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Essential Materials on the Peru, Panama and Colombia FTAs

• Public Citizen letter to Congress expressing opposition to Peru FTA
• Initial Backgrounder and Talking Points: Trade “Deal” Announced May 10, 2007
• Initial Talking Points on Legal Texts Modifying Bush "Free Trade Agreements” - June 25, 2007
• Minimal 'fixes' to Bush's Proposed 'Free Trade' Agreements
• Public Citizen Report: "Trade Deficit in Food Safety; Proposed NAFTA Expansions Replicate Limits on U.S. Food Safety Policy That Are Contributing to Unsafe Food Imports"
• Public Citizen rebuttal to USTR "Food Safety Myth Vs. Fact" document regarding food safety, the Peru FTA, and other NAFTA expansions
• Fact Sheet: Peru NAFTA Expansion Could Chill Efforts to Reverse Peru’s Failed Social Security Privatization
• Public Citizen Report: Peru-U.S. “Free Trade Agreement” Would Help Lock In Failed Social Security Privatization in Peru
• FTA Provisions Not Altered in May 10 “Deal” Undermine Access to Essential Services in Peru and Panama
• May 10 Trade “Deal” Does Nothing to Fix Bush Trade Agreements’ Extreme NAFTA Chapter 11-style Foreign Investor Privileges
• May 10 “Deal” Does not Alter Peru and Panama FTA NAFTA-style Agriculture Rules that Promote Hunger, Destruction of Legal Rural Livelihoods and Displacement
• May 10 “Deal” Fails to Remedy Peru and Panama FTAs Ban Buy America, Anti-offshoring Policies; Threaten Prevailing Wage and Other Policies
• Freshmen Representatives' Letter to Rep. Rangel, Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, January 17, 2007
• AFL-CIO Letter to Rep. Rangel Regarding Trade Policy Issues, January 17, 2007
• Letter from Human Rights Organizations to Rep. Rangel on Concerns with Colombia FTA, January 17, 2007
• League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) Letter to Rep. Rangel, January 18, 2007
• Peru and Colombia FTAs Projected to Increase Drug Trafficking, Violence and Instability in the Andes, Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) and Public Citizen

Statements on Peru, Colombia, Panama FTAs and May 10 "Deal"

• Citizens Trade Campaign Statement Opposing the Peru and Panama Free Trade Agreements
• Change to Win: Vote No on Peru Free Trade Agreement NAFTA Expansion
• IBEW Statement Opposing Peru, Panama, Colombia, South Korea FTAs
• Machinists Letter to Congress Opposing Peru and Panama FTAs
• Oxfam Letter to Congress Opposing the Peru FTA
• Peruvian Labor Union Letter Against Peru FTA
• National Latino Civil Rights Groups Address Shortcomings of Trade "Deal"
• Letter from Women's Rights Groups to Congress Opposing the May 10 "Deal," Peru and Panama FTAs
• Teamsters Oppose Trade Deal That Sells Out American Workers
• USW Raises Serious Concerns about Proposed Trade Deal Reached with Bush Administration
• Change to Win Statement: Labor Opposes Bush-Congress Trade Deal
• Domestic Manufacturers Group Says “New Trade Policy” Ignores Producers’ and Workers’ Real Interests
• What's Missing from the New U.S. Trade Deal? - Change to Win Ad, Roll Call
• Machinists Union Opposed to More Flawed Trade Deals
• Peru, Panama Trade Deals Don’t Address Cattle Industry Concerns
• Behind the Secret Trade Deal: What about Agriculture?
• Letter from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters to Congress on Opposing the May 10 Trade Deal
• Reaction from Public Health, AIDS Organizations to Democratic Leadership-Bush Administration Announcement on Trade Policy



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