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The carrot, the stick, and the seeds: US development policy faces resistance in El Salvador
16-Sep-2014 CIP Americas
While the seeds dispute was an effective rallying point, social movements must confront the elephant in the room – CAFTA.
Government ‘ignoring’ plea not to sign EU-Colombia trade deal
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.
Strategy conversations: From protest to proposal – Launch of alternative proposal to the global investment regime
14-Sep-2014 NJGI
‘A Call for the Building of an Alternative Legal Framework to the International Investment Treaties. Favoring the Public Interest while doing away with Transnational Corporate Impunity.’
ISDS: The devil in the trade deal
14-Sep-2014 ABC
A common provision allowing foreign investors to sue host governments has become a ticking time bomb inside trade agreements. Some countries are now refusing to agree to the provision and are questioning its legal legitimacy. Jess Hill investigates.
Outrage as EU blocks democratic challenge to US trade deal
12-Sep-2014 Politics
The European Commission’s decision to block a citizens’ initiative to challenge the secret trade talks it is holding with the US government is a slap in the face for the 230 civil society organisations that have lined up behind the initiative and the millions of European citizens they represent.
Harper OKs Canada-China foreign investment deal after lengthy delay
12-Sep-2014 CBC
Sources tell CBC the federal government will quietly announce it is ratifying the investment treaty later this afternoon.
How Greens in one German state threaten Euro-Canada trade deal
12-Sep-2014 The Tyee
The survival of the new trade deal hammered out in secret between Canada and the European Union is threatened by opposed Green politicians in Germany’s most populated state, writes Andrea Rexer.
Bilateral Investment Treaties: What they are and why they matter
12-Sep-2014 China Briefing
The US-China Business Council, a corporate lobby group, outlines what a US-China BIT might amount to.
EU-Canada FTA (CETA) (complete leak, 11 Sep 2014)
11-Sep-2014 Netzpolitik
EU Commission wants to wipe out citizens’ involvement in TTIP and CETA
11-Sep-2014 Stop TTIP
European Citizens’ Initiative against TTIP rejected / Alliance announces resistance
Businesses believe APEC’s free trade agreement will bring few benefits
11-Sep-2014 VietnamNet
The proposed APEC free trade agreement (FTAAP) is expected to be on a larger scale than the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, but many Vietnamese businesses are not enthusiastic about the trade pact.
US trade chief eyes bilateral ministerial TPP talks in weeks
11-Sep-2014 Kyodo
US trade chief Michael Froman plans to hold meetings with his counterparts from countries involved in negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade initiative in the coming weeks, his office said Wednesday.
EU-Canada trade deal ’a threat to democracy’
11-Sep-2014 Economic Voice
Campaigners urge British government to amend ‘secret agreement’ that would allow Canadian companies new powers over government decisions
EU seeks compromise with Russia over Ukraine free-trade pact
11-Sep-2014 Reuters
Moscow is believed to be willing to accept Ukraine’s broad political and trade accord with the European Union under certain conditions, officials say.
India to start trade agreement talks with Peru
11-Sep-2014 Bernama
India will start negotiations for a free trade agreement (FTA) with Peru to boost bilateral relations and to expand its trade and investment ties, especially in the defence sector with the Latin American region.
‘India willing to go ahead with free trade pact with EU’
11-Sep-2014 Free Press Journal
India on Wednesday said it is willing to go in for a free trade agreement (FTA) with the European Union but wants the 27-member bloc to address the issues flagged by New Delhi.
550+ US groups reject fast-track trade promotion authority
11-Sep-2014 Sierra Club
Nearly 600 US organizations led by the Sierra Club, AFL-CIO, the Communications Workers of America, the Citizens Trade Campaign, and Public Citizen sent a letter to Senate Finance Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR) firmly rejecting fast-track trade promotion authority and calling for a new system for negotiating and implementing trade agreements.
Full CETA leak available
11-Sep-2014
Taiwan, China reopen free trade talks amid protest
10-Sep-2014 AFP
Taiwan and China resumed talks Wednesday at an undisclosed location on a goods free trade agreement, sparking a protest against secrecy by demonstrators suspicious of closer ties with Beijing.
Guatemala: activists defeat ’Monsanto Law’
10-Sep-2014 World War 4 Report
The law was originally passed to comply with an intellectual property requirement in the 2004 Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA), and it was unclear whether Guatemala might now be excluded from the US-promoted trade bloc.