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28-Oct-2016 Government of Norway
TiSA - Norway second revised conditional offer (October 2016)
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28-Oct-2016 Secrétariat d’Etat suisse à l’économie
TiSA - second revised Swiss offer (October 2016)
Released by the Government of Switzerland -
28-Oct-2016 Council of the European Union
EU-Canada FTA (CETA) - joint interpretative instrument (October 2016)
As released by the Council of the European Union -
28-Oct-2016 AFL-CIO
How the TPP trades away migrant rights
The TPP would fuel displacement and fail migrant workers -
28-Oct-2016 People Over Profit
Primer on RCEP and TPPA
FTAs operate as extensions of the WTO resulting in decentralized and yet intensifying attacks against workers and peasants across the different global regions. -
28-Oct-2016 Nikkei Asian Review
Vietnam’s reluctance to ratify the TPP is bad news for Washington
Vietnam’s decision to hold off ratifying the Trans-Pacific Partnership is a further blow to the beleaguered trade pact and a setback for American economic ambitions in Asia. -
28-Oct-2016 swissinfo
Swiss cheese threatened by trade deals
Chemical products and cheese top the list of Swiss exports endangered by a proposed trade deal between the European Union and the United States, a government agency reported on Thursday. -
28-Oct-2016 Inequality
El Salvador lessons for the TPP fight
In a tale of people power over corporate power, a tribunal has ruled against a global company in a case over mining rights. Now we need to block trade deals that allow these “investor-state” lawsuits. -
27-Oct-2016 Rapsi
Rusal demands compensations from Ukraine in international arbitration
Subsidiaries of Russian aluminum giant Rusal filed a claim with the ICSID, demanding Ukraine to compensate the company for the investments into the Zaporozhsky Aluminium Plant -
27-Oct-2016 Lexology
Back to the future? Foreign investment protection in Cuba
Cuba’s investment protection framework is surprisingly robust, though there are serious questions about the de facto protections actually afforded to U.S. and other investors. -
27-Oct-2016 Financial Post
One step closer to a deal: Here are Belgium’s conditions for signing CETA
After doubt was cast on Europe’s ability to negotiate a free trade deal with Canada, the tides turned as Belgium came to an internal consensus on conditions for signing the EU-Canada deal -
27-Oct-2016 Stamford Advocate
Peruvians urge Himes to oppose TPP
"Our experience in Peru demonstrates how the TPP model prioritizes trade and investment above the protection of the environment, ecosystems, and life itself." -
27-Oct-2016 Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Intl. investment policy exacerbates vulnerabilities of people to corporate land grabs, says expert
As commercial pressures on resources increase, some of the world’s poorest people face the risk of dispossession under contested circumstances. -
27-Oct-2016 Electronic Frontier Foundation
What do trade agreements do for open access—and what don’t they do?
The absence of support for open access in trade agreements comes as no surprise when considering that there are no representatives from the education sector, nor any library or archive representatives, in the relevant closed-door trade advisory committees -
27-Oct-2016 Reuters
Belgium keeps EU, Canada waiting over trade deal
Belgian politicians failed to break their deadlock over a planned EU-Canada free trade agreement. The news prompted Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to call off plans to fly to Brussels. -
27-Oct-2016 ITF
World union meeting unites against TiSA and CETA
Global trade union leaders meeting in Panama have united in condemnation of TiSA (the Trade in Services Agreement) and CETA (the Comprehensive Economic & Trade Agreement), highlighting the risks that both trade agreements pose to jobs and job security. -
27-Oct-2016 PSI
Public sector unions to oppose Asia Pacific mega trade deal RCEP
On 12 October, the closing day of the Asia Pacific Regional Conference in Fukuoka, around 250 delegates representing more than 70 PSI affiliates from 18 countries resolved to intensify the struggle against the ambitious Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership under negotiation among 16 countries in the region. -
26-Oct-2016 University World News
Do free trade deals pose a threat to higher education?
The awareness of the threat posed to the public realm by international ‘free trade’ agreements has been heightened by the publication of new leaks and criticism from leading intellectuals. -
26-Oct-2016 The Hindu
RCEP: India, China struggle to agree on tariff cuts in goods
Trade Ministers from the 16-member RCEP will meet in the Philippines, on November 3-4 to see if final commitments in the area of goods, services and investments can be reached. -
26-Oct-2016 Nigeria Today
SADC, EAC and COMESA seek to implement Tripartite Free Trade Area
The 10th EAC-COMESA-SADC Tripartite meeting opened in Nairobi to resolve issues that remain outstanding before the implementation of the Tripartite Free Trade Area.