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India-EU free trade talks resume today
12-Sep-2011
India and the European Union (EU) are resuming talks on a free trade agreement (FTA) from tomorrow.
The false promise of Obama’s trade deals
9-Sep-2011 The Guardian
US proposals for the TPP hardly break from the Nafta mold, and many weaken or eliminate the few important advances we’ve seen since Nafta in US trade proposals, write Kevin Gallagher and Timothy Wise in The Guardian
Japan, Australia diplomats agree to work toward restart of FTA talks
9-Sep-2011 Mainichi
Japan’s new Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba and his Australian counterpart Kevin Rudd agreed Thursday that the two countries will work toward restarting talks on a bilateral free trade agreement
The pending US-Colombia free trade agreement: False claims versus hard realities
9-Sep-2011 Upside Down World
Corporate leaders and US and Colombian government officials with their public relations operatives are peddling lie after lie to justify passage of the US-Colombia FTA. This guide will help people counter the falsehoods in the coming weeks.
A critical look at pending free trade agreements
9-Sep-2011 WBEZ
We sift through the facts and myths of free trade agreements with Laura Carlsen, director of the Americas Program of the Center for International Policy and a columnist for Foreign Policy in Focus.
Labor Day protestors demand jobs and fair trade deals
9-Sep-2011 People’s World
Jim Robinson, president of the United Steelworkers of America District 7, joined his fellow steelworkers and 1,000 others to protest in Chicago on Labor Day against a new free trade agreement being negotiated for the Pacific Rim countries.
Guatemala says it will win US labor challenge
9-Sep-2011 Reuters
Guatemala is confident it will defeat a US challenge to its record on labor rights, the country’s economy minister said on Wednesday, and he linked the challenge to White House efforts to win domestic support for several free trade deals.
Private sector ‘to play’ role in the future of free trade
9-Sep-2011
An attempt by the private sector to expand business activities worldwide will determine the implementation of free trade agreements in the globalization era, an economist said Thursday.
WIKILEAKS: AIT doubts ECFA impact: cable says
9-Sep-2011
Former American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) director Stephen Young was skeptical of President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) position that signing the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) would open the door for Taiwan to pursue free-trade agreements (FTA) with other partners, a US cable recently released by WikiLeaks showed.
Africa still the odd one out
8-Sep-2011 IPS
While globally trade agreements are more and more about linking production chains between countries and continents, Africa remains locked in a struggle to overcome the colonial legacy of fragmentation, trade experts say.
The Activist Beat
7-Sep-2011 Uprising Radio
On Labor Day, 500 activists took to the streets of Chicago to speak out against the US free trade agreement with Pacific Rim countries, including Peru, Chile, and Vietnam. Advocates from labor, environmental, public health, and consumer rights groups took part to demand a “Fair Deal or No Deal.”
Labour Day Rally in Chicago Kicks Off Challenge to TPPA Negotiating Round
7-Sep-2011
A rally of around a thousand unionists, HIV-Aids activists and social justice campaigners in Chicago sent a clear message to negotiators the day before the latest round of Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations began in Chicago.
International forum on BITs and alternative investment regime: 5-6 November 2011
6-Sep-2011 TNI
This event aims to bring together social activists and campaigners from all over the world with accumulated experience of critical engagement with the current investment regime and the power of TNCs to Brussels in order to articulate common strategies for campaigning and discuss alternatives.
Labor unions rally at Grant Park
6-Sep-2011 ABC
Chicago labor unions say a looming free trade agreement, the "Trans Pacific Partnership," will lead to the loss of good-paying US jobs. They compare it to NAFTA.
Pro-labor activists in Chicago protest Trans-Pacific Partnership pact
6-Sep-2011 Chicago Tribune
Politicians, labor activists and ice cream makers gather to influence free-trade agreement
Malaysian declaration on the TPPA and access to medicines
6-Sep-2011
Call for all civil society groups, people living with HIV, all communities facing communcable, chronic and/or non-communicable diseases in the TPPA signatory countries to join forces to halt any & all trade agreements that restrict access to generic medicines.
EU-Singapore FTA talks to be completed soon
6-Sep-2011 Europolitics
Following his meeting with Lee Hsien Loong, prime minister of Singapore, European Commission President José Manuel Barroso confirmed that the ongoing negotiations on a free trade agreement (FTA) with the Asian country are on track and “can be finalised successfully very soon”.
China builds trade with South America
5-Sep-2011 Live Trading News
Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman Saturday urged a boost to the south American country ‘s trade ties with China, saying a free trade agreement (FTA) between Beijing and the Common Market of the South (Mercosur) could be “extraordinary”.
Trans-Pacific trade pact called new NAFTA
5-Sep-2011 People’s World
Warning of a new "NAFTA for the Pacific Rim," labor and its allies are demanding a new free trade deal being negotiated for the Pacific region include protections for workers rights, health care and the environment.
Labor Day showdown: Can advocates stop ‘NAFTA of the Pacific’?
5-Sep-2011 Color Lines
This Labor Day, the Pacific Rim will wash into the Midwest’s flagship city, and activists will confront the tides of global commerce with a demand for global economic justice.