TLC: NEGOTIATIONS HAD NOT FINISHED
In early December, Alejandro Toledo accompanied CONFIEP leaders and the Minister Alfredo Ferrero, the country announced it had completed the negotiation of "free trade" with United States. The demand for the Peruvian public, how could it be otherwise, was to give to know what had been agreed. If they had completed negotiations and reached an agreement, was the first thing to do.
Then the problems started. The 4-week period was announced for publication of the text of the Treaty was completed and nothing happened. Several weeks later texts were published "preliminary" and incomplete, lacking the agricultural chapter, the most sensitive negotiations. The past weeks have followed, and nothing. After you have been calling and calling, from all sectors of public opinion and through legal action, to be published the text of the agreement, we have learned the basic problem: the negotiation was not over.
Government says they are missing details. But that is precisely what is supposed to have been trading for twenty months and thirteen rounds, at a cost of millions of dollars: the details. A Free Trade Agreement should precisely specify many issues with detail because as the saying goes, "the devil is in the details."
But the truth is they are not insignificant issues. Today we learned that Peru has agreed to plant our authority, which must act to ensure that pests do not spread harmful to agriculture or products that can damage the health of people, it will not be able to act against imports of States together. U.S. Products will not be sold to Peru subject to supervision by national plant, as it does every other country will (do the Americans have a crown?) and as required the U.S. government for Peruvian products. Nor had finished negotiating the possibilities of Peruvian sugar exports to the United States, nor had set the pace at which we dismantle our tariffs against imports of subsidized products from the United States. It is not, then, of minor issues, we can truly call "details." These are important issues for the country, against whom, as to honor its history, the government has lied to the country without any shame.
is not the first lie of the government in the FTA. They said they had preserved our genetic diversity and traditional knowledge, which is totally false: the multinationals may patenting of plants and take advantage of our resources and leave nothing to the country. Said there would be compensation for the public health by the rise of medicines, and so far there is nothing in the budget or any legal measures in this regard.
This government wants to hastily approve a treaty that is not closed and whose content is not yet known. They want the FTA is approved by this Congress of Peru Posible whom neither presidential candidate wants. Surely, many of them might even approve the text of a treaty known. But there is little doubt that would be very bad for our country.
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