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Divided EU lawmakers postpone vote on US trade deal
10-Jun-2015 Reuters
The European Parliament failed on Tuesday to agree a unified stance on a proposed trade deal with the United States, postponing a vote that was meant to cement its support for the biggest accord of its kind.
Canada’s new trade deals good for Canadian corporations, bad for African democracy
9-Jun-2015 rabble.ca
What do we call it when Ottawa signs a deal with an unelected regime that would prevent any future elected government in a small African nation from changing its laws regulating Canadian-owned mines for almost two decades?
How developing countries like India are petrified of being dragged into international arbitration
9-Jun-2015 Economic Times
India is caught in a pincer at this moment in time as it is faced with the twin need of FDIs to propel and sustain growth and also the need to fi rewall its sovereign rights to formulate policies without extraneous pressures from its trade partners and the corporate world.
Lying to get ISDS through the European Parliament
9-Jun-2015 EurActiv
BusinessEurope, and especially its Director General, should be factual and truthful when lobbying the European Parliament on ISDS and TTIP, argue Bart Staes and Molly Scott Cato.
Plan mitigates FTA fallout
9-Jun-2015
The government has decided to earmark 1.7 trillion won ($1.53 billion) over the next 10 years to mitigate damage to local industries from free-trade agreements with China, Vietnam and New Zealand expected to take effect this year.
FTA completion depends on unification of origin rules, customs: Abdel Nour
9-Jun-2015
The completion of the Free Trade Area (FTA) procedures among the three African blocs, SADC, COMESA and the East African Community (EAC), depends on the unification of the rules of origin and tariff, according to Egypt’s Minister of Industry and Trade Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour.
MEPs threaten to block trade deal over rights to regulate carbon emissions
9-Jun-2015 The Guardian
European parliament will ‘never consent’ to a Trade in Services Agreement that could bypass emissions limits for airlines and ships, senior figures warn
African officials say trade deal ready for signing
8-Jun-2015 AFP
The Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) spanning 26 countries is to be launched at a summit of heads of state and government on Wednesday in the Red Sea resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh.
2 million sign European Citizens’ Initiative against EU-US trade deal
8-Jun-2015 Stop TTIP
The European Citizens’ Initiative “Stop TTIP” has reached a new record number of signatures a few days ahead of a critical vote on TTIP in the European Parliament.
Korea, Pakistan likely to start FTA negotiations
8-Jun-2015 Pakistan Today
South Korea and Pakistan are likely to announce negotiations to clinch a free trade agreement (FTA) soon, according to a source familiar with the issue, The Korea Times reported on Sunday.
The trouble with TTIP
7-Jun-2015 Vimeo
A documentary about the dangers of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership trade talks being held between the European Union and the United States of America.
Days of mobilisation: Reclaiming peoples sovereignty against the corporate-led trade and investment architecture on the occasion of the EU-CELAC Summit
5-Jun-2015 Stop Corporate Impunity
In Brussels, 8-10 June 2015
Alternative summit offers ideas for trade agreements, G7, amid 40,000 protesters
5-Jun-2015 IP Watch
Just days before leaders of the Group of 7 (G7) industrialised countries gather in the well-guarded Bavarian Castle Elmau, a broad coalition of organisations invited free trade critics to an International Summit for Alternatives in Munich.
Indonesia not renewing 2005 bilateral agreement
5-Jun-2015 Today
Indonesia has informed Singapore that it does not want to continue with a bilateral agreement signed in 2005 by both countries to promote greater investment flows, and this is an issue that must be addressed for both nations to boost economic ties, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
American and German unions reject ISDS
5-Jun-2015 EurActiv
Union leaders on both sides of the Atlantic have called for TTIP negotiators to drop extra-legal arbitration systems from any future trade deal. They believe existing judicial systems offer adequate protection to investors. EurActiv France reports.
US-Peru free trade deal failed to enforce environmental norms
5-Jun-2015 TeleSUR
An Environmental Investigation Agency report undermines the Obama administration’s argument that free trade helps protect the environment.
Meet RCEP, a trade agreement in Asia that’s even worse than TPP or ACTA
5-Jun-2015 Electronic Frontier Foundation
It’s been a big few weeks for leaked trade agreements. Just when we thought we had seen all the leaked text of the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA), Wikileaks went ahead and published some more yesterday. And on the same day, a leaked draft of the intellectual property chapter of yet another trade agreement, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) was leaked by Knowledge Ecology International (KEI).
TPP stakes are high, so harden up
5-Jun-2015
There has never been any doubt that the United States, and especially the US Congress, wields ultimate power over the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Gov’t submits bills on ratification of new FTAs with China, Vietnam, New Zealand
5-Jun-2015
The South Korean government said Friday that it has asked the parliament to ratify the country’s bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) with China that was signed earlier in the week, apparently demonstrating its firm resolution to quickly implement what it has called one of the most significant trade deals it has ever signed.
‘Negotiators working overtime to seal India-Australia FTA’
4-Jun-2015
Indian and Australian negotiators were working overtime for the proposed free trade agreement, Australian High Commissioner to India Patrick Michael Suckling said here on Thursday.