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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. -
7-Oct-2015 Washington Post
Will Congress approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership?
The first steps are expected to begin later this week when the White House formally sends Congress a notice of intent to sign the agreement, which kicks off a 90-day waiting period. -
7-Oct-2015 S2B
ISDS: courting foreign investors
Why the Commission’s proposal for an “Investment Court System” still fails to address the key problems of foreign investors’ privileges -
7-Oct-2015 Vieuws
EU ratification process of FTA with South Korea done and dusted
The European Commission intends to announce in mid October its plans to revise the deal in order to add the missing investment protection chapter to it. -
7-Oct-2015 Global Trade Online
TPP deal includes tobacco carveout, teeing up fight with congress
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) countries have agreed on language that will allow members to exclude tobacco control measures from the scope of investor-state dispute settlement. -
6-Oct-2015 The Global Legal Post
Yukos: the saga continues
The bankruptcy of oil and gas giant Yukos led to multiple proceedings against the Russian state and some enormous awards. -
6-Oct-2015 AFTINET
Secret Trans - Pacific (TPP) deal lacks detail on medicines, includes corporate rights to sue governments
The lack of access to details in the text means governments can put a positive spin on the deal, but the devil is in the detail. -
6-Oct-2015 Electronic Frontier Fondation
Trade officials announce conclusion of TPP—now the real fight begins
The fact that close to 800 million Internet users’ rights to free expression, privacy, and access to knowledge online hinged upon the outcome of squabbles over trade rules on cars and milk is precisely why digital policy consideration do not belong in trade agreements. -
5-Oct-2015 Trust
Lack of local land rights harms fight against poverty, climate change - researchers
Indigenous people and local communities lack legal rights to almost three quarters of their traditional lands, sparking social conflict and undermining international plans to curb poverty, hunger and climate change. -
5-Oct-2015 The Brandon Sun
Some highlights of the new 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal
Some highlights of the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement as described by the Canadian government Monday as it shared details of a deal to create the largest-ever regional trading bloc. -
5-Oct-2015 USTR
Trans-Pacific Partnership ministers’ statement
The trade ministers of Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, United States, and Vietnam, have successfully concluded the Trans-Pacific Partnership. -
4-Oct-2015 ABC
Trans-Pacific Partnership: ’50/50’ chance of trade deal today as negotiators lock horns over medical patent protection
Australia — along with others such as New Zealand and Chile — has been unwilling to offer more than five years protection for the medicines, because longer terms would increase the cost of state-subsidised medical programs. -
4-Oct-2015 WSJ
U.S., Australia agree on complicated compromise on biologic drugs
Countries in the trade bloc would have an alternative of either providing eight years of exclusivity to biologic drugs, or providing five years of so-called data exclusivity plus up to three more years under a regulatory framework in the TPP. -
4-Oct-2015 World Trade Online
Tentative U.S.-Vietnam ’consistency plan’ links tariff benefits to labor compliance
Vietnam has tentatively agreed with the United States on a fully enforceable implementation plan to bring its labor regime into compliance with the Trans-Pacific Partnership. -
4-Oct-2015 La República
Don’t let TPP lock Peru into unequal trade
TPP negotiators hope to finalize the agreement in the next few days. Political leaders will boast of promoting the well-being of their people and countries. But the reality is that special interests have been given far too much influence on the negotiations. -
4-Oct-2015 The Australian Financial Review
US, Australia drug dispute is holding up settlement of the Trans Pacific trade deal
A standoff between Australia and the United States on monopoly rules for pharmaceutical drugs has emerged as the ultimate impediment to clinching an historic trade deal sweeping across 12 Pacific Rim countries. -
3-Oct-2015 EIBF
TTIP negotiations will not include fixed book prices: Börsenverein welcomes official confirmation from EU Commission
The EU Commission will by no means discuss fixed book prices as part of negotiations relating to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) -
3-Oct-2015 The Star
TPP talks snagged over Malaysia’s stand on SOEs
SOEs are Malaysia’s toughest issue in the TPP negotiations. -
2-Oct-2015 The China Post
Latest TIFA talks ’productive’: US
The latest round of trade talks between Taiwan and the U.S. under the bilateral Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) made much ground in a number of areas but both sides have yet to reach consensus on issues such as U.S. pork imports. -
2-Oct-2015 Taipei Times
TIFA talks ignore interests of ordinary citizens: groups
The latest round of Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) talks with the US ignores the interests of ordinary citizens, labor activists said yesterday.