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19-Feb-2019 Les Echos
Commerce transatlantique : la France veut jouer la fermeté
La France s’interroge sur l’opportunité politique d’ouvrir une négociation commerciale avec les Etats-Unis, fût-elle très restreinte, alors que la tentative d’accord global avec Washington (TTIP) avait déclenché les foudres d’une partie de l’opinion publique.
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18-Feb-2019 Friends of the Earth Europe
EU trade with Trump would undermine international climate commitments
Three years ago, widespread protests took place across Europe against a planned trade deal between the EU and the US. It was eventually halted. EU governments are now planning to agree terms to start negotiating a new transatlantic trade deal.
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12-Feb-2019 IGIHE
Les Américains exigent des indemnisations de 95 millions $ pour cessation forcée de leurs mines
Un groupe d’investisseurs américains prétend que le Rwanda a illégalement saisi leurs concessions et « nationalisé » leurs avoirs ainsi que leurs activités minières. Ils exigent une indemnisation 95 millions de dollars.
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11-Feb-2019 Huffington Post
Here’s what US lobbyists want Donald Trump to get from a post-Brexit trade deal
Big firms want Donald Trump to play hard ball over the NHS, food quality and consumer rights.
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11-Feb-2019 The East African
US investors demand $96m for loss of Rwanda contracts
A group of US investors have taken Rwanda to an international court, seeking compensation of $95 million after the government seized their mining concessions, effectively denying them operating licences.
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10-Feb-2019 GMA News Online
Talks are ongoing for possible PHL-US free trade pact —envoy
The US and Philippine forge can forge a free trade agreement (FTA) as both countries continue holding dialogues on strengthening bilateral trade relations.
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8-Feb-2019 Portafolio
Colombia: Sector lácteo está cada vez más vulnerable a los TLC
El sector lechero colombiano prevé un panorama poco alentador en los próximos años por cuenta de los Tratados de Libre Comercio que el Gobierno firmó con Estados Unidos y la Unión Europea.
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8-Feb-2019 RTS
Accord de libre-échange bientôt négocié entre la Suisse et les USA
Le chef du Département fédéral des affaires étrangères s’est dit convaincu qu’un accord de libre-échange entre la Suisse et les Etats-Unis pourra bientôt être négocié.
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7-Feb-2019 Politico
The great transatlantic trade charade
Talks between the US and EU don’t look like they can make progress. That was never the big idea.
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6-Feb-2019 M4
Organizaciones denuncian demanda de compañía minera estadounidense contra Guatemala y expresan su solidaridad con las comunidades que defienden la tierra y la vida en “La Puya”
Nos unimos en solidaridad con los residentes de San Pedro Ayampuc y San José del Golfo, quienes están profundamente preocupados por la grave amenaza que la mina representa para los suministros de agua, los ecosistemas y la calidad de vida en el área.
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5-Feb-2019 EU Observer
Trumped-up: EU-US trade deal spells climate disaster
The EU now imports 112 percent more US soy than a year ago, flooding the market to feed EU factory farms. Bad news for animal welfare, bad news for the environment.
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30-Jan-2019 Euractiv
US soy for producing biofuels, an ‘unsustainable’ giveaway to Trump
The European Commission is set to authorise imports of soybeans from the US to produce biofuels. Soy has a comparably bad environmental impact as palm oil, say experts.
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22-Jan-2019 Public Citizen
More than 70 US health, consumer and other groups demand elimination of NAFTA 2.0 terms that would lock in high US medicine prices
In a letter to Congress, the groups demand that the pact’s giveaways to Big Pharma that would keep medicines unaffordable be removed before the pact is sent to Congress.
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22-Jan-2019 Unearthed
US agribusiness lobby calls on Trump to target UK food and environment rules in Brexit trade deal
American negotiators urged to push the UK into scrapping regulations on pesticides, genetically-modified crops, and the production of chicken and meat products
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21-Jan-2019 L’Echo
L’Europe dévoile son plan pour négocier un "mini-TTIP"
La Commission a dévoilé ses plans pour négocier un accord de libre-échange avec les Etats-Unis visant à réduire les droits de douane sur les produits industriels, y compris les voitures.
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21-Jan-2019 France 24
EU sets out plans for ’limited’ US trade deal
Opposition by activists has already resurfaced with some warning that "there can be no trade-offs on food standards" in the deal.
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21-Jan-2019 European Commission
EU-US FTA: draft negotiating mandates (EU, Jan 2019)
As released by the European Commission
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17-Jan-2019 Australian Financial Review
Donald Trump reopens door to TPP participation, Asia reset
Donald Trump signed the so-called Asia Reassurance Initiative Act (ARIA) includes a call for the US to return to multilateral trade deals, countering the President’s own tendency to pursue agreements with individual countries such as Mexico, Canada and Japan.
