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14-Jul-2015 Transnational Dispute Management
TDM 4 (2015) ArbitralWomen/TDM Special
In this joint ArbitralWomen/TDM special on "Dealing with Diversity in International Arbitration" the contributing authors from around the globe place the arbitration community under a microscope, analyze critically what they find, ask whether we can do it better with diversity, how diversity will improve the process and how to bring diversity into the mainstream of the arbitration world. -
14-Jul-2015 Canadian Union of Public Employees
CUPE delegates in Colombia to oppose secret trade deal
Four national public sector unions have joined forces with sister unions in Colombia to fight against the privatization of public services and to strengthen each other’s struggles to defend human and labour rights. -
14-Jul-2015 CEO
TTIP: a corporate lobbying paradise
Which businesses are pushing most for the proposed EU-US trade deal TTIP? Who’s influencing EU negotiators? -
14-Jul-2015 Politics.co.uk
TTIP will force all Europeans to take Greece’s medicine
If the Greek crisis has shown how the institutions of the EU will stop at nothing to force through their own brand of capitalist discipline, TTIP is confirmation that we will all soon be tasting the same medicine. -
14-Jul-2015 PTI
’India-Canada FTA likely to be concluded by March 2016’
The proposed free trade agreement between India and Canada, which aims to reduce or eliminate duties on a large number of products traded between the two nations, is likely to be concluded by March next year, a senior official told PTI. -
13-Jul-2015 REDES - AT
The position of REDES – AT Uruguay on the recent ICSID decision
Devastating news for Uruguay and the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control -
13-Jul-2015 Southern Times
SADC, EU inch closer to ratifying EPA agreement
The European Union and Southern African Development Community are on the verge of finalising the signing of an Economic Partnership Agreement. -
13-Jul-2015 CNA
Taiwan to propose economic cooperation pact with Australia
Following signature of the China-Australia FTA last month, Taiwan will express the idea of signing one with Australia at an upcoming vice ministerial-level trade and economic meeting between the two nations in Taipei. -
13-Jul-2015 Indian Express
Riding the Pacific trade winds
Labour, environment and IPR standards in the Trans-Pacific Partnership will influence future Indo-US agreements. -
13-Jul-2015 Philippine Daily Inquirer
Renegotiation of PH-Japan economic deal sought
A group of banana exporters is calling for a renegotiation of the Philippines-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement, saying that shipments to Japan have been dwindling due to tariffs that make them uncompetitive. -
13-Jul-2015 ABC
’If the US can offer TPP transparency, so can we’
’Too many trade deals have failed to live up to the hype,’ the CEO of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry says. -
13-Jul-2015 PTI
Indian exports may be affected in TPP markets
The Trans-Pacific Partnership’s impact on India and South Asia will be much more than the short-term tariff-preference erosions for the region’s exports, a senior researcher at Singapore’s Institute of South Asian Studies says. -
13-Jul-2015 IBON
IBON primer on 21st Century free trade agreements
New free trade deals across regions such as the TPPA, TTIP and TiSA, among many others are being negotiated that will have far-reaching implications for peoples in both the global North and South and for the future of the world economy. But these deals will neither benefit the democratic majority nor rescue the world economy in crisis. -
12-Jul-2015 Belga
Ministry of economy to assess TTIP impact in Belgium
In a public invitation to tender, the Ministry of the Economy announced recently that it is to investigate the potential impact the free trade agreement between the United States and Europe (TTIP) would have on Belgium. -
12-Jul-2015 Reuters
US weighs completing Pacific Rim trade deal without Canada: sources
The United States, frustrated over the lack of progress with Canada over new rules for agriculture trade, is weighing "contingencies" that could include completing a Pacific Rim trade pact that excludes Canada, according to two sources familiar with the issue. -
12-Jul-2015 Reuters
US upgrades Malaysia in annual human trafficking report - sources
The United States is upgrading Malaysia from the lowest tier on its list of worst human trafficking centers so that the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal can go through. -
12-Jul-2015 Xinhua
China, Eurasian Economic Union to launch EPA talks: official
China and the Eurasian Economic Union will start negotiations on an economic partnership agreement as soon as possible, Chinese Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng said Friday. -
10-Jul-2015 World Grain
Japan mulling import quota for Aussie, US rice in TPP talks
Japan is considering establishing a rice import quota each for the United States and Australia instead of lowering tarriffs -
10-Jul-2015 IPS
Infographic: Lessons from NAFTA for the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Two decades of high costs for Mexico’s agriculture, economy, families, and environment -
10-Jul-2015 Financial Express
India: Exclude steel from free-trade pacts, say wary manufacturers
Indian steelmakers have urged the government to keep steel out of the purview of any future free-trade agreements and also review the existing pacts to ensure that their interests are safeguarded.