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3-Jul-2014 rabble.ca
Why workers should unite against Canada’s next-generation trade deals
With Canada’s labour movement searching for alternative economic models for a post-crisis, climatically unstable world, the government’s new trade and investment pacts are barriers to a better future and must be resisted. -
3-Jul-2014 Sydney Morning Herald
Australia wins first battle in plain packaging trade dispute
The Permanent Court of Arbitration has ordered that Australia will be allowed to challenge Philip Morris Asia’s right to contest Australia’s plain packaging laws, on the grounds that the company only bought shares in its Australian arm so that it could launch the case. -
3-Jul-2014 Xinhua
Australian Labor Party plan raises Chinese investment threshold to 1 billion AUD
The Australian Labor Party is proposing to raise the threshold for Chinese investment from 200 million Australian dollars (187 million US dollars) to 1 billion Australian dollars (940 million US dollars) as part of the nation’s free-trade agreement (FTA) with China -
3-Jul-2014 Dow Jones Newswires
Newmont files for arbitration against Indonesia government on ore-export ban
Newmont Mining Corp. said Tuesday it is filing for international arbitration against the Indonesian government for a mineral-export ban. -
2-Jul-2014 Inca Kola News
The US / Peru Free Trade Agreement and generic medicines
Peru’s National Association of Pharmaceutical Laboratories (Alafarpe) has filed a petition in the Peruvian courts to stop generic drugs from being sold based on the terms of US-Peru free trade agreement, according to Inca Kola News -
2-Jul-2014 Bernama
Peru, India to kick off FTA talks in August this year
Peru and India are expected to meet in August this year to hammer out a solid framework for staring negotiations on a Free Trade Agreement, the country’s Foreign Trade and Tourism Ministry (Mincetur) has said. -
2-Jul-2014 BusinessWorld
Philippines pursues free trade talks with European bloc
Tthe Philippines and EFTA member countries — Switzerland, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway — signed last June 23 a joint declaration of cooperation that paves the way for free trade talks. -
2-Jul-2014 IB Times
TTIP won’t let big banks wriggle out of regulations, EU negotiators insist
The European Commission denies that it is using the negotiations over the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership to weaken financial regulation for the benefit of financial institutions. -
2-Jul-2014 The Hill
Lew: US-China investment deal not nearing completion
US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said Tuesday that the United States and China aren’t prepared to wrap up work on an investment agreement during high-level meetings next week. -
1-Jul-2014 CEO
EU-US FTA (TTIP) - draft regulatory co-operation on financial regulation (March 2014)
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1-Jul-2014 ETUC
Commission closes TTIP consultation — But is it listening?
Bernadette Ségol the General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation says trade unionists are “particularly concerned at statements from DG Trade implying that the consultation is about a reform of the ISDS system and is not open to a decisive rejection.” -
1-Jul-2014 Canadian Press
TransPacific Partnership deal elusive as talks set for Ottawa
This week, hundreds of negotiators from 11 Asia-Pacific countries descend on Ottawa as part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks, viewed as the next big free trade deal after the European pact known as CETA. -
1-Jul-2014 Democracy & Freedom Watch
Georgia and Russia meet to sort out EU vs CIS free trade
Georgian and Russian trade experts will meet in Prague on July 7 to find out how compatible Georgia’s new free trade with the European Union is with its already existing free trade framework with countries of the former Soviet Union. -
1-Jul-2014 KEI
Videos from TACD’s June 25, 2014 side event on intellectual property in the US, EU trade agreement (TTIP)
A set of videos from the Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue’s June 25, 2014 event on intellectual property and the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership agreement.
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1-Jul-2014 AFP
Swiss-Chinese free trade agreement takes effect
A watershed free-trade deal between China and Switzerland came into force on Tuesday, the first such accord between the Asian giant and a mainland European economy. -
1-Jul-2014 Vimeo
EU-US free trade agreement (TTIP or TAFTA)
Short video on TTIP, promoting the UK’s #noTTIP day of action on 12th July 2014
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30-Jun-2014 Canadian Press
Canada’s free-trade agenda: What’s the hold-up?
The Harper government’s vaunted free trade agenda is either a roaring success or hopelessly stalled — and given that government officials aren’t commenting, even experts in the field are having trouble deciding which. -
30-Jun-2014 FT
South Korea’s rice farmers prepare for rough ride from free trade
Korean Peasant League wants the government to negotiate an extension to the rice quota arrangement – as the Philippines did earlier this month. But experts at the agriculture ministry’s public consultations have suggested an alternative option: opening the market while increasing import tariffs from the current 5 per cent to levels as high as 300-500 per cent. -
30-Jun-2014 AIA
EU and US insurers support including financial services market access and regulatory cooperation in TTIP
Insurance Europe, the American Insurance Association and the American Council of Life Insurers have issued a statement supporting the inclusion of market access and regulatory cooperation in financial services in TTIP. -
30-Jun-2014 EFF
What does copyright have to do with "free trade"? Unpicking the undemocratic TTIP
Reports are that TTIP may focus less on copyright and IP enforcement issues compared with TPP, and more on other legal regimes that are commonly lumped into the "intellectual property" catch-all, such as trade secrets.