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26-Feb-2015 BBC
EU-US FTA (TTIP) - draft services & investment offer (Feb 2015)
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26-Feb-2015 BBC
TTIP: Transatlantic trade deal text leaked to BBC
A leaked draft of what the European Union wants excluded from a new trade deal with the United States has been obtained by the BBC. -
25-Feb-2015 Financial Express
Will a new US-led IP empire in India put access to medicines at risk?
Prof Brook K Baker, Professor of Law and Northeastern University, cautions that the Modi government’s accelerating flirtation with the US and its investors is dangerous to hundreds of millions of people worldwide whose lives depend on Indian generics -
25-Feb-2015 WSJ
Lawmakers grapple with ‘fast track’ trade bill
US congressional leaders crafting the so-called fast-track bill, meant to expedite passage of trade deals, want to include sweeteners to attract skeptical Democrats, including rules to allow lawmakers greater access to details of ongoing trade negotiations. -
25-Feb-2015 European Parliament
TTIP talks: EP committees discuss their recommendations for negotiators
The European Parliament’s development committee calls on the Commission to make an independent study of TTIP’s impact on developing countries “once the provisions of TTIP are clearer”. -
25-Feb-2015 Yonhap
S. Korea, China initial bilateral free trade pact
South Korea and China initialed their free trade agreement (FTA) Wednesday, taking a step closer to implementing what South Korean officials hail as the most significant trade deal for the country. -
24-Feb-2015 Indian Express
ComMin expedites work on FTA before Modi’s Canada visit
With Prime Minister Narendra Modi likely to visit Canada in April this year, the commerce and industry ministry has expedited the work on firming up the framework for the proposed free trade agreement with the country. -
24-Feb-2015 Deutsche Welle
German Social Democrats fear free trade
Support for the TTIP free trade agreement with the US is waning further among Germany’s Social Democrats, DW reports -
24-Feb-2015 World Bulletin
EU: Turkey’s concerns over TTIP ‘legitimate’
The EU’s trade chief, Cecilia Malmstrom, said Monday that Turkey has “legitimate” concerns over the ongoing EU-US free trade talks and promised to keep Ankara informed on almost every step during the negotiations. -
24-Feb-2015 Financial Times
Shinzo Abe loses ally in TPP trade deal
Shinzo Abe, the Japanese prime minister, has lost an important ally on the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal after his agriculture minster resigned in a scandal over political donations. -
24-Feb-2015 Le Monde
European Left united to reform international arbitration tribunals
Rather than abandoning completely the TTIP/TAFTA negotiations (and their little cousin CETA, an agreement between Canada and the EU) which is what a good part of civil society are calling for, the European Left wants to thoroughly reform this arbitral mechanism to limits its abuses. -
23-Feb-2015 Foroyaa
Gambia: Stakeholders discuss impact of EPA
The Gambia, one of 5 West African countries which have not yet signed the EU EPA, is sensitising people about the consequences. -
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.