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11-Oct-2014 Politico
Tobacco raises TPP concerns
US trade officials have denied they plan to offer a new tobacco proposal in the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks in Australia later this month. -
11-Oct-2014 Globe and Mail
Why climate litigation could soon go global
Climate change is already causing about $600-billion in damages annually, gobally. Oil and gas companies could soon find themselves on the hook for at least part of the damage. -
10-Oct-2014 STA
Slovenia: Left demands transparency on Transatlantic trade deals
The United Left (ZL), a coalition of leftist parties, demanded on Friday answers from the Slovenian government about the secretive Transatlantic trade agreements as pressure mounts on governments across the EU to reveal the details of the far-reaching accords. -
10-Oct-2014 TeleSur
Document reveals EU bullied Ecuador into trade agreement
A document leaked today shows that Ecuador’s government was threatened with isolation and a devastating loss to its trade if it didn’t return to the negotiating table for the EU-Andean Trade agreement. -
10-Oct-2014 RTE
EU publishes its mandate for US trade talks
The EU has published its — widely leaked — negotiating mandate for a free trade deal with the United States in a bid to quell opposition to the proposed accord. -
10-Oct-2014 Economist
The arbitration game
Governments are souring on treaties to protect foreign investors -
10-Oct-2014 Reuters
Venezuela ordered to pay Exxon $1.6 bln for nationalization
A World Bank arbitration tribunal on Thursday ordered Venezuela to pay Exxon Mobil Corp around $1.6 billion to compensate for the 2007 nationalization of its oil projects in the country. -
10-Oct-2014 Parliament Magazine
INTA debates EU-Japan trade
The European Commission made it very clear that it would be difficult to see the end of negotiations if nothing happens in terms of taxation of cars in Japan. -
9-Oct-2014 Reuters
China’s Zhu: Asia-Pacific trade deal would be incomplete without Beijing
The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact would be "incomplete" in the long term without China, a top Chinese official said on Wednesday. -
9-Oct-2014 DG Trade
EU-US FTA (TTIP) - EU negotiating mandate (2013)
As published by the EU on 9 October 2014 -
9-Oct-2014 Stop-TTIP.org
TTIP negotiating mandate published
The European Council today published the negotiating mandate for the proposed transatlantic trade and investment partnership (TTIP). -
9-Oct-2014 Xinhua
China, US likely to conclude BIT talks in two years, says official
China and the United States are likely to conclude bilateral investment treaty (BIT) negotiations within two years, China’s Vice Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao said Wednesday. -
9-Oct-2014 STA
Slovenia: Panel issues strong criticism of EU’s secret free trade talks
A Slovenian NGO-sponsored panel criticises the lack of transparency in the EU’s talks on free trade agreements with the US and Canada. -
8-Oct-2014 GMA News
Six years after JPEPA: PHL the world’s toxic waste dump site?
Six years after the controversial Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) was signed, Philippines may be becoming the world’s dump site for toxic waste. -
8-Oct-2014 The Nation
Myanmar and Israel sign an agreement to cement bilateral trade
Israeli Ambassador to Myanmar Hagay M Behar and DICA director general Aung Naing signed a reciprocal promotion and protection of investments agreement in Yangon yesterday. -
8-Oct-2014 Reuters
’Plan B’ needed for EU-US trade pact - Italian minister
Italy said on Wednesday there needed to be a "plan B" that foresees a partial EU-US trade deal in order to sidestep deadlock over specific issues. -
8-Oct-2014 Infojustice
Responding to frequently asked questions: TPP TTIP pharmaceutical reimbursement “transparency”
Brand name pharmaceutical companies are advocating for inclusion of disciplines on public pharmaceutical reimbursement programs in the ongoing negotiations of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. -
8-Oct-2014 Bloomberg
Canada braces for EU trade pact dispute with Germany
Canada is bracing for a dispute with Germany over whether its newly-agreed free trade pact with the European Union should be re-opened to erase arbitration clauses. -
8-Oct-2014 Counter Punch
CETA and climate change: Why the new Euro-Canada treaty is a gift to oil firms
Short of an international treaty banning all government regulations outright, CETA gives the oil and gas industry virtually everything it has been asking for, for decades. -
8-Oct-2014 News Weekly
Critical China free trade agreement based on what?
How can the government of Australia evaluate gains to agriculture from a China free trade agreement if it uses flawed statistical calculations?