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TPP dairy deal ’not at a level we would currently like’: Key
22-Jun-2015 Scoop
The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact does not yet include an acceptable deal on access for New Zealand’s most important exports, dairy products, with little more than a month to go before the controversial 12 nation trade deal could be concluded.
Dim prospects for TTIP talks under Luxembourg EU presidency
22-Jun-2015 Europe Online
The chances for a conclusion to negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) this year are poor, Luxembourg‘s foreign minister said in an interview with a German newspaper published Monday.
Pressure intensifies on India over software and pharma patent protection in key Asian trade negotiations
22-Jun-2015 IAM
Recently leaked documents show that India’s policies on software and pharmaceutical patents are firmly on the RCEP agenda.
Six tough questions about the China trade deal
22-Jun-2015 The Tyee
Gus Van Harten, author of ’Sold Down the Yangtze,’ breaks down the Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement’s impacts.
Zimbabwe: Govt signs 54 trade pacts
22-Jun-2015 The Herald
Government has signed 54 Bilateral Investment Protection and Promotion Agreements (BIPPA) that are now at various stages of completion as it moves towards injecting more pace in the country’s economic growth, a Cabinet minister has said.
Govt contemplates keeping gold jewellery out of all FTAs through re-negotiations
22-Jun-2015 Diamond World
The move is expected to act as a damage control after gold jewellery from third countries under the India-Thailand FTA and the India-ASEAN FTA has flooded the Indian markets
Ukraine, Canada to speed up FTA talks
22-Jun-2015 InterFax
Poroshenko and Harper have agreed to speed up talks concerning the formation of a free trade area between Ukraine and Canada.
Working through night on India FTA: Hockey
22-Jun-2015 AAP
Australia is putting pressure on India to sign up to free trade agreement as good as the one finalised with China last week, says Treasurer Joe Hockey
Spanish FM calls for speeding up EU-Mercosur trade talks
22-Jun-2015 Latin American Herald Tribune
The European Union and South America’s Mercosur bloc need to accelerate negotiations on a trade accord, even if it means going into distinct individual velocities with the Mercosur members, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo said on Thursday.
Half-baked China-Australia Free Trade Agreement is lopsided
19-Jun-2015 Canberra Times
Remarkably, the Australian government has given Chinese companies a general right to buy resources and other assets in Australia – so-called market access – without getting the same right for Australian companies in China.
Future of ISDS in TTIP and beyond. Is now the time for reform?
19-Jun-2015 Lexology
A consensus is clearly forming around changes and adjustments needed to reform ISDS, but the main stakeholders – businesses and governments – have yet to make a clear stand, argue Adrian-Catalin Bulboaca and Marius Iliescu
Morocco: EU Court to give verdict ’in few months’ on Sahrawi appeal against EU-Morocco agricultural agreement
19-Jun-2015 Sahara Press Service
The European Union Court examined Tuesday the appeal of the Polisario Front against the agricultural agreement concluded in 2000 between the European Union and Morocco, and the decision on this issue will be given in a few months
India to sign FTA with EEU
19-Jun-2015 Fibre2Fashion
India will sign a free trade agreement with Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, according to media reports.
Korea starts FTA talks with six Central American countries
19-Jun-2015 Arirang
If sealed, Korea will be the first Asian country to have an FTA with the six Central American countries — Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama — giving Korean products an edge over rival exporters like Japan and China.
Commission asks Member States to terminate their intra-EU bilateral investment treaties
19-Jun-2015 European Commission
The European Commission has initiated infringement proceedings against five Member States today requesting them to terminate intra-EU bilateral investment treaties between them ("intra-EU BITs")
With the new House bill, even Obama might not want the Obama trade agreement
19-Jun-2015 Think Progress
The Republican-led US House of Representatives voted to give President Obama authority to negotiate trade agreements, passing the so-called fast-track bill with the assistance of just 28 House Democrats on Thursday. The Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) bill, which was decoupled from a labor program, will now go back to the Senate for approval.
Trade deal widens health care gap
18-Jun-2015
NZ is heading towards a two-tier health system, and it could get a whole lot worse, writes George Laking.
Plan to seek higher farm crops quota
18-Jun-2015
Thailand and Japan have agreed to talk further at an official level before formally revising the Japan-Thailand Economic Partnership Agreement on the 10th anniversary of the pact, which came into effect in November 2007.
US House may rescue trade deal
18-Jun-2015 VoA
The US House of Representatives may try again Thursday to advance President Barack Obama’s ambitious Asia-Pacific free trade agenda by separating fast-track negotiating authority from a measure — aimed at helping American workers — that was voted down Friday.
EU-Cuba talks progress on trade
18-Jun-2015 EurActiv
The 4th round of EU-Cuba negotiations for a framework agreement for political dialogue and cooperation was held yesterday in Brussels (16 June), making progress on trade and economic issues, but lagging behind on the political dialogue chapter.