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22-Sep-2014 Computerworld
Australia: Harper review recommends scrutiny of trade agreement IP clauses
A panel conducting a review of Australia competition policy landscape has recommended increased scrutiny of intellectual property-related clauses in trade agreements. -
22-Sep-2014 Straits Times
Delays in TPP ’could affect US presence in Asia’, says S’pore PM
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong says the US will be "giving the game away" if it does not step up and press ahead to get the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement talks concluded. -
20-Sep-2014 AFP
Russia demands changes to Ukraine-EU association deal
Russia has demanded changes to a landmark political and economic pact between the EU and Ukraine in order to meet Moscow’s concerns, according to a letter seen by AFP on Friday. -
20-Sep-2014 DW
After Brussels rejection, TTIP fight could go to ECJ
Opponents of the EU-US free trade agreement are hoping to get their day in the European Court of Justice after the EU’s executive body rejected a citizens’ initiative to throw out the neoliberal pact. -
20-Sep-2014 Fibre-2-Fashion
FTA with GCC to impact Indian petrochemical sector – Study
“India’s trade imbalance with the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council will further deteriorate as well as impact the Indian petrochemicals sector due to tariff elimination on petrochemicals under the proposed FTA”, says a study by an apex Indian trade body. -
20-Sep-2014 World Trademark Review
The international implications of the Philip Morris branding battle in Uruguay
Long-running litigation between Uruguay, which has some of the toughest anti-smoking laws in the world, and cigarette giant Philip Morris could have direct consequences for plain packaging legislation globally. Could it also pave the way for legal action in Europe? -
19-Sep-2014 Stop-TTIP.org
Stop TTIP/CETA ECI: We continue our fight!
European social movements reject EU Commission’s attempt to silence them and will carry out their own European Citizens’ Initiative to stop both TTIP and CETA -
19-Sep-2014 Epoch Times
Questions linger over controversial Canada-China trade deal
Canada’s Conservative government is taking heat after Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s cabinet quietly ratified a Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) with China after sitting on it for two years during which it was strongly criticized and protested. -
19-Sep-2014 European Ombudsman
European Ombudsman launches public consultation in relation to the transparency of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations
The aim of the Ombudsman’s inquiry is to help ensure that the public can follow the progress of these talks and contribute to shaping their outcome. -
19-Sep-2014 Teamsters
Teamsters make case against bad trade deals to top Democratic senators
The Teamsters labour union told key US senators that secret ’trade’ deals like TPP and TISA threaten government workers’ jobs by opening them up to irreversible privatization by multinationals. -
19-Sep-2014 The Hill
Levin says plenty of work left on Asia-Pacific trade deal
A top House Democrat on Thursday said negotiations on an Asia-Pacific trade deal still have a long way to go. -
18-Sep-2014 VICE Canada
Canada’s secretive treaty with China further diminishes aboriginal rights
"This isn’t a matter of the big bad Chinese coming and throwing oil all over our beavers and mounties, this is about (for the ten trillionth time in this country’s history) a fundamental disrespect for First Nations people, upon whose land we are developing a multi-billion dollar energy extraction industry." -
18-Sep-2014 Xinhua
MEPs still divided over EU-Canada trade deal
Divisions were evident in a European Parliament (EP) debate Wednesday on a proposed trade agreement between the European Union (EU) and Canada. -
18-Sep-2014 Yonhap
S. Korea, Turkey initial FTA in service, investment sectors
South Korea and Turkey initialed a free trade agreement (FTA) for their investment and service sectors Thursday, which will complement a trade pact for products that went into effect last year. -
18-Sep-2014 Globe and Mail
EU must allay fears about free trade with Canada, Danish minister say
Danish companies — such as pharmaceutical giant Novo-Nordisk, who will get expanded patent protection in Canada — see huge opportunities for boosting their revenues through CETA. -
17-Sep-2014 TeleSur
Mercosur, Pacific Alliance to strengthen ties
Foreign Ministers from both blocs will meet November in Chile to discuss a Free Trade Agreement by 2016. -
17-Sep-2014 Independent
Pressure as EU issues new trade ultimatum
While the EU boss in Uganda is quick to point out that the date is neither an ultimatum nor a deadline, come Oct. 01 the EU will withdraw its free market access to countries like Uganda that have not yet ratified an Economic Partnership Agreement. -
17-Sep-2014 PSI
PSI Special Report: The Really Good Friends of Transnational Corporations Agreement
The objective of this report is to help overcome the secrecy and complexity surrounding the TISA (Trade in Services Agreement) negotiations in order to bring the agreement into the public sphere for democratic debate. -
17-Sep-2014 WSRW
Dutch first to fish under unethical EU-Morocco fish deal
For the first time in almost three years, an EU member state fishing vessel has been detected in the waters of occupied Western Sahara. -
17-Sep-2014 Tax News
China, Taiwan restart trade treaty talks
Taiwan and China have restarted talks on adding further goods tariff reductions to their economic cooperation framework agreement, despite the long-running dispute over the cross-strait agreement for trade in services that was signed in June last year.