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Tokyo urges Manila to accept Fukushima farm produce
16-Jul-2015 Manila Times
Tokyo is pressing Manila to relax its import restrictions on farm products from the Fukushima prefecture in exchange for more trade concessions under the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement, the Department of Agriculture revealed on Wednesday.
Renegotiation of PH-Japan economic deal sought
13-Jul-2015 Philippine Daily Inquirer
A group of banana exporters is calling for a renegotiation of the Philippines-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement, saying that shipments to Japan have been dwindling due to tariffs that make them uncompetitive.
US weighs completing Pacific Rim trade deal without Canada: sources
12-Jul-2015 Reuters
The United States, frustrated over the lack of progress with Canada over new rules for agriculture trade, is weighing "contingencies" that could include completing a Pacific Rim trade pact that excludes Canada, according to two sources familiar with the issue.
Japan mulling import quota for Aussie, US rice in TPP talks
10-Jul-2015 World Grain
Japan is considering establishing a rice import quota each for the United States and Australia instead of lowering tarriffs
Both sides of the Pacific - Via Campesina members oppose TPP
29-Jun-2015 La Via Campesina
On both sides of the Pacific, peasants, family farmers, and rural workers reject the extension of neoliberal policies
Congress hands Harper a political hornets’ nest with TPP
29-Jun-2015 iPolitics
Canadian dairy and poultry farm lobbies are fast mobilizing to oppose the deal (or at least extract vast amounts of compensation) and it has all the hallmarks of becoming a major election issue in rural Quebec and Ontario ridings.
Calls for reform in Thai-Aust trade pact
26-Jun-2015 AAP
Thailand faces pressure to open its highly protected dairy and beef markets to Australian exporters under the decades-old Thai-Australia free trade pact.
TPP dairy deal ’not at a level we would currently like’: Key
22-Jun-2015 Scoop
The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact does not yet include an acceptable deal on access for New Zealand’s most important exports, dairy products, with little more than a month to go before the controversial 12 nation trade deal could be concluded.
Morocco: EU Court to give verdict ’in few months’ on Sahrawi appeal against EU-Morocco agricultural agreement
19-Jun-2015 Sahara Press Service
The European Union Court examined Tuesday the appeal of the Polisario Front against the agricultural agreement concluded in 2000 between the European Union and Morocco, and the decision on this issue will be given in a few months
Plan to seek higher farm crops quota
18-Jun-2015
Thailand and Japan have agreed to talk further at an official level before formally revising the Japan-Thailand Economic Partnership Agreement on the 10th anniversary of the pact, which came into effect in November 2007.
European Court of Justice to assess EU-Morocco agri-deal
16-Jun-2015 Western Sahara Resource Watch
The European Court of Justice will assess the EU-Morocco agricultural agreement over Western Sahara on 16 June
Valle de San Quintín labourers: a reflection of shame and demands for justice
13-Jun-2015 Alai Net
San Quintín is a credible, contemporary sample of the different processes that make up the contemporary system of labour exploitation
Civil Society raises major concerns on India’s engagement with the massive RCEP trade deal
11-Jun-2015 Delhi Network of Positive People (DNP+)
As the eighth round of negotiations on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade agreement take place in Kyoto, Japan this week, farmer’s groups, trade unions, civil society and patient groups are urging the Indian Government to halt the negotiations, make the negotiating texts public and hold consultations with all the relevant stakeholders, in light of the potential negative impact this agreement could have on access to medicines, livelihood of farmers, quality public services and overall social and economic development of the country.
MEPs call for safeguard clause in TTIP to protect EU farmers
2-Jun-2015 Farmers Weekly
The EU should be able to close markets to specific US agricultural goods if an increase in imports threatened to cause serious harm to domestic food production, say MEPs.
Chinese dairy farmers upset with Australian free trade agreement
27-May-2015 ABC Rural
Chinese dairy farmers fear their government is sacrificing the local industry to promote trade with Australia.
Gov’t identifies damage to 9 farm goods from FTAs
22-May-2015
Producers of nine local farm goods have suffered damage from a rise in imports due to free trade agreements, becoming eligible for government support and compensation, the agriculture ministry said Tuesday.
Impacts of the US-Colombia FTA in the farm sector: The portraits
17-May-2015 La Silla Rural
A new book “puts faces” on the realities rural people are experiencing two years into the US-Colombia FTA.
Impacts of the US-Colombia FTA in the farm sector
17-May-2015 Biodiversidad en América Latina
This report looking at specific cases that reflect the farming reality of Colombia allows us to verify what happened with the promises around the US FTA and open a broad debate about it.
Amul raises alarm over dumping of dairy products through FTA
14-May-2015 Hindu Business Line
The Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation says that the EU, Australia and New Zealand are lobbying hard for access to India’s dairy market through bilateral Free Trade Agreements in order to dump their surplus stocks of dairy commodities.
Greece wants changes to EU-Canada trade deal to protect "feta" name
6-May-2015 Reuters
Athens will not back a multi-billion dollar trade pact between Canada and the European Union unless the deal is changed to specify that only Greece can use the term "feta" for its salty white cheese, according to a document seen by Reuters.