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1-Feb-2018 Pharmacist
Over 100 organizations concerned with health sign open letter to Canadian, Mexican and US ministers of health and trade
AIDS, cancer, religious-based, teacher, and retiree advocacy groups were among the more than 100 organizations that recently signed a letter warning health and trade ministers of the United States, Canada, and Mexico not to undermine NAFTA’s access to affordable medicines. -
1-Feb-2018 Xinhua
Botswana signs tripartite free trade area agreement
Botswana signed a tripartite free trade area agreement which marked a milestone in the trade agenda of the African Union. -
1-Feb-2018 SeeNews
Serbia signs free trade agreement with Turkey
Serbia said it has signed a free trade agreement with Turkey to boost its meat and food exports. -
1-Feb-2018 IIED
Public-private partnerships and aid’s ’private turn’: addressing the investment law dimensions
Where PPP projects turn sour, governments could be exposed to arbitration claims under applicable investment treaties. -
1-Feb-2018 Reuters
Swiss see no quick deal on new EU treaty
Switzerland will not meet the European Commission’s deadline for a deal on a new treaty that would bind the neutral country more closely to its biggest trading partner. -
31-Jan-2018 Reuters
EU yields more on beef to accelerate Latam trade talks
The European Union has offered to open its markets to more beef from Latin American bloc Mercosur. The EU hopes an improved offer will encourage Mercosur to open its markets to cars and EU dairy produce more rapidly and allow EU companies to bid in public tenders. -
31-Jan-2018 Reuters
UK PM May says she wants free trade deal with China
Britain is seeking a free trade agreement with China, Prime Minister Theresa May said, as she flew to the country for talks with Chinese leaders, adding that more should be done immediately to open up market access for British firms. -
31-Jan-2018 Ceylon Today
Mode 4 not opened in FTA Singapore rejects SL request
The Singapore government has rejected a request from the Sri Lankan government for the movement of natural person (mode 4) be completely opened under the Free Trade Agreement. -
31-Jan-2018 Yonhap
S. Korea raises safeguard issue in 2nd FTA talks with US
South Korea raised trade remedy issues during the second round of talks to amend its free trade agreement with the United States in response to Washington’s slapping steep safeguard tariffs on washers and solar panels. -
31-Jan-2018 Global Times
Mongolia to push for trade ties with S.Korea
Mongolian Prime Minister expressed strong expectations for an economic partnership agreement with South Korea. -
31-Jan-2018 Greenpeace
CETA, regulatory cooperation and food safety
Agricultural and food standards are among those targeted by CETA’s focus on eliminating so-called ‘non-tariff barriers’. -
30-Jan-2018 iPolitics
Canadian NAFTA auto rules of origin idea ‘opposite’ of US goals: Lighthizer
While “significant” challenges remain, all three ministers said some progress has been made this round. -
30-Jan-2018 Food Magazine
Gold Coast hosts second round of Pacific Alliance Free Trade Agreement negotiations
Australia is currently hosting the second round of Pacific Alliance Free Trade Agreement negotiations. -
30-Jan-2018 The Straits Times
Asean has core role in negotiations for RCEP trade pact: Chinese Foreign Ministry
China has affirmed Asean’s core role in negotiations for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). -
30-Jan-2018 Lexology
Ecuador adopts a new approach towards foreign investment
Recent declarations made by members of the newly elected government of Ecuador reveal a reversal of its predecessor’s decision to denounce and withdrawal from the ICSID Convention, as well as all of Ecuador’s bilateral investment treaties -
30-Jan-2018 Council of Canadians
Trudeau’s ’progressive’ TPP violates Indigenous rights, opposed by Māori and Mapuche peoples
Justin Trudeau’s so-called ’Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership’ (CPTPP) - to be signed on March 8 in Chile - is a violation of Indigenous rights. -
30-Jan-2018 Parti Sosialis Malaysia
Towards a peoples charter on international trade agreements
It is now time we open up the dialogue on the kind of trade agreements that we want to see in place. -
30-Jan-2018
EU-Mercosur association agreement: The SPS and sustainability chapters in the Uruguay leaks
Similar to the July 2017 draft of the Mercosur agreement, the November 2017 version only contains one single reference to the precautionary principle -
30-Jan-2018 South China Morning Post
Free trade – not turf rows – tipped to top China, Japan, South Korea summit agenda
The leaders of three of Asia’s biggest economies will aim to advance a free-trade agreement and economic cooperation, putting territorial rows and military tensions aside at an expected trilateral summit in April, Chinese diplomatic observers said. -
30-Jan-2018 European Council of Foreign Relations
EU-Japan partnership agreements herald new era of closer cooperation
The intensification of negotiations between the EU and Japan came in response to broader geopolitical developments such as the rise of China, Trump, and Brexit.