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Factbox - Issues at the heart of EU-US free-trade talks
14-Jun-2013 Reuters
The European Union will try to overcome French resistance to free-trade talks with the United States on Friday and keep alive plans for a deal that could boost their struggling economies by dramatically increasing transatlantic business.
EU reveals its EPA ‘cards’
14-Jun-2013 Islands Business
When Pacific trade negotiators sit down later this month with their European Commission counterparts to carve out the finer details of their Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), the pressure points would be fishery, market access and services.
The rise of regionalism in international investment policymaking: consolidation or complexity?
14-Jun-2013 UNCTAD
A recent UNCTAD analysis of nine selected regional negotiations has found that, were these to lead to agreements, they could replace close to 10 per cent of today’s bilateral investment treaties (BITs).
Seoul to become bridge between US, China through FTAs
14-Jun-2013 Yonhap
Under its new trade policy, Korea’s top priority will be to conclude negotiations for a bilateral FTA with China at the earliest date possible, while also seeking to speed up negotiations for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)
India, Israel inching closer to signing FTA: Israeli envoy
14-Jun-2013 IANS
Hoping that an India-Israel free trade agreement (FTA) would be signed "in the coming months", the Israeli ambassador on Thursday said the agreement would be a "strategic game changer" in trade relations between the two countries.
EU-US free trade agreement: A sectoral overview
13-Jun-2013 FTI Consulting
An indepth look at possible stumbling blocks in the EU-US FTA negotiations
Rejecting free trade requires new forms of regionalism
13-Jun-2013 Islands Business
Papua New Guinea’s trade Minister, Richard Maru, recently set a cat amongst the pigeons by saying that PNG was not interested in the regional trade negotiations known as PACER-Plus. “We can’t export our taro there, they won’t accept our greens...There’s nothing to be gained from a trade agreement at the moment. ‘We cannot justify the huge amount of resources we expend on such negotiations. They are a complete waste of time.”
China’s agenda in Switzerland (and Europe)
13-Jun-2013 The Interpreter
For his first trip abroad as Chinese premier last month, Li Keqiang went to India and Pakistan and then continued to Switzerland and Germany before heading back home. Why Switzerland?
North American free trade agreement with Europe needed, says ex-Mexican diplomat
13-Jun-2013 McCleans
Canadian and U.S. efforts to strike free trade deals with Europe must eventually be harmonized into a North American agreement involving Mexico, a former Mexican diplomat said Wednesday.
Analysis: Cows block path toward Canada-EU free trade deal
13-Jun-2013 Reuters
Salvaging a free-trade deal between Canada and the European Union after four years of talks will require skillful pasture politicking to pacify beef and dairy cow farmers who see more risk than opportunity.
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13-Jun-2013
Court ruling fails to stop business lobbies’ privileged access in EU-India trade talks
13-Jun-2013 CEO
In a ruling delivered on 7 June following a lawsuit by lobby watchdog Corporate Europe Observatory, the EU’s General Court in Luxembourg concludes that the European Commission did not violate EU rules when withholding information about the EU-India free trade talks from the public, even though it had already shared the information with corporate lobby groups
Pacific-EU trade relations on a knife edge
13-Jun-2013 ABC
Pacific trade ministers have still had no reply to their threat to pull out of long-running negotiations with Europe for an Economic Partnership Agreement.
NSA surveillance debate could threaten US-EU trade deal
12-Jun-2013 Marketplace
The furor over U.S. Internet surveillance could hit transatlantic trade. A senior European lawmaker says the revelations could potentially derail plans for a U.S.-EU free trade deal.
A transatlantic corporate bill of rights
12-Jun-2013 A transatlantic corporate bill of rights
Leaked draft versions of the EU negotiating mandate for a far-reaching free trade agreement with the US reveal the European Commission’s plans to enshrine more powers for corporations in the deal. The proposal follows a persistent campaign by industry lobby groups and law firms to empower large companies to challenge regulations both at home and abroad if they affect their profits.
Ghana: Gov’t to engage stakeholders before signing EPA
12-Jun-2013 MyJoy
Ghana now has 15 months to sign the full Agreement. This is after the EU reviewed the deadline from 2016 to October next year.
Israel, Colombia sign free trade agreement
11-Jun-2013 Xinhua
Israel signed a free trade deal with Colombia on Monday, seeking to boost economic ties and expand its ventures in South America.
Investor privileges in EU-US trade deal threaten public interest and democracy
11-Jun-2013 TNI
This new briefing from CEO and TNI analyses leaked proposals for investor-state dispute settlement under the proposed EU-US FTA
Small B.C. First Nation challenging Canada-China free trade agreement
6-Jun-2013 The Province
Members of the Hupacasath First Nations, seen in 2008 at a forestry protest, are now challenging a Canada-China free trade agreement. Photograph by: Wayne Leidenfrost , PNG file photo
Argentine court revokes US$19 bln embargo on Chevron
6-Jun-2013 Bernama
Argentina’s Supreme Court revoked a US$19 billion embargo on the assets and future income of Chevron Corp.’s Argentina subsidiary, giving the US oil giant a victory in a decades-old battle with indigenous groups in Ecuador.