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Greenpeace calls on Italy to reconsider position on EU-Canada trade deal
13-Jun-2016 Greenpeace
Bypassing of national parliaments would be anti-democratic
Cracks emerging in plurilateral talks for TiSA
13-Jun-2016 SUNS
Cracks are finally emerging in the grossly imbalanced, plurilateral talks on a Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) being pursued by 23 countries.
US supports TPP bid
13-Jun-2016 Khmer Times
The United States threw its support behind Cambodia becoming a member of the US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership
Un traité transpacifique au seul profit des multinationales américaines
13-Jun-2016 La Tribune
Le traité transpacifique (TPP), entre les États-Unis et l’Asie, ne contribuerait en rien au développement du commerce. Il renforcerait simplement des droits de propriété intellectuelle, au profit des grandes entreprises américaines.
Civil society letter to countries negotiating Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)
13-Jun-2016 TWN
We call on countries negotiating the RCEP agreement and to protect the flexibilities available under the WTO TRIPS agreement for Least Developed Countries (LDCs).
Social impacts should derail trade talks: experts
13-Jun-2016 Pacific Islands News Association
Pacific island governments should retain their legal right to regulate to protect their national development interests, which include the ownership and control of land, natural resources and environment, as well as the social and economic rights of their people ahead of the empty development promises from Australia and New Zealand and walk away from the regional trade talks known as PACER-Plus, a new report released today recommends.
Brussels to end preferential trade access for uncooperative African countries
10-Jun-2016 EurActiv
The EU plans to raise the pressure on six African countries to implement controversial free trade agreements by putting an end to their preferential access to the EU market.
EU Member States to intervene against Western Sahara in EU Court
10-Jun-2016 WSRW
A handful of EU Member States will intervene in the European Court proceedings in favour of Morocco, asking the Court to reverse its decision to cancel the EU-Morocco trade deal in occupied Western Sahara.
China-U.S. dialogue makes progress in BIT talks, overcapacity, RMB trading
10-Jun-2016 Xinhua
China and the United States have made incremental progress in accelerating bilateral investment treaty talks
A NAFTA-like deal for Israel and Ukraine?
10-Jun-2016 Ukraine Today
Free-trade agreement is a key part of NAFTA, and Tel-Aviv and Kyiv are well on their way towards the implementation of a similar deal.
TPP study gives one side of story
10-Jun-2016 The Farmer’s Exchange
"These so-called studies are really more about trying to influence political votes for the commodity groups’ members than contributing to farmer and rancher welfare or congressional understanding"
The West Africa-EU Economic Partnership Agreement is absurd
10-Jun-2016 SOL
This is a way of thinking as absurd as that consisting for a poultry producer to open the henhouse gate to allow the fox to test the poultry resistance capacity.
The EPA would liberalize the majority of EU agricultural exports to West Africa
10-Jun-2016 SOL
This document is limited to assessing the importance of the liberalization of agricultural imports in the EU-West Africa (WA) Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) given the crucial nature of these products for WA.
Perpetuating the interim EPAs of Ivory Coast and Ghana would be meaningless
10-Jun-2016 SOL
There is a rumour that, if Nigeria’s stance not to sign the regional EPA is definitive so that the EPA would be buried, DG trade is contemplating to perpetuate the interim EPAs of Ivory Coast and Ghana provided they would formally sign them.
Americanization of the BIT universe
9-Jun-2016 SSRN
Friendship, Commerce and Navigation (FCN) treaties are more than a historical precursor to international investment agreements (IIA) and continue to influence and inspire modern investment treaty design.
Big transatlantic market: yield and bow down
9-Jun-2016 MEDEL
MEDEL’s opinion on the construction of a international investment court for TTIP – proposal of the European Commission.
Dutch target June summit for talks on EU-Ukraine deal
9-Jun-2016 EU Observer
The Dutch government wants to discuss its voters’ rejection of the EU-Ukraine association agreement at an EU summit in Brussels.
AngloGold suit against gov’t unnecessary - Ayikoi Otoo
9-Jun-2016 Ghana Web
AngloGold Ashanti’s decision to sue government at the ICSID over security concerns at its Obuasi concession has been described as “surprising” by private legal practitioner and former Attorney General, Ayikoi Otoo.
In Greece, standing against free trade agreements is standing for the planet
9-Jun-2016 TTIP Free Zones Europe
Aristoteli joined a growing movement of local authorities opposed to CETA and TTIP to deny the building of a polluter’s paradise
Over 40 pct of local cow farms closed since KORUS FTA: report
8-Jun-2016 Yonhap
More than four out of 10 South Korean cow farms have shut down in the last four years since the implementation of the free trade deal between Seoul and Washington.