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Building a treaty on human rights and TNCs
20-Oct-2016 Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity
Proposal from the global campaign to reclaim peoples power, dismantle corporate power and stop impunity.
TDM Special Issue on Int’l Arbitration involving Commercial and Investment Disputes in Africa
20-Oct-2016 TDM
This Special Issue presents diverse views on a number of salient topics affecting international arbitration involving the African continent.
New feud may set back Japan’s TPP vote
20-Oct-2016 Nikkei
Japan’s parliamentary debate on the Trans-Pacific Partnership turned into a shouting match after the agriculture minister suggested the ruling coalition force a vote on the US-led trade deal, with the rancor threatening the government’s timetable for ratification.
TiSA agreement leaks show corporations pushing privatization of public services
20-Oct-2016 TRNN
The latest leaks of teh Trade in Services Agreement show prohibitions on requiring foreign companies to employ local workers, says Deborah James
Activists fret about RCEP impact
20-Oct-2016 Bangkok Post
Access to affordable medicine and farmers’ control over seeds could be undermined by the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership being negotiated between Asean member countries and six other trade partners, says FTA Watch in Thailand
The great CETA swindle
20-Oct-2016 CEO
A close look at the controversial EU-Canada trade deal shows that concerns blocking its ratification are well-founded.
Secret arbitration system affecting Romanian community
20-Oct-2016 VOA
Protests against the Rosia Montana mine project continued for more than 15 years and resulted in the largest demonstrations in Romania since the late 1980’s.
Ecuador’s Indigenous leader fighting Chevron visits Dakota camp
19-Oct-2016 Telesur
“We don’t want what happened to us to happen to the people in Dakota,” Piaguaje told teleSUR.
Bulgaria demands visa-waiver guarantee to back EU-Canada trade deal
19-Oct-2016 Reuters
The Bulgarian government will not back the signing of a free trade agreement between the European Union and Canada until it receives irrevocable guarantees that all its citizens can travel to Canada without visas, it said on Wednesday. Romania is demanding the same.
Ratifying Pacific trade pact not on Vietnam assembly agenda
19-Oct-2016 AP
Vietnam needs more time before it ratifies the Trans Pacific Partnership, an official said Tuesday, dealing a blow to the trade deal that includes the United States and Japan.
EU, ASEAN decide to resume FTA talks
19-Oct-2016 Tax News
Representatives from the Association of South East Asian Nations and the European Union have confirmed their "commitment to intensify work towards the timely resumption of region-to-region free trade agreement negotiations."
Vietnamese PM called for PTA, FTA with Iran
19-Oct-2016 Mehr
Iran President Rouhani met with Vietnam PM Nguyễn Xuân Phúc and discussed the ways to enact the bilateral agreements signed and to broaden the areas of cooperation.
Defiant Wallonia rejects deadline to save EU-Canada deal
19-Oct-2016 Politico
Wallonia’s Minister-President Paul Magnette has dealt a potentially fatal blow to EU trade policy by insisting that he will not support the EU’s landmark trade deal with Canada by a Friday deadline.
EU trade deal with Canada hits hurdle in Belgium
18-Oct-2016 Dow Jones Business News
The European Union’s planned trade deal with Canada remained on shaky ground Tuesday, after a meeting of the bloc’s trade ministers failed to yield the support needed for both sides to sign the accord later this month.
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.
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.