Eyes on Tradetag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-5988122022-05-20T14:08:56-04:00Public Citizen's blog on globalization and tradeTypePadPublic Submissions to U.S. Government Reveal Corporate Wishlist for IPEF: More Power at Our Expensetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452507269e20282e15687ce200b2022-05-20T14:08:56-04:002022-05-20T15:29:41-04:00By: Sarah Grace Spurgin In October 2021, President Biden announced the “Indo-Pacific Economic Framework” or IPEF. There have been few details about what this IPEF will actually entail, but what we do know is that corporations are loathe to miss...Public CitizenCurrent Status of the Campaign to Waive WTO IP Barriers to COVID-19 Medicines: Remarks From the People’s Summit to #EndCovidNowtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452507269e20282e155fac1200b2022-05-13T15:56:00-04:002022-05-18T09:46:29-04:00The People’s Covid-19 Summit was a series of online days of action centered on the core idea that we know what we must do to fight COVID-19 and prevent the next variant -- the political will is all that’s missing....Public CitizenIPEF at the Crossroadstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452507269e20282e154a2c1200b2022-04-20T13:58:00-04:002022-05-09T14:01:19-04:00[Reposted from PC News] By: Karolina Mackiewicz U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai has stated repeatedly that the Biden administration’s vision for trade will not repeat the past mistakes of prioritizing large business interests above all else, but will serve...Public CitizenHard-Won Workers’ Rights in New NAFTAtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452507269e202942f9beb68200c2022-02-14T14:21:00-05:002022-02-14T14:21:00-05:00By Sally King In the first week of February, a historic union election happened inside one of Mexico’s largest General Motors (GM) plants. Workers in the city of Silao in central Mexico voted overwhelmingly to affiliate with the National Independent...Public CitizenWTO vs. Policy Space: New Report Shows Trade Organization Rarely Allows Countries to Use Exceptionstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452507269e202942f9868e5200c2022-02-07T19:29:00-05:002022-02-07T19:29:00-05:00Melanie Foley Welcome everyone to today's event releasing the new report from Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, titled WTO General Exceptions - Trade Laws Faulty Ivory Tower. My name is Melanie Foley, I'm the international campaigns director at Global Trade...Public CitizenRethinking Trade - Season 1 Episode 43: A New U.S. Approach to the WTO? MC12, Part 2tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452507269e20278805d3766200d2021-12-04T13:13:07-05:002021-12-04T13:13:07-05:00-- Music: Groove Grove by Kevin MacLeod. Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3831-groove-grove. License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ryan Welcome back to Rethinking Trade where we don't just talk about trade policy, we fight to change it. I'm Ryan and I'm joined once again by our in-house...Public CitizenRethinking Trade - Season 1 Episode 42: MC12, Part 1: Danger and Opportunity at the 12th WTO Ministerialtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452507269e20282e13314a8200b2021-11-24T16:17:48-05:002021-11-24T16:28:01-05:00LINKS: MC12 Global Call to Action 3 Million TRIPS Petitions Delivered to President Biden Senators Sanders, Warren, Baldwin and Brown call on Biden to Push for TRIPS Waiver at MC12 Reuters: Activists Urge Biden to Push for Intellectual Property Waiver...Public CitizenRethinking Trade - Season 1 Episode 42: A New U.S. Approach to the WTO?MC12, Part 1: Danger and Opportunity at the 12th WTO Ministerialtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452507269e2026bdf02bb8f200c2021-11-24T16:17:48-05:002021-12-04T13:06:29-05:00Will the WTO get out of the way of global production of COVID-19 vaccines and meds so we can end this pandemic? Whether Big Pharma or humankind will win is the biggest question as the WTO’s major biennial ministerial meeting...Public CitizenApple and Google Want U.S. Trade Officials to Attack Anti-Monopoly Lawtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452507269e2026bdf00b252200c2021-11-16T15:42:58-05:002021-11-16T15:42:58-05:00[Reposted from PC News] By: Karolina Mackiewicz Tech giants Google and Apple are urging U.S. government officials to attack a pro-consumer policy by South Korea as an “illegal trade barrier,” even as the U.S. Congress is poised to pass similar...Public CitizenRethinking Trade - Season 1 Episode 41: A New U.S. Approach to the WTO?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452507269e2026bdf006aaa200c2021-11-15T11:41:42-05:002021-11-15T11:41:42-05:00U.S. Trade Representative, Katherine Tai’s recent speech about the World Trade Organization was shocking. Why? Because she openly and frankly discussed the yawning gap between the WTO’s expansive rules and what is right and good for people and the planet....Public CitizenRethinking Trade - Season 1 Episode 40: Apple & Google Seek U.S. Trade Attack on Anti-Monopoly Lawtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452507269e2027880518d0a200d2021-10-18T14:28:27-04:002021-10-18T14:30:59-04:00Right now, Apple and Google are lobbying the U.S. government to attack South Korean anti-monopoly policies. They claim that a recently passed Korean law requiring app stores to allow consumers to use diverse payment systems violates the US-Korea trade deal....Public CitizenBiden’s COVID-19 Kumbaya Summittag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452507269e2026bdef6248e200c2021-10-04T10:49:38-04:002021-10-04T10:49:38-04:00By Daniel Rangel In the beginning of August, some media outlets started reporting that the Biden administration was planning to convene a “first-of-its-kind, global leader-level summit” focused on ending the COVID-19 crisis and preparing for future pandemics. The summit was...Public CitizenRethinking Trade - Season 1 Episode 39: President Biden Could End the COVID Pandemic at This Week’s UN Summit - Will He?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452507269e20278804a4e82200d2021-09-21T09:49:33-04:002021-09-21T09:50:11-04:00Getting the world vaccinated and ending the pandemic is a political choice: World leaders have the medical, technical and financial capacity. To produce enough vaccines involves three clear steps: getting intellectual property monopoly barriers out of the way through a...Public CitizenDelta Variant Shows, Unless Biden Administration Starts Leading Global COVID Vaccine Effort, Pandemic Will Never Endtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452507269e2026bdef1811c200c2021-09-17T13:36:02-04:002021-09-17T17:09:19-04:00[Reposted from PC News] By Mike Keeley The delta variant-fueled COVID-19 wave that is slamming communities nationwide and flooding ICUs is a glimpse of the endless pandemic to come unless the Biden administration secures a waiver to significantly boost production...Public CitizenTuesday Press Conference: MoCs, Civil Society and Labor Leaders Urge Biden To Launch Global Plan to End Pandemic at Next Week’s UN Summittag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452507269e20282e1202c1b200b2021-09-10T15:25:06-04:002021-09-13T12:25:14-04:00For Immediate Release: Sept. 9, 2021 Contact: Derrick Robinson, drobinson@citizen.org MEDIA ADVISORY South African Government Official Will Provide Update on WTO Vaccine Waiver as Delta Variant Devastation Foreshadows Devastation of Endless Pandemic WHAT: Ahead of the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA)...Public CitizenRethinking Trade - Season 1 Episode 38: Labor Day Special: An Historic Vote in a Mexican Auto Planttag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452507269e2026bdeeef9c5200c2021-09-06T11:10:00-04:002021-09-07T19:09:01-04:00On August 19th, workers at the massive General Motors plant in Silao, Mexico participated in an historic vote that ousted the corrupt and undemocratic protection union that had long controlled labor relations there. The effort to win such a vote...Public CitizenRethinking Trade - Season 1 Episode 37: Hyperglobalization, COVID and Failed Supply Chains: Now What?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452507269e202788043153b200d2021-08-24T15:09:00-04:002021-08-24T15:49:55-04:00In our very first episode, we looked at how corporate-led globalization has fueled shortages in our medical supply-chains and limited our ability to fight COVID-19 Today, we catch everyone up on the latest, discussing two Biden-Harris Administration initiatives aimed at...Public CitizenRethinking Trade - Season 1 Episode 36: U.S. Inaction is Enabling COVID-19 Variants to Spreadtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452507269e2026bdeeb3830200c2021-08-09T14:31:00-04:002021-09-07T19:23:25-04:00The world celebrated when President Biden announced the U.S. would support a temporary waiver of World Trade Organization “TRIPS” intellectual property barriers to boost global production of COVID-19 vaccines. But months later, Big Pharma’s monopolies remain. The administration has failed...Public CitizenXL Pipeline Absurd $15 Billion NAFTA ISDS Claim tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452507269e20278803e0b2f200d2021-08-05T10:46:00-04:002021-08-05T10:46:00-04:00By Noa Levin, Daniel Rangel TransCanada Energy (TC Energy) announced on July 2, 2021 that it would be filing a legacy North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) claim under the Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) system, seeking US$15 billion in...Public CitizenRethinking Trade - Season 1 Episode 35: NAFTA Keystone XL Pipeline $15B ISDS Attacktag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452507269e20282e1169a91200b2021-07-29T19:42:00-04:002021-07-29T19:42:00-04:00Within hours of taking office, President Biden revoked the permit for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. The project, which would worsen the climate crisis, also posed major health and safety risks to indigenous people whose land it crossed. Now the...Public Citizen