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9-Oct-2015 Wikileaks
TPP - intellectual property chapter (October 2015)
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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.”
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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
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8-Oct-2015 ECNS
FTA moves to gain momentum
China will step up efforts to forge more bilateral and multilateral free trade agreements in the Asia-Pacific region to reduce the impact of the Trans-Pacific Partnership pact. -
8-Oct-2015 Govmu
TISA: Government agrees on draft initial market access offers
The draft initial market access offers of Mauritius in the context of the negotiations on the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) has been agreed by Government. -
8-Oct-2015 The Daily Blog
Sober reflections on the TPPA deal – and why we need to keep fighting
Who gave the Prime Minister and Trade Minister the right to sacrifice our rights to regulate foreign investment, to decide our own copyright laws, to set up new SOEs, and whatever else they have agreed to in this secret deal and present it to us as a fait accompli? -
8-Oct-2015 Speri
Why geopolitical arguments in favour of TTIP are also flawed
The geopolitical ‘setting global standards’ argument that has become central to the advocates’ discourse on TTIP is seriously flawed. TTIP will only lead to high global standards under certain conditions and these conditions are unlikely to be met. -
7-Oct-2015 Mother Jones
The meat industry is licking its chops over Obama’s massive trade deal
The US meat industry scored a big victory when world leaders hammered out an agreement that would reduce trade barriers across the Pacific. -
7-Oct-2015 Madhyam
India-EU FTA: time for a fundamental rethink?
India and EU would soon resume negotiations on the stalled India-EU free trade agreement. -
7-Oct-2015 The Hindu
Pumps should be exempted from RCEP with China
Pump and Motor manufacturers here have said that these light items should not be included in the list of goods that can be imported duty free from China under the proposed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership. -
7-Oct-2015 Le Monde
Libre-échange : des effets difficiles à mesurer sur l’emploi
Les conséquences des accords multilatéraux sur le commerce mondial et l’économie sont loin de faire consensus. -
7-Oct-2015 Think Progress
Environmentalists: the trans-Pacific trade agreement is a disaster for climate change
Opponents of the TPP say its a sweetheart deal for fossil fuel companies. -
7-Oct-2015 The Mainichi
Japanese rice farmers upset over broad TPP agreement
Many farmers in Japan have started to feel increasingly insecure about their future as 12 Pacific Rim countries including Japan reached a broad agreement on the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade initiative. -
7-Oct-2015 Asia One
Singapore concludes free trade negotiations with Turkey
Turkey and Singapore have concluded negotiations for the Turkey-Singapore Free Trade Agreement. -
7-Oct-2015 Want China Times
Taiwan to stand firm on US pork ractopamine ban: official
Taiwan’s Council of Agriculture said that it will insist that the country maintain a ban on pork imported from the United States containing traces of leanness-enhancing drug ractopamine -
7-Oct-2015 Euractiv
ECJ judgment in favour of data protection puts TTIP negotiations under pressure
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) today declared the Safe Harbor agreement invalid. This subordinates the activities of Facebook & Co back to the control of national data protection authorities.