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Local councils tearing strips off TTIP
13-Sep-2015 New Internationalist
Politicians in both Brussels and Westminster have taken great pains to try and brush off people’s many concerns about the toxic trade deal being pushed through by the EU and the United States.
In snub to US push for new services pact, Uruguay pulls out of negotiations
13-Sep-2015 The Wire
Just a week before the deadline for submitting national offers on liberalisation of services sectors under the on-going “secret” talks for a Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA), Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez decided to abandon the plurilateral negotiations.
The TPP will finish what Chile’s dictatorship started
11-Sep-2015 The Nation
This September 11th will be the forty-second anniversary of the US-backed coup against the democratically-elected Chilean government. Salvador Allende warned against neoliberalism’s disastrous effects just before he was overthrown. He was right to be worried.
Resisting the ‘law of greed’
11-Sep-2015 Green Agenda
There has been an explosive increase of cases of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). Modern investor-state disputes often revolve around public policy measures and implicate sensitive issues such as health and environmental protection
Uruguay withdraws from TiSA, strikes a symbolic blow against the trade deal ratchet
10-Sep-2015 Tech Dirt
TISA completes the unholy trinity of global trade agreements that also includes TPP and TAFTA/TTIP. Between the three of them, they sew up just about every aspect of trade in both goods and services — the latter being TISA’s particular focus.
German Bundestag not happy about being kept out of ttip reading room in Berlin
10-Sep-2015 Intellectual Property Watch
The parliamentary representatives expressed concerns about limitations with regard to the current mechanisms to allow for access for members of national parliaments.
EU-US trade deal mustn’t stifle calls for Israel boycott, say unions
10-Sep-2015 Electronic Intifada
More than 150 organizations from across Europe are vowing to resist efforts by the United States to stifle campaigns for Palestinian rights by means of a controversial trade deal.
Free trade treaty ratification rests squarely on Executive
10-Sep-2015 The Age
The government has a number of options to get the contentious China Australia Free Trade Agreement over the line.
China-Maldives sign MOU for free trade pact
10-Sep-2015 Haveeru
The second meeting of the Maldives-China Joint Commission for Trade and Economic Cooperation ended with the signing of the MOU between both countries to begin discussions of the Maldives-China free trade agreement.
NAFTA impact: your Oreo cookies made in Mexico, not Chicago
10-Sep-2015 People’s World
Starting soon, as a result of the firm’s drive for higher profits and lower wages, your Oreo cookies will be made in Mexico, not Chicago. And it’s all thanks to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Nothing is agreed yet—we can still stop the TPP’s copyright trap
9-Sep-2015 Electronic Frontier Fondation
No matter how far advanced the parties are towards agreeing on repressive copyright rules, it is still not too late for them to turn back.
TPP protesters occupy Prime Minister’s office
9-Sep-2015 Radio New Zealand
A small group of protesters against the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal briefly occupied the Prime Minister’s electoral office in Auckland this morning
HR standard and investor liability in the new model of Indonesian BITs
9-Sep-2015 Indonesia for Global Justice
The Government plan to reassess the 64 Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) that have been signed by Indonesia immediately.
Commission won’t ask EU judges to decide on legality of ISDS
8-Sep-2015 Euractiv
The European Commission will not ask EU judges to decide on the legality of the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanism in free trade agreements.
Tripartite FTA’s sugar industries vow to eliminate trade associated problems
8-Sep-2015 Swazi Observer
In a bid to eliminate possible problems associated with sugar trade in Africa’s new trade agreement, the Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA), sugar industries of the bloc have resolved to speak in one unified voice.
RAP #NoalTTIP
8-Sep-2015 Ecologistas en Acción
Rap tune describes the threat of the Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP).
What’s really at stake if the China FTA falls through
8-Sep-2015 The Conversation
Economic modelling demonstrates the gain in economic welfare from the three North Asian FTAs will be modest.
Venezuela loses US refinery as ConocoPhillips ICC award enforced in US court
8-Sep-2015 Latin American Herald Tribune
A U.S. Federal Court has upheld U.S. enforcement of an International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) arbitration agreeing that U.S. oil giant ConocoPhillips has the right to take Venezuela state oil company PDVSA’s 50% stake.
Lawmaker claims Korean agriculture sector will sustain much more damage than Government estimates
7-Sep-2015 Business Korea
The Korea-China FTA will increase agricultural imports from China while scaling down Korea’s farming production.
EEU aims to strengthen trade with ASEAN
7-Sep-2015 Borneo Post
Russian Economic Development Minister Alexei Ulyukayev said the EEU acknowledged Southeast Asia’s vast economic potential and was looking at expanding free trade agreements (FTAs) with ASEAN member states.