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28-Feb-2017
The Tyee
FIPA means province could be blocked from improving care standards for residents.
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28-Feb-2017
The Hindu
But Ottawa’s stance on model investment treaty has New Delhi worried
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27-Feb-2017
Sunday Guardian Live
There is no principled basis for EU’s demand of extending patent protection beyond the period of 20 years.
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27-Feb-2017
Desmog
The trade deal could facilitate energy companies suing Member State governments when environmental policies threaten their profits.
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26-Feb-2017
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The recent death of the TPP has thrust RCEP further into the spotlight, and raised the stakes both for its sixteen prospective parties, and for lobbyists with designs to stamp their own mark on the text’s intellectual property and e-commerce chapters.
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26-Feb-2017
MSF
The intellectual property provisions initiated by Japan and South Korea go far beyond the requirements needed under international trade rules.
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25-Feb-2017
In Cyprus
Greek investors claim that they were discriminated against and lost millions in the bail-in of Cypriot bank deposits some four years and have launched legal action against Cyprus.
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25-Feb-2017
Disputing Blog
An arbitration tribunal has ordered Ecuador to pay a ConocoPhillips’ wholly-owned subsidiary nearly $380 million and ordered the company to pay Ecuador $42 million in response to the Republic’s counterclaim
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24-Feb-2017
CDR
The criticism of ‘double hat’ – arbitrator and counsel – is legitimate and needs to be addressed.
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24-Feb-2017
La Libre
Avec la validation du CETA, les consommateurs européens vont-ils à l’avenir trouver du bœuf canadien irradié dans les rayons des supermarchés ou leurs assiettes ?
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24-Feb-2017
All Africa
Tanzania wants a study conducted on the impact of the Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union on the East African Community.
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24-Feb-2017
International Business Times
Sealing a free trade between the two countries is reportedly the main agenda of Widodo’s visit to Australia.
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24-Feb-2017
Canadian Wheat Board Alliance
The approval by the European Union of CETA makes the world safer for the global agricultural cartels and much less pleasant for Canadian farmers and the consumers in both jurisdictions.
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24-Feb-2017
Les Echos
Les professionnels de l’élevage bovin comptent sur les parlementaires français pour qu’ils ne ratifient pas l’accord.
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24-Feb-2017
Economic & Political Weekly
With other mega regional trade agreements like the Trans–Pacific Partnership in uncertainty, trade treaties like the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership will acquire greater significance beyond their original ASEAN-centred grouping. The RCEP needs to be tracked for its implications for both the global trading system and the livelihoods of people.
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23-Feb-2017
The Guardian
Leaked document suggests Indian tariffs on scotch and Theresa May’s visa rules for skilled Indians had been impeding progress.
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23-Feb-2017
Ecojustice
What makes ISDS divisive is it exposes governments to potentially expensive private arbitration by foreign corporations who feel that environmental protection measures impede their business.
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23-Feb-2017
Manila Times
The American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines seemed to have taken the cudgels for the Philippine government by pushing for a bilateral free trade agreement with the United States.
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23-Feb-2017
LSM
The Latvian parliament, the Saeima, became the first in the European Union to fully ratify a groundbreaking free trade deal between the 28-member bloc and Canada.
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23-Feb-2017
CTV
"At its heart, CETA is a framework for trade that works for everyone." said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. So does it?