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15-Apr-2015 Business Day
Barriers to SA markets a concern for US
The failure of the US and South Africa to achieve a free trade agreement in 2006 came to haunt them on Tuesday as their delegations gathered for consultations under the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement signed in 1999. -
15-Apr-2015 South China Morning Post
High time for a global investment agreement
In terms of international transactions, FDI is more important than trade but it is subject to global policy disarray. -
14-Apr-2015 Podemos/EQUO
MEPs say no to TTIP and support the global action day - April 18th
MEPs of the European Parliament are calling on the public to join this day of mass mobilization in order to halt the EU-US trade agreement that attacks our rights, our environment, our sovereignty and our democracy.
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14-Apr-2015 BBC
MEPs debate TTIP resolution
The MEP responsible for drafting the European Parliament’s position on the EU-US trade pact has pledged to find compromises to overcome political disagreements over the deal, during a meeting on 13 April 2015. -
14-Apr-2015 Jagran Post
India-EU FTA would require compromises by all sides: Merkel
A Free Trade Agreement between India and the EU would require "compromises" by all sides, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday as Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought her help for an early conclusion of a "balanced and mutually beneficial" deal, stalled for two years. -
14-Apr-2015 TNI
Lobby group EFILA’s stake in investment arbitration
In response to growing public criticism of international investment law, a new lobby group has emerged, EFILA, seeking to influence European officials. -
14-Apr-2015 Observatoire des Multinationales
Disputes between States and multinationals - The paradigm: The dispute between Suez and Argentina
An international arbitral tribunal has just ordered Argentina to pay nearly 400 million Euro to Suez because in 2006, after years of conflict, Argentina renationalized the water services in Buenos Aires. -
13-Apr-2015 MercoPress
Uruguay/Brazil meeting to attempt an advance in Mercosur/EU trade talks
Uruguay and Brazil foreign ministers Rodolfo Nin Novoa and Mauro Vieira will be meeting this week in Brasilia in yet another attempt to push forward the stalled negotiations for a trade agreement between Mercosur and the European Union -
13-Apr-2015 Reuters
Japan, US aim for Pacific trade pact progress before summit
Japanese and US officials meet this week in a bid to strike a two-way deal giving momentum to the Trans-Pacific Partnership -
13-Apr-2015 PTI
Auto sector inclusion in India-EU FTA against ’Make in India’
The proposed India-EU trade liberalisation pact will not benefit domestic automobile firms and runs counter to the government’s flagship programme ’Make in India, auto industry body SIAM has said. -
13-Apr-2015 dpa
German economy minister: TTIP will not bring economic boom
"I don‘t believe in the wondrous calculations regarding economic growth through TTIP," German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel told Focus magazine on Saturday. -
13-Apr-2015 Dawn
Poultry industry calls for review of FTAs
The Pakistan Poultry Association has urged Commerce Minister Khurram Dastagir to review the free trade agreements that are hurting more than helping the country. -
13-Apr-2015 Al Arabiya
Australian trade minister: FTA with GCC ‘possible within months’
Australia and the GCC countries may only be a few months away from signing a landmark Free Trade Agreement deal “if a decision is made quickly,” Australia Trade and Investment Minister Andrew Robb says. -
11-Apr-2015 La República
The Transpacific Partnership will impact sovereign control over health policies
A text that Peru and 11 other countries (including the US) are negotiating in secret, seeks to expand drug patents for more than 20 years thus generating millions of overheads for our health system and making it even more difficult to obtain biological medicines against cancer. -
10-Apr-2015 Business Standard
India, EU to discuss FTA on April 13 in Hannover
After a hiatus of over two years, India and the European Union will be discussing the proposed Bilateral Trade and Investment Agreement (BTIA) on April 13. -
10-Apr-2015 GRAIN
Free trade and Mexico’s junk food epidemic
Food companies are infiltrating, inundating and taking over traditional food distribution channels and replacing local foods with cheap, processed junk foods. Free trade and investment agreements have been critical to their success. -
10-Apr-2015 Malaysia Kini
Don’t sign agreements that erode workers’ rights
The Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) is most concerned about the serious implications of Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) clauses and provisions in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) and other such agreements and treaties that Malaysia signs. -
10-Apr-2015 AFL-CIO
AFL-CIO and Canadian Labour Congress joint statement on promoting trade deals that work for people over profits
The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) and the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) call for an end to ISDS in all pending trade and investment agreements. -
10-Apr-2015 PTI
Iran pitches free trade deal with India
Expecting the removal of trade sanctions imposed on it by western nations, Iran has proposed a free trade agreement with India to boost bilateral trade and investment. -
10-Apr-2015 Friends of the Earth Europe
Regulatory cooperation: how an EU-US trade deal risks creating a labyrinth of red tape
Here are 10 reasons why the current European Commission proposal for regulatory cooperation poses serious risks to legislation and decision making in the public interest and is another reason why TTIP should be stopped.