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Kerala govt opposes RCEP agreement
18-Oct-2016 PTI
Kerala government has opposed Centre’s move to sign the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement, saying it would further worsen the crisis in the state’s cash crops sector.
EU threatens to stop market access for Nigerian products over EPA
18-Oct-2016 Financial Vanguard
The European Union may terminate the Temporary Free Market Access it granted Nigeria to export products to the EU due to Nigeria’s failure to sign the ECOWAS-EU Economic Partnership Agreement, reports Financial Vanguard
Peru’s Broad Front moves to block TPP ratification
18-Oct-2016 Peoples World
In protests billed as “anti-colonial” demonstrations, Peruvians hit the streets on 12 October against the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Trade in Services Agreement
Rethinking investment treaties to advance human rights
18-Oct-2016 IIED
There is considerable room to rethink substantive norms and dispute settlement arrangements.
TTIP: the impact on the Greek democracy, economy and society
18-Oct-2016 Nature Friends Greece
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is one of the most important forthcoming steps for the wide-ranging transformation of the bourgeois society and capitalism.
SA needs to address its investment image
18-Oct-2016 IOL
Cabinet’s endorsement of the draft International Arbitration Bill in April this year gave a welcome indication that South Africa would soon provide investors with one of the essential tools for operating in the modern global economy.
EU trade chief: Not there yet to sign EU-Canada deal
18-Oct-2016 AP
The European Union’s foreign trade chief acknowledged that member states will likely be unable to back a landmark trade deal with Canada as scheduled on Tuesday but she was optimistic the deal could still be signed next week.
Peru works on FTA negotiation proposal with UK following Brexit
18-Oct-2016 Andina
Peru has already started to work on a proposal for post-Brexit FTA negotiations with the United Kingdom based on the EU-Peru trade deal
Why East Africa should reject EPA deal with European Union
17-Oct-2016 The Citizen
Europe is in crisis, and yet countries in East Africa are ready to sign on a poorly understood trade agreement with the EU whose overall impact will be disastrous for years to come. The good thing for Tanzania is that there are three months for debate.
Secret free trade talks concern business
17-Oct-2016 AAP
Free trade deals need to be better analysed and assessed before Australia agrees to them, the nation’s largest business group has told a parliamentary inquiry.
Key to lead mission to India; ASEAN FTA review announced
17-Oct-2016 Business Desk
Prime Minister John Key will lead a trade delegation to India next week, saying the pursuit of a trade agreement with the highly protected agricultural giant is "the primary reason we’re going" but playing down the likelihood of early progress
Legal statement on investment protection in TTIP and CETA
17-Oct-2016 Stop TTIP
Over 100 law professors from across Europe have come together to send a clear message to EU decision makers demanding the investor protection mechanisms be excluded from TTIP and CETA.
Activists reject ratification of seed patent in ASEAN RCEP
17-Oct-2016 The Jakarta Post
An activist group is calling on the government to not ratify the ASEAN Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) clause on International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) 1991, saying that it will increase global corporations’ monopolistic control over small farmers.
Philippine Government’s crackdown on nickel mining - Arbitration options for foreign investors
17-Oct-2016 KWM
The viability of the Filipino nickel industry is in a state of flux following President Rodrigo Duterte’s national audit of the country’s forty mines. Lawyers explore ISDS options.
Virtual teach-in videos: a heterodox and feminist approach to the Continental Free Trade Area
17-Oct-2016 Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation
Regions Refocus has compiled five “Virtual Teach-ins” of footage from the workshop “Towards an Equitable and Transformative Continental Free Trade Area: A Heterodox and Feminist Approach.”
China eyes progress at APEC for China-backed free trade area
17-Oct-2016 Reuters
China hopes to see progress at the next summit in Peru of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) bloc in pushing ahead with a Chinese-backed trade liberalization framework.
Free trade’s chilling effects
17-Oct-2016 Taylor & Francis
The TPP threatens to extend the most draconian feature of the contemporary free trade model: private corporation’s ability to sue sovereign nations.
Newly leaked TISA texts expose the scope of the corporate power grab
17-Oct-2016 IUF
"It’s time to halt the negotiations, publish the secret texts and ensure the widest possible public debate to expose the full extent of the threat these treaties pose to democracy and the labour movement," international trade union organizations say.
India-SACU trade pact talks need to be revived: South Africa
17-Oct-2016 Business Standard
South Africa pressed for revival of the negotiations for the proposed preferential trade agreement between India and five-nation Southern African Customs Union (SACU).
An open letter to the sixteen governments negotiating the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)
17-Oct-2016
95 health, community and development organisations in the Asia Pacific region call on trade negotiators from sixteen countries in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement negotiations to ensure access to medicines is protected. We the undersigned organisations call on negotiators to protect health and reject all TRIPS plus intellectual property measures in the RCEP.