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Le 22 mars 2018. Bonjour, voici une information diffusée par Uni Global Union et l'OWINFS (Our world is not for sale), ONGs travaillant depuis plusieurs années sur l'accord de libre-échange TISA<br /> https://insidetrade.com/daily-news/lighthizer-work-new-trade-agreements-begin-next-week-tisa-decision-soon<br /> <br /> Inside U.S. Trade - Lighthizer: Work on new trade agreements to begin next week; TISA decision soon<br /> <br /> The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative will begin consulting with Congress and the administration on new free trade agreements next week and will soon begin to consider in earnest its stance on the dormant Trade in Services Agreement, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer told the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday.<br /> <br /> Lighthizer also reiterated that his team was “seriously” looking into a FTA with a country in Africa as well, adding that any new FTA would be negotiated quickly.<br /> <br /> His comments came during a hearing dominated by senators' concerns about the potential for retaliation in response to the Trump administration’s planned steel and aluminum tariffs as well as just-announced trade and investment restrictions on China.<br /> <br /> In response to Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS), who pressed him to open up new export markets for U.S. agriculture producers that are facing a depressed commodity market and retaliation from China, Lighthizer said “too often we think of agriculture on the defense.”<br /> <br /> “The fact is that every place where we have a market, and we have a lot of them, the market could be much bigger. And in most cases its protectionism where we’re going is holding us back. Even the places like Mexico, where as you say we sell $18 billion, China for sure, every one of these markets,” Lighthizer said.<br /> <br /> He added that “there are additional opportunities and they are in East Asia and other places.” On Wednesday, Lighthizer told the House Ways & Means Committee that the Philippines would be a “reasonable” initial target for a free trade agreement in the Asia-Pacific region and added that he would be tasking his deputy USTR for Asia, Jeffrey Gerrish, to study which other countries should be approached for a potential deal.<br /> <br /> President Trump has said he hopes to sign bilateral deals with countries in Southeast Asia and Africa after withdrawing the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership last year.<br /> <br /> “We are in a position where very soon – as I say, I mean like, next week – start the process of consulting, a deputy each doing one, consulting in the administration, consulting with the House, consulting with the Senate Finance Committee, picking this out, deciding what our objectives are and then going forward and deciding what the best way to get the FTA is,” Lighthizer told the Finance Committee.<br /> <br /> “And it’s not, if I have my way, it’s not going to be a five-year negotiation to do all this stuff. It’s going to be a focused negotiation where we get something very quickly for agriculture but also other parts of the U.S. economy and increase exports,” he continued.<br /> <br /> Lighthizer told the Ways & Means Committee that each country in the Southeast Asia would present its “own kind of complications,” noting that the Trump administration has told Japan it was interested in a free trade deal “at the appropriate time.” Japan, however, is preoccupied with getting the deal between the 11 remaining Trans-Pacific Partnership countries ratified and implemented, Lighthizer said.<br /> <br /> Lighthizer also said a FTA with a country from Africa could more seriously be considered now that his deputies are in place. “That’s something where I was literally just waiting for me to have these deputies because I just can’t do that and these other things,” he told the Senate Finance panel.<br /> <br /> “We ought to pick out the right country, we ought to have an FTA. It would be very good for them and potentially very good for us. So that’s something that we’re very serious about,” Lighthizer said.<br /> <br /> Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH), a former USTR, called an FTA with a country in Africa a “strategic opportunity,” noting that China’s trade with the continent has skyrocketed in the past decade while U.S. trade with Africa has not significantly increased.<br /> <br /> Pressed by Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) on the administration’s position on TISA, Lighthizer said the agreement was still being studied – with the core question being whether it offers the most expeditious path to getting a deal sealed on the issues central to the agreement.<br /> <br /> “The TISA agreement is something that we are studying,” Lighthizer said, adding that “the issue is whether you take all those items, and you’re more likely to make progress in a shorter period of time with TISA or you’re more likely to deal with them in specific groups of like-minded people who actually have the desire to move forward in that area and not take hostages in agriculture and all kinds of other stuff.”<br /> <br /> The TISA talks have been stalled since President Trump won the White House in 2016. Before that, TISA members had hoped to conclude the negotiations in December 2016.<br /> <br /> “It’s something that we’re still looking at. We now have our deputies on board as of this week, so we’re at kind of a crucial time and it probably makes sense for us to sit down and talk about it,” Lighthizer added. – Jack Caporal ( jcaporal@iwpnews.com)

Bonjour,<br /> <br /> Voici une nouvelle étude sur TISA, axée sur l'UE, qui a été commandée par la Chambre autrichienne du travail : "ASSESS-TiSA : Évaluation des avantages allégués de l'accord sur le commerce des services". Les auteurs sont : Werner Raza, Bernhard Tröster et Rudi von Arnim. http://www.akeuropa.eu/en/publication-full.html?doc_id=492&vID=37<br /> <br /> Those who won’t have the time to read through it, may find the key results here:<br /> In German: http://www.akeuropa.eu/de/news-full.html?cmp_id=7&news_id=3457&vID=37<br /> And in English: http://www.akeuropa.eu/en/news-full.html?cmp_id=7&news_id=3457&vID=37

Février 2018. Parution d'un nouveau rapport sur TISA.<br /> "TiSA : Pas notre avenir ! Quand tout est un service, un accord sur le commerce des services affecte tout le monde" par le professeur Jane Kelsey de l'Université d'Auckland.<br /> <br /> Ce rapport dévoile la portée du coup de force des grandes entreprises en examinant de près l'impact potentiel de TISA sur les travailleurs de tous les secteurs de l'Union internationale des travailleurs de l’alimentation, de l’agriculture, de l’hôtellerie-restauration, du tabac et des branches connexes (IUF-UITA), ainsi que les conséquences plus larges de TISA sur le mouvement ouvrier, la société et la gouvernance démocratique. http://www.iuf.org/w/?q=node/6049<br /> <br /> Le soutien à ce rapport a été apporté par la Fondation Friedrich-Ebert (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung)

Bonjour,<br /> Nous vous tiendrons informés d'une éventuelle reprise des négociations de TISA.<br /> A noter aussi le danger d'une éventuelle compétence exclusive de l'UE (Mixité ou non-mixité de TISA ?). <br /> Voir à cet égard la position de Raoul Marc Jennar, expert des accords de libre-échange (commentaires 18 à 21) :<br /> http://www.jennar.fr/2017/05/09/les-appareils-politiques-doivent-se-soumettre-au-peuple/comment-page-1/#comment-288913 <br /> Bien cordialement, Isabelle Muller