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TTIP: A box of tricks for corporate climate criminals
13-Oct-2015 AITEC and CEO
A new briefing by AITEC and CEO explains why TTIP, and especially regulatory cooperation, could put a stranglehold on our ability to create the energy transition required to tackle climate change.
Trans-Pacific Partnership: we’re selling economic sovereignty for little return
13-Oct-2015 The Age
Part of the cost of free trade deals is standardisation – in this case it means adopting US practices.
Brazil eager to start talks on free trade zone with EEU
13-Oct-2015 Sputnik
Brazil hopes to commence negotiations on creating a free trade zone with the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) and the issue is already on the agenda of the Mercosur countries
Free trade great for corporations, not farmers
13-Oct-2015 WCF Courier
Big Agbiz are global buyers and sellers who, when able to play both sides of any trade-leveled playing field the world over, rarely lose.
Stop TTIP signature hand-over action in Brussels, 7 Oct 2015
13-Oct-2015 Stop TTIP
Stop TTIP signature hand-over action in Brussels
I didn’t think TTIP could get any scarier, but then I spoke to the EU official in charge of it
13-Oct-2015 The Independent
With just eight words she exposed everything that’s wrong with the deal, and why it needs to be defeated
East African states agree on free trade area issues
13-Oct-2015 All Africa
The East African Community partner states have agreed on the outstanding trade issues under the Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA).
India may provide most favoured status to RCEP investors
13-Oct-2015 Live Mint
India is likely to grant most favoured nation (MFN) treatment to 15 countries that are in talks to conclude an agreement on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)
Govt spin won’t stop TPP facts emerging
13-Oct-2015
If governments want to play by secret squirrel rules they can hardly accuse those who raise alarms based on best available information of scaremongering.
No ban for TPP nationals buying NZ houses
12-Oct-2015
Prime Minister John Key says the Trans Pacific Partnership will not technically prevent a future Labour Government from banning the sale of residential properties to foreigners.
Coalition expects to cut deal with Labor over China trade agreement
12-Oct-2015 http://www.afr.com/news/politics/co...
Sitharaman bats for early implementation of SAFTA
12-Oct-2015
Commerce and industry minister Nirmala Sitharaman made a strong pitch for greater integration of the South Asian region, even as she underscored the need for speedy implementation of the South Asian Free Trade Agreement (Safta) agreement.
Asean officials in Busan to kick off free trade deal
12-Oct-2015
Trade officials from Asean and six of its dialogue partners are in Busan, South Korea, to kick-start a regional free trade deal that almost stalled after three years of negotiations.
Regional investment policy framework on the cards
12-Oct-2015
A regional investment policy framework for southern Africa is expected to be finalized by the end of the year. The Trade, Industry, Finance and Investment (TIFI) Directorate at the SADC Secretariat said in its annual report that significant progress has been made to develop a regional investment policy framework. The regional programme on investment has the objective of strengthening the investment environment in southern Africa.
Public services under attack through TTIP and CETA
12-Oct-2015 CEO
EU trade deals with Canada and the US could endanger citizens’ rights to basic services like water and health, as negotiators are doing the work of some of the EU’s most powerful corporate lobby groups in pushing an aggressive market opening agenda in the public sector.
Berlin anti-TTIP trade deal protest attracts hundreds of thousands
12-Oct-2015 The Guardian
Environmental groups, charities and opposition parties who organised protest against free trade deal between the EU and US say 250,000 people took part
Numerous side deals to accompany final TPP trade agreement, say officials
10-Oct-2015 The Hamilton Spectator
Canada could sign as many as 15 side deals on a range of issues when the time comes to ink the final text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Preliminary comments on the completed Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) intellectual property chapter
10-Oct-2015 AFTINET
The TPP’s intellectual property chapter represents nothing less than a disaster for global health. Many harmful provisions still remain in the final chapter, bearing out the concerns of public health advocates.
The final leaked TPP text is all that we feared
10-Oct-2015 Electronic Frontier Fondation
The release of the current and essentially final version of the intellectual property (IP) chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) confirms our worst fears about the agreement.
TPP - intellectual property chapter (October 2015)
9-Oct-2015 Wikileaks
As leaked by Wikileaks