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26-Aug-2015 Tehran Times
EEU to study free trade area agreement with Iran
The Council of the Eurasian Economic Commission has decided to set up a joint research group to study the prospects of reaching a free trade area (FTA) agreement with Iran -
26-Aug-2015 AAP
TPP set to devour Vietnamese livestock
TPP members such as the US, Canada, New Zealand, Japan and Australia will undoubtedly swallow the livestock industry in one big gulp, Nguyen Duc Thanh, director of the Vietnam Institute for Economic and Policy Research says, putting the livelihoods of 10 million Vietnamese family farmers at risk. -
26-Aug-2015 South Centre
Ecuador’s experience with international investment arbitration
The brief reviews Ecuador’s experience with investment treaties and investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). The paper explains the historical and geopolitical context of the decisions Ecuador has taken in regard to bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and ISDS. -
26-Aug-2015 Medium
The Trans-Pacific Partnership: copyright law, the creative industries, and Internet freedom
A number of chapters of the TPP will affect the creative artists, cultural industries and internet freedom — including intellectual property, investment, and electronic commerce. -
26-Aug-2015 Hard in Europe
Commission breaks new ground on TTIP tobacco transparency
The European Commission has broken new ground in transparency over Big Tobacco lobbying around the ongoing EU-US trade talks. Philip Morris topped a EU lobbying spending table last year, spending more than petrol giant ExxonMobil. -
26-Aug-2015 Financial Review
Asian countries shift focus to regional trade after TPP delay
Asian countries have agreed to speed-up the conclusion of a more localised trade agreement after the delays finishing a competing US-led pact. -
25-Aug-2015 Inquirer
New trade measures top Apec agenda in Cebu meetings
New and aggressive measures to improve trade and economic growth across the region will be high on the agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation. -
25-Aug-2015 Economy in Crisis
Disastrous TPP being pushed to wrap up by mid September
The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) is not dead. Even though talks failed last month in Hawaii and the 12 countries couldn’t come to an agreement, the last few legislative days left are being used up wisely. -
25-Aug-2015 Today Online
Asia Pacific nations aim to eliminate 80% of import duties in 10 years
Trade ministers from 16 Asia Pacific countries agreed on Monday, Aug 24 to eliminate tariffs on 80 per cent of imports within a decade, in a major breakthrough in talks for RCEP. -
24-Aug-2015 Jeune Afrique
Congo Airways Airbus stuck at Dublin - Kinshasa alludes to «vulture fund subterfuge»
Pursuant to the ruling of an Irish court, Airbus A320 of Congo Airways, RDC’s new national airline company, is blocked at Dublin airport. The Congolese authorities are not excluding the hypothesis of “vulture fund subterfuge”. -
24-Aug-2015 Vox Africa
APE Afrique centrale : l’Union européenne joue la montre
L’Union sait que le temps est son meilleur allié pour imposer à l’Afrique centrale son APE bilatéral avec le Cameroun comme base des négociations. -
24-Aug-2015 Want China Times
Taiwan must open up service sector with TiSA’s arrival
The Taiwanese government has turned its focus to the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) currently being negotiated by 25 countries and regions that account for 70% of the global trade in services. -
24-Aug-2015 Las Cruces Sun-News
Trading up for a better deal than Trans-Pacific pact
As the dust settles on the fight in Congress over Fast Track authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, we have an opportunity to think anew about what good trade policy could be. -
24-Aug-2015 MSF
MSF statement on RCEP trade negotiations in Kuala Lumpur
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is calling for the removal of damaging intellectual property provisions in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) that would risk locking in high drug prices.
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24-Aug-2015 Facebook
Great footage of Auckland TPPA rally
By journalist Bryan Bruce
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24-Aug-2015 The Star
Minister: TPP and RCEP are equally important to the country
Malaysia gives equal emphasis to two trade pacts – Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) said International Trade and Industry Minister, with RCEP provide a future boost for the four Asean countries in the TPP negotiations. -
24-Aug-2015 Sydney Morning Herald
Protesters rally against the Trans-Pacific Partnership in Martin Place
More than one hundred protesters gathered in Martin Place, Australia on Sunday to rally in opposition against the Trans-Pacific Partnership calling for the deal to be "scrapped entirely." -
23-Aug-2015 Public Citizen
Prosperity undermined
The status quo trade model’s 21-year record of massive U.S. trade deficits, job loss and wage suppression. -
23-Aug-2015 Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Brooklyn will suffer with the passage of TPP
TPP would stand above U.S. laws. That means a corporation could sue New York state if we pass a law they do not like. -
23-Aug-2015 Bernama
ASEAN wants AJCEP to be signed soon
ASEAN hopes to conclude and sign the ASEAN-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (AJCEP) soon