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Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (EU-US FTA), sometimes also called Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA)

EU tables official TTIP investment text, with changes on parallel claims
25-Nov-2015 World Trade Online
The new European Union proposal for an investment chapter in the TTIP is mostly identical to the draft chapter Brussels released but makes what could be significant changes to how parallel claims are handled and tightens rules on arbitrator conduct.
Does the EU’s “Investment Court System” put an end to ISDS?
24-Nov-2015 TNI
Professor Gus Van Harten, Osgoode Hall Law School, and Rupert Schlegelmilch, European Commission, Directorate General for Trade discuss the European Commission’s proposed “Investment Court System”.
A transatlantic agreement but at what cost to SMEs?
24-Nov-2015 Veblen Institute
The potential effects of the United States / Europe trade agreement (TTIP) on local economies and SMEs.
Europe’s leaders must devise a global trading system that puts the poor first
21-Nov-2015 The Guardian
The EU’s professed commitment to sustainable development is not reflected in its proposed text for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
Small businesses start to campaign against TTIP
19-Nov-2015 Three World
Many small businesses are not convinced by the benefits of TTIP. Some of them have started to campaign, which for time-pressed small businesses, is quite a big thing.
EU Trade Insight: Schulz and Lange push for inclusion of ICS in CETA – in brief
18-Nov-2015 Vieuws
European Parliament President, Martin Schulz and Chair of the EP’s International Trade Committee, Bernd Lange said they wanted the Investment Court System (ICS) to be also part of the EU free trade agreement with Canada, known as CETA.
The TPP SPS chapter: not a “model for the rest of the world”
16-Nov-2015 IATP
SPS provisions in TPP will further weaken and possibly conflict with global standards setting bodies on food and plant safety.
US State legislators ‘shocked’ by EU trade deal implications
13-Nov-2015 TTIP2015.eu
Rules envisioned under TTIP could give EU officials power to interfere in US State affairs
The great ISDS & TTIP quiz
12-Nov-2015 TNI
SOMO and TNI launch a new a quiz on ISDS & TTIP. The quiz is intended to increase everyone’s critical knowledge of ISDS and TTIP.
EU-US FTA (TTIP) - draft investment chapter (EU proposal, Nov 2015)
12-Nov-2015 European Commission
As published by the European Commission
TTIP offers would eliminate 87.5 percent of tariffs on entry into force
7-Nov-2015 World Trade Online
The tariff offers tabled by the United States and European Union during the 11th Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) round both eliminate duties on 87.5 percent of tariff lines immediately upon entry into force of the agreement
The gathering financial storm is just one effect of corporate power unbound
5-Nov-2015 The Guardian
What have governments learned from the financial crisis? I could write a column spelling it out. Or I could do the same job with one word: nothing.
U.S. wary of EU proposal for investment court in trade pact
30-Oct-2015 Reuters
The United States is wary of a European Union proposal for a new court system to settle investment disputes as part of the world’s biggest free-trade agreement
U.S. trade czar says Britain would lose on trade outside the EU
29-Oct-2015 Reuters
The United States is not keen on pursuing a separate free trade deal with Britain if it leaves the European Union
The TTIP of the spear
29-Oct-2015 The Economist
Selling Europe’s trade agreement with America as “strategic” has problems
Is investor-state dispute settlement legal? A plea for EU judges to check
28-Oct-2015 Client Earth
We have severe doubts that ISDS is compatible with EU law, as we show in our new study.
Trade deals boosting climate change: the food factor
26-Oct-2015 GRAIN
New trade deals like CETA, TPP and TTIP will likely increase the production, trade and consumption of industrial food, with important implications in terms of climate change.
A European (Fairy) Tale?
26-Oct-2015 Tele Sur
With the signing of the secret TAFTA agreements, the EU might very well be embarking on a cruise that would seal the fate of Europe as we know it.
In brief – TTIP: where we stand
26-Oct-2015 Bordelex
TTIP negotiation round 11 was held in Miami, Florida: short overview of where we stand in the negotiations, issue area by issue area.
Lawyer claims part of new trade deal ‘creates an alternative court system’
26-Oct-2015 East Anglia Daily Times
Parts of a controversial new trade deal being negotiated between the European Union and the United States are illegal, it has been claimed.