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Trade:
CAFTA
First-line
Resources:
Full Text of the CAFTA Agreement
Market
Access section of CAFTA (minus Guatemala and Nicaragua)
CAFTA
Update, January 2004: covers the background, content, and development
implications of the negotiated CAFTA
WOLA's
CAFTA page -- includes issue briefs on various subject areas
Quixote
Center / Quest for Peace CAFTA page
Oxfam's
CAFTA page, part of its Make Trade Fair campaign
Analysis
and Commentary
CAFTA Issue Briefs:
- Central
American Development: the Impact of Trade Liberalization
- Transparency
and Participation in the Negotiations
- Stronger
Labor Provisions Needed
- Trade
and the Rural Sector
- Investor
Rights or Human Rights?
- The
Gender Impact of CAFTA
- CAFTA's
Environmental Chapter
- NAFTA
in Mexico: Lessons for CAFTA
- NAFTA's
Impact on U.S. Farmers and Workers
Download the complete
packet, Fair
Trade or Free Trade? Understanding CAFTA
Human
Rights Watch Press Release: "El Salvador: Government Ignores Widespread
Labor Abuse -- CAFTA Must Include Strong Protections for Workers' Rights"
CAFTA
Power Map
USTR
Initial CAFTA Proposals
Oxfam: "Agriculture,
Investment and Intellectual Property: Three Reasons to Say No to CAFTA"
(clic
aqui para version en español)
Investor
Rights under CAFTA
"The
Impacts of US Agricultural and Trade Policy on Trade Liberalization and
Integration via a US-Central American Free Trade Agreement" - Dale
Hathaway
InforPress
Centroamericana, "Produccion de maiz, otra victima de la apertura
comercial"
The
Impact of China on Latin America -- Oct. 1, 2004 conference notes
Statements,
Letters, and Commentary on CAFTA
AFL-CIO
Testimony on CAFTA
InterAction Comments
to USTR on CAFTA
Catholic
Relief Services Recommendations on CAFTA
Latin
America Working Group - WOLA Letter to the President about CAFTA
Lawyers'
Committee on Human Rights-Labor Standards in CAFTA Report
Transparency
International Comments on CAFTA
Women's
Edge CAFTA Comments
SHARE
Statement to USTR
World
Vision Testimony
US
Conference of Catholic Bishops, Comments on CAFTA
Representatives
Rangel and Levin on CAFTA
Posicion
de la mesa campesina centroamericana de la Iniciativa CID sobre la negociacion
de productos agropecuarios sensibles en el CAFTA
Transparency
International Comments on CAFTA
Iniciativa
CID Press Release
Business
Coalition for US-Central America Trade Letter to Senate Finance Committee
Chairman
Amigos
de la Tierra Nota de Prensa
Valoraciones
e informes de la Iniciativa CID respecto a CAFTA
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace Letter to USTR about environmental review
of CAFTA
La
Sociedad Civil Contra CAFTA
Asociacion
para la promocion y el desarrollo de la comunidad "ceiba" contra
CAFTA
Comunicado
del Obispo de Santa Rosa de Copan Contra CAFTA
Ministerio
de Comercio Exterior de Costa Rica, Agenda de CAFTA
Declaracion
Politica del Tercer Foro Mesoamericano
Declaracion
del Comite Consultivo Subregional de la ISP de Centroamerica y la Republica
Dominicana
Movimientos
Sociales Frente al TLC
Asociacion
de Trabajadores del Campo-Iniciativa Local Contra el ALCA, OMC, y CAFTA
Plataforma
de Lucha del Movimiento Social Salvadoreno Contra el CAFTA y PPP
Posicion
de la Federacion Centroamericana de Camaras Agropecuarias y Agroindustriales
Comentario
del Ministro de Comercio Exterior de Costa Rica sobre CAFTA |