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3-Jul-2015 International Shipping News
TISA leaks reveal threat to seafarers
TISA documents predict a power grab by transport industry players at the expense of the public interest, jobs and a voice for workers, the International Transport Workers’ Federation says -
3-Jul-2015 Lexology
Maximising investment protection in Africa: the role of investment treaties and investment arbitration
In recent years, many African governments have made an effort to improve foreign investors’ protections by entering into many BITs and related agreements with non-African countries -
3-Jul-2015 The Guardian
TTIP aim to lift US oil export ban goes against climate targets
EU push to lift restrictions on US crude oil and liquefied natural gas exports as part of controversial trade deal could explode Canada’s tar sands carbon bomb and push up carbon emissions -
3-Jul-2015 Boing Boing
Flashmob choir interrupts TTIP congress
At a pro-TTIP congress where the Belgian Foreign Affairs Minister was promoting the treaty, a flashmob of attendees stood up singing "Do You Hear the People Sing?" a rousing revolutionary song from Les Miserables.
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3-Jul-2015 Zawya
Egypt eyes Mercosur FTA activation before 2015-end
Egypt hopes to bring its preferential Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the South American Common Market (Mercosur) into effect before the end of this year, minister of industry said Thursday. -
2-Jul-2015 Wikileaks
TiSA - draft annex on telecommunication services (April 2015)
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TiSA - draft annex on financial services (April 2015)
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2-Jul-2015 Wikileaks
TiSA - draft annex on electronic commerce (May 2015)
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2-Jul-2015 Wikileaks
TiSA - draft annex on international maritime transport services (April 2015)
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2-Jul-2015 Scoop
WikiLeaks releases Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) Core Text
WikiLeaks has released a modern journalistic holy grail, the secret Core Text for the largest ’trade deal’ in history, the Trade In Services Agreement, one week before the next TiSA negotiating round -
1-Jul-2015 Globe and Mail
The FIPA with China restricts Canada’s options on climate change
For years, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government told Canadians that it could not act on climate change until China joined in. Yet, in 2014, the government quietly finalized a 31-year investment treaty that, in essence, gives Chinese oil companies an advance bailout against a range of steps that Canada may need to take on climate change. -
1-Jul-2015 Politico
Leaked: What’s in Obama’s trade deal
A recent draft of the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade deal would give US pharmaceutical firms unprecedented protections against competition from cheaper generic drugs, possibly transcending the patent protections in US law. -
1-Jul-2015 Wikileaks
TiSA - draft annex on government procurement (April 2015)
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1-Jul-2015 Wikileaks
TiSA - draft annex on movement of natural persons (April 2015)
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1-Jul-2015 Wikileaks
TiSA - draft annex on domestic regulation (April 2015)
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1-Jul-2015 Wikileaks
TiSA - draft annex on transparency negotiating (April 2015)
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TiSA - draft provisions (April 2015)
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1-Jul-2015 Bloomberg
US-Europe trade pact adds to Switzerland’s pain
"TTIP is going to affect Switzerland very much. There is a fear we’re going to be locked out and some of our companies discriminated," a government official told the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday -
1-Jul-2015 National Interest
The Philippines, Thailand, South Korea and Taiwan: Joining TPP?
More countries in Asia appear ready to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, most likely as members of the second round of nations joining the deal. -
1-Jul-2015 CNCD-11.11.11
TTIP: Why we are asking for an immediate suspension? With a sense of urgency !
Human rights organizations have joined the broad Belgian coalition of the trade union confederations, mutuality’s, consumer organizations and environmental and development umbrella NGOs and are asking for an immediate suspension of the TTIP negotiations.