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Category: NAFTA: North American Free Trade Agreement

Mexico FTA To Shake Up Farm Sector
Friday's conclusion of a Japan-Mexico economic partnership agreement, which encompasses a free trade agreement, will lead to the liberalization of Japan's agricultural market. The agreement heralds the start of a new era in economic relations with countries in Latin America and Asia that will be ... Continued...

Mexico Denies Approval Of KCS Purchase Of TFM Stake
NEW YORK (CBS.MW)--Railroader Kansas City Southern (ksu) and Grupo TMM Thursday jointly said that Mexico's Foreign Investment Commission told them it intends to deny Kansas City Southern's proposed acquisition of Grupo TMM's interest in Mexican rail freight carrier TFM S.A. de C.V. The commission's ... Continued...

American Empire Declining
'You are either with us or against us." With these eight words, U.S. President George W. Bush challenged the western world to join in the Iraq conflict. The sentiment Bush expressed is understandable, given what had happened on Sept. 11, 2001, but the tone and the arrogance of the statement did m... Continued...

Loewen Loses NAFTA Challenge: U.S. Jury's $625M Damage Suit Upheld
A tribunal set up to redress injustices under the auspices of the North American Free Trade Agreement has rejected a Canadian businessman's attempt to rescue his business after a Mississippi jury sent it into bankruptcy almost a decade ago. "I'm just floored by this," said Ray Loewen yesterday ab... Continued...

Alberta Exports Grow Fivefold Under NAFTA
EDMONTON - Alberta exports to NAFTA partners have quintupled since the signing of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement in 1988, according to a 15-year review published by the Western Centre for Economic Research. Trade also has become more concentrated, with more than 90 per cent of Alberta expo... Continued...

Hunting Season Closed For Yanks: Tired Of Mad Cow Crisis, Rancher Takes A Stand
REGINA - A Saskatchewan rancher fed up with the United States' refusal to accept Canadian cattle is turning away American hunters from his land. Gerry Duckworth said he handed out 2,000 special anti-American no-hunting signs this week alone to other ranchers wanting to join him. "People are m... Continued...

Toronto's Trash Raises Big Stink
Toronto's policy of trucking its garbage down Highway 401 and across the Detroit River to Michigan is generating new hostility from Americans who are not happy to receive it. The latest voice raised in protest is that of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. Whether or not he occupies the Wh... Continued...

Debate Draws Distinctions in Candidates' Trade Policies
The differences between President Bush and Democratic challenger John F. Kerry over trade policy have been relatively muted, at least compared with hot-button topics such as tax cuts and Iraq. But that didn't stop the two protagonists at a "Bush-Kerry trade debate" yesterday from underscoring di... Continued...

Uruguay, U.S Conclude Bilateral Investment
WASHINGTON - United States Trade Representative Robert B. Zoellick and Uruguayan Minister of Economy and Finance Isaac Alfie announced today the successful conclusion of negotiations for a United States - Uruguay Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT). The agreement will strengthen investment ... Continued...

Trade Policies Cost Missouri Jobs, Group Contends
Missouri has lost more than 31,000 jobs because of the trade policies enacted over the past 10 years, according to a study funded by a liberal lobbying group. Stop "Trading" Away Missouri Jobs, a project funded by Americans for Democratic Action, last week released its report, "Offshoring the Mis... Continued...

U.S. Battered By Trade Rulings
WASHINGTON - This has not been a very good year for the United States and trade. Time and time again, the U.S. government has found its trade laws under attack, mostly by the World Trade Organization in Geneva. "It seems every month is pick-on-the-U.S. month," one veteran American trade lawyer... Continued...

US Speeds Up Bilateral Free Trade Talks
The United States has accelerated establishment of bilateral free trade relationship with other countries, sealing free trade agreements with nine countries in the first eight months of this year. This is more than the total the country had signed before. Meanwhile, the United States is also curr... Continued...

Canada Claims Final Victory In Wood Export Row With US
Canada pounced on a ruling by a NAFTA panel on Tuesday, claiming what could be a decisive victory in a long and bitter dispute with the United States over its softwood lumber exports. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) review panel rejected claims by Washington that its lumber produc... Continued...

Comprehensive Testing Program Needed For BSE
The Alberta-based Canadian Cattlemen for Fair Trade recently filed a claim for $150 million with the government of the United States for losses from the mad-cow crisis. Under NAFTA's Chapter 11 investment provisions, it says the U.S. has "unjustifiably provided less favourable treatment" to Canadian... Continued...

NAFTA Ranchers - NAFTA News for August 2004
Dear NAFTA News subscribers: August may soon need to be renamed “NAFTA Ranchers’ Month,” given the activity seen in the past few weeks from North American ranchers involving the governments of the United States and Mexico. Earlier this month, five notices of intent to submit claims t... Continued...

CEC Requests Mexico's Response To Submission On Hazardous Waste
Montreal, 9 July 2004—On 30 June 2004, pursuant to Article 14(2) of the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC), the Secretariat of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) requested a response from Mexico to submission SEM-04-001/Hazardous Waste in Arteaga, submitted... Continued...

NAFTA Needs Fixing, PM Says
SUN VALLEY, IDAHO -- Canada will push for major changes to NAFTA that will cut short seemingly perpetual trade disputes over softwood lumber and other flashpoints, Prime Minister Paul Martin said yesterday. In his first trip abroad since the June 28 election, Mr. Martin said he wants the No... Continued...

Protecting Foreign Investors BIT by BIT
International business carries with it inherent risks, not the least of which is the risk of harmful measures taken by foreign governments. What options are available to foreign investors in these circumstances? Traditionally, when their operations were subject to discriminatory measur... Continued...

Kerry Announces Edwards As Running Mate
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry on Tuesday selected former rival John Edwards to be his running mate, calling the rich former trial lawyer and rookie senator a man who showed "guts and determination and political skill" in his unsuccessful race against Kerry for the party's nomination. ... Continued...

U.S. Maintains Competitive Edge Over Canada And Mexico As The NAFTA Countries Confront Asia
The United States is in the best position of the three NAFTA nations to weather the challenges posed by lower cost overseas producers, according to the latest NAFTA Quarterly, released today by Scotia Economics. The transformation of Asia - China in particular - into an industrial po... Continued...

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