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Why workers should unite against Canada’s next-generation trade deals
3-Jul-2014 rabble.ca
With Canada’s labour movement searching for alternative economic models for a post-crisis, climatically unstable world, the government’s new trade and investment pacts are barriers to a better future and must be resisted.
Australia wins first battle in plain packaging trade dispute
3-Jul-2014 Sydney Morning Herald
The Permanent Court of Arbitration has ordered that Australia will be allowed to challenge Philip Morris Asia’s right to contest Australia’s plain packaging laws, on the grounds that the company only bought shares in its Australian arm so that it could launch the case.
Australian Labor Party plan raises Chinese investment threshold to 1 billion AUD
3-Jul-2014 Xinhua
The Australian Labor Party is proposing to raise the threshold for Chinese investment from 200 million Australian dollars (187 million US dollars) to 1 billion Australian dollars (940 million US dollars) as part of the nation’s free-trade agreement (FTA) with China
Newmont files for arbitration against Indonesia government on ore-export ban
3-Jul-2014 Dow Jones Newswires
Newmont Mining Corp. said Tuesday it is filing for international arbitration against the Indonesian government for a mineral-export ban.
The US / Peru Free Trade Agreement and generic medicines
2-Jul-2014 Inca Kola News
Peru’s National Association of Pharmaceutical Laboratories (Alafarpe) has filed a petition in the Peruvian courts to stop generic drugs from being sold based on the terms of US-Peru free trade agreement, according to Inca Kola News
Peru, India to kick off FTA talks in August this year
2-Jul-2014 Bernama
Peru and India are expected to meet in August this year to hammer out a solid framework for staring negotiations on a Free Trade Agreement, the country’s Foreign Trade and Tourism Ministry (Mincetur) has said.
Philippines pursues free trade talks with European bloc
2-Jul-2014 BusinessWorld
Tthe Philippines and EFTA member countries — Switzerland, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway — signed last June 23 a joint declaration of cooperation that paves the way for free trade talks.
TTIP won’t let big banks wriggle out of regulations, EU negotiators insist
2-Jul-2014 IB Times
The European Commission denies that it is using the negotiations over the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership to weaken financial regulation for the benefit of financial institutions.
Lew: US-China investment deal not nearing completion
2-Jul-2014 The Hill
US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said Tuesday that the United States and China aren’t prepared to wrap up work on an investment agreement during high-level meetings next week.
EU-US FTA (TTIP) - draft regulatory co-operation on financial regulation (March 2014)
1-Jul-2014 CEO
As leaked by CEO
Commission closes TTIP consultation — But is it listening?
1-Jul-2014 ETUC
Bernadette Ségol the General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation says trade unionists are “particularly concerned at statements from DG Trade implying that the consultation is about a reform of the ISDS system and is not open to a decisive rejection.”
TransPacific Partnership deal elusive as talks set for Ottawa
1-Jul-2014 Canadian Press
This week, hundreds of negotiators from 11 Asia-Pacific countries descend on Ottawa as part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks, viewed as the next big free trade deal after the European pact known as CETA.
Georgia and Russia meet to sort out EU vs CIS free trade
1-Jul-2014 Democracy & Freedom Watch
Georgian and Russian trade experts will meet in Prague on July 7 to find out how compatible Georgia’s new free trade with the European Union is with its already existing free trade framework with countries of the former Soviet Union.
Videos from TACD’s June 25, 2014 side event on intellectual property in the US, EU trade agreement (TTIP)
1-Jul-2014 KEI
A set of videos from the Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue’s June 25, 2014 event on intellectual property and the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership agreement.
Swiss-Chinese free trade agreement takes effect
1-Jul-2014 AFP
A watershed free-trade deal between China and Switzerland came into force on Tuesday, the first such accord between the Asian giant and a mainland European economy.
EU-US free trade agreement (TTIP or TAFTA)
1-Jul-2014 Vimeo
Short video on TTIP, promoting the UK’s #noTTIP day of action on 12th July 2014
Canada’s free-trade agenda: What’s the hold-up?
30-Jun-2014 Canadian Press
The Harper government’s vaunted free trade agenda is either a roaring success or hopelessly stalled — and given that government officials aren’t commenting, even experts in the field are having trouble deciding which.
South Korea’s rice farmers prepare for rough ride from free trade
30-Jun-2014 FT
Korean Peasant League wants the government to negotiate an extension to the rice quota arrangement – as the Philippines did earlier this month. But experts at the agriculture ministry’s public consultations have suggested an alternative option: opening the market while increasing import tariffs from the current 5 per cent to levels as high as 300-500 per cent.
EU and US insurers support including financial services market access and regulatory cooperation in TTIP
30-Jun-2014 AIA
Insurance Europe, the American Insurance Association and the American Council of Life Insurers have issued a statement supporting the inclusion of market access and regulatory cooperation in financial services in TTIP.
What does copyright have to do with "free trade"? Unpicking the undemocratic TTIP
30-Jun-2014 EFF
Reports are that TTIP may focus less on copyright and IP enforcement issues compared with TPP, and more on other legal regimes that are commonly lumped into the "intellectual property" catch-all, such as trade secrets.