Divide and conquer

The authors also wish to acknowledge the ongoing support of colleagues in the Trade and Investment Research Project (TIRP) of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, as well as the financial support of TIRP member organizations and the C. S. Mott Foundation. [...] Likewise, the recent bilateral free trade treaties being negotiated by the U. S. also contain the worst features of both the NAFTA and the GATS. [...] A large bloc of developing countries had refused to be browbeaten into accepting new issues on The political landscape in the Americas had the WTO agenda, and strong differences over agriculture, galvanized by Brazilian leadership and the emergence of changed in ways that made concluding a the G-20, stymied the adoption of a negotiating text.6 sweeping FTAA far more difficult than its The two main [...] The with the implementation of the WTO Uruguay round declaration sought to get around the increasingly serious The FTAA, U. S. trade strategy and public services in the Americas. [...] In fact, governments The Caribbean island-state of Antigua and Barbuda such as Canada or Chile, having already paid the price recently outlined the pressures experienced by smaller The FTAA, U. S. trade strategy and public services in the Americas.