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CETA: What’s In the Canada-EU free trade deal?
21-Oct-2013 Huffington Post
Reporters got access to some CETA documents on Friday, but they were vague and, in the words of the Globe and Mail’s Bill Curry, the documents “don’t list what Canada gave up.”
Who regulates best, the US or EU? #TTIP
21-Oct-2013 TUC
The US and European trade union movements don’t want to see any weakening of standards through TTIP. Froman and deGucht have said they don’t want that either, but successive trade deals have done precisely that.
FTA between India and EFTA by early next year: Linus Von Castelmur
18-Oct-2013 Livemint
Swiss envoy says both sides are trying to seal the deal before the general election in India next year
EU should allow easier entry for Indian professionals to support free trade pact: Icrier
18-Oct-2013 Economic Times
The European Union should allow easier entry and movement of Indian professionals in order to generate support for the free trade pact between the two that’s been under negotiation for the last six years, Indian think tank Icrier said in a study commissioned by the 27-country grouping.
FTA Watch condemns bid to amend Article 190
18-Oct-2013 The Nation
Thai advocacy group FTA Watch yesterday issued a statement condemning attempts to end legislative scrutiny of negotiations concerning international trade agreements.
EPA is no more
17-Oct-2013 PANG
In a surprise move this week, the European Union has moved to suspend negotiations for a new economic partnership agreement (EPA) with the islands of the Pacific, ISLANDS BUSINESS has been told.
EU reported to have called off Pacific negotiations on EPA
17-Oct-2013 Radio New Zealand International
The Solomon Islands government says the European Union has suspended negotiations on the Economic Partnership Agreement between 14 Pacific Island Countries and the EU - 9 years after its EPA was launched in September, 2004.
Panama, Colombia sign free trade agreement
17-Oct-2013 Lexology
Panama has signed a free trade agreement with Colombia, making a step forward to join the Pacific Alliance.
China worried about Ecuador move to end bilateral investment treaties
17-Oct-2013 Dow Jones Newswires
Ecuador’s decision to end bilateral investment treaties with all countries and take disputes to a new regional arbitration body has raised concerns among Chinese investors.
Canada-EU trade deal: Sell-out or celebration? Public needs a veto on massive corporate rights treaty
17-Oct-2013 rabble.ca
Responding to reports today that Canada and the European Union have concluded negotiations on a massive new corporate rights treaty called the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), the Council of Canadians is demanding that parliament and the public be given an opportunity to review and make changes to the deal, or even to reject it outright, before it can be signed.
Stephen Harper à Bruxelles pour conclure l’accord de libre-échange Canada-UE (officiel)
17-Oct-2013 Les Echos
Le Premier ministre canadien Stephen Harper se rendra à Bruxelles jeudi en vue de conclure l’accord de libre-échange que le Canada et l’Union européenne négocient depuis plus de quatre ans, a annoncé mercredi soir son porte-parole.
Conservatives open door to free trade with EU after reaching cheese import deal
16-Oct-2013 The National
Negotiators have agreed to double the amount of European cheese imported into Canada — to around 30,000 tonnes a year — in order to get the Europeans on board.
Lose the double standard around foreign investment in Canada
16-Oct-2013 Huffington Post
Should the "right" of a foreign corporation to make a profit trump governments’ attempts to create local jobs, improve environmental regulations or establish laws that raise royalty rates? Most Canadians would say no. But that’s what their government is pushing poor countries to accept if they want Canadian investment.
Japan politicians criticise Shinzo Abe’s trade pact push
16-Oct-2013 FT
“Why should Japan take its own underpants off?” a parliamentarian from rural Toyama prefecture told reporters last week, after a senior Japanese negotiator suggested that Tokyo may have to make concessions over a set of highly protected agricultural products.
Can $150 melons boost Japan’s post-TPP agriculture exports?
16-Oct-2013 The Diplomat
While Japanese farmers fret that the TPP will cut import tariffs and flood the domestic market with cheap foreign produce, Abe sees the potential for an increase in luxury food exports – specifically pertaining to Japan’s world-class fruit, rice and beef.
Anfaco insists on excluding Thai tuna from EU-Thailand FTA
16-Oct-2013 FIS
Spain’s National Association of Manufacturers of Canned Fish and Shellfish (Anfaco Cecopesca) is to once again ask the authorities of the European Union for the exclusion of Thai tuna from the free trade agreement that the European bloc is negotiating with Thailand.
Divisions grow in govt over farm buyouts
15-Oct-2013 Sky News
Divisions within the Australian government over foreign ownership of farmland appear to be deepening, with Labor accusing the coalition of speaking with two heads about Chinese investment.
Peru’s FTA with Thailand to increase exports of grapes and fish
15-Oct-2013 Andina
The recent free trade agreement with Thailand is expected to allow Peruvian producers to increase their exports of grapes, canned food, flour and fish, Peru’s Foreign Trade and Tourism Minister announced Monday.
Green and consumer groups voice fears over EU-US trade agreement
14-Oct-2013 FT
As negotiations get under way for an EU-US trade agreement, European environmental and consumer groups are mobilising to contest a pact they believe would lower standards for everything from apples to automobiles.
EU Parliament panel may raise FTA issue with Anand Sharma
14-Oct-2013 PTI
India-EU free trade agreement is expected to be a major issue that will come up in the meeting between a high-level delegation of European Parliament’s panel on international trade and Commerce Minister Anand Sharma.