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- Subject: TRADE NEWS:MAQUILADORAS DON'T FOLLOW REGULATIONS
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- MAQUILADORAS DON'T FOLLOW REGULATIONS
- Of six majority U.S. - owned maquiladoras surveyed by the U.S.
- General Accounting Office (GAO), none had done Environmental
- Impact Assessments (EIA's). EAI's are required by Mexican
- law. Some plants had also been allowed to start operating
- before it was issued an operating permit.
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- Source: See "Resources"
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- TRADE NEWS BULLETIN
- Monday, November 2, 1992
- _________________________________________________________
- THIRTEEN NATIONS PRESS FOR GATT SETTLEMENT
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- Thirteen smaller trading nations sent a letter to the European
- Community, the United States, Japan and Canada encouraging them to
- settle the Uruguay Round and help ease the global recession. "The
- world trading system cannot risk failure of the Uruguay Round with
- all that would entail," the letter stated. The letter was signed by
- Australia, Chile, Colombia, Czechoslovakia, Finland, Hong Kong,
- Iceland, Norway, the Philippines, New Zealand, Singapore, South
- Korea and Sweden.
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- Source: "Smaller Nations Press Settlement of Trade Talks," REUTER,
- November 2, 1992.
- _________________________________________________________
- Events:
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- Tuesday, November 10, 7:30 PM. FREE TRADE, ECONOMIC
- RESTRUCTURING AND WOMEN: DEVELOPING A WOMEN'S PLAN OF
- ACTION. Women will meet to discuss the effects of the NAFTA on
- women's specific concerns, and explore possibilities for response.
- Resource Center of the Americas, 317-17th Avenue SE, Minneapolis,
- MN 55414-2077. Tel: (612) 644-5683.
- _________________________________________________________
- Resources:
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- NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT: IMPLICATIONS FOR
- CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURE is a book detailing the proceedings of a
- March 5, 1992 conference. The book includes research papers:
- "Macroeconomic Implications of NAFTA for California," "NAFTA and
- Rural Mexican Migration," "Lessons from the Canadian-U.S. Free
- Trade Agreement," and "Dispute Settlement Mechanism of the NAFTA
- and Agriculture." Copies of the book are available from: Agriculture
- Issues Center, University of California - Davis, Davis, California
- 95616.
- _________________________________________________________
- Produced by:
- Kai Mander
- The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)
- 1313 Fifth Street SE, Suite #303
- Minneapolis, MN 55414-1546 USA
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- Telephone:(612)379-5980 Fax:(612)379-5982
- E-Mail:kmander@igc.org
- _________________________________________________________
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- Topic 188 TRADE.NEWS 11-3-92
- iatp Updates on GATT & NAFTA Negotiations 3:46 pm Nov 3, 1992
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- TRADE NEWS BULLETIN
- November 3, 1992
- __________________________________________________
- GATT News Summary
- __________________________________________________
- ELECTION MAY EASE US-EC AGRICULTURE DISPUTE
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- __________________________________________________
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- Other Trade News
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- EFTA MEMBERS APPLY TO EC
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- The European Commission is likely to on Wednesday adopt an
- opinion allowing the GeneraFTA)
- members Finland, Austria and Sweden. Opening talks are
- unlikely to begin until uncertainty over the ratification of the
- EC's treaty in European Unity is resolved. The opinion issued
- Wednesday will lay out problems posed by each country's
- membership. For Finland, an issue to be dealt with is how to
- help farmers in the far north adapt to the EC's Common
- Agriculture Policy.
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- Switzerland and Finland, also EFTA members, are seeking to
- join the EC as well. The EFTA and the EC may join to create the
- European Economic Area (EEA). When the two are joined,
- EFTA nations will have to conform to EC laws, and it is unclear
- how much power they will have in influencing these laws. The
- first test will be how much Norway's interests are taken into
- account in a draft EC directive on North Sea oil off its shores.
- Norway said it would attempt a veto if a directive on oil didn't
- recognize Norwegian wishes, but EC officials have said Norway
- would not have this power as EFTA members.
-
- Source: Alister Doyle, "EFTA Veto Threats to EC May Be
- Toothless," REUTER, November 3, 1992; Janet McEvoy,
- "Commission Set to Pave Way for Entry Talks With Finland,"
- REUTER, November 3, 1992.
-
- __________________________________________________
- Resources:
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- 1. U.S. - MEXICO TRADE: ASSESMENT OF MEXICO'S
- ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS BY NEW COMPANIES, Report to the
- Chairman, Committee on Commerce, Science and
- Transportation, U.S. Senate, United States General Accounting
- Office, August 1992.
- __________________________________________________
- Produced by:
- Hannah Holm
- The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)
- 1313 Fifth Street SE, Suite #303
- Minneapolis, MN 55414-1546 USA
-
- Telephone:(612)379-5980 Fax:(612)379-5982
- E-Mail:kmander@igc.org
- _________________________________________________________
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