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11-Aug-2016 Western Sahara Resource Watch
See how the controversial plantations boomed in the desert
The large increase of plantation infrastructure in occupied Western Sahara at the time when Morocco and the EU were negotiating a trade agreement suggests that the Moroccan government and the Moroccan/French companies involved had expected the trade agreement to go through. -
11-Aug-2016 Economic Times
India writes to Singapore, Japan and South Korea to recast investment deals
India has turned its attention to comprehensive economic partnership agreements with Singapore, Japan and South Korea after having fixed the loopholes in the much-abused investment treaties with Mauritius and Cyprus. -
11-Aug-2016 RCEP Legal
RCEP services chapter: Risks for developing countries’ and LDCs’ policy space and regulatory sovereignty
The leaked RCEP services chapter from August 2015 shows the non-ASEAN countries, especially Australia, New Zealand, South Korea and Japan, have been very aggressive in their demands and insisted on new ways to bind the hands of governments in the future. -
11-Aug-2016 Post Online
Mexico expects FTA with Argentina within two years
Mexico would like to reach a free trade agreement with Argentina to rapidly increase the bilateral trade worth $2.5 billion annually, Mexico’s Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo said. -
11-Aug-2016 SOL
Ghana’s thoughtless ratification of the interim EPA, based on false data
In ratifying the EU-Ghana interim EPA on 3 August 2016, the Ghanean Parliament has shot itself in the foot. Analysis by Jacques Berthelot. -
11-Aug-2016 Handelsblatt
Handelsblatt exclusive: No TTIP deal this year
Negotiators in Brussels and Washington haven’t finalized a single chapter of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP, according to an internal ministry report obtained by Handelsblatt. -
11-Aug-2016 Standard
Collapse of EU trade deal: Kenya finds itself isolated for a third time in four months
Kenya finds itself isolated after its peers in East Africa develop cold feet on a trade deal with the European Union. -
11-Aug-2016 Global Intelligence Trust
The British service sector: potential UK-China free trade agreement
On August 2, the Chinese ministry of commerce expressed willingness to jointly conduct a feasibility study for a UK-China FTA -
10-Aug-2016 Colombo Gazette
India and Sri Lanka begin talks on ETCA agreement
While India is looking at the Economic and Technical Cooperation Agreement as a mechanism to increase Indian investment in Sri Lanka, the Sri Lankan government is wanting to use ETCA to become part of the Indian supply chain -
10-Aug-2016 Yonhap
Trade data shows fallacy in Trump’s claims about Korea-US FTA
Korea’s government-affiliated news agency, Yonhap, engages US presidential candidate Donald Trump on who has benefitted most from the US-Korea FTA. -
10-Aug-2016 Deccan Chronicle
Free people from ‘dictatorship’ of 0.01%
Through RCEP, Asian countries may be dragged into the TPP under pressure of harmonisation, especially on issues related to seed, warns Vandana Shiva -
10-Aug-2016 The Hindu
RCEP: Transparency in trade talks sought
With India set to become a signatory to the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, a new trade pact with 15 countries including China, experts and civil society organisations in Kerala have stepped up the demand for transparency in trade and tariff negotiations. -
10-Aug-2016 LA Times
US court rules for Chevron in Ecuador rainforest-damage case
Ecuadorean plaintiffs cannot collect a $9-billion judgment in the US against Chevron Corp. for rainforest damage, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. -
9-Aug-2016 New Internationalist
How the Dutch could derail CETA
As thousands discuss free trade at the World Social Forum in Montreal, Canada’s experience with NAFTA may offer lessons for the Netherlands, writes Niels Jongerius -
9-Aug-2016 The Nation
Grassroots Democrats are making the TPP a big issue in congressional races
Trade policy in general—and the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement in particular—has become a vital concern for Democrats in the upcoming US elections. -
9-Aug-2016 The Guardian
UK could clinch trade deal with EU within two years, says expert
The UK could strike a trade deal with the European Union within two years but will struggle to win concessions on free movement of labour, according to one of Britain’s most experienced trade negotiators. -
9-Aug-2016 Radio NZ
PACER Plus to go ahead with or without PNG
Papua New Guinea has made it clear it will not be taking part in the final negotiations for the Australia and New Zealand led "Trade and Development Agreement" saying it would instead be seeking to establish bilateral trade agreements of its own.
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9-Aug-2016 Live Mint
India’s new stance at RCEP may benefit China
In a major shift in stance that may benefit China, India has agreed to provide similar tariff cuts to all Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement member countries with limited deviation. -
9-Aug-2016 The Nation
RCEP members to finalise pact before year-end
The 16 member states of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) have agreed to finalise negotiations on the pact before the end of this year, while Asean will conduct a feasibility study for Asean-Eurasian free-trade talks. -
8-Aug-2016 PTI
Clause for evergreening of patents dropped from RCEP: Nirmala
Provisions related to evergreening of patents in the proposed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) was dropped after stiff opposition from India, Parliament was informed today.