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22-Jun-2016 Inter-Press Service
Civil society in Latin America campaigns against Trans-Pacific Partnership
Civil society organisations from Chile, Mexico and Peru are pressing their legislatures and those of other countries not to ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) -
21-Jun-2016 Ukraine Today
Ukraine and Canada ink memorandum on export support, trade and investment
Ukrainian officials expect to sign a free trade agreement with Canada on 11-12 July - during Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s official visit to Ukraine. -
21-Jun-2016 Friends of the Earth Europe
Time for EU to hold corporations to account
Friends of the Earth Europe welcomes a reference to the UN process to establish binding rules that would force multinational corporations to respect human rights laws, but calls on the EU to start actively supporting this UN process. -
21-Jun-2016 Politico
Guatemala labor case drags on
A long-running dispute over Guatemala’s compliance with the labor provisions in the Central American Free Trade Agreement won’t be resolved soon. -
21-Jun-2016 Ars Technica
Italy to block democratic vote on CETA for 500 million Europeans, according to leaked letter
Italian minister claims credibility of EU as a "reliable trade partner" is at stake. -
21-Jun-2016 European Council
East African Community: EU to sign economic partnership agreement with Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda
The Council authorised, on behalf of the EU, the signature and provisional application of the economic partnership agreement (EPA) between the EU and the East African Community (EAC) -
21-Jun-2016 Upside Down World
Rural communities’ struggle against US-owned mine continues in Guatemalan Supreme Court
The long-running struggle of rural communities in Guatemala against the United States-based mining firm Kappes, Cassiday, and Associates (KCA) continues in Guatemala’s national courts. -
21-Jun-2016 PANG
Defending Pacific Ways of Life: A Social Impact Assessment of PACER-Plus
Defending Pacific ways of life: A Peoples Social Impact Assessment of PACER-Plus, was commissioned by the Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG) to provide Pacific governments, negotiators, parliamentarians, civil society actors, customary landowners and the private sector with an alternative assessment to the impacts that PACER-Plus will have on the region. -
20-Jun-2016 Nigeria Today
EU woos Nigeria with N1.4tn EPA offer
The European Union has asked Nigeria to sign the Economic Partnership Agreement with attractive offers including a €6.5bn (about N1.4tn) Development Programme. -
20-Jun-2016 Tele Sur
Colombian campesinos: change the constitution, end ’free trade’
“We hold free trade agreements responsible for the bankruptcy of small producers, and we want them renegotiated” -
20-Jun-2016 Vieuws
Seoul prefers ISDS for its investment chapter but could consider ICS
High-level South Korean diplomats have expressed their preference for the old investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) system over the Investment Court System (ICS) in the framework of a future investment chapter in the EU-South Korea FTA. -
20-Jun-2016 Prensa Latina
Mining company threatens Guatemala with lawsuit in USA
The Guatemala Mining Explorations (Exmingua) threatens with filing a lawsuit against Guatemala after being forced to suspend operations by decree of the Constitutional Court . -
20-Jun-2016 The Ecologist
TISA ’free trade’ deal to force draconian social, environmental, financial deregulation
A leaked text from the ’Trade In Services Agreement’ negotiations shows that TISA is set to unleash a massive wave of deregulation affecting social, environmental and financial standards. -
17-Jun-2016 Vieuws
Member states to give greenlight to opening FTA talks with Indonesia
EU member states are expected to give their formal greenlight to the opening of negotiations on a free trade agreement (FTA) with Indonesia. -
17-Jun-2016 Stop TTIP
Do the CETA CHECK
Ask Members of the European Parliament about the planned free trade agreement between the EU and Canada (CETA). Let’s remove the secrecy behind CETA and bring the discussion out into the open! -
17-Jun-2016 The Guardian
New rules to regulate Europe’s hormone-disrupting chemicals
European commission launches world’s first system for classifying and banning endocrine disruptors against a barrage of criticism -
17-Jun-2016 Business Day
Investment act may clash with SADC treaty
Legal practitioners have been saying for some time now that SA’s Protection of Investment Act is not in sync with the country’s commitments under the Southern African Development Community Protocol on Finance and Investment. -
17-Jun-2016 Inquirer
DOE seeks end to Shell arbitration case
The Philippine government seeks to resolve the international arbitration case with operators of the Malampaya gas platform led by Royal Dutch Shell plc. -
16-Jun-2016 Korea Herald
Korea-Colombia FTA to be effective July
Colombia informed South Korea earlier in the day that it has completed the ratification process of the deal clinched in 2013, adding that the deal will go into effect on July 15. -
16-Jun-2016 EurActiv
TTIP talks bogged down in food standards debate
Seemingly insurmountable differences in food standards are threatening to sink trade negotiations between the United States and the European Union.