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EU-US FTA (TTIP) - draft investment chapter (EU proposal, Nov 2015)
12-Nov-2015 European Commission
As published by the European Commission
U.S. auto safeguard in TPP identical to KORUS, but different in practice
11-Nov-2015 World Trade Online
The special motor vehicle safeguard that the United States has secured in its bilateral auto deal with Japan under the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is identical to the one included in the U.S.-Korea free trade agreement, but will have a different lifespan
DTI consultations to help set EFTA deal agenda
11-Nov-2015 Business World Online
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is to meet members of business groups and nongovernment institutions to discuss the state of trade negotiations with the European Free Trade Association (EFTA).
TPP’s clauses that let Australia be sued are weapons of legal destruction, says lawyer
11-Nov-2015 The Guardian
Leading arbitration lawyer says there are critical loopholes in the Trans-Pacific Partnership’s investment chapter that leave Australia wide open
TPP set to worsen food insecurity in Mexico
10-Nov-2015 Tele Sur
The TPP’s free trade agenda, described by some as a NAFTA on steroids, would worsen economic, food security, and agricultural challenges in Mexico.
Obama punishes South Africa over chicken row
10-Nov-2015 Global Meat News
US president Barack Obama has suspended agricultural benefits to South Africa under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) after its repeated refusal to resume imports of US chicken.
TPP is about many things, but free trade? Not so much
10-Nov-2015 The Globe and Mail
Let’s be clear about the just-released, negotiated-in-secret Trans-Pacific Partnership deal: it is definitely not a “free-trade” agreement. It’s much more than that.
Trans-Pacific Partnership: read the side letters not just the headlines
9-Nov-2015 AFR
Australia has entered a wide range of bilateral agreements with countries around the Pacific in a web of special deals which underline the complexity of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
Japan, U.S. agree to protect alcoholic drinks linked to special areas by banning knock-offs
9-Nov-2015 The Asahi Shimbun
Japan and the United States have struck a deal to ban alcoholic beverages that are not produced in the geographical area included in its brand name under the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade pact.
How the Trans-Pacific Partnership will—and won’t—protect wildlife
9-Nov-2015 National Geographic
New 12-country trade deal has protections for wildlife built in, but it’s unclear if they’ll be enforced.
The highlights of the Trans-Pacific Partnership e-commerce chapter
9-Nov-2015 Public Citizen
The E-commerce chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) sets rules that, if ratified, will shape the development of the digital economy for years to come.
Critic: TPP deal has ‘exclusions up the wazoo’
9-Nov-2015 Politico
The exceptions, laid out in multiple annexes and embedded in various chapters of the 1,000-page-plus Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, range from obscure provisions to controversial measures
Reach of TPP’s SOE disciplines limited by definition, scope, exceptions
7-Nov-2015 World Trade Online
The text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement reveals that the parties have agreed on groundbreaking new rules aimed at preventing state-owned enterprises (SOEs) from harming privately owned firms
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
Switzerland’s largest city declares “Tisa-Free Zone”
7-Nov-2015 PSI
Zurich joins a growing number of Swiss cities, including Lausanne and Geneva, to declare themselves TISA-free.
UAE firms sue India, desi co for Rs 5 lakh cr over Mumbai plots
7-Nov-2015 Times of India
Two UAE firms are claiming Rs 5 lakh crore ($85billion) as compensation, perhaps the highest arbitration demand in India’s history.
TPP caves to the tobacco industry, threatens public health
6-Nov-2015 CPATH
The vacuous “tobacco control” provision in the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) virtually capitulates to the demands of multinational tobacco corporations, jeopardizing nations’ health and economic welfare.
Secret TPP text unveiled: it’s worse than we thought
6-Nov-2015 Public Citizen
Long-awaited text reveals gaps between Administration claims and actual TPP terms on key public concerns
TPP on registration of drugs, bans requirements to disclose or consider certain financial or pricing data
6-Nov-2015 KEI
There is a paucity of information on drug prices, revenues and other relative information on the economics of the pharmaceutical market.
Release of the full TPP text after five years of secrecy confirms threats to users’ rights
6-Nov-2015 Electronic Frontier Foundation
Some of the more dangerous threats to the public’s rights to free expression, access to knowledge, and privacy online are contained in the copyright provisions in the Intellectual Property (IP) chapter