Reports and Factsheets
 Doha Round and Developing Countries
Will the Doha deal do more harm than good? by Timothy A. Wise and Kevin P. Gallagher RIS Policy Brief No. 22, April 2006
Faces of Trade
Meet some of the people around the world impacted by our trade policies.
When Bad Things Happen to Good Laws
Learn how international trade policy impacts California's environmental laws.
How Global Trade Could Increase Sprawl (PDF)
Many common land use laws that protect us from sprawling developments are threatened by international trade policy.
NAFTA's corporate investor rights and their threat to the environment
Under NAFTA, corporations have the right to sue a government directly if they feel that their ability to profit has been undermined by for example an environmental law or regulation.
How NAFTA Expansion Would Undermine Environmental Protection, by Daniel Seligman (PDF)
Trade rules threaten the ability of state government to make laws protecting our health and the environment.
Pest Invaders: The Looming Menace
Free trade eliminates more than national and economic boundaries. It also breaks down physical barriers necessary to the diversity of life.
Asian Long-Horned Beetle: Fact Sheet
Rampant growth of global trade has increased the numbers of exotic pests that hitchhike into the country on imported goods, in ship ballast water, and in cargo holds. Exotics species that out-compete native species exact a growing cost on our health, our natural heritage, and even our homes. But new trade agreements prevent regulators from stopping these pests at our borders.
Poisoned Workers, Poisoned Fields
Ingracia and Jose Castillo and 1,000 of their co-workers were fired from their jobs picking grapes for Bluestone Farming Co. in California’s Coachella Valley just six days after the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect on January 1, 1994.
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