ISDS Case Map
Chile
These agreements, seen as crucial amid global challenges, aim to enhance EU-Chile cooperation in tackling supply chain issues, securing critical raw materials.
The Council adopted two decisions to sign the Advanced Framework Agreement and the interim Trade Agreement with Chile, which together constitute an updated version of the EU-Chile Association Agreement currently in place.
The following analysis outlines some of the main reasons why the signatory organisations reject both the modernisation of the EU-Chile agreement and the European Commission’s attempt to propose an interim agreement in order to accelerate the conclusion of this FTA.
It is absurd to consider Chile equal to the European Union in terms of industrialization, education, or access to economic and social rights, as the treaty does.
We call upon political representatives to send a strong signal AGAINST the free trade (and investment) agreements between the EU, Mexico, Chile and the Mercosur and prepare the soil for a new era of just and sustainable cooperation between the two regions.
Civil society organisations, indigenous and social movements across Latin America are already mobilising to raise their voices during the summit against these harmful trade deals.
The modernised EU-Chile trade agreement, like its sister EU-Mexico trade deal, contains a new chapter on energy and raw materials, which opens the door for deeper cooperation in those areas.
South Korea has officially acceded to the Digital Economy Partnership Agreement, becoming the first member country outside of its founding partners, Seoul’s Trade Ministry said.
The negotiations will cover all areas of the two nations’ FTA, including goods, cooperation, trade facilitation, intellectual property rights, gender equality, labor, and the environment.
Germany wants to help countries that are rich in critical minerals such as Chile, Indonesia and Namibia to build their own processing infrastructure to cut dependency on China.
