindical (ENS), the institution recognized as an authoritative source of monitoring dataread more
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Obama Considers Giving Corporations Political Power In Trade Deal	14.5.2013	Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday pledged to pursue a broad trade agreement between the U.S. and European...
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David Paul: Beware the Global Consequences of Further Declines in the American Middle Class	11.5.2013	Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
If the world is to sustain the momentum of economic development that is essential to Jim Yong Kim's optimism, the companies and countries that have benefitted from expanding free trade have a collective stake in figuring out a path forward that stanches the downward spiral of the American middle class.
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Canadian, U.S. responses to WTO decision in Green Energy Act case	10.5.2013	rabble.ca - News for the rest of us
As expected, people aren't very happy with the WTO decision this week reaffirming the illegality (under global trade rules) of local content requirements in the Ontario Green Energy Act. The WTO Appellate Body, which has a final say in trade disputes between countries, agreed with a WTO panel report on December 19 that the high local content quotas on solar and wind components (up to 60 per cent) discriminate against products manufactured elsewhere. Japan and the European Union were the complainants in the WTO case, which has attracted global attention for the threat this final decision will create for similar local content rules on energy, transit and other types of government spending around the world. read ...
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Why the TransPacific Partnership is a Scary Big (Trade) Deal	9.5.2013	Commondreams.org Views
Kristen Beifus (Photo courtesy of Think Panama)NHK Broadcasting, Japan’s equivalent of the BBC, contacted me last month, wanting a statement on the American public’s reaction to the TransPacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations. read more
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Public Citizen and Sierra Club Denounce World Trade Organization Attack on Successful Clean Energy Program	7.5.2013	Commondreams.org Newswire
A World Trade Organization (WTO) final ruling against Ontario’s successful renewable energy incentives program designed to reduce carbon emissions and create clean energy jobs, underscores the threat the WTO poses to a clean energy future. read more
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Bill Ong Hing: Mexico: Too Big to Fail	6.5.2013	Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
One thing NAFTA has taught us is that, if we expect employment growth in Mexico to materialize as a result of trade agreements, investments must be targeted.
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Don't blame corporations, blame free trade	5.5.2013	rabble.ca - News for the rest of us
Listening to Michael Enright's show Sunday Morning this a.m., I heard him examine the steady decline of the Canadian jobs market. A key focus is on the failures of corporate Canada -- really? Canadian businesses are simply playing by the rules of free trade which encourages the outsourcing of everthing that isn't glued to the local Tim Hortons or the tar sands (to cite two prominent examples): that means value-added processing (where the jobs are) of natural resources that are simply ripped and shipped to the U.S. or Asia, virtually all manufacturing, and an awful lot of services -- from accounting, and computer programming, to retail (online) sales. read ...
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Council of Canadians objects to Canada's participation in divisive international services negotiations	1.5.2013	rabble.ca - News for the rest of us
I submitted the following brief comments to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade as part of a government request for input on Canada's participation in a plurilateral international services agreement . read ...
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Political Corruption and the “Free Trade” Racket	30.4.2013	Commondreams.org Views
Dean Baker In polite circles in the United States" support for free trade is a bit like proper bathing habits. It is taken for granted. Only the hopelessly crude and unwashed would not support free trade. The Obama administration is pursuing two major "free trade" agreements that in fact have very little to do with free trade and are likely to hurt those without the money and power to be part of the game. (Photo: Getty images) read ...
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Five reasons Canada should NOT ratify a Canada-EU free trade agreement	29.4.2013	rabble.ca - News for the rest of us
Jock Finlayson of the Business Council of British Columbia recently wrote a column for Troy Media on the virtues of the Canada-European Union free trade deal. He listed five reasons why he thinks the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, or CETA, should be ratified as soon as possible. But there are at least as many reasons why Prime Minister Stephen Harper should walk away from the CETA negotiations. Most relate to the ways that CETA is not about trade at all but about making dubious policy reforms that constrain our economic, social and environmental policy options in the future. read more
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EU environment committee debates investor protections in Canada-EU trade deal	26.4.2013	rabble.ca - News for the rest of us
The European Parliament's committee on the environment, public health and food safety debated the investment chapter and investor-state dispute settlement process in the Canada-EU free trade deal today at the request of Greek MEP Kriton Arsenis (pictured). You can watch the short discussion, which includes a rebuttal from the European Commission, by clicking here and scrolling to minute 12:24). Arsenis has been outspoken inside and outside parliament against investor-state arbitration and didn't hold his punches in today's debate. read ...
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Jude Law Fights For Seal Fur Ban	21.4.2013	Green on HuffingtonPost.com
LONDON — Actor Jude Law has written to the World Trade Organization to urge it to uphold a European Union ban on seal fur. The...
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NAFTA challenge to fracking ban reason to avoid investor-state dispute settlement: Australian trade minister	16.4.2013	rabble.ca - News for the rest of us
The recent NAFTA investor lawsuit against Quebec's moratorium on shale gas development (fracking) is cited by Australia's trade minister as a reason to avoid including these excessive investor rights in trade deals. (Funny, we say the same thing in a recent fact sheet on how Free Trade is Fracking with our Future .) read ...
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The Truth About Extreme Global Inequality	15.4.2013	Commondreams.org Views
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NDP builds on trade policy at Montreal convention	15.4.2013	rabble.ca - News for the rest of us
The NDP has expanded its position on trade so that the party would not negotiate NAFTA- and FIPA-like investor-state dispute settlement processes into trade deals, and would preserve the right of municipal governments and key provincial agencies "to include local content and other local economic development requirements as part of their procurement policy." Delegates to the NDP's convention in Montreal this weekend voted on the changes , which were supported at the mic by MPs Libby Davies and Don Davies, who is also the party's trade critic . read ...
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U.S. trade barrier hit list shows what's at stake for Canada in Trans-Pacific Partnership	15.4.2013	rabble.ca - News for the rest of us
The United States Trade Representative (USTR) has released its annual list of global trade barriers -- policies in countries from Angola to Vietnam it wants changed or eliminated so U.S. firms can make more money. You can read the whole report here . Or you can take a look at Public Citizen's very useful summary, which focuses on the 10 non-U.S. countries, including Canada, negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, right here . read ...
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CAW president renews call for fair trade, not free trade agreements	5.4.2013	rabble.ca - News for the rest of us
Listen to part of CAW president Ken Lewenza's Friday morning address to the CAW Council in Port Elgin, Ontario. ...
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Obama's EU Trade Deal Would Include New Political Powers For Corporations	5.4.2013	Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is pursuing a free trade agreement with the European Union that would grant corporations new political power to challenge an...
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Activists on Both Sides of Atlantic Denounce US/EU FTA as Corporate Power Grab	3.4.2013	CommonDreams.org Headlines
Obama's proposal for a "Free Trade" agreement between the US and European Union is being championed by large corporations, but public interest groups and environmentalists on both sides of the Atlantic are vowing to fight the deal. Long-opposed to the nefarious role that so-called "FTAs" play in the erosion of state sovereignty, critics object to the way such arrangements undermine labor and environmental protections, creating a "global race to the bottom" in the name of "liberalizing" trade and economic growth. read ...
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