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23-Feb-2015 VNS
Vietnam prepares for flood of imports
Vietnam will be flooded with foreign goods as a result of the Trans Pacific Partnership and Vietnamese companies may not be able to take advantage of the agreement, a local expert says. -
23-Feb-2015 Farm Futures
US, EU agriculture leaders try to ease trade concerns
US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack shared the stage with his counterpart EU commissioner Phil Hogan at the US Department of Agriculture’s annual Outlook Forum and discussed TTIP. -
23-Feb-2015 Sydney Morning Herald
Affordable medicines could be at risk as US seeks to firm up protections
Access to affordable medicines could be under threat in Australia if the United States gets its way in secretive negotiations over a massive trade deal involving 12 Pacific-region countries, academics have warned. -
23-Feb-2015 The Telegraph
How Jack Straw lobbied Ukrainian PM and European Commission on behalf of sugar firm
According to The Telegraph, former UK foreign secretary Jack Straw lobbied the Ukrainian goverment - using the proposed EU FTA as a carrot - to get it to change a domestic law in favour of a UK company’s interests. -
23-Feb-2015 Japan Times
TPP accord no longer expected before April
Ongoing negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement are no longer expected to conclude before April. -
22-Feb-2015 Arirang
S. Korea, China expected to initial free trade deal next week: official
A high-level trade ministry official in Seoul says the two sides have reached agreement on a number of previously unresolved technical issues during closed-door talks. -
22-Feb-2015 Reuters
Obama begins sales pitch on trade to wary US public
President Barack Obama on Saturday began a broad sales pitch to the US public about the merits of free trade deals, an area in which he faces stiff resistance from many in his own Democratic party. -
20-Feb-2015 Yonhap News
Latest round of RCEP negotiations end with no clear breakthrough
The latest round of talks for a broad regional free trade pact involving Asian and Pacific countries, known as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, ended with no clear sign of a major breakthrough. -
20-Feb-2015 Electronic Intifada
How EU-US trade deal could thwart “boycott Israel” campaign
Two members of the US Congress have introduced a bill that would turn a giant trade deal between the EU and US into a devastating weapon against the people of Palestine and all those seeking justice alongside them. -
20-Feb-2015 European Commission
EU-Ecuador FTA (2014): annotations and commitments
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20-Feb-2015 Japan Times
TPP chief negotiators to meet in mid-March in Hawaii
The 12 countries involved in a proposed Pacific-Rim free trade initiative will convene a chief negotiators’ meeting in mid-March in Hawaii, sources close to the matter said on Friday, as they scramble to secure a deal by the end of this spring. -
20-Feb-2015 Gulf News
Free trade agreement between UAE and Switzerland this year
Free Trade Agreement between Switzerland and the UAE has been signed and will be implemented from July this year, a dignitary from Switzerland said on Thursday. -
20-Feb-2015 Eurasia Review
Sri Lanka completes feasibility studies for trade agreement with Bangladesh
Sri Lanka says a free trade agreement between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh could boost current levels of bilateral trade by seven-fold and such a FTA is in the works. -
20-Feb-2015 UNCTAD
UNCTAD releases review of trends in investment agreements and investor-State dispute settlement
In 2014, countries concluded one international investment agreement every other week. Investors continue to use investor-State dispute settlement, but the number of new cases does not reach the record high of previous years. -
19-Feb-2015 TNI
ISDS beyond TTIP: EU reforms and impacts on the Global South
Public event organised by Transnational Institute, Friends of the Earth Europe and Traidcraft on 4 March 2015 in Brussels -
19-Feb-2015 Enkrateia Project
III Conference of the Euro-Mediterranean network of social movements and entities against the abusive exploitation of fossil fuels: Barcelona, 7-8 March 2015
This meeting will enable us to improve the coordination of our European network and study its joint strategy in 2015, a year in which the TTIP/CETA/TISA/ISDS will be on the political agenda throughout much of Europe. -
19-Feb-2015 Nation News
Barbados: EPA not at full potential
More than six years after the signing of a controversial Economic Partnership Agreement between the European Union and CARIFORUM, Barbados and other participating countries are “struggling” to make it work. -
19-Feb-2015 BuzzFeed News
LGBT members of Congress object to free-trade deal with countries criminalizing LGBT people
Five out LGBT members of Congress objected to the inclusion of two countries with anti-LGBT laws in a free trade deal that the Obama administration is currently negotiating and seeking to fast-track it for adoption. -
18-Feb-2015 Express Tribune
Pakistan, Turkey to finalise free trade deal
Pakistan and Turkey on Tuesday agreed to finalise a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) after their leaders announced that the two countries are embarking on fresh trade liberalisation initiatives. -
18-Feb-2015 Counter Punch
Corporate coup d’état: Those crappy trade deals
The corporate media would prefer that people know nothing about the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), the US-EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and other trade deals.