Trade

How the WTO Can Support Climate Adaptation

The World Trade Organization (WTO) has a well-earned reputation for placing trade concerns above all else—including global priorities like climate change and food security.

Uprooted Episode 12: The World Trade Organization and Multilateralism

The 11th World Trade Organization Ministerial begins on December 10th, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Ministerial Conference Host Argentina Undermines WTO Credibility

A decision to ban 63 civil society experts from attending the upcoming World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial in Argentina threatens to further weaken the global institution. The controversy doesn’t bode well for the WTO, which has come under fire since its inception for its lack of transparency and accountability.

It's time for Members of Congress to use their clout on NAFTA

As the fifth round of NAFTA 2.0 talks get going in Mexico City, it is hard to get a handle on what’s really happening –  especially when so much is behind closed doors. Since starting in August, negotiations have proceeded at an unprecedented and even reckless pace.

Do no harm?: NAFTA, non-regulation of GMOs and Mexican agriculture

Last week, I spent three days in Mexico City to talk with NGOs the public and the press about U.S.

The third track: Trade that builds our economy anew

Sophia Murphy is an advisor to IATP, based in Vancouver, British Columbia. President Trump is playing high stakes poker in the NAFTA talks, with his US Trade Representative, Robert Lighthizer, at the helm. Laura Dawson, director of the Wilson Centre’s Canada Centre published an op-ed on 11 October in which she suggests there are two tracks to the NAFTA talks – one is moving ahead with the “easy consensus” (i.e. tracking new issues that gained prominence in the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations), while the other, driven by Trump’s tweets and America First Agenda, is putting t

Uprooted Episode 6: Ag Basics

This week's episode was going to be on meat, but schedules change and we adjust!

Uprooted Episode 4: An update on NAFTA talks

Josh Wise talks with Sharon Treat, IATP's Senior Attorney, who was at the last round of NAFTA talks in Ottawa. Sharon gives an update what has been happening at the talks, how trade talks are supposed to work, and offers an analysis on the reckless speed and nature of the negotiations so far.

NAFTA and the challenge for water justice

What should a post-TPP U.S. trade and investment policy look like, if it is to protect not only workers, farmers, consumers and the environment in the U.S., but also in other countries? What can individuals and organizations committed to water justice do to make sure that the rights to water, food and health of rural and urban communities in North America are upheld? These issues will be very much on the agenda at the next round of NAFTA talks, starting October 11.

NAFTA 2.0: doing harm with ag biotech approval shortcuts

The NAFTA talks are advancing rapidly with very little information available to the public on their content or the possible consequences for fair and sustainable food and farm systems. This is the third in a series of blogs examining the proposals being made by agribusiness firms that take the failed Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) as a starting point.