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Rising demands for data localization a response to weak data protection mechanisms
15-Aug-2017 Electronic Frontier Foundation
Don’t trust data localization exceptions in trade agreements to guarantee protection of personal data.
NAFTA, Trump and the cloud: What the negotiations mean for your personal data
12-Aug-2017 Global News
Washington wants few restrictions on cross-border data transfers and has taken aim at rules in other countries that require certain digital information to be stored on computers located within their national borders.
US push for freer NAFTA e-commerce meets growing resistance
10-Aug-2017 Reuters
A US proposal for Mexico and Canada to vastly raise the value of online purchases that can be imported duty-free from stores like Amazon.com and eBay is emerging as a flashpoint in an upcoming renegotiation of the NAFTA trade deal.
E-commerce RCEP chapter: Have big tech’s demands fizzled?
4-Aug-2017 Electronic Frontier Foundation
The latest information is that the e-commerce chapter of RCEP will be far less ambitious, dealing mostly with familiar and uncontentious issues such as standards for electronic payments and signatures.
Trading away our digital rights
4-Aug-2017 The Hindu
India must first secure its digital sovereignty before it can begin global trade talks.
Canadians’ personal data on the table in NAFTA negotiations
3-Aug-2017 CKOM
The personal information of Canadians will be on the negotiating table when North American free trade talks.
RCEP IP chapter: A serious threat to access to knowledge/cultural goods?
28-Jul-2017 Live Law
RCEP stands to adversely affect nearly half of the world’s population on areas like access to knowledge and access to medicines. We would like to highlight five issues related to access to knowledge/cultural goods, based on the leaked IP chapter.
Indian e-commerce platforms could suffer RCEP jolt
26-Jul-2017 The Hindu
Control over data will yield tremendous influence and profit-making, experts say.
E-com: RCEP nations start detailed talks
20-Jul-2017 The Hindu
Source code disclosure ‘curb,’ a worry.
E-commerce, border technology top NAFTA wish list
19-Jun-2017 Fleet Owner
U.S. flooded wth comments ahead of renegotiation of trade deal.
EFF to USTR: IP doesn’t belong in NAFTA. For the rest, talk to us.
13-Jun-2017 Electronic Frontier Foundation
The United States Trade Representative has opened a window for the TPP’s proponents to try to use NAFTA to establish at least some of the dangerous TPP’s so-called intellectual property (IP) rules.
India not keen to put e-commerce under FTA with Russia-led group
29-May-2017 Live Mint
India has so far rejected bids to include market access negotiations on e-commerce at multilateral level.
RCEP’s digital trade negotiations remain shrouded in secrecy
17-May-2017 Electronic Frontier Foundation
There has also been no official release of the chapters and textual proposals related to rules that are being tabled.
Trump’s USTR nominee pledges tough enforcement of U.S. trade laws
15-Mar-2017 Reuters
Lighthizer pledged to fight for strong protections for intellectual property rights and for digital trade access.
Chemical industry outlines priorities for new NAFTA
1-Mar-2017 Politico
Any renegotiation of NAFTA should include streamlined customs procedures and greater regulatory cooperation among other priorities, say the leading chemical industry associations.
Leaked TISA safe harbor proposal: the right idea in the wrong place
2-Feb-2017 EFF
A new leak of the TiSA Electronic Commerce chapter has exposed a brand new U.S. government proposal on Internet intermediary safe harbors.
TiSA - small group non paper on ecommerce (Nov 2016)
29-Jan-2017
from November 2016 negotiating round
TiSA - draft annex on electronic commerce (Nov 2016)
29-Jan-2017
from November 2016 negotiating round
Data fight emerges as last big hurdle to EU-Japan trade deal
12-Dec-2016 Politico
A dispute over data has emerged as an unexpected obstacle to an EU-Japan free-trade deal only weeks before diplomats expected to seal a political agreement.
TiSA - draft annex on electronic commerce (September 2016)
28-Nov-2016 Greenpeace
As leaked by Greenpeace