15-Apr-2015
South China Morning Post
In terms of international transactions, FDI is more important than trade but it is subject to global policy disarray.
24-Nov-2014
Economic Times
India will seek the United States’ support for an international treaty to protect its traditional knowledge of medicinal plants and herbs from being patented by other nations at a bilateral trade meeting this week.
21-Oct-2014
Global Rail News
The European Union has agreed to omit three of Japan’s biggest rail companies from a trade agreement at the WTO in the hope that it will open up the Japanese market to European suppliers under a possible bilateral FTA.
16-Oct-2014
Wall Street Journal
Tobacco producers Indonesia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Honduras and Ukraine are challenging Australia’s plain-packaging laws at the World Trade Organization, bolstering support for Philip Morris’ private dispute against Canberra.
20-Aug-2014
Business World
As an exhausted World Trade Organisation struggles, expect a war of FTAs as rich countries hit back with new trade regimes under TPP and TTIP while emerging markets build the RCEP
25-Jun-2014
Brot für die Welt
This short publication highlights some of the potential risks that the EU-US free trade agreement represents to the developing and emerging countries.
23-Apr-2014
In defence of marxism
Far from being a means to open up the world to a further intensification of trade, TPP and TTIP will carve up the world into two or more power blocs waging economic war with one another.
2-Oct-2013
Dissent Magazine
The struggle for access to medicine presents a legal and ethical minefield for rich and poor countries alike—one that is being fought out as humanitarians challenge corporations over intellectual property rights.