FTA in Trash
I'm almost certain Smith and Ricardo would agree. that a free-trade agreement that includes a provision about dumping hazardous waste, is not a win-win situation.
At Thursday?s hearing, groups opposed to the treaty even managed to impress Ambassador to Japan Domingo Siazon.
Siazon commended Junk JPEPA lawyer Golda Benjamin for her ?excellent, thorough, articulate and well-researched? arguments that the treaty would promote the entry into the Philippines of toxic and other hazardous waste from Japan.
Under JPEPA, the tariff rates for hazardous waste would be reduced to zero.
Siazon, who flew back to Tokyo after the hearing, said the Philippines needed the support of a ?technologically advanced? country like Japan to deal with its own hazardous waste.
Health Undersecretary Alexander Padilla, meanwhile, stunned the senators when he disproved the Department of Environment and Natural Resources? claim that Japan would not export hazardous waste to the Philippines.
Padilla said the Department of Health had ?concerns? that the treaty would allow for reciprocity, meaning that both the Philippines and Japan could export hazardous waste to each other.
?While we agree with the noble objectives of the JPEPA, we feel we do live in an imperfect world,? he said.
That's an understatement, indeed!
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10 months and 6 days ago
thank you for the support.we will not give up in our fight.
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