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Work towards an EU-ASEAN free trade pact: PM Lee
17-Oct-2014 Malaysian Digest
Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong thinks more FTAs between Asia and Europe would bring out linkages, especially an EU-ASEAN free trade pact.
British industry pitches for restart of India-European Union trade talks
17-Oct-2014 Hindu Business Line
India and the European Union should restart trade talks and take steps to conclude the much-awaited free trade agreement, said Michael Rake, President of the Confederation of British Industry.
Latest TPP leak shows US still pushing terrible DRM and copyright term proposals—and new threats arise
17-Oct-2014 EFF
Electronic Frontier Foundation’s analysis of the new draft Trans-Pacific Partnership intellectual property chapter leaked by Wikileaks
Malaysia to push for FTA talks with EU
17-Oct-2014 Bernama
Malaysia is keen to push for talks on free trade agreement with the European Union, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak told the 14th Asia-Europe Business Forum
Departing from TTIP and going plurilateral
17-Oct-2014 Madariaga - College of Europe
European think-tank piece on how TTIP is designed to create a "transatlantic internal market" without the democracy.
Event report: TTIP on the defensive
16-Oct-2014 Atlantic Community
Opponents of any agreement now control the agenda. This has become quickly apparent at an event in Berlin last week featuring leading stakeholders of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
New leak of TPP consolidated text on intellectual property provides details of pandering to drug companies and publishers
16-Oct-2014 KEI
KEI’s first impression in reading the document is the extent to which the United States has sought hundreds of changes in intellectual property norms, some small and subtle, others blunt and aggressive, nearly of all of which favor big corporate right holders, and undermine the public’s freedom to use knowledge.
TPP - draft IP chapter (May 2014)
16-Oct-2014 Wikileaks
as leaked by Wikileaks on 16 October 2014
Vietnam to spend nearly $5bn on meat, animal feed material imports in 2014
16-Oct-2014 Tuoi Tre News
Vietnam is forecast to spend as much as US$4.5 billion on imports of animal feed material, plus another $400 million on cattle and poultry meat shipments this year, a trend that will grow under TPP.
Hupacasath First Nation puts China on notice over FIPA
16-Oct-2014 Vancouver Observer
The Hupacasath First Nation put the Chinese government on notice today, stating it does not acknowledge the Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA) ratified by Prime Minister Stephen Harper last month.
US, Sri Lanka sign trade and investment agreement to boost bilateral trade
16-Oct-2014 Colombo Page
Sri Lanka and the United States inked a joint trade and investment agreement on Wednesday in Colombo.
Indonesia challenges Australian cigarette packaging laws
16-Oct-2014 Wall Street Journal
Tobacco producers Indonesia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Honduras and Ukraine are challenging Australia’s plain-packaging laws at the World Trade Organization, bolstering support for Philip Morris’ private dispute against Canberra.
S. Korea pushes to strike FTAs with China, Vietnam, New Zealand this year
16-Oct-2014
South Korea said Thursday it will push to conclude free trade agreements (FTA) with China, Vietnam and New Zealand before the year’s end.
EU-Singapore investment talks concluded, says EU Trade Chief
16-Oct-2014 EU Trade Insights
The European Union and Singapore have finally concluded negotiations over a bilateral investment agreement, EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht has told EU Trade Insights in an exclusive interview.
TTIP Day One
16-Oct-2014 Agir pour la Paix
Video by Agir pour la Paix for the D1920 Alliance and Alter Summit
ASEAN Integration, mockery of World Food Day, PH farmers say
16-Oct-2014
the peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) picketed the Department of Agriculture opposing the planned participation of the Philippines to next year’s ASEAN integration, calling it “a mockery of World Food Day and gateway to intense land-grabbing, hunger, and poverty.”
Access denied: MEPs stage TTIP reading room demonstration
15-Oct-2014 GUE/NGL
MEPs staged a peaceful demonstration in front of the TTIP Reading Room in the European Parliament today, in a bid to highlight the lack of transparency surrounding the EU-US trade talks.
Smoke screen: One industry carve-out won’t solve the problem of corporate courts
15-Oct-2014 AFL-CIO
According to recent reports, US trade negotiators for the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal are floating a proposal to prevent tobacco companies from using corporate courts to sue national governments over anti-smoking regulations.
ECJ finds Swedish fisheries in Western Sahara illegal
15-Oct-2014 WSRW
The European Court of Justice has in an answer to a question from a Swedish court of appeal informed that private fisheries agreements with Moroccan authorities are not allowed outside of the context of the EU-Morocco Fisheries Partnership Agreement.
Switzerland hopes to resume India-EFTA free trade pact talks
15-Oct-2014 PTI
Switzerland today expressed hope that negotiations along with three other countries on broad-based trade and economic partnership agreement with India would resume at the earliest.