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4-Mar-2015 Drovers CattleNetwork
NFU opposes trade promotion authority
National Farmers Union (NFU) President Roger Johnson urged members of US Congress to oppose trade promotion authority – also known as fast track – noting that trade agreements should be fair to all parties involved, and the process should be transparent. -
4-Mar-2015 Australia Broadcasting Corporation
Where are the TPP negotiations up to?
Discussion with Susan Sell, Matthew Rimmer and Jane Kelsey
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3-Mar-2015 European Commission
EU-Japan 9th round of trade talks further consolidates negotiation texts
The 9th round of EU-Japan FTA talks took place from 23-27 February in Brussels. The meetings focused on further consolidation of the negotiating texts. -
3-Mar-2015 East Africa Business Week
East Africa: Trade bloc merger talks end with May date
The Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) covering 26 countries will be launched in May, it has been agreed. -
3-Mar-2015 African News Agency
On a free trade mission in Africa
Treasure Maphanga is one of Africa’s most important women, with arguably the continent’s toughest job on her hands: driving the establishment and implementation of a Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA). -
3-Mar-2015 NZ Not For Sale
Tell our Govt NO to the TPPA on March 7
The best chance to stop the TPPA is before ministers make their decisions. Join the nationwide day of action on 7 Mar 2015 in Aotearoa/NewZealand -
2-Mar-2015 Times-Call
Trans-Pacific pact will encourage sex trafficking
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement will open up 14 countries on the Pacific coastline for more exploitation -
2-Mar-2015 Xinhua
Service trade with China set to be new impetus for EU recovery: expert
Brussels and Beijing should speed up negotiation of a Sino-EU Bilateral Investment Treaty and strive to sign it within this year, a Chinese think-tank argues -
2-Mar-2015 Dawn
New bilateral investment treaty model
Pakistan’s Board of Investment is working on Pakistan’s own template of a bilateral investment treaty, which will replace previous treaties and serve as basis for new ones. -
2-Mar-2015 Business Korea
KITA pushes resumption of FTA negotiations with Gulf Cooperation Council
Korea’s premier corporate lobby group says that Korea should resume FTA negotiations, which have been stopped, with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) as soon as possible and target the markets in the Middle East. -
2-Mar-2015 PTI
Sri Lanka President says he dodged CEPA talks in Delhi
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has said that he deliberately avoided having Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) with India on the agenda during his recent visit to New Delhi. -
1-Mar-2015 Kluwer Arbitration Blog
The challenge of the Yukos award: an award written by someone else – a violation of the tribunal’s mandate?
The Russian Federation filed three writs that seek to annul the award, alleging that the arbitrators did not fulfil their mandate personally because the Tribunal’s assistant played a significant role in analyzing the evidence and legal arguments. -
27-Feb-2015 USTR
US-EAC Cooperation Agreement on SPS, TBT and Trade Facilitation (2015)
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27-Feb-2015 WSJ
US moves toward greater trade with Africa
Pact with Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda — to be expanded to other countries later on — seen as a stepping stone to full fledged FTA -
27-Feb-2015 RLS
UPDATE: The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP): A charter for deregulation, an attack on jobs, an end to democracy
Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung have today released an updated version of their publication on TTIP by John Hilary. -
27-Feb-2015 Borderlex
EU Vietnam FTA: rice carve-outs and ‘double transformation’ rule of origin in sight
So far, seven chapters out of fifteen of the EU-Vietnam FTA have been concluded -
27-Feb-2015 HUngary Today
Hungarian government, parties divided on EU-USA free trade talks
The outcome of EU-US free trade talks hangs in the balance and the government will only support an accord which serves Hungarian interests, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in a parliamentary debate initiated by the opposition about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) -
27-Feb-2015 EurActiv
France makes U-turn on TTIP arbitration
In a letter to French MEPs, seen by EurActiv France, the French Secretariat General for European Affairs (SGAE) appears to have made a U-turn on the position so far defended by Mathias Fekl, the Secretary of State for Foreign Trade. -
27-Feb-2015 EconoMonitor
Are mega-trade agreements a threat to Brazil?
Bilateral trade agendas with both US and EU may become a way for Brazil to mitigate the negative potential impacts of TTIP and TTP, argues a former World Bank official. -
27-Feb-2015 Reuters
White House sees China as trump card in trade debate
The Obama administration is confident lawmakers will warm up to a proposed Pacific free trade deal on the grounds it is a chance for the United States, rather than China, to dictate the rules of Asian trade, a top official said on Thursday.