16-Sep-2014
European Parliament News
The European Parliament gave its consent to the EU-Ukraine Association agreement, which includes a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA), on Tuesday in Strasbourg. At the same time, the Agreement was also ratified by the Ukrainian Parliament in Kiev.
16-Sep-2014
Food Navigator Asia
Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce is touring China in a bid to assuage local farmers’ fears over Australia’s ambition to be the “food bowl of Asia” as the two countries attempt to reach a conclusion to talks over a free-trade agreement.
16-Sep-2014
Huffington Post
Jeffrey Sachs, world-renowned professor of economics, lays out five reasons why the Trans-Pacific Partnership and Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement should not be passed or ratified.
16-Sep-2014
Irish Examiner
Aid agencies and human rights groups want Ireland to stall on signing the EU free trade agreement with Colombia which they say will put that country’s oppressed agricultural communities in peril and undermine its fragile peace process.
12-Sep-2014
China Briefing
The US-China Business Council, a corporate lobby group, outlines what a US-China BIT might amount to.
11-Sep-2014
Economic Voice
Campaigners urge British government to amend ‘secret agreement’ that would allow Canadian companies new powers over government decisions