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US: With 2.4 Million Jobs Lost to China, New Trade Agreement Battle Begins

Concern about massive jobs losses due to unfair Chinese trade practices is reshaping the American political battle lines over trade, with labor winning new and sometimes unlikely supporters in its fight for stronger policies to protect American workers. Read more read

China Lassoes its Neighbors Through CAFTA Trade Agreement

It might be the world’s largest free trade area, writes columnist Walden Bello, but Southeast Asia is still getting a raw trade deal from China. Read read

Pacific civil society organisations statement on trade justice

Pacific NGOs, churches and trade unions working on trade justice issues are concerned about the push for free trade agreements in the Pacific and the grave risk that these agreements pose for our people. For much of the past decade Pacific Island Countries have faced pressure from our developed country partners, international financial institutions and aid donors to move towards trade liberalisation through free trade agreements (FTAs) and through joining the World Trade Organisation (WTO). (...) read

Yearning for a fair deal: EPAs and their effect Eastern and Southern African countries

> Pambazuka, 6 Jan 2006

http://www.pambazuka.org/index.php?i (...)

This article presents a summary of recent research by the Trades and Development Studies Centre Trust in Zimbabwe examining the implications of current Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) for Eastern and Southern Africa. The article asks whether it is wise for these countries to continue with the the EPA negotiations considers what are the alternatives.

• See also "Economic Partnership Agreements: territorial conquest by economic means?"

Tobacco’s Attempts to Derail the Global Tobacco Treaty: Cases from Battleground Countries

> October 2005, Corporate Accountability International

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A report by Corporate Accountability International on the efforts by Big Tobacco (large tobacco corporations) to misguide countries in the South over the Global Tobacco Treaty.  read