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TTIP aim to lift US oil export ban goes against climate targets
3-Jul-2015 The Guardian
EU push to lift restrictions on US crude oil and liquefied natural gas exports as part of controversial trade deal could explode Canada’s tar sands carbon bomb and push up carbon emissions
Flashmob choir interrupts TTIP congress
3-Jul-2015 Boing Boing
At a pro-TTIP congress where the Belgian Foreign Affairs Minister was promoting the treaty, a flashmob of attendees stood up singing "Do You Hear the People Sing?" a rousing revolutionary song from Les Miserables.
Egypt eyes Mercosur FTA activation before 2015-end
3-Jul-2015 Zawya
Egypt hopes to bring its preferential Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the South American Common Market (Mercosur) into effect before the end of this year, minister of industry said Thursday.
TiSA - draft annex on telecommunication services (April 2015)
2-Jul-2015 Wikileaks
Leaked by Wikileaks
TiSA - draft annex on financial services (April 2015)
2-Jul-2015 Wikileaks
Leaked by Wikileaks
TiSA - draft annex on electronic commerce (May 2015)
2-Jul-2015 Wikileaks
Leaked by Wikileaks
TiSA - draft annex on international maritime transport services (April 2015)
2-Jul-2015 Wikileaks
Leaked by Wikileaks
WikiLeaks releases Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) Core Text
2-Jul-2015 Scoop
WikiLeaks has released a modern journalistic holy grail, the secret Core Text for the largest ’trade deal’ in history, the Trade In Services Agreement, one week before the next TiSA negotiating round
The FIPA with China restricts Canada’s options on climate change
1-Jul-2015 Globe and Mail
For years, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government told Canadians that it could not act on climate change until China joined in. Yet, in 2014, the government quietly finalized a 31-year investment treaty that, in essence, gives Chinese oil companies an advance bailout against a range of steps that Canada may need to take on climate change.
Leaked: What’s in Obama’s trade deal
1-Jul-2015 Politico
A recent draft of the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade deal would give US pharmaceutical firms unprecedented protections against competition from cheaper generic drugs, possibly transcending the patent protections in US law.
TiSA - draft annex on government procurement (April 2015)
1-Jul-2015 Wikileaks
Leaked by Wikileaks
TiSA - draft annex on movement of natural persons (April 2015)
1-Jul-2015 Wikileaks
Leaked by Wikileaks
TiSA - draft annex on domestic regulation (April 2015)
1-Jul-2015 Wikileaks
Leaked by Wikileaks
TiSA - draft annex on transparency negotiating (April 2015)
1-Jul-2015 Wikileaks
Leaked by Wikileaks
TiSA - draft provisions (April 2015)
1-Jul-2015 Wikileaks
Leaked by Wikileaks
US-Europe trade pact adds to Switzerland’s pain
1-Jul-2015 Bloomberg
"TTIP is going to affect Switzerland very much. There is a fear we’re going to be locked out and some of our companies discriminated," a government official told the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday
The Philippines, Thailand, South Korea and Taiwan: Joining TPP?
1-Jul-2015 National Interest
More countries in Asia appear ready to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, most likely as members of the second round of nations joining the deal.
TTIP: Why we are asking for an immediate suspension? With a sense of urgency !
1-Jul-2015 CNCD-11.11.11
Human rights organizations have joined the broad Belgian coalition of the trade union confederations, mutuality’s, consumer organizations and environmental and development umbrella NGOs and are asking for an immediate suspension of the TTIP negotiations.
What’s at stake: South Korea vs Lone Star Funds
30-Jun-2015 Wall Street Journal
For those uninitiated in the world of international arbitration, below is the primer of the issues at play in the South Korea-Lone Star Funds arbitration.
AFTINET: Reply to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Myths and Realities document, June 2015
30-Jun-2015 Scoop
The Australian government misrepresents the claims of critics and fails to address substantial criticisms of the Trans Pacific Partnership, says civil society network AFTINET.