Médecins Sans Frontières warns that lives hang in balance of secret pact
International humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned Monday that the highly secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership will further erode access to life saving medicines in all countries involved in the deal, hitting poor and vulnerable people the hardest. The organization joins a crescendo of voices
Ahead of Transatlantic and Transpacific trade deals, report authors warn: ‘Remember NAFTA’.
The legacy of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), twenty years after implementation, is one of environmental degradation and corporate dominance, according to a report published Tuesday. Governments on the verge of signing similar agreements—both the Transpacific (TTP) and Transatlantic (TTIP) trade deals— ought to take a "page out
Report warns that proposed NAFTA-style corporate tribunals could beat back community efforts to ban this controversial practice
A massive trade deal under negotiation between the U.S. and EU could bolster oil giants' efforts to expand fracking on both sides of the Atlantic through NAFTA-style secret corporate tribunals. This is according to a report released Thursday by Friends of the Earth Europe ahead of the fourth round of negotiations on the Transatlantic Free Trade
The talks will highlight how increasingly interrelated the three economies are 20 years since NAFTA took effect.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama heads into a summit with Mexican and Canadian leaders eager to engage on issues of trade and other neighbor-to-neighbor interests even as Congress is placing a drag on some of his top cross-border agenda items. The president will meet with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and Canadian Prime Minister
‘The Trans-Pacific Partnership would be an unmitigated disaster for everything from the environment to internet freedom and working families’
On the heals of NAFTA's "20 years of regret" anniversary, U.S. lawmakers are aggressively pushing legislation to fast-track what has been called NAFTA on steroids: the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Large sign hanging from the top of Office of US Trade Representative (Photo: Coolrevolution.net / Anne Meador) Three powerful lawmakers —House
While auto, electronics and agriculture sectors in Mexico have grown, a majority of Mexicans have seen little benefit in income.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Looking around a Mexico dotted by Starbucks, Wal-Mart and Krispy Kreme outlets, it's hard to remember the country before the North American Free Trade Agreement, which has dramatically expanded consumer choice and trade since it took effect 20 years ago on Jan. 1. While it changed the country in some fundamental ways, the
