Articles by language
-
13-Oct-2015 All Africa
East African states agree on free trade area issues
The East African Community partner states have agreed on the outstanding trade issues under the Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA). -
13-Oct-2015 Live Mint
India may provide most favoured status to RCEP investors
India is likely to grant most favoured nation (MFN) treatment to 15 countries that are in talks to conclude an agreement on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) -
13-Oct-2015
Govt spin won’t stop TPP facts emerging
If governments want to play by secret squirrel rules they can hardly accuse those who raise alarms based on best available information of scaremongering. -
12-Oct-2015
No ban for TPP nationals buying NZ houses
Prime Minister John Key says the Trans Pacific Partnership will not technically prevent a future Labour Government from banning the sale of residential properties to foreigners. -
12-Oct-2015 http://www.afr.com/news/politics/co...
Coalition expects to cut deal with Labor over China trade agreement
Australian Financial Review Coalition expects to cut deal with Labor over China trade agreement 12 October 2015 By Phillip Coorey There have been several discussions between Trade Minister Andrew Robb and his opposition counterpart, Penny Wong. Photo: Andrew Meares The federal government is leaning towards doing a deal with Labor on the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement but argues that such a decision would be a pragmatic one designed to get the deal in place, and not a (...) -
12-Oct-2015
Sitharaman bats for early implementation of SAFTA
Commerce and industry minister Nirmala Sitharaman made a strong pitch for greater integration of the South Asian region, even as she underscored the need for speedy implementation of the South Asian Free Trade Agreement (Safta) agreement. -
12-Oct-2015
Asean officials in Busan to kick off free trade deal
Trade officials from Asean and six of its dialogue partners are in Busan, South Korea, to kick-start a regional free trade deal that almost stalled after three years of negotiations. -
12-Oct-2015
Regional investment policy framework on the cards
A regional investment policy framework for southern Africa is expected to be finalized by the end of the year. The Trade, Industry, Finance and Investment (TIFI) Directorate at the SADC Secretariat said in its annual report that significant progress has been made to develop a regional investment policy framework. The regional programme on investment has the objective of strengthening the investment environment in southern Africa. -
12-Oct-2015 CEO
Public services under attack through TTIP and CETA
EU trade deals with Canada and the US could endanger citizens’ rights to basic services like water and health, as negotiators are doing the work of some of the EU’s most powerful corporate lobby groups in pushing an aggressive market opening agenda in the public sector. -
12-Oct-2015 The Guardian
Berlin anti-TTIP trade deal protest attracts hundreds of thousands
Environmental groups, charities and opposition parties who organised protest against free trade deal between the EU and US say 250,000 people took part -
10-Oct-2015 The Hamilton Spectator
Numerous side deals to accompany final TPP trade agreement, say officials
Canada could sign as many as 15 side deals on a range of issues when the time comes to ink the final text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. -
10-Oct-2015 AFTINET
Preliminary comments on the completed Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) intellectual property chapter
The TPP’s intellectual property chapter represents nothing less than a disaster for global health. Many harmful provisions still remain in the final chapter, bearing out the concerns of public health advocates. -
10-Oct-2015 Electronic Frontier Fondation
The final leaked TPP text is all that we feared
The release of the current and essentially final version of the intellectual property (IP) chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) confirms our worst fears about the agreement. -
9-Oct-2015 Wikileaks
TPP - intellectual property chapter (October 2015)
As leaked by Wikileaks -
9-Oct-2015 The Conversation
Canada has an ISDS clause with the US. It has faced 35 challenges. Is this Australia’s future?
Up until now, Australia has never agreed to provide American investors with access to Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS), whereas Canada has. In total Canada has faced 35 challenges. Australia has been subjected to only one case. -
9-Oct-2015 Australasian Lawyer
Legal experts weigh in on TPP
Law firms are among the many Australian businesses likely to benefit from the Trans-Pacific Partnership. -
9-Oct-2015 AJ+
Doctors without borders blasts TPP’s impact on life-saving drugs
The TPP could give pharmaceutical corporations more power to control medicine markets and “impose higher prices for longer.”
-
8-Oct-2015 Ibon
No to FTAs!
TPP, like other Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), is fashioned by industrial countries and their transnational corporations to further intensify the concentration of resources, wealth, and power into their hands leaving developing countries. -
8-Oct-2015 Global Trade Online
TPP rule of origin is 45% for vehicles, with caveats; 35-45% for auto parts
The final Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) contains rules of origin for the automotive sector that require 45 percent regional value content for finished vehicles under a complicated accounting method, along with a regional value content threshold between 35 and 45 percent for auto parts. -
8-Oct-2015 TheWikiLeaksChannel
The US strategy to create a new global legal and economic system: TPP, TTIP, TISA
Wikileaks - The US strategy to create a new global legal and economic system