scholarly journals Reflections on the Struggle Against the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement (TFA), 30 Years Later

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Hurl ◽  
Benjamin Christensen
Keyword(s):  
Free Trade ◽  
Free Trade Agreement ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Neoliberal Globalization ◽  
The Past ◽  
Conservative Government ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Events

The implementation of the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement (CUSFTA) in January 1989 marked a decisive moment in the rise of neoliberalism as a political project in Canada. While the left, and socialist political economists in particular, played a central role in galvanizing the agreement and contributed in no small part to the demise of the Conservative government in 1993, the free trade agenda continued to move forward through the 1990s. This Special Issue revisits the history of struggles against free trade in Canada with two aims in mind: first to remember the coalitions through which opposition was organized, the mobilization of socialist critiques by activists and intellectuals, and the key events leading up to the adoption of the agreement. Second, drawing from this history to make sense of how things have changed over the past 30 years, as right-wing nationalists have increasingly taken the lead in opposing free trade, while neoliberals have sought to rebrand their project as ‘progressive’.  How can those on the left effectively confront the project of free trade today while at the same time challenging both far-right nationalism and neoliberal globalization?

The eu-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement – A Successful Attempt to Protect Vietnam’s Environment While Pushing for Economic Integration?

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-222
Author(s):  
Heidi Stockhaus
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
Economic Integration ◽  
Free Trade Agreement ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Past ◽  
Successful Attempt ◽  
Trade And Investment ◽  
The Eu

The new free trade agreement with the European Union will bring Vietnam’s economic integration to a new level once it enters into force. In the past, the associated economic growth has led to environmental deterioration due to inappropriate regulations and poor enforcement. Currently, environmental problems are visible everywhere and attract the attention of citizens as well as lawmakers. The new free trade agreement establishes a framework for sustainable development in the context of trade and investment. The relevant provisions aim to maintain Vietnam’s right to regulate for the targeted protection level, require the country to take measures to mitigate the pressure on the environment, and open the door for cooperation with the European Union. However, it remains to be seen, whether these provisions balance the risks associated with the increase in trade and investment through the free trade agreement.

scholarly journals Correction: Patents, pills and politics: the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme

2004 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 381
Author(s):  
Ken Harvey
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
Free Trade Agreement ◽  
Patent Protection ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
Pharmaceutical Products ◽  
Patent Law ◽  
History Of ◽  
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme

Re: ?Patents, pills and politics: the Australia? United States Free Trade Agreement and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme?, by Ken Harvey, (Aust Health Rev 2004, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 218-226). Under the heading ?A brief history of patent law relevant to pharmaceuticals?, in the second paragraph, the second sentence was: ?Before TRIPS, many developing countries provided no patent protection on pharmaceutical products, or they recognised patents on products but not process?. The corrected version should be ?. . .process but not products?.

scholarly journals Patents, pills and politics: the Australia–United States Free Trade Agreement and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme

2004 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken Harvey
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
Free Trade Agreement ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
Patent Law ◽  
The Political ◽  
History Of ◽  
Innovative Drugs ◽  
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme

There is tension between the need of the pharmaceutical innovator for intellectual property protection and the need of society for equitable and affordable access to innovative drugs. The recent Australia?United States Free Trade Agreement provides a nice illustration of this interplay between patents, pills and politics. This article provides a brief history of patent law as applied to pharmaceuticals, describes how the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme got caught up in AUSFTA negotiations, analyses the clauses that are likely to impact upon the PBS and describes the political process that reviewed and ultimately amended the AUSFTA.

scholarly journals The Effect of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA): Ten Years Later

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miranda M. Zhang ◽  
Tyler T. Yu
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
North American ◽  
Free Trade Agreement ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Trade Volume ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
Regression Techniques

This paper examines the economic impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on international trade among the three member countries Canada, Mexico and the United States, in the past ten years. Through regression techniques, estimated volume and the predicted trend for exports among the countries are compared with the actual observations. The empirical results indicate that NAFTA did achieve the desired goal of increasing trade among their member countries. The actual trade volume is greater than what the estimated trade volume would have been without NAFTA. Although all the member countries have seen their exports increased, the volumes vary among the three, with Mexico being the largest beneficiary.

scholarly journals The Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement and Canada's Agri-Food Industries

1990 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 70-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan M. Rugman ◽  
Andrew Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Free Trade ◽  
Free Trade Agreement ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Manufacturing Industries ◽  
Food And Beverage ◽  
History Of ◽  
Statistics Canada

The food processing industry is Canada's second-largest manufacturing industry. It employed 226,579 people in 1986, and shipments were valued at CDN $47 billion, or 15 percent of the value of total manufactured output that year. More significantly, the food and beverage industries together ranked highest among all manufacturing industries in terms of value added, at CDN $15 billion or approximately 14 percent of total value added in Canadian manufacturing industries in 1986 (Statistics Canada). Given the high degree of competition in this industry in the United States, the history of “comfortable” competition in the food industry in Canada, and the significant contribution of this industry to the Canadian economy, it becomes important to look more carefully at how this industry has been and will be affected by the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA).

A ‘phase one’ UK-US trade deal is possible

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
Free Trade Agreement ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Conservative Government ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Eu

Subject UK-US trade talks. Significance The first round of virtual UK-US free trade negotiations began on Tuesday May 5 and conclude today. While a free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States is a stated priority for the UK government, it will be difficult to conclude a comprehensive deal this year, in particular due to divisions over agrifood and medicine, while there is also not enough time. However, the chances of the United Kingdom and United States agreeing a deal narrower in scope than a fully-fledged FTA are higher. Impacts The main obstacles in reaching an FTA will be regulatory ones. It will be almost impossible for London to address regulatory obstacles with the United States without increasing them in trade with the EU. Washington knows an FTA is politically important for the Conservative government, giving it leverage to shape a favourable deal.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamara Kay ◽  
R. L. Evans
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
Free Trade Agreement ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Extant Literature ◽  
Democratic Practices ◽  
Trade Politics ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter situates the book’s hook in the backlash against globalization in 2016 and suggests that understanding it requires examining a free trade agreement, NAFTA, negotiated in the early 1990s. It lays out the book’s argument about how contentious trade politics and policies emerged and developed during NAFTA’s negotiation, and how they continued to affect subsequent trade battles, reinforcing resentment among anti-trade activists, including many working class voters. It also examines the relationship between state institutions and democratic practices as it relates to NAFTA and more generally to other policies. The chapter then gives a brief history of NAFTA, and moves into a discussion of the methods, and its contribution to the extant literature.

scholarly journals Emerging Visions of Another world? Tensions and Collaboration at the Quebec Social Forum

2010 ◽  
pp. 29-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascale Dufour ◽  
Janet Conway
Keyword(s):  
Free Trade ◽  
Free Trade Agreement ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
Social Mobilization ◽  
Quebec City ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Organizing Process

The Quebec Social Forum (QSF) took place 23-26 August 2007 in Montreal. It attracted about 5000 people from across Quebec. Both organizers and observers viewed the event as an unqualified success. In this article, we seek to describe and document this historic gathering and to understand it in its Quebec context, against the larger organizing process which produced it. We also situate the Social Forum, both as event and process, within the longer history of social mobilization in Quebec. Historicizing the Social Forum in this way helps us interpret its cleavages and conflicts more adequately and apprehend its larger significance. We argue that the conflicts that have plagued the organizing of the Quebec Social Forum are a reprise of those that appeared in the movement in the late 1990s and came to a head in the 2001 massive demonstrations against the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas in Quebec City. The chasm then was widely perceived as one over tactics but we argue, then and now, it is more substantive than that. It is about the clash of profoundly different ethics, practices and theories of democracy and, beneath them, different horizons of hope and visions of transformation. The organizing of the Social Forum is the occasion for this debate, which may say something about the significance of the Social Forum more generally and the challenge it poses to established cultures and practices of politics on the left. The cleavage is generational but not only or simply. It signals a struggle and transition but the outcomes are not yet clear and are certainly not pre-ordained.

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