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EU wants swifter progress on economic partnership with Japan
29-Sep-2016 The Japan Times
Trade minister Hiroshige Seko has received a letter from a senior European Commission official urging prompt conclusion of an economic partnership agreement.
Kenya finally deposits EU trade pact ahead of Saturday deadline
29-Sep-2016 The Star
Just a week after the National Assembly unanimously endorsed the Economic Partnership Agreement, the government deposited the same instruments with the EU.
New Zealand, Gulf states renew efforts to seal free trade pact
29-Sep-2016 Reuters
New Zealand and the Gulf Cooperation Council will work to get a stalled free trade pact back on track after trade ministers from the Pacific nation and Saudi Arabia agreed to deepen trade ties.
Big Pharma lobbying in TTIP: Bad news for patients
28-Sep-2016 Corporate Europe Observatory
Big Pharma is everything but shy when it comes to lobbying EU policy-makers. But what exactly are these groups lobbying for in TTIP?
EU wins the battle for reciprocal trade access in Africa
28-Sep-2016 EurActiv
The six African countries threatened with losing access to the European single market have finally agreed to sign the EU’s Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs). But the continent’s regional integration may suffer as a result. EurActiv France reports.
Mitigating political risk: Treaty protections versus political risk insurance
28-Sep-2016 Lexicology
A discussion of some general distinctions between invesment treaty protections and political risk insurance.
Cloud providers draw battle lines against TISA, will keep personal data in the EU
28-Sep-2016 Ars Tecnica
A new coalition of cloud companies has published a code of conduct to keep European data inside Europe, just as the issue looks set to become one of the most hotly contested points in the controversial Trade in Services Agreement (TISA).
India to operationalize BIPA with Canada
28-Sep-2016 Live Mint
On Canada’s insistance, India is expected to sign a bilateral investment treaty (BIT) with Canada based on an old text, not its new model BIT. The old text contains contentious provisions such as the investor-state dispute settlement mechanism.
Unpacking CETA
28-Sep-2016 Global Labour Column
For decades, labour has been fighting purely defensive battles against the neo-liberal trade and investment agenda; we lack an agenda of our own. Lost ground will not be reclaimed on what is fundamentally hostile territory, argues Peter Rossmann of the IUF.
Malaysia, EU may resume FTA talks soon: Najib
28-Sep-2016 The Dipomat
Malaysia and the European Union may resume stalled free trade talks by the end of 2016, the Southeast Asian state’s premier said Wednesday in Germany
Greece asks for suspension of TTIP negotiations
28-Sep-2016 Govt of Greece
The Greek Minister of Economy, Development and Tourism, George Stathakis, has called for the temporary suspension of negotiations on the Transatlantic Partnership Trade and Investment today in Bratislava.
Ministers aim to wrap up services trade deal in early December
27-Sep-2016 Reuters
Countries negotiating an international agreement on trade in services plan to meet in early December to try to finalize the deal
RCEP concessions: Government undertaking ‘sensitivity analysis’ of import duties
27-Sep-2016 Financial Express
The ministries of commerce and finance are undertaking a “sensitivity analysis” of import duties on products that are crucial to revenue collection of the government
Cameroon goes it alone with controversial EU trade deal, angers regional partners
27-Sep-2016 African Arguments
Many in Cameroon and the wider region worry that the unilateral signing of an Economic Partnership Agreement was a bad decision.
PH to engage Mexico in trade talks
27-Sep-2016 Inquirer
The Philippines is eyeing to forge a free trade agreement with Mexico to further deepen the bilateral trade and investment ties between the two countries.
TTIP: Negotiations ‘in the void’
27-Sep-2016 EurActiv
Negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) are forging ahead, despite opposition from a number of countries.
40 years ago, this Chilean exile warned us about the shock doctrine. Then he was assassinated.
27-Sep-2016 The Nation
There are connections between the imposition of brutal austerity and corporate-friendly trade deals and the frightening rise of far-right parties.
The men behind ISDS
27-Sep-2016 Oneworld
The so-called “ISDS” has been existing for years already. A revealing look in the hidden world of investor-state dispute settlement.
Abe vows action on TPP, economy as Diet session begins
26-Sep-2016 Japan Today
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed at the start of a 66-day extraordinary Diet session to swiftly ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact
Japan, EU to discuss troublesome farm products separately in talks on economic partnership agreement
26-Sep-2016 The Japan Times
Japan and the European Union plan to discuss key farming products separately from other goods in negotiations on a proposed economic partnership agreement for free trade