ISDS Case Map
Mercosur
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said that he expects talks between South America's Mercosur bloc and Japan on a trade deal to begin in the second half of the year.
A possible economic partnership agreement between Japan and Mercosur has been called the "last mega-FTA" free trade agreement. The Japanese and South American business communities have lobbied heavily to make it a reality.
Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal proposed that India and the Mercosur trade bloc, comprising Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay, explore the possibility of signing bilateral free-trade agreements (FTAs) due to stalled efforts in expanding their existing Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA).
The Parliament of Catalonia says “NO” to Mercosur, clashing with President Illa’s Catalan government
The Parliament of Catalonia has endorsed an Esquerra Republicana draft rejecting the free trade agreement between the European Union and Mercosur.
Canada hopes to advance several trade agreements with Brazil under the framework of the Mercosur-Canada Free Trade Agreement in the short term.
Romania opposes the free trade agreement with the countries of the Mercosur bloc, considering that it will bring significant harm to the agri-food sector and Romanian farmers, said agriculture minister.
Czech farmers took to the streets across the country, with hundreds of tractors to protest against food imports from non-EU countries.
The EU-Mercosur Agreement continues with the narrative that it ensures environmental clauses and climate commitments, in practice it implements measures that could divert means and resources that could otherwise be used for a genuine, just, ecological and inclusive transition.
Farmers should not be “an adjustment tool for purchasing power … nor an adjustment tool for trade agreements,” French president says.
Women continue to march, denouncing violence and environmental crimes, fighting against the plundering of common goods, and against the signing and ratification of agreements that continue to fill the galleys of the Global North with our wealth at the expense of the massacre of peoples.
