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Fair Trade Archive: GTW E-Newsletters, Action Alerts, and Updates

Global Trade Watch (GTW) promotes democracy by challenging corporate globalization, arguing that the current globalization model is neither a random inevitability nor "free trade." For our latest updates, visit our blog, Eyes on Trade, or see our featured publications.

Take action: Stop the Colombia FTA

In early April, President Bush sent his NAFTA expansion to Colombia to Congress over the objections of Speaker Pelosi and Congressional Democrats. Speaker Pelosi reasserted congressional authority over the bill by removing the Fast Track treatment of the bill.

The Bush administration's blatant disregard for the Democratic Congress' concerns regarding the Colombia FTA spell doom for this already fatally flawed NAFTA expansion. Help us put the final nails in the coffin and urge your member of Congress to publicly oppose the Colombia FTA!

New report: Presidential Candidates' Key Proposals on Health Care and Climate Will Require WTO Modifications

Global Trade Watch has just released a new report demonstrating how the overreach of WTO rules is highlighted by potential conflicts with proposals made by presidential candidates regarding health care reform and climate change. See more here, or download the full report (PDF).

Get the backstory on America's imported food and product safety crisis

Global Trade Watch's two latest reports reveal that it's not just jobs being offshored, but our food and product safety standards as well.

GTW's report Trade Deficit in Food Safety; Proposed NAFTA Expansions Replicate Limits on U.S. Food Safety Policy That Are Contributing to Unsafe Food Imports (PDF) reveals how trade agreements will worsen imported food safety problems. Also see our press release accompanying this report.

On product safety, GTW's report Santa's Sweatshop: "Made in D.C." with Bad Trade Policy (PDF) reveals how toy corporations are enjoying soaring profits and CEO salaries at an enormous cost to children's safety. Also see the accompanying press release.

Majority of House Dems Oppose FTA

Bush's Peru NAFTA expansion agreement came to the floor of the House of Representatives on Thursday, November 8th. A majority of Democrats voted NO on the Peru FTA. For more, see Public Citizen's press release.

You can also check out Eyes On Trade for our live-blog of the floor debate. For background information on the Peru FTA, see letters from numerous organizations opposing the Peru FTA, our list of "essential materials" on the Peru, Panama and Colombia FTAs, and our full-length reports (both PDF downloads) on the potential effects of the Peru FTA on our food and product safety and Peru's failed social security privatization scheme. Our Peru, Panama & Colombia FTAs page has all these materials and more.

Short-Sighted Trade Deal Heads U.S. Over the Edge

Democrats pave path for Bush to pass more NAFTA expansions; Bush and corporations continue their push for fast track authority
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Like most Americans, you probably don’t trust this administration to have more authority over anything! Well, here’s some good news: President Bush’s grant of Fast Track authority – the un-democratic Nixon-era law that transfers Congress' constitutionally-mandated control over U.S. trade agreements to the White House – expired June 30, 2007.

Fast Track is how we got into devastating pacts like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). With the 2006 election, Americans from coast to coast sent a clear message: No staying the course on Bush's ruinous trade policy. You replaced scores of pro-Fast Track/NAFTA/WTO Congress people with candidates who campaigned to stop the damage and steer a new course on trade.

Congress must develop a new process for U.S. trade negotiations that includes a clear map of what must and must not be in future deals, and a steering wheel for the public and Congress, so that we can turn towards a new trade policy that benefits the majority.

Note: The above "Santa's Sweatshop" source photo by Flickr user "Megandavid," used under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.

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