GLOBALIZATION & TRADE


Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch seeks to ensure that in this era of globalization, all Americans can enjoy economic security, a clean environment, safe food, medicines and products, access to quality affordable services such as health care and the exercise of democratic decision-making in matters that affect them and their communities. Learn more about GTW.

Keystone XL NAFTA Nightmare: 15 Billion Reasons to be Wary of ISDS & Free Trade Agreements

"Canadian corporation TransCanada is skirting our courts and laws to demand that an extrajudicial NAFTA investor-state tribunal help it to extract $15 billion from U.S. taxpayers because our government decided an oil pipeline is not good for our nation or the environment,” said Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen's GTW.
"Days before President Obama's State of the Union address, here is exactly the type of attack on U.S. environmental policy that the president insisted could never happen under the controversial investor-state corporate tribunal regime in his Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal under which U.S. investor-state liability would be doubled."

Trans-Pacific Partnership

Trans-Atlantic FTA (TAFTA)

TPP: This massive, controversial, pro-corporate "free trade" agreement among the U.S. and 11 other countries threatens everything from the safety of our food to the stability of our economy. Haga click aquí para ver recursos en español.  
TAFTA: U.S. and EU corporations are pushing for this massive deal as the latest venue to attack safety standards, climate policies and financial regulations.
   

Attacks on the Public Interest

Fast Track
Investor-State Attacks: Today's "trade" deals empower foreign corporations to skirt domestic courts and directly challenge public interest policies before extrajudicial tribunals.
  
Fast Track: Under the U.S. Constitution, Congress writes the laws and sets trade policy. But now corporate lobbies want the administration to seize those powers.
   

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