GLOBALIZATION & TRADE


Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch seeks to ensure that in this era of globalization, all Americans can enjoy economic security, a clean environment, safe food, medicines and products, access to quality affordable services such as health care and the exercise of democratic decision-making in matters that affect them and their communities. Learn more about GTW.

TPP News to Make Your Stomach Turn


The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an alert about tainted shrimp imported from TPP-country Malaysia — one of the top ten suppliers of shrimp to the United States, because of a high level of banned antibiotics. This situation is intolerable. And the TPP would make matters even worse, opening the floodgates for risky food and creating more obstacles to dealing with unsafe imports. Learn more here.

Trade Data Center

One-stop shop for searchable trade databases, case lists & more

Eyes on Trade

Global Trade Watch blog on trade & globalization. Subscribe to RSS.

Debunking Trade Myths

To hide the facts about failed trade policies, proponents are changing the data

Connect with GTW

What's New – Global Trade Watch


View 'What's New' Archives

Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)

Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)

TPP: This massive, controversial, pro-corporate "free trade" agreement among the U.S. and 11 other countries threatens everything from the safety of our food to the stability of our economy. Haga click aquí para ver recursos en español.  
TTIP: U.S. and EU corporations are pushing for this massive deal as the latest venue to attack safety standards, climate policies and financial regulations.
   

Attacks on the Public Interest

Fast Track
Investor-State Attacks: Today's "trade" deals empower foreign corporations to skirt domestic courts and directly challenge public interest policies before extrajudicial tribunals.
  
Fast Track: Under the U.S. Constitution, Congress writes the laws and sets trade policy. However, proponents used procedural gimmicks to pass Fast Track through Congress by a one-vote margin.
   

Copyright © 2016 Public Citizen. Some rights reserved. Non-commercial use of text and images in which Public Citizen holds the copyright is permitted, with attribution, under the terms and conditions of a Creative Commons License. This Web site is shared by Public Citizen Inc. and Public Citizen Foundation. Learn More about the distinction between these two components of Public Citizen.


Public Citizen, Inc. and Public Citizen Foundation

 

You can support the fight for greater government and corporate accountability through a donation to either Public Citizen, Inc., or Public Citizen Foundation, Inc.

Public Citizen lobbies Congress and federal agencies to advance Public Citizen’s mission of advancing government and corporate accountability. When you make a contribution to Public Citizen, you become a member of Public Citizen, showing your support and entitling you to benefits such as Public Citizen News. Contributions to Public Citizen are not tax-deductible.

Public Citizen Foundation focuses on research, public education, and litigation in support of our mission. By law, the Foundation can engage in only very limited lobbying. Contributions to Public Citizen Foundation are tax-deductible.