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Review FTAs and implement GST, urges Nadir Godrej to new government
27-May-2014
With the new INdian government all set to take charge, CII National Committee on Chemicals has put forth its expectations from the new government for the benefit of the chemical industry. Topping the list is the demand for reviewing the free trade agreements signed by India with other countries as the committee feels that these have not benefited the industry.
TPP looking less attractive for NZ
27-May-2014
Another ministerial meeting on the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) came and went last week in Singapore. No one here blinked. Trade Minister Tim Groser played it all very low key. No expectations meant no disappointment.
Billionaire Salim seeks sweet Philippine deals
26-May-2014 Bloomberg
Billionaire Anthoni Salim’s First Pacific Co. is seeking to buy sugar companies in the Philippines to expand its footprint in Southeast Asia and tap opportunities from a free-trade agreement in the region.
New environmentalists taking bold actions and it’s working
26-May-2014 Dissident Voice
Through trade agreements, Big Energy is trying to weaken environmental protections and increase their power to subvert democracy but people are stopping these too.
De Gucht assures that TTIP will probably be a mixed agreement
26-May-2014 Agence Europe
European Commissioner for Trade Karel De Gucht has said that the national parliaments of the 28 EU member states will “very likely” need to ratify the future EU-US free trade agreement that is currently being negotiated.
Chinese hacking in the US could damage Australia-China free trade prospects
26-May-2014
Australian businesses may be wondering whether Chinese spies have compromised their databases as well as those of US businesses, write Philip Seltsikas and Max Soyref.
Canada-EU trade deal continues to be hampered by lengthy logistics
26-May-2014
Cast your mind ahead five years. Most people probably can’t say with certainty what their lives will be like in 2019. In a worst-case scenario, it could take that long to put the much-hyped Canada-European Union free trade deal into place.
Call for TPP deal to liberalise beef trade
26-May-2014
Some of the world’s biggest beef producers are urging the countries involved in the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations not to water down their ambitions for free agricultural trade.
Govt, COMESA act to boost AGOA exports
26-May-2014
The Zambian government in collaboration with the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) has put in place a committee which will look at ways and means of increasing exports to the Africa Growth Opportunity Act market in the United States of America.
Steel should be kept out of FTA: Steel Ministry
26-May-2014
Worried over growing imports from Japan and Korea with whom India has free trade pacts, Steel Ministry has suggested shipments from these nations be brought under negative list to safeguard the interest of local firms.
EU bans poultry exports from illegal Israeli settlements
24-May-2014 BDS Movement
Palestinian civil society has today welcomed reports that the EU will no longer allow poultry and eggs from illegal Israeli settlements to enter the EU, in what amounts to the first EU ban on any Israeli products.
Civil society and faith-based organisations asked to unite and kick against signing of Economic Partnership Agreement
24-May-2014 Ghana Broadcasting Corporation
A member of the Socialist Forum of Ghana and Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt, has asked civil society groups, Trades Unions and faith based organisations to strongly kick against the signing of the Economic Partnership Agreement, EPA.
US wants to open talks with Algeria for Trade and Investment Framework Agreement
23-May-2014 Bernama
The United States wants to open discussions with Algeria on the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) signed by the two countries in 2001, said US Department of Commerce senior commercial officer for Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, Douglas Wallace.
In Chevron case, Ecuador says new tests prove long-standing pollution
23-May-2014 Reuters
This week, for the first time, the Ecuadorean government disclosed the results of water and soil testing conducted in 2013 by its experts — the US environmental, engineering and infrastructure consultant Louis Berger Group — at five sites once operated by Chevron predecessor Texaco.
China-Iceland free trade agreement details released
23-May-2014 Reuters
A free trade agreement between China and Iceland, the first between Beijing and a European economy, will relax tariffs for Icelandic imports of all industrial products and most agricultural goods, Chinese state media said on Thursday.
’TTIP serves the major corporations’
23-May-2014 DW
The TTIP trade agreement between the US and the EU is continuing to cause a major row in Europe. Economist Christoph Scherrer tells DW that the corporations’ right to file lawsuits will be particularly problematic.
ITUC delegates give a resounding “No” to Trans Pacific Partnership
23-May-2014 PSI
In a poll taken at the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) Congress in Berlin, Germany, 90% of the voters overwhelmingly rejected the Trans Pacific Partnership free trade deal, supporting the statement that “the TPP should not go ahead and must be scrapped.”
European Milk Board rejects TTIP agreement
22-May-2014 Agriland
European milk producers are calling for the Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement negotiations between the USA and the EU "to cease immediately."
Trade experts see nothing concrete in Pak-US action plan
22-May-2014 Dawn
The Joint Action Plan signed last week by Pakistan and the US in Washington under Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (Tifa) is more of a goodwill gesture than anything concrete that can benefit the country, according to experts.
Leaked memo: Trade agreement would export fracked gas without restrictions from US to EU
22-May-2014 Huffington Post
The EU’s ideas for free trade in energy with the US would be a frontal assault on the possibility for governments to impose a "public service obligation," requiring utility companies to deliver natural gas at certain prices to consumers, for example.