Center for International Environmental Law, Defenders of Wildlife, Earthjustice, Friends of the Earth, and Sierra Club
Letter to Congress
The following is excerpted from a March 10, 2006, letter to the U.S. Congress signed by the presidents of the five environmental groups. Trade agreements should serve as an important tool topromote sustainable economic growth in the United States and abroad, but thePeru FTA fails to meet this test. Unfortunately, the U.S.-Peru FTA — to whichthe [Bush] Administration is expected to add Colombiaand Ecuador— follows the same flawed model that the recent Central America Free TradeAgreement represented. The tropical Andesis the richest and most diverse region on Earth. Many of the tens of thousandsof plant and animal species in…
