The US-Peruvian Free Trade Agreement was ratified by Peru's Congress on June 28th. It may come before the US Congress in July. Read our collection of resources relating to the Peru FTA.

General

US-Peru FTA: Analysis by Quest for Peace
This analysis from Quest's Tom Loudon details the US-Peru FTA's damaging consequences for the people of Peru.

US-Peru Free Trade Deal a Step Back for Development
This article from Oxfam includes criticism of many different parts of the US-Peru agreement, including intellectual property rights, transparency, farm subsidies, and weakened government enforcement ability.

Labor

Fair Trade or Free Trade?  Understanding the AFTA
This article from WOLA addresses concerns with the U.S.-Peru FTA's labor standards.  The agreement does not comply with the ILO, does not prevent Peru from rolling back labor laws, and other violations of labor standards.

Bush Administration Continues Trend of Poor Trade Agreements
In this article, Jim Hoffa and the Teamsters Union strongly criticize the U.S.-Peru FTA.  With this agreement, they say, the Bush administration has continued to ignore problems with labor standards that first failed in the NAFTA and CAFTA models.

Agricultura:  Observaciones a Afirmaciones de MINCETUR Sobre el TLC Andino
This document refutes assertions that the MINCETUR has made about the trade agreement with Peru.  It includes statistics and arguments in answer to false assertions that have been made about the agreement.

TLC...Pero Con Responsabilidad
This document from CONVEAGRO points out many problems with the FTA and states what an agreement must and must not include to be acceptable.

AFTA and Labor Rights
This article from Public Citizen highlights concerns about labor that Peru brought to the negotiations, and criticizes the United States for ignoring those concerns.  It also contains many links to other sites related to the U.S.-Peru agreement.

 Environment

Responsible Trade:  Peru-U.S. Free Trade Agreement
This article from the Sierra Club raises some environmental concerns with the Peru agreement, and contains links to other articles with more in-depth analysis of specific threats.

Oppose the United States - Peru Free Trade Agreement
This is an open letter from Public Citizen to members of Congress opposing the agreement over many environmental concerns, including inadequate safeguards, vulnerability to anti-environmental lawsuits, and no protection for biodiversity. 

Agriculture, intra-regional trade

Observations on the Peru-U.S. Free Trade Agreement
This article from the Quest for Peace details the impact of this agreement on labor and intellectual property rights, especially as they relate to medicine and agriculture.  This study by CONVEAGRO - La Agricultura Peruana Frente Al TLC Perú-EE.UU. - provides the statistics used in the above article.

El arroz se quemó en el DR-CAFTA
This article from Oxfam and Comercio Con Justiciapeaks about the affects of opening smaller national markets to an influx of subsidized products from the US.  It also analyses the affects of the agreement on intra-regional trade.

Investment

U.S.-Peru FTA's Investor-State System Expands on CAFTA's Definition of Government Activities Subject to "Regulatory Takings" Claims
This article from Public Citizen states that the Peru agreement has been changed only slightly from CAFTA's model, mainly by extending the definition of investment subject to investor-state enforcement, expanding foreign investors rights to control sensitive infrastructure, giving foreign investors greater rights in violation of Congress' demands, and further extends the definitions of investment and expropriation.  It also violates Congress' demands for greater transparency.

What You Should Know About the US-Peru Free Trade Agreement
This bulletin is from Oxfam.  The short paragraph under "Weakens Sustainable Development Efforts" states that the agreement weakens the government's ability to regulate the influx of foreign investors.