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10-Feb-2016 La Nación
Medicines Without Frontiers: the TPP – a barrier to access to life saving generic medicines
"The battle to prevent this trade agreement from being implemented is far from over", asserts the humanitarian organization, joining the rejection that the treaty Chile signed in New Zealand arouses. -
10-Feb-2016 Comesa Business Council
Regional dialogue set to ensure the inclusiveness of the private sector in Tripartite Free Trade Area Agreement negotiations
The inaugural Tripartite Regional Dialogue will ensure inclusive participation of the private sector in the Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) negotiations. -
10-Feb-2016 The Hindu
RCEP: Tough-talking Delhi says free services if you want deals on goods
New Delhi is working on a second paper on freer movement of contractual services suppliers (CSS) and independent professionals. -
9-Feb-2016 UNCTAD
Record number of investor-state arbitrations filed in 2015
The number of investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS) cases filed in 2015 reached a record high of 70. -
9-Feb-2016 The Economic Times
US wants bilateral treaty modelled on India’s FTAs with Japan & South Korea
A draft copy of the proposed India-US Bilateral Investment Treaty is not ambitious enough to attract American investors to India, feels Washington -
9-Feb-2016 KHRC
An assessment of the possible implications of the EAC-EU EPA on Kenyan agricultural sector and its compatibility with the WTO rules
The full implementation of EPA, may shift consumption away from local products, to EU goods. -
9-Feb-2016 EDRi
Trade in Services Agreement - EDRi’s position
The greatest concerns regarding TiSA involve the introduction of greater limitations on the government’s right to regulate and the inclusion of potentially harmful provisions for the protection of the fundamental rights to privacy and data protection. -
9-Feb-2016 The Bangkok Post
Forget about joining TPP
Indigenous Maori people angry about the so-called "free trade" treaty asked Mr Key to refrain from bragging about the TPP at Waitangi Day ceremonies. -
8-Feb-2016 Jeune Afrique
La Guinée équatoriale gagne en arbitrage contre le groupe Francisco Hernando Contreras
Le tribunal arbitral du Cirdi s’est déclaré incompétent pour juger le différend qui oppose le groupe espagnol de BTP et Malabo, dans le cadre d’une procédure déclenchée en 2012. -
8-Feb-2016 The Japan Times
The predators behind the TPP
Powerful corporations have been allowed to swallow the state; they have created a “predator state,” which they naturally exploit for their own expansion. -
8-Feb-2016 War on Want
What I didn’t read in the TTIP reading room
Katja Kipping was one of the first German MPs to gain access to the new TTIP reading room opened in Berlin, and she has written up a report of her experience. -
8-Feb-2016 ITUC
TPP Agreement bad for democracy, rights, public services and health
The ITUC has called the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) a major setback for employment and workers’ rights prospects, and signaled the determination of unions in TPP countries to oppose it. -
8-Feb-2016 L’Observatoire des multinationales
Les traités de libre-échange sont des armes de destruction massive
De la décolonisation au Tafta -
8-Feb-2016 América Economía
ICSID orders Argentina to pay US$136 million plus interest for contractual breaches
The ICSID, the World Bank’s international arbitration tribunal, ordered Argentina to pay 136.1 million dollars plus interest to the companies, EDF International, Saur International and León Participaciones Argentinas for breach of contract. -
7-Feb-2016 European Commission
EU-Vietnam FTA (2016)
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5-Feb-2016 Maori TV
Voice of protest returns to Waitangi shores
The voice of protest made its way along the Bay of Islands to its traditional home on the shores of Waitangi, to Te Tii Marae. At the centre of the protest was the TPP agreement.
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5-Feb-2016 Huffington Post
Trans-Pacific Partnership being sold with bogus economic models
The TPP is a lousy deal on the pure economics, which is why it is currently being sold to the American people and Congress using bogus economic analysis. -
5-Feb-2016 Live Mint
India to defer finalizing trade pact with Australia
Govt thinks it may lose leveraging power by sealing a deal ahead of the RCEP pact, of which Australia is a part. -
5-Feb-2016 Merco Press
Argentina agrees to pay Italian bond holders including “a reasonable interest”
Argentina announced that it reached a $900 million preliminary accord to settle its pending debt with 50,000 Italian holders of defaulted Argentine government bonds. The Italian bondholders had sought about $2.5 billion at the ICSID. -
5-Feb-2016 NTA
President Buhari calls for mutually-beneficial economic relations with Europe
Considering the mismatch of the two regions (Europe-ECOWAS) the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria and Associated Trade Unions raised concerns over the negative impact of the agreement on Nigeria’s industrialisation programme.