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Trade Publications

What’s new

• Building a Diversified, Value-Added, Productive Economy (PDF) CAW Submission to the Government of Canada’s Competition Policy Review Panel, 2008

• Why Foreign Ownership Still Matters, January 22, 2008, Mel Watkins

• NAFTA Chapter 11 Investor-State Disputes, January 1, 2008, Scott Sinclair

• Victory! Well, sort of... Council welcomes NAFTA victory while decrying NAFTA rules, Canadian Perspectives, Autumn 2007

Fact Sheets

• Facing the Facts about TILMA - fact sheet, February 2007
• Tell your MP that Canada needs a better trade policy
• What you should know about the WTO: glossary of trade terms
• What you should know about the WTO: Hong Kong ministerial meeting
• What you should know about the WTO: the GATS
• What you should know about the WTO: agriculture
  

Reports and articles

• Why Foreign Ownership Still Matters, January 22, 2008, Mel Watkins
• NAFTA Chapter 11 Investor-State Disputes, January 1, 2008, Scott Sinclair
• Another bad deal for Canada: TILMA, deep integration and the fight for local democracy, Backgrounder, September 2007
• Free Trade’s Big Lie: NAFTA has failed to create quality jobs or close the income gap
  Canadian Perspectives Spring 2007
• Courting TILMA: U.S. investors eye Alberta and B.C.’s interprovincial trade agreement
  Canadian Perspectives Spring 2007
• Deep Integration and Corporate Rule INTEGRATE THIS! A Citizen's Guide to Fighting Deep Integration
• Challenging Corporate Investor Rule: How the World Bank’s Investment Court, Free Trade Agreements, and Bilateral Investment Treaties have Unleashed a New Era of Corporate Power and What to Do About It, by By Sarah Anderson of the Institute for Policy Studies and Sara Grusky of Food and Water Watch, April 2007
• WTO on the Ropes: It’s Time for Alternatives - Canadian Perspectives, Autumn 2006
• Revisiting NAFTA: Still not working for North America's workers
  Report by Robert E. Scott, Carlos Salas & Bruce Campbell, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
• The BC/Alberta Trade, Investment, and Labour Mobility Agreement
  A Summary of Its Impacts by Ellen Gould
• Free Trade’s Big Lie: NAFTA has failed to create quality jobs or close the income gap
  Canadian Perspectives Spring 2007
• Courting TILMA: U.S. investors eye Alberta and B.C.’s interprovincial trade agreement
  Canadian Perspectives Spring 2007
• Trade bullies: Hong Kong ministerial gives rich countries one last chance to pick on the south Canadian Perspectives, Spring 2006
• Citizens' right or investors' rights? Canadian Perspectives, Autumn 2005
• Making the Links: A Peoples’ Guide to the WTO and the FTAA
• Thirst for Control: New Rules in the Global Water Grab
• Trade and Culture
• The European Commission's GATS Position: A Bad Bargain for Canada
• Separating WTO Fact from Fiction (PDF)

One Night in July – By Ellen Gould
Past midnight on the evening of Saturday, July 31, 2004 the 147 members of the WTO signed a framework agreement to restart the Doha Round of trade negotiations. The full membership was given only seventeen hours to review a draft text on agriculture worked out in secret by five countries... Click here to download "One Night in July" in PDF format. (111 KB)

The Meaning of Hong Kong WTO - Published on Saturday, January 14, 2006 by CommonDreams.org by Deborah James

Brochures and pamphlets

• What's wrong with world trade? What are the alternatives?

 

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updated March 19, 2008