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24-Oct-2015 European Commission
EU-ECOWAS EPA: annex C on customs duties on products originating in the European Union (Oct 2015)
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24-Oct-2015 European Commission
EU-ECOWAS EPA: consolidated text (Oct 2015)
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24-Oct-2015 European Commission
EU-ECOWAS EPA: annex A on protocol no. 1 on the definition of the concept of “originating products” and on methods of administrative cooperation; annex B on customs duties on products originating in West Africa (Oct 2015)
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23-Oct-2015 World Trade Online
EU focuses on three sectors in procurement; won’t challenge SME policy
In bilateral trade talks with the United States, the European Union has signaled that its efforts to expand the types of U.S. government procurement contracts open to EU firms will focus on three specific sectors. -
23-Oct-2015 CEO
Dirty hands on dirty deals
What do the UN climate talks in Paris this December, “COP21”, and the ongoing EU-US trade negotiations, TTIP, have in common? -
23-Oct-2015 Le Petit Journal
ChAFTA - Opposition et gouvernement ont trouvé un accord sur le traité sino-australien
L’opposition travailliste a trouvé un accord avec le gouvernement sur le China-Australia Free Trade Agreement, après des concessions du Ministre du Commerce sur la régulation de l’immigration créée par ce traité. -
23-Oct-2015 WSRW
UK Court refers Western Sahara imports case to EU Court
In refering the case on the questionable legality of UK imports from Western Saharan products to the European Court of Justice, the UK Judge stated that "there is an arguable case of a manifest error by the [European] Commission in understanding and applying international law relevant to these agreements.” -
23-Oct-2015 The Japan News
TPP sets limit on corporate suits
The Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade pact limits the period for foreign companies to file damages lawsuits against host states over sudden regulatory changes to 3½ years -
23-Oct-2015 The Hindi Business Line
India pitches for market access for professionals in RCEP
India has raised its pitch for greater market access for professionals in the proposed regional comprehensive economic partnership (RCEP) -
23-Oct-2015 The Japan Times
Japan, Mongolia affirm closer economic ties via free trade pact
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Mongolian Prime Minister Chimed Saikhanbileg to advance economic cooperation between the two countries on the back of a free trade agreement -
23-Oct-2015 ICTSD
The EU’s new trade strategy paints a “redefined” relationship with Africa
The European Commission (EC) presented its new trade and investment strategy entitled “Trade for all: towards a more responsible trade and investment policy". -
23-Oct-2015 Electronic Frontier Foundation
How trade agreements harm open access and open source
Open access isn’t explicitly covered in any of the secretive trade negotiations that are currently underway but that doesn’t mean that they won’t have a negative impact on those seeking to publish or use open access materials. -
23-Oct-2015 Friends of the Earth
Powerful pesticide lobby attacks bee-saving regulations at Miami trade talks
U.S. and European Union trade negotiators appear to be actively considering adopting the agenda of chemical and pesticide industry lobbyists. -
23-Oct-2015 Sputnik
TTIP trade talks continue under veil of secrecy in miami - official
A trade official from America’s largest labor union said that chief negotiators of TTIP agreement persisted to show contempt for transparency by failing to provide any meaningful details to the deal’s most critical stakeholders. -
23-Oct-2015 Cato
Geographical indications in TTIP: an impossible task
The protection of geographical indications (GIs) is slated to be one of the more contentious parts of the TTIP negotiations. -
22-Oct-2015 Call for papers: TDM special issue on Africa
Call for papers: TDM special issue on Africa
Africa’s accelerating economic development is attracting a substantial increase in cross-border commerce, trade, and investment on the continent, and disputes arising from this increased economic activity are inevitably bound to follow. International arbitration will be the preferred method for resolving many of these disputes. Indeed, the growing focus on international arbitration to resolve commercial and investment disputes relating to Africa is reflected, among other ways, in the fact (...) -
22-Oct-2015 Rabble
NAFTA panel could rule on investor-state challenge targeting Ontario this month
Billionaire T. Boone Pickens is suing Canada through the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) for $700 million in future lost profit. -
22-Oct-2015 The Asahi Shimbun
Japan mulls extra budget to bolster agricultural sector in wake of TPP pact
The government is preparing a supplementary budget to help farmers compete with cheaper imported crops under the recently concluded Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade pact, which obligates Japan to lift tariffs on many agricultural products. -
21-Oct-2015 Stock & Land
Labor finally approves China-Australia free trade agreement
The China-Australia free trade agreement will come into force before the end of the year after a compromise deal was finally struck between the federal government and opposition. -
21-Oct-2015 The Economic Times
India, Canada closely working to finalise CEPA
India and Canada are closely working to finalise the comprehensive economic partnership agreement (CEPA)