• Morocco is systematically breaking the human rights of Sahrawi people. (euobserver.com)
  • In 1991, a truce was negotiated with the promise on a referendum on the right to self-determination of Western Saharan inhabitants, the Sahrawi. (lu.se)
  • It was, as of 2011, one of nine free trade agreements entered into by the U.S. since 1985. (wikipedia.org)
  • His contribution was short, but it made a point, coming from a man who had actually sat at the table where many of America's key trade agreements were negotiated, that our government would do well to grasp. (truthout.org)
  • I now understand why so many of the trade agreements that we negotiated never delivered the promises that were made and, if continued, never will. (truthout.org)
  • It actually gives one hope that, behind the facade projected by the Obama administration's ever-chipper trade diplomats, who still say (in public) that the US is going to be able to negotiate its way out of its $300 billion to $600 billion trade deficits by signing even more trade agreements, wiser heads are starting to cotton onto what's really going on. (truthout.org)
  • How can the United States, the sole global superpower, get pushed around by foreign nations when it comes to negotiating trade agreements? (truthout.org)
  • If one treats the universal benevolence of freer trade as a given, then it quite logically follows for the US to be very lax about guarding its own interests when negotiating trade agreements with foreign nations. (truthout.org)
  • After all, even if our trading partners do engage in all these varieties of mischief, these agreements will still be good for us. (truthout.org)
  • In fact, if one assumes that free trade is good across-the-board, trade agreements don't really demand all that much attention qua economic instruments at all, and the door is wide open to use them as tools for other purposes. (truthout.org)
  • Because the reality is that the US has been taken - utterly taken - in its trade negotiations with other nations for coming-on 40 years now, and it's high time we woke up to this fact. (truthout.org)
  • Much closer in time, the Maccabiah Games close Tuesday, with final results expected to be more definitive than the national election, which will almost inevitably end up with weeks of negotiations leading to a tenuous coalition government. (jewishindependent.ca)
  • In relation to the huge U.S. economy, the free trade agreement is expected to have a positive, but small overall effect on the U.S. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) has said that the agreement with Morocco is the "best market access package to date of any U.S. free trade agreement signed with a developing country. (wikipedia.org)
  • For example, just prior to the agreement (signed in 2004), a news release by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative announced major revisions in Moroccan labor laws spurred by the proposed signing of the agreement. (wikipedia.org)
  • Of all the blurbs I got for my book, "Free Trade Doesn't Work: What Should Replace It and Why," my favorite is one I got from Robert B. Cassidy, a distinguished former trade diplomat whose career included being Assistant US Trade Representative for China, Asia and the Pacific. (truthout.org)
  • This translates to U.S. trade with Morocco at less than .1% of its total imports and exports. (wikipedia.org)
  • As of 2003, Morocco exported approximately 2.9% of its total exports to the U.S., while it imported approximately 4.1% of its total imports from the U.S.. These numbers show that U.S. trade with Morocco is almost nil when compared with Moroccan trade with the U.S. Therefore, the USMFTA will potentially have a much larger effect on the Moroccan government. (wikipedia.org)
  • Agreement, or the Liberalization Agreement, aimed at liberalizing the European imports from Morocco, is also applied to Western Sahara. (lu.se)
  • Polisario Front1, the liberation movement of Western Sahara, had fought to claim its independence but failed to do so. (lu.se)
  • The US-Morocco Free Trade Agreement (or Morocco FTA) is a bilateral trade agreement between the United States and Morocco. (wikipedia.org)
  • The agreement is aimed at increasing trade and creating new investment opportunities between the two countries. (wikipedia.org)
  • Morocco joins Israel and Jordan as the third nation state in North Africa/Middle East to sign a free trade agreement with the U.S. This agreement was a positive move towards President Bush's Middle East Free Trade Initiative set forth in May 2003. (wikipedia.org)
  • U.S. companies that build production facilities in Morocco today will have an added advantage of exporting industrial products duty-free to Europe by way of the Moroccan-E.U. Association Agreement signed in 2000. (wikipedia.org)
  • Amid an ongoing dispute on the EU-Morocco trade agreement, the Danish parliament on Thursday (2 June) voted unanimously to warn Danish companies and municipalities from trading with Western Sahara. (euobserver.com)
  • In December 2015, the European Court of Justice cancelled an EU-Morocco trade agreement. (euobserver.com)
  • Sweden u-turned on a decision to recognise Western Sahara earlier this year, and signed a extradition agreement allowing it to return Moroccan children that are living on Swedish streets. (euobserver.com)
  • The judicial activism in a relatively uncharted area in this field, external relations, was analyzed through a qualitative case study of the CJEU case Polisario Front , concerning the application of a EU trade agreement to the non-self-governing territory of Western Sahara. (lu.se)
  • He was a leading broker in the US-Mexico-Canada agreement, for which he was awarded honors by the Mexican government. (wikipedia.org)
  • With approximately 40-50% of the Moroccan workforce in agriculture, the fall-out of the USMFTA is of great concern. (wikipedia.org)
  • In addition, once the EU's Euro-Mediterranean Free Trade Area (EMFTA) is complete in 2010, additional duty-free access will flow down to U.S. companies. (wikipedia.org)
  • The benefits to accrue to Moroccan government, business, and consumers by way of the USMFTA are access to a large and rich U.S. market. (wikipedia.org)
  • The industry says these penalties could "undermine access to cheap medicines" for Moroccans. (wikipedia.org)
  • In addition, Moroccan pharmaceutical companies have voiced concerns over increased penalties for intellectual property and patent violations. (wikipedia.org)
  • In February, three Danish journalists who came to see the situation in Western Sahara for themselves were expelled by Moroccan authorities," he added. (euobserver.com)
  • He said the government will promote knowledge on the situation in Western Sahara with interest groups such as the confederation of Danish industries. (euobserver.com)
  • What this means is that cherry tomatoes from Western Sahara can be sold at the European market labeled as originating from Morocco. (lu.se)
  • At Harvard, Kushner was elected into the Fly Club , supported the campus Chabad house, [20] [21] and bought and sold real estate in Somerville, Massachusetts , as a vice president of Somerville Building Associates (a division of Kushner Companies), returning a profit of $20 million by its dissolution in 2005. (wikipedia.org)
  • A delegation from the European Parliament's Morocco friendship group is visiting Western Sahara on Saturday and Sunday (4 and 5 June) on Rabat's invitation. (euobserver.com)
  • The FTA does not include services or goods originated in the Western Sahara, due its status of non-self governing territory. (wikipedia.org)
  • The territory in this case is Western Sahara, South of Morocco, who includes the territory as part of its own country. (lu.se)
  • Juhl said that Danish companies and municipalities should not take the risk of breaking international law. (euobserver.com)
  • King Mohammed VI said two years ago that "[Western] Sahara will remain a part of Morocco until the end of time. (euobserver.com)
  • Since leaving the White House, Kushner founded Affinity Partners , a private equity firm investing in Israeli and American companies expanding in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. (wikipedia.org)
  • Morocco used the accord to sell goods from occupied territories, which is illegal under international law. (euobserver.com)
  • The delegation's programme didn't include any meetings with representatives of Western Sahara. (euobserver.com)
  • It supposedly doesn't matter whether or not free trade is reciprocated, whether or not our trading partners manipulate their currencies, whether or not America runs a trade deficit … the list goes on and on. (truthout.org)
  • On March 24 1989, the greatest ocean disaster occurred when Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker owned by the Exxon Shipping Company, spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound. (aawsat.com)
  • America's key problem in this regard has been our trade negotiators' uncritical embrace of the assumption that free trade is always best, no matter what the circumstances. (truthout.org)