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EU-US free trade pact cause of concern for Indian pharma firms
11-Dec-2013 Financial Chronicle
There are apprehensions that TTIP would prevent Indian pharma companies to come to market with the same products - they would need to pass through several rounds of additional tests. As a result, prices will move up significantly.
Food safety in the EU-US trade agreement: going outside the box
10-Dec-2013 GRAIN
The transantlantic trade deal’s agenda for food safety if all about reducing hoops for agribusiness. Not only would this hurt Europeans, whose clearly higher standards would be dragged down, but it would affect many other countries’ food producers and consumers, since any deal reached between Washington and Brussels will set a new international benchmark.
TPP ministerial session ends without final agreement
10-Dec-2013 Mainchi
Japan and the United States, which have been in bitter conflict over thorny issues including Japanese tariffs on farm products as well as auto trade, failed to fill the gaps during the key session in Singapore, hampering the whole negotiation.
Canada - Africa: Aggressively negotiating treaties
10-Dec-2013 The Africa Report
Canada’s Minister of international trade, Ed Fast explains the country’s strategic shift to link development aid with private sector investments.
Webinar: The promises and perils of proposed US-EU trade deal for food and agriculture
9-Dec-2013 IATP
On the occasion the third round of negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the Heinrich Boell Foundation and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) invite you to join them for a webinar on the agreement’s potential impacts on agriculture in the US and EU.
2nd Wikileaks release: US refusing to budge on TPP issues
9-Dec-2013 IT News
A new set of leaked documents from the latest round of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations show large differences remain between the 12 nations trying to hammer out a trade agreement.
India-UAE to sign bilateral investment protection agreement
9-Dec-2013 ANI
India and the UAE will next week sign an agreement to promote and protect bilateral investments.
India-EU free trade pact not likely in 3-4 years: Think tank
9-Dec-2013 PTI
India and the European Union are unlikely to ink a free trade pact in the next three to four years, a Belgium-based independent think tank, the European Centre for International Political Economy, has said. Echoing similar views, an MEP said, "It all depends on whether the Indian Parliament gets to pass the Insurance Bill in the Winter Session."
EU brewers want ’unfair’ beer tax removed through TTIP
9-Dec-2013 Euractiv
European brewers last week urged EU negotiators to put a removal of taxes on European brewers, from which their American competitors are exempt, on the table in the free-trade negotiations with the US.
Taipei-Manila ECA study almost complete: envoy
9-Dec-2013 China Post
A feasibility study on signing an Economic Cooperation Agreement (ECA) between Taiwan and the Philippines is nearing completion, the Philippines’ top envoy to Taiwan said recently.
Joe Stiglitz writes open letter to TPP negotiators
8-Dec-2013 KEI
"At this point in time, we do not need a TRIPS plus trade agreement, we need a TRIPS minus agreement."
China-EU bilateral investment treaty: Can it be achieved? – analysis
6-Dec-2013 Eurasia Review
The BITs China signed with individual European countries in the 1980s and 1990s were mainly intended to attract FDI and are no longer suitable for the new economic realities facing China.
EU-Georgia Association Agreement made public
6-Dec-2013 The Messenger
The text of the Association Agreement initialed between the European Union and Georgia has been made public.
EU-Moldova FTA (2013)
6-Dec-2013 European Commission
As initialled on 29 Nov 2013
EU-Georgia FTA (2013)
6-Dec-2013 DG Trade
As initialled on 29 Nov 2013
Leaks confirm fears about Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement
5-Dec-2013 Redeye
In mid-November, Wikileaks released the secret draft text for the Intellectual Property Rights Chapter of the TPP. Stuart Trew talks about what this leak tells us about the agreement as a whole.
Vatican criticises TTP and TTIP
5-Dec-2013 KEI
At the WTO 9th Ministerial in Bali, Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi delivered a withering critique of the Trans Pacific Partnership and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
Writ challenging legality of TICFA filed
5-Dec-2013 Financial Express
A writ petition was filed with the High Court in Dhaka Wednesday challenging the legality of the Trade and Investment Cooperation Framework Agreement (TICFA), signed recently between Bangladesh and the USA.
Korea, China likely to join US-led trans-Pacific trade pact
5-Dec-2013 Business Korea
The South Korean government recently unveiled its interest in joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership while some experts forecast that China cannot help but to join as well.
Korea-Canada free trade: The thaw begins
5-Dec-2013 The Diplomat
A number of obstacles to a free trade agreement remain on both sides, but there is growing incentive to overcome them.