Reply #1: Only Peru has responded for the demand for labor rights and fair trade laws - but I wasn't [View All]

[papau]

aware that the AFL/CIO considered it an adequate response. Indeed, I am not aware the government has admitted death squadding labor leaders, or promised to stop doing so in the future. So called problems were listed a year ago as:

* Intellectual property
o Patent protection
o Recognition of autochthonous and traditional knowledge
* Government spending
o No discrimination against foreign investors
* Agriculture
o Elimination of export subsidies
o Schedule for tariff reduction
o Application of farming safeguard measures
o Technical cooperation and assistance programs
* Environment
o Effective enforcement of environmental legislation
o Sovereignty to adopt and modify environmental legislation
o Mechanisms for environmental cooperation
* Labor
o Rigorous enforcement of national legislation
o Fundamental International Labor Organization treaties
o Sovereignty to modify legislation
o Mechanisms for cooperation
* Animals
o Habitat Loss Due to Expansion of Mining Development
o Increased U.S. pork and poultry exports funding factory farming
o Legislation to protect animals could be seen as trade barrier