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29-Jun-2017 Food Business News
U.S. grain groups testify at NAFTA hearings
US Grains Council outlined improvements suggestions for the agreement, including elements drawn from the TPP text as well as updated sanitary and phytosanitary, biotechnology synchronization and energy provisions. -
29-Jun-2017 Stock Market Wire
Churchill updates on ICSID arbitration
Churchill Mining has confirmed that the stay on enforcement of the East Kutai Coal Project Award will continue pending a decision on the Annulment Application. -
29-Jun-2017 bilaterals.org
Trade politics in flux: what social movement responses?
Instead of settling for more “inclusive” brands of capitalism, we ought to reclaim and build a clear and radical political and economic vision. -
29-Jun-2017 Reuters
China open to free-trade agreement with Mexico
China is open to negotiating a free-trade agreement with Mexico, said the Chinese ambassador to the country, a fillip for Mexico as it faces uncertainty over its trade deals with the United States. -
29-Jun-2017 In These Times
Trump is trying to make NAFTA even worse. It’s time to throw sand in the gears
While the people who gathered in Mexico City have long opposed NAFTA for its pro-corporate bent, a consensus emerged that President Trump and his team are cooking up something even worse. -
29-Jun-2017 CBC
More trouble for Canada-EU trade deal, as drug changes delay implementation
Goal of implementing most of CETA this summer slips farther from reach. -
28-Jun-2017 PTI
RCEP pact:700 officials from 16 nations to meet in Hyderabad
Officials from RCEP negotiating nations will meet in Hyderabad -
28-Jun-2017 Greenpeace
EU-Japan FTA - draft chapters (Jan 2016 - Jan 2017)
14 draft chapters, as leaked by Greenpeace -
28-Jun-2017 Radio Mundo Real
Six years after the ‘Aymarazo’ protests in Peru
Criminal charges pending against 18 community leaders and a billion-dollar court case at ICSID.
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28-Jun-2017 Undercurrent News
Norway’s seafood council sees Japanese free trade agreement in the future
Japan is the main market for Norwegian seafood in Asia and is a strategically important market for seafood. -
28-Jun-2017 The Mainichi
Japan minister urges EU to give way on dairy sector in talks
Japanese farm minister Yuji Yamamoto urged the European Union to give way on its demand that Japan open its market to dairy products from the bloc. -
28-Jun-2017 Dairy News
China FTA talks set to resume
Tariff elimination on dairy into China is one issue New Zealand will be looking to progress in the Free Trade Agreement update with China. -
28-Jun-2017 Taiwan News
Taiwan’s premier reaffirms government’s commitment to joining TPP
Taiwan government is committed to seeking membership for the country in the Trans-Pacific Partnership and playing its part in bringing the trade agreement into force. -
28-Jun-2017 IISD
Brazil’s Cooperation and Facilitation Investment Agreements (CFIA) and recent developments
Brazil has never approved any BITs nor did it sign the ICSID Convention but it continued to receive significant amounts of foreign direct investment (FDI), consolidating its position as one of the world’s top recipients of FDI -
28-Jun-2017 TASS
Paris court confirms invalidation of seizing Russian space agency accounts in Yukos case
Yukos, once Russia’s largest oil major, was accused of tax crimes and declared a bankrupt by a Russian court ruling in 2006 while its assets were sold at auctions during the liquidation procedure. -
28-Jun-2017 Politico
Guatemala off the hook in CAFTA labor case
The U.S., for the most part, lost its first challenge of another country’s adherence to the labor rules under a trade deal. -
27-Jun-2017 Public Citizen
As NAFTA hearings open, more than 100,000 petitions delivered and 50,000 public comments filed demanding a new deal to benefit working people, not just corporations
Unprecedented public response to administration request for comment spotlights political stakes of NAFTA renegotiation. -
27-Jun-2017 NZ Herald
NZ first in line for Latin and South American trade deal
New Zealand hopes to take another step towards being the first country to sign up to a trade deal with a group of Latin American and South American countries. -
27-Jun-2017 Farmers Weekly
US Brazilian beef ban casts doubt on Mercusor trade agreement
A move by the US Department of Agriculture to ban imports of fresh Brazilian beef has added weight to calls to remove agriculture from a free trade agreement between the EU and countries in the Mercosur trading-bloc. -
27-Jun-2017 Eurasianet
Azerbaijan: A reset with the EU?
Azerbaijan is pursuing a new agreement with the European Union focused on security, trade, and investment, and lacking the type of commitments on political reforms that scuttled the last agreement the two sides tried to reach.