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1-Sep-2014 Kyodo
TPP nations kick off fresh officials meeting in Vietnam
Senior officials from 12 countries involved in the Pacific Rim free trade initiative began a fresh round of negotiations in Hanoi on Monday, aiming to clear a path for a broad agreement within this year. -
1-Sep-2014 Xinhua
China, Japan, ROK kick off 5th round of FTA talks
China, Japan and the Republic of Korea (ROK) started the fifth round of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations in Beijing on Monday. -
1-Sep-2014 EIN News
Anti-TTIP protests take place across the UK
Thousands of people across Britain on Saturday protested against the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the EU and US.
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1-Sep-2014 Romania Insider
Ambassador: We can’t ratify the EU-Canada Treaty easily, Romanian businessmen must have free access like all Europeans
Romania can’t ratify the EU-Canada free trade agreement easily as long as Romanian businessmen don’t have the same free visa access to the country as other European citizens do, Romania’s Ambassador to Canada told Mediafax. -
31-Aug-2014 Tengri News
Kazakhstan may leave EEU if its interests are infringed: Nazarbayev
Kazakhstan has a right to withdraw from the Eurasian Economic Union if its interests are infringed, President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev reminded in an interview to Khabar TV Channel. -
29-Aug-2014 IBTimes
TTIP: UK government not trusted to protect NHS from American investors
Despite government claims that public services will be protected from the EU’s free trade agreement with the US, 42% of British people don’t trust them to protect the NHS from privatisation. -
29-Aug-2014 The Tyee
CETA leak: Crucial questions unanswered
Latest version of trade deal leaves too much up to non-existent commission, lawyers say. -
29-Aug-2014 WA Today
Trade treaties expose Australia to costly litigation, experts warn
Australia risks getting swept up in a wave of litigation by foreign corporations wishing to sue over unfavourable domestic laws, experts warn, after the government rejected a bill to ban controversial trade agreements. -
29-Aug-2014 Computer World
Inquiry rejects ban on ISDS clauses in free trade agreements
A Senate inquiry has recommended against passing a bill that would bar Australia from entering into trade agreements that include so-called ’investor-state dispute settlement’ clauses. -
29-Aug-2014 ESIS
Egypt eyes further economic ties with Brazil
Industry and Trade Minister Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour said the Egyptian government is keen to activate the Egypt-Mercosur free trade agreement that Egypt has signed in 2010 with the Southern Common Market economic bloc. -
29-Aug-2014 Servindi
Guatemala: People reject "Monsanto Law" for threatening food security
Guatemalan civil society has strongly rejected the country’s new plant breeders’ rights law imposed through the free trade agreement with the US (CAFTA). -
28-Aug-2014 Reuters
European lawmakers threaten to scupper Canada trade deal
EU lawmakers are threatening to block a multibillion-dollar trade pact between Canada and the European Union – a blueprint for a much bigger EU-US deal – because it would allow firms to sue governments if they breach the treaty. -
28-Aug-2014 Reuters
Newmont withdraws mining arbitration case against Indonesia
Newmont Mining Corp has withdrawn an international arbitration filing against the Indonesian government, government and company officials said on Tuesday, indicating a possible breakthrough in a seven-month dispute that halted exports. -
28-Aug-2014 EurActiv
TTIP will sacrifice food safety for faster trade, warn NGOs
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) will irreversibly put EU consumers and animals at risk, the European Commission will be warned today (28 August). -
28-Aug-2014 WDM
TTIP and the Scottish referendum
Whatever the outcome of the independence referendum on 18 September, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership could force Scotland to adopt a system that allows US multinationals to provide public services. -
28-Aug-2014 European Commission
EU agrees rules to manage investor-state disputes
The European Union today took an important step towards creating a comprehensive EU investment policy, with the publication of a Regulation setting out a new set of rules to manage disputes under the EU’s investment agreements with its trading partners. -
28-Aug-2014 Kluwer Arbitration Blog
The “anti-ISDS bill” before the Australian Senate
Indonesia is not the only Asia-Pacific nation that is reassessing investment treaties containing provisions on Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS, especially arbitration). -
28-Aug-2014 Jakarta Globe
Indonesia 1, Newmont 0
US firm Newmont Mining has withdrawn its arbitration claim against Indonesia -
27-Aug-2014 IPWatch
Médecins Sans Frontières warns about IP inclusion in Asian FTA
The inclusion of intellectual property in the ongoing negotiations of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership between 16 countries, most of them Asian, is raising concerns about “TRIPS-plus” measures that could jeopardise generic drugs production in India, according to Médecins Sans Frontières. -
27-Aug-2014 Asia Forum
Why the US struggles against Japan in TPP negotiations
Historically, outside pressure (gaiatsu) from the United States has been effective in prising open Japanese markets in both bilateral and multilateral trade negotiations. Why is it not working now?