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13-Mar-2015 Business Standard
India pushes for Comprehensive Economic Partnership with Sri Lanka
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today assured Sri Lanka that it will take steps to address the concerns arising out of the two-way merchandise trade between both neighbours even as he pitched for having a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA). -
13-Mar-2015 Express Tribune
Pakistan rejects US draft of investment treaty
Pakistan has rejected the United States’ proposed draft of a Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) between the two countries, saying the acceptance of the US template would carry ‘dangerous obligations’ for the country. -
13-Mar-2015 Customs Today
Hong Kong seeks to expand trade partnership with Indonesia
Hong Kong, the world’s 10th largest trading economy, is seeking to expand its partnership both in trade and services with the Indonesian private sector to support a free-trade agreement (FTA) currently under negotiation. -
12-Mar-2015 Reuters
Push against investment rules in US trade deals picks up
Law professors from across the United States urged lawmakers to keep rules to protect foreign investors out of trade pacts on Wednesday, warning they would give big companies too much power. -
12-Mar-2015 SMH
Australia scores ’most favoured nation’ provisions in FTA with China
Trade Minister Robb says that Australia "will automatically receive the same treatment provided by China to any other country in the future including the EU and the United States." -
12-Mar-2015 AFP
German industry slashes estimates of benefits of US trade deal
German industry federation BDI has been forced to slash its estimate of the economic benefits for Europe of a proposed US-EU free trade pact by a factor of 10, it conceded Wednesday. -
11-Mar-2015 Heesob’s IP Blog
US Ambassador confirms patent linkage under FTA includes biologics
The US Ambassador Lippert has sent a letter to the Korean Minister of Food and Drug Safety requesting protection of biologics under the patent linkage system. He also confirmed that the US seeks the same protection in TPP. -
11-Mar-2015 Wall Street Journal
Unions to fight trade pact by freezing political donations
Dozens of major labor unions plan to freeze campaign contributions to members of Congress to pressure them to oppose fast-track trade legislation sought by President Barack Obama , according to labor officials. -
11-Mar-2015 Express Tribune
Focus on private sector: Washington rules out trade agreement with Islamabad
US Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker finally admitted publicly that the Obama administration no longer has the ability to get legislative approval for any trade agreements with Pakistan, and hence is focusing on getting more US businesses to invest in Pakistan. -
11-Mar-2015 Roll Call
Time for Menendez to stand against TPP for the sake of Latinos nationwide
The TPP would displace 1.2 million workers across Mexico and the Caribbean and nearly 170,000 in the US, according to Mary O’Rourke, an industry analyst. -
11-Mar-2015 Xinhua
China, Georgia start feasibility study on FTA
China and Georgia have agreed to set up a joint working group to study the feasibility of a free trade agreement, according to China’s Ministry of Commerce. -
11-Mar-2015 HortiBiz
East Africa wants deal with non-EU countries
The East African Community (EAC) wants to expand its European market for horticultural products (flowers, vegetables and fruits) through a new trade partnership with Norway, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Iceland. -
10-Mar-2015 The Guardian
TTIP must not allow companies to sue EU countries for environmental laws, say MPs
A major free trade deal should not allow US companies to sue European nations when they pass environmental laws that hurt their profits, MPs in the UK said on Tuesday. -
10-Mar-2015 EU
TiSA - EU negotiating mandate (2013)
As published by the European Council on 10 March 2015 -
10-Mar-2015 European Council
Trade in services agreement: negotiating mandate made public
The Council decided on 10 March 2015 to declassify the mandate given to the Commission to negotiate an international agreement on trade in services. -
10-Mar-2015 Czech News Agency
LN: Czech state hampers EU-Georgia deal over firm’s interests
The Czech Foreign Ministry has been using the association agreement between the European Union and Georgia as an instrument of pressure exerted on the Georgian authorities in order to protect the investments of the Czech Energo-Pro firm, daily Lidove noviny (LN) writes Monday. -
10-Mar-2015 Tax-News.com
EFTA, Mercosur moot free trade agreement
The European Free Trade Association (Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein) and Mercosur (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela) have agreed to initiate an exploratory dialogue with a view to possible future trade negotiations, EFTA said. -
10-Mar-2015 Tax News
Laos, Vietnam expand free trade agreement
Laos and Vietnam signed an improved free trade agreement (FTA) on March 3, 2015, to replace their existing treaty dating back to 1998. -
10-Mar-2015 Estrella Digital
TTIP or the disintegration of the EU
Ecologistas en Acción and ‘No al TTIP’ consider that the EU-US trade agreement will mean reductions in labor rights and these will be justified by “cost reduction based on the anti-trade union policy of the US – that has not ratified ILO conventions – and on labor reforms imposed by the Troika”. -
9-Mar-2015 The Guardian
"We won’t just rubber-stamp the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Workers deserve better"
Progressives in US Congress believe that fair trade agreements are possible – but not if the administration follows the old model for negotiations