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3-Dec-2015
Threat and Opportunity: Korea-China FTA Posing Challenge in IPR Protection
The number of patent applications and patent disputes Chinese companies are involved in have been on the rise at a time when the Chinese government chose enhancement of intellectual property rights (IPR) as one of its core economic strategies. -
3-Dec-2015 BEUC
Lessons to learn from TPP: What the EU shouldn’t do in TTIP
Although TPP seems a remote issue, it could have a direct impact on EU consumers. -
3-Dec-2015 Electronic Frontier Foundation
The TPP state of play: How we defeat the largest trade deal in history
Now that the TPP’s approval and ratification in the United States is on the horizon, here’s what you need to know about what’s going on and what’s to come. This state of play will be useful as we work to defend our digital rights against the largest trade deal in history. -
3-Dec-2015 Sierra Club
A dirty deal: How the Trans-Pacific Partnership threatens our climate
In its more than 6,000 pages of binding rules, the deal fails to even mention the words “climate change”—a clear sign it is not “a 21st-century trade agreement,” as some have claimed. -
2-Dec-2015 Viet Nam News
S Korea ratifies VN trade deal
South Korea’s National Assembly officially adopted a free trade agreement with Viet Nam. -
2-Dec-2015 Rabble
What’s going on with CETA 14 months after negotiations were completed?
The latest speculation is that CETA isn’t likely to go before the European Parliament until mid to late 2016 or early 2017. -
2-Dec-2015 Global Development And Environment Institute
TTIP vs. climate policy: what is at risk?
TTIP is intended to remove “non-tariff barriers to trade”. But the barriers it is targeting are democratically adopted regulations, preventing or correcting damages that would result from unregulated private markets. -
2-Dec-2015 Reuters
Farm issues could scupper free trade deal with EU - U.S.
Differences between the United States and the European Union over issues such as genetically modified crops and hormone-treated beef could scupper a free trade deal. -
2-Dec-2015 Tax News
ASEAN reinforces commitment to RCEP
The leaders of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) looked forward to the early conclusion of negotiations on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade treaty. -
2-Dec-2015 Chinatopix
South Korea-China free trade agreement attracts protest from activists as lawmakers ratify deal
South Korean farmers and activists staged protests against a free trade agreement with China ahead of a parliamentary meeting to vote on its confirmation. -
2-Dec-2015 SSRN
Foreign investor protection and climate action: a new price tag for urgent policies
Foreign investor protection provisions in trade and investment agreements tilt the playing field in favor of entrenched incumbents and against urgent action on climate. -
2-Dec-2015 Friends of the Earth Europe
Rights for business, not for people: the EU agenda
This report explains how the European Union is aggressively pursuing special rights for businesses whilst hampering efforts to hold corporations responsible for the human rights violations they commit. -
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EEU, Egypt to prepare FTA within a year and a half
Belarus News - Belarusian Telegraph Agency EEU, Egypt to prepare FTA within a year and a half 1 December 2015 MOSCOW, (BelTA) - Preparation of a free trade agreement between the Eurasian Economic Union and Egypt will take about a year and a half, Ambassador of Egypt to Russia Mohamed El-Badri said at the Second Eurasian Economic Congress in Moscow, BelTA has learned. "I think that this work will take a year and a half. This is the period which we need to prepare the agreement,” the (...) -
1-Dec-2015
Peru eyes free trade agreement with India
Hoping to increase bilateral trade with India, South American nation Peru is looking to sign a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with India in the next three to four years, a successful achievement of which will make it the first Latin American country to have an FTA with India. -
1-Dec-2015
Economics minister warns about China-South Korea FTA
Focus Taiwan News Channel Economics minister warns about China-South Korea FTA By Huang Chiao-wen and Lilian Wu 1 December 2015 Taipei, Dec. 1 (CNA) Economics Minister John Deng (鄧振中) on Tuesday warned about the impact of a free trade agreement (FTA) between China and South Korea and expressed hope that a cross-Taiwan Strait trade-in-goods agreement can make major progress soon. South Korea’s parliament ratified an FTA with China a day earlier, with both countries agreeing to (...) -
1-Dec-2015 The Japan Times
TPP mitigation must be effective
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s administration unveiled an outline of measures to help domestic industries cope with the effects of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact. -
1-Dec-2015 Asian Correspondent
Will the TPP free trade agreement have a negative effect on Thailand?
The conclusions of TPP: What is next for Thailand? -
1-Dec-2015 Macau News
Macau and China’s mainland ink new deal on trade services under CEPA
Macau and China’s mainland have signed a new agreement under the framework of the Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA), further liberalizing trade in services. -
1-Dec-2015 Ein News
EU to use its chairmanship of TiSA talks on services to push for major progress
The EU is to use its chairmanship of the latest round of negotiations for an international agreement on trade in services (TiSA) to push for significant progress on key chapters. -
1-Dec-2015 IP Watchdog
TPP strengthens controversial IP arbitration
While the agreement was being negotiated, the US Trade Representative stated that a much-criticized arbitration process included in the TPP would not apply to intellectual property. Turns out, it does apply to IP.