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SNR Statement on Doha Negotiations and the WTO Ministerial |
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Presented to the Special Committee on Globalization
House of Representatives
18 November 2009
On behalf of the Stop the New Round Coalition (SNR) a network of around 40 national and regional level groups and movements, I would like to thank the Special Committee for the opportunity to present our views on the Doha multilateral trade talks and the upcoming WTO Ministerial Meeting in Geneva.
SNR would like to highlight for the attention of the Committee the following issues and concerns:
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Trade Network urge RP and EU negotiators to disclose contents of Cooperation Agreement |
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Groups fear EU's aggressive trade agenda is driving the talks
EU-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (FTA) Campaign Network-Philippines*
Secretariat Office, 19-Maginhawa St., Teachers’ Village, Diliman Quezon City. Tel (63)2-4331676
Press Release
11 February 2009
Reacting to news reports about the launch of the formal negotiations
for a comprehensive partnership and cooperation agreement between EU
and the Philippines, the EU-ASEAN FTA Campaign Network * urged both the
EU and Philippine governments to disclose to the public the contents of
the cooperation agreement.
"If indeed the PCA will be for the mutual benefit of both EU and the
Philippines then why are the negotiations shrouded in secrecy" asked
Alice Raymundo of_Task Force Food Sovereignty (TFFS). " We have been
trying to get a copy of the draft texts of the agreement through the EC
office in Manila and our very own Department of Foreign Affairs but our
requests have been ignored," Ms._Raymundo_added.
The PCA is supposed to address a broad range of issues that would
define EU-RP partnership and cooperation including political issues and
human rights. The PCA however has also been described as a
pre-requisite for a free trade deal with the EU.
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EU-ASEAN FTA Campaign Network-Philippines |
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Campaign Secretariat Office, c/o 19-Maginhawa Street, Teachers Village, Diliman, Quezon City
Press Release:
Philippine negotiator criticized for supporting EU Proposal for bilateral trade negotiations
A civil society network monitoring trade talks between the European Union and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) criticized Philippine chief trade negotiator for supporting bilateral negotiations with the EU.
The EU-ASEAN Campaign network, with members in Europe and Southeast Asia assailed the statements made recently by Assistant Secretary Ramon Cabigting of the Department of Trade and Industry expressing support to the EU proposal to proceed with bilateral talks with the EU and expressing the country’s willingness to liberalize its services sector.
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Socio Economic Monitor Sept 2008: Philippine Trade |
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Official second-quarter figures show the deceleration of economic (GDP) growth to only 4.6%, versus the more optimistic 8.3% posted in the same period last year.
In tune with the structure of the Philippine economy, external trade figures follow the sluggishness of overall growth. While total merchandise imports showed an improvement (-2.5% versus -11.6% growth for the second quarter of 2008 and 2007, respectively), this was due to the sharp rise in the importation of cereal and cereal products, which include rice, jumping more than 23% from a negative growth of 20% last year; and fertilizers which grew 37.4% from a negative 32.4% last year. Meanwhile, imports of products that are considered inputs to production have deteriorated from the year-ago levels. Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials declined by 13.1%; textile yarns contracted 22.7%; and manufacture of metals dipped 25.1%. Lower import of productive inputs meant poorer export performance, which grew only by 5.5% compared to the 6.3% growth registered in the second quarter of 2007. The traditional main export (semi-conductors and electric microcircuits) contracted by 11%.
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How Doha Died: A Ringsider’s View |
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Interview with Riza Bernabe, volunteer consultant to the Philippine
delegation to the World Trade Organization Mini-ministerial meeting in
Geneva, July 21-29, 2008
(Regarded as one of the leading experts on Philippine trade and
agriculture issues, Riza Bernabe was for a long time a researcher at
the Philippine Peasant Institute [now Centro Saka Institute] and
currently consults for various organizations. She was interviewed by
Focus senior analyst Walden Bello on the latest collapse of the trade
negotiations known as the “Doha Round.”)
THE AGRICULTURAL SUBSIDIES ISSUE
Focus: You have varying reports on how much agreement there was before
the Doha Round talks collapsed on July 29. Some press reports said
that countries had agreed on 90-95 per cent of the issues. Some said
that only the Special Safeguard Mechanism (SSM) stood between failure
and success. What do you think?
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