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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

CAFTA Issue Briefs:

  1. Central American Development: the Impact of Trade Liberalization
  2. Transparency and Participation in the Negotiations
  3. Stronger Labor Provisions Needed
  4. Trade and the Rural Sector
  5. Investor Rights or Human Rights?
  6. The Gender Impact of CAFTA
  7. CAFTA's Environmental Chapter
  8. NAFTA in Mexico: Lessons for CAFTA
  9. 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

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

 
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