Foreign Trade / World Trade Organisation
A legal opinion commissioned by a coalition of NGOs strengthens the call for an inclusion of human rights issues in the free trade agreement between Switzerland and China currently being negotiated. The legal opinion voices the apprehension that a strict patent protection could affect the Chinese po...
From the beginning of 2011, Switzerland and China will be negotiating a free trade agreement. Alliance Sud, the Berne Declaration, the Society for Threatened Peoples and the Swiss-Tibetan Friendship Society have joined up in order to critically supervise the preparations and negotiations for the upc...
The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) agreement with Colombia will enter into force: on 24 September 2009, the Council of States accepted with 31 votes against 5 and 3 abstentions a simplification of the commercial exchanges between the two countries, despite the reserves in human rights and ...
In a posit from 2000 the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council asked the Federal Council to draw up an international Code to guarantee human rights standards in international trade. Such a code could be developed into a common and publicly recognised standard for states and busin...
