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8-Mar-2016 The Japan Times
Japan’s prefectures map out damage to agriculture sectors by TPP trade pact
Adding to the national political debate will be local economic projections on how the TPP will affect prefectural agriculture, forestry, and fisheries sectors. -
8-Mar-2016 Vietnamnet Bridge
Will Vietnamese garment contractors win in the TPP?
Many contract manufacturers in Vietnam are likely to see little benefits if the TPP goes through. -
8-Mar-2016 Financial Express
RCEP talks to stretch longer on differences over services
The negotiations for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) involving 16 countries could slow down in the coming months due to a lack of consensus over services. -
8-Mar-2016 Radio Australia
PACER Plus trade deal suffers a blow after PNG objections
PNG’s concerns about the current text on PACER-Plus makes common sense. Adam Wolfenden is from the Pacific Network on Globalisation, a group which has been critical of the deal explains. -
7-Mar-2016 The Globe and Mail
A CETA investment court is not the solution
This is one of the problems with this regime of investor rights. It confers enormous discretion on an elite corps of lawyers. -
7-Mar-2016 The Cattle Site
US dairy industry thanks government for Honduras cheese name work
The dairy industry has thanked the US government for its extensive work aimed at securing clarifications regarding the right to use several generic cheese names in exports to Honduras. -
7-Mar-2016 Todd N. Tucker
How can governments deal with #ISDS claims?
A research provides a set of pragmatic tools for governments on the receiving end of legal claims. -
7-Mar-2016 Katadata
EU asks Indonesia to eliminate import duties
The EU’s request for an import duty reduction of 95 percent for all trade items is a particular obstacle because Indonesian industrial products cannot compete with European products. -
7-Mar-2016 Nam News
ASEAN economic ministers committed to implementing matters agreed to in RCEP talks
Several countries have said they find it difficult to eliminate 65 per cent of the tariff lines upon signing of the RCEP, rising to 80 per cent in 10 years. -
4-Mar-2016 Alai
Migrants from the South, the contemporary faces of exclusion and marginalization
Today’s migrations, as macro international displacements of hundreds of thousands of people with or without documents — in many cases in precarious conditions of transit — have been and are one of the social processes that characterize what is happening in different latitudes of the earth since in the new century, in the global context of neoliberal economic restructuring directed by transnational enterprises and the capitalist countries of the first world. -
4-Mar-2016 UNCTAD
Japan-Iran BIT (2016)
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4-Mar-2016 Asia One
S’pore, Iran ink bilateral treaty on investment
Singapore has moved quickly to sign an investment treaty with oil-rich Iran to support Singapore firms investing in an economy that is emerging after the recent lifting of global sanctions. -
4-Mar-2016 Vietnamnet Bridge
EU earns right to public contracts
For the first time, as a result of EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement commitments, European investors will be able to offer tenders for various public infrastructure projects in Vietnam. -
4-Mar-2016 Huffington Post
CETA announcement shows it’s possible to fix trade deals
Corporations can still sue governments over public policy decisions they don’t like but the real lesson from the ISDS reforms, in fact, is that public opposition and political mobilization can change things. -
4-Mar-2016 The Street
Trans Pacific Partnership could change the apparel indusry
TPP could disrupt the fast fashion momentum and a fledgling made-in-America clothing rebound by renewing the attractiveness of offshore manufacturing via lower tariffs. -
4-Mar-2016 Today Online
Harmonising IP laws across ASEAN: Is it possible?
The economic integration of the ASEAN Economic Community leads to many challenges in the harmonisation of trade-related laws across ASEAN’s 10 member nations. -
3-Mar-2016 Viet Nam News
Revisions needed in IP compliance
Revision of the legal framework on intellectual property is recommended to ensure compliance with the EU – Viet Nam Free Trade Agreement. -
3-Mar-2016 Tele Sur
The impact of CAFTA: drugs, gangs, and immigration
It’s clear that the free-trade panacea promised by policymakers, especially its most enthusiastic cheerleaders has not come to pass. -
3-Mar-2016 The Irish News
United States and Europe disagree on GM crops
America, where GMOs have been in the human supply chain for more than two decades, want their currently banned crops to be imported into Europe. -
3-Mar-2016 FIDH
European commission found guilty of maladministration for EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement
European Ombudsman concluded that the Commission’s refusal to carry out a human rights impact assessment constituted maladministration.