This is actually happening, and other companies are filing lawsuits in each others' countries against safety regulations, court verdicts and other expressions of domestic sovereignty.
Enough cases like this -- and a more dominant GATS will make sure there are many more - may eventually produce a backlash that will bring down the whole WTO-NAFTA edifice. But the damage inflicted in the meantime is too severe. Better instead to prevent new agreements that diminish our living standards and roll back existing ones.
Ralph Nader
For more information on how to stop the GATS, contact Global Trade Watch at http://www.tradewatch.org.
Published on Friday, September 20, 2002 by CommonDreams.org
http://www.commondreams.org
Reprinted with permission
Enough cases like this -- and a more dominant GATS will make sure there are many more - may eventually produce a backlash that will bring down the whole WTO-NAFTA edifice. But the damage inflicted in the meantime is too severe. Better instead to prevent new agreements that diminish our living standards and roll back existing ones.
Ralph Nader
For more information on how to stop the GATS, contact Global Trade Watch at http://www.tradewatch.org.
Published on Friday, September 20, 2002 by CommonDreams.org
http://www.commondreams.org
Reprinted with permission