Talk:United States-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is a controversial topic that may be under dispute. Please read this page and discuss substantial changes here before making them. Make sure to supply full citations when adding information and consider tagging or removing uncited/unciteable information.

	Peru Portal This article is supported by the Peru WikiProject. This project provides a central approach to Peru-related subjects on Wikipedia. Please participate by editing the article, and help us assess and improve articles to good and 1.0 standards, or visit the wikiproject page for more details.
NB: Assessment ratings and other indicators given below are used by the Project in prioritizing and managing its workload.
Start	This article has been rated as start-Class on the Project's quality scale.
Mid	This article has been rated as mid-importance on the importance scale.
	This article has been rated but has no comments. If appropriate, please review the article and leave comments here to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article and what work it will need.
WikiProject Peru To-do: edit  Assess and prioritise articles (log) Check for copyvios at Special:Contributions/Priscilla D, tag as {{Db-copyvio}} where appropriate Create: Wildife of Peru, Fauna of Peru, Jorge Eduardo Eielson, Alberto Flores Galindo, Morococha Expand: new articles; top importance articles FAC / FLC: Mario Vargas Llosa GAC: Merge requests: Amazonas before the Inca Empire, Chachapoyas culture Review: Shining Path, Universitario de Deportes Translate Work on Lima, the current article improvement drive Wikify: articles needing attention

This sentence can't really be what's meant (in addition to being uncited):

Critics of the Peru TPA say the pact will ... expose the country's subsistence farmers to disruptive competition with subsidized U.S. crops.

A subsistence farmer by definition grows food for their own consumption, not for sale on the market, and so is not really affected by competition or lack thereof. Presumably something else is meant, such as, "expose the country's small-scale farmers to disruptive competition", but in any case we should find a citation and just quote what the opponent(s) who've made this criticism actually do say. --Delirium (talk) 06:29, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

you're right, but the criticism against the TPA didn't include the word "subsistence", they meant the other farmers who provide Lima with native food (except potatoes), although I cannot find a source for this.--Andersmusician VOTE 01:25, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] When is this agreement signed?

This article says it was signed on April 12, 2006. But today, December 14, 2007, CNN is saying that Bush is signing it now. Who signed it in 2006 then? tess (talk) 19:15, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Do you have a link? I guess that today he signed the implementation of the agreement; the actual terms of the agreement were signed in 2006. --Gabbec (talk) 19:27, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Today's news refers to the promulgation of the treaty by President Bush. --Victor12 (talk) 19:32, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I'm wondering how one would update this article with this info in terms of explaining the difference between the signing and the promulgation. I'm not qualified for this kind of topic. tess (talk) 20:41, 14 December 2007 (UTC)