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Berlin anti-TTIP trade deal protest attracts hundreds of thousands

12-Oct-2015 The Guardian

Environmental groups, charities and opposition parties who organised protest against free trade deal between the EU and US say 250,000 people took part

Numerous side deals to accompany final TPP trade agreement, say officials

10-Oct-2015 The Hamilton Spectator

Canada could sign as many as 15 side deals on a range of issues when the time comes to ink the final text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Preliminary comments on the completed Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) intellectual property chapter

10-Oct-2015 AFTINET

The TPP’s intellectual property chapter represents nothing less than a disaster for global health. Many harmful provisions still remain in the final chapter, bearing out the concerns of public health advocates.

The final leaked TPP text is all that we feared

10-Oct-2015 Electronic Frontier Fondation

The release of the current and essentially final version of the intellectual property (IP) chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) confirms our worst fears about the agreement.

TPP - intellectual property chapter (October 2015)

9-Oct-2015 Wikileaks

As leaked by Wikileaks

Canada has an ISDS clause with the US. It has faced 35 challenges. Is this Australia’s future?

9-Oct-2015 The Conversation

Up until now, Australia has never agreed to provide American investors with access to Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS), whereas Canada has. In total Canada has faced 35 challenges. Australia has been subjected to only one case.

Legal experts weigh in on TPP

9-Oct-2015 Australasian Lawyer

Law firms are among the many Australian businesses likely to benefit from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Doctors without borders blasts TPP’s impact on life-saving drugs

9-Oct-2015 AJ+

The TPP could give pharmaceutical corporations more power to control medicine markets and “impose higher prices for longer.”

No to FTAs!

8-Oct-2015 Ibon

TPP, like other Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), is fashioned by industrial countries and their transnational corporations to further intensify the concentration of resources, wealth, and power into their hands leaving developing countries.

TPP rule of origin is 45% for vehicles, with caveats; 35-45% for auto parts

8-Oct-2015 Global Trade Online

The final Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) contains rules of origin for the automotive sector that require 45 percent regional value content for finished vehicles under a complicated accounting method, along with a regional value content threshold between 35 and 45 percent for auto parts.

The US strategy to create a new global legal and economic system: TPP, TTIP, TISA

8-Oct-2015 TheWikiLeaksChannel

Wikileaks - The US strategy to create a new global legal and economic system

FTA moves to gain momentum

8-Oct-2015 ECNS

China will step up efforts to forge more bilateral and multilateral free trade agreements in the Asia-Pacific region to reduce the impact of the Trans-Pacific Partnership pact.

TISA: Government agrees on draft initial market access offers

8-Oct-2015 Govmu

The draft initial market access offers of Mauritius in the context of the negotiations on the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) has been agreed by Government.

Sober reflections on the TPPA deal – and why we need to keep fighting

8-Oct-2015 The Daily Blog

Who gave the Prime Minister and Trade Minister the right to sacrifice our rights to regulate foreign investment, to decide our own copyright laws, to set up new SOEs, and whatever else they have agreed to in this secret deal and present it to us as a fait accompli?

Why geopolitical arguments in favour of TTIP are also flawed

8-Oct-2015 Speri

The geopolitical ‘setting global standards’ argument that has become central to the advocates’ discourse on TTIP is seriously flawed. TTIP will only lead to high global standards under certain conditions and these conditions are unlikely to be met.

The meat industry is licking its chops over Obama’s massive trade deal

7-Oct-2015 Mother Jones

The US meat industry scored a big victory when world leaders hammered out an agreement that would reduce trade barriers across the Pacific.

India-EU FTA: time for a fundamental rethink?

7-Oct-2015 Madhyam

India and EU would soon resume negotiations on the stalled India-EU free trade agreement.

Pumps should be exempted from RCEP with China

7-Oct-2015 The Hindu

Pump and Motor manufacturers here have said that these light items should not be included in the list of goods that can be imported duty free from China under the proposed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership.