Disappointing to say the least. What is your reaction? Are strong environmental provisions too much to ask for in a multi-lateral trade agreement? As the article points out, weve had success in recent agreements: ...in May 2007, President George W. Bush struck an environmental deal with Democrats in the Senate and the House as he sought to move a free-trade agreement with Peru through Congress. In what became known as the May 10 Agreement, Democrats got Mr. Bush to agree that all American free-trade deals would include a chapter with environmental provisions, phrased in the same legally binding language as chapters on labor, agriculture and intellectual property. The Democrats also insisted that the chapter require nations to recognize existing global environmental treaties. Since then, every American free-trade deal has included that strong language, although all have been between the United States and only one other country.
Posted on: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 00:51:35 +0000
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