International Trade

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    Rough trade

    Kyla Tienhaara
    Peter Newell
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    UK accession to Pacific trade deal empowers fossil fuel firms to sue governments.
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    Death by a thousand treaties

    Cecilia Olivet
    Lucía Bárcena
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    The Energy Charter Treaty is the world’s most dangerous investment agreement.
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    Rough trade

    Laura Basu
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    Secret international trade deals could undermine any Green New Deals.
  • Village rice fields, Hida Shirakawa-go, Gifu-ken, Japan, July 2010. Photo: Joel Abroad via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA).

    Corporate courts threat to insects

    Phil Carter
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    The shadowy parallel court system of major trade agreements makes it difficult for countries to ban broad-spectrum insecticides.
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    Brits reject US chlorinated chicken

    Tom Pilgrim
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    Shoppers in the UK absolutely don't want US products with lower health and animal welfare standards, even if they are labelled.

  • Trade deals could drive pandemics

    Emily Beament
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    WWF warns destruction of natural habitats and intensive farming create perfect conditions for another pandemic to emerge.
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    TTIP rises from the grave?

    Nick Meynen
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    European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and US President Donald Trump are trying to give TTIP a second life in a different form.
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    Rosia Montana and corporate courts

    Nick Meynen
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    Social movements in Rosia Montana have been defending the village against a giant gold mine project for the last twenty years.
  • Chicken campaigners

    Don't leave Liam Fox in charge of the international trade chicken coop

    Guy Taylor
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    Parliament will debate Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) this Tuesday. Caroline Lucas of the Green party wants to increase the democratic control of international trade. Without it, the UK may start importing GM food and more chemically treated products, warns GUY TAYLOR
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    Outfitting Africa

    Joe Turner
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    Dressing poorer countries in our designer cast-offs while we invest in shabby sweatshop chic? Invest in their infrastructure, not vetements, argues Joe Turner
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    Bottled Water

    The Ecologist
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    Twice as expensive as petrol, three times the price of milk, and 10,000 times more expensive than tap water. Is it worth it, and what impact is it having on our environment?
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