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Food exporters may have to rebadge food labels as a result of free trade deals

6-Aug-2015 ABC Rural

Food exporters are being warned they could face the costly process of rebadging food labels as a result of free trade deals

Canadian corporations abuse investment treaties, bully governments into environmental backtrack: study

6-Aug-2015 CCPA

Canadian investors have exploited a controversial mechanism in international investment treaties to challenge public interest regulations in 24 different countries

Forum Economique Arabo-Hongrois : l’Algérie sera au rendez-vous

6-Aug-2015 El Moudjahid

Le forum économique arabo-hongrois examinera les moyens de dynamiser les échanges dans plusieurs segments d’activités et d’élever le niveau des flux commerciaux

Renzi hopes to push through EU-Japan trade deal this year

6-Aug-2015 Euractiv

The Italian prime minister believes the EU and Japan could finalise a free trade deal by the end of the year

India defers FTA talks with EU over ban of 700 drugs

6-Aug-2015 The Indian Express

Objecting to the ban of around 700 pharma products by the European Union, India said that it has called off a scheduled meeting of chief negotiators of the two sides on the proposed free trade agreement

Austria hit with first ICSID claim

6-Aug-2015 Global Arbitration Review

The owner of a Vienna bank targeted by multiple fraud investigations has lodged what is thought to be the first-ever investment treaty claim against Austria

RCEP - draft chapter on trade in services (Aug 2015)

5-Aug-2015 RCEP Legal

As leaked on RCEP Legal

A losing proposition

5-Aug-2015 CCPA

The failure of Canadian ISDS policy at home and abroad.

Law professor wants refusal to release TPP documents overturned

5-Aug-2015 Stuff

An application for an urgent review of a refusal to release documents relating to the Trans-Pacific partnership trade deal has been filed in the High Court in Wellington by law professor Jane Kelsey

US excludes Canada, Mexico from TPP auto negotiations

5-Aug-2015 The Globe and Mail

Canada and Mexico are joining forces to try and break a major logjam over Japanese autos at the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks while the United States had already cut a deal with Japan

Sri Lanka could join TPP, think of trade and investment as one: Razeen Sally

5-Aug-2015 Economy Next

Sri Lanka could apply to be part of an evolving Trans-Pacific Partnership while pursuing a free trade agreement with the US

TTIP, CETA, TISA and public services

5-Aug-2015 War on Want

What is the threat from free trade agreements to public services?

Poland risks Bilateral Investment Treaty claims in adopting new law

5-Aug-2015 Lexology

The Polish Parliament has just passed a new law restricting investment in certain strategic Polish companies, which raises the risk of potential Bilateral Investment Treaty claims

L’Afrique du Sud souhaite renforcer son commerce avec le Vietnam

5-Aug-2015 Le Courrier du Vietnam

Durant son séjour en Afrique du Sud, le vice-Premier ministre vietnamien Hoàng Trung Haile et le vice-président sud-africain Cyril Ramaphosa ont discuté du renforcement de leur coopération dans l’économie, le commerce et l’investissement

TPP - draft IP chapter (May 2015)

5-Aug-2015 KEI

As leaked by KEI on 4 August 2015

Knowledge Ecology International leaks TPP text on intellectual property

4-Aug-2015 Knowledge Ecology International

Knowledge Ecology International released text from three sections of the 95-page secret negotiating text on the Intellectual Property Chapter being used in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement trade negotiations

TransCanada may recoup costs from US if Obama rejects Keystone

4-Aug-2015 Bloomberg

A provision in the North American Free Trade Agreement would let the Canadian company TransCanada Corp. recoup some of the $2.4 billion spent on its Keystone XL project

RCEP - draft IP text from ASEAN (Oct 2014)

4-Aug-2015 KEI

As published by KEI

RCEP - draft IP text from India (Oct 2014)

4-Aug-2015 KEI

As published by KEI