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17-Sep-2014 LiveMint
India wary of issues on services in Canada pact
Canada’s trade minister Ed Fast is scheduled to visit India next month to hold discussions with Nirmala Sitharaman to end the CEPA deadlock -
17-Sep-2014 European Parliament
Study: Risks and opportunities for the EU agri-food sector in a possible EU-US trade agreement
TTIP "could lead to major changes in EU legislation, which may undermine the traditional EU precaution and risk management policy on which the current regulatory framework is based" says study prepared for the European Parliament’s Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development. -
17-Sep-2014 Portfolio Colombia
Colombia: FTA negotiations with Japan continue
The seventh round of Economic Partnership Agreement talks, which aim at achieving an FTA between Colombia and Japan by 2015, are taking place this week in the Japanese capital. -
17-Sep-2014 Climate Space
Social movements denounce corporate take-over of Ban Ki-Moon Climate Summit
The movements point out that halting climate change calls for an end to the neoliberal free trade regime that promotes the pursuit of endless growth and endless profit for transnational corporations. -
16-Sep-2014 Newsweek
New treaty allows China to sue Canada to change its laws
Despite public outcry, Stephen Harper, Canada’s prime minister, ratified a controversial treaty on Friday that will allow China to sue Canada in secret tribunals to repeal Canadian laws that interfere with Chinese investments. -
16-Sep-2014 European Parliament News
European Parliament ratifies EU-Ukraine Association Agreement
The European Parliament gave its consent to the EU-Ukraine Association agreement, which includes a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA), on Tuesday in Strasbourg. At the same time, the Agreement was also ratified by the Ukrainian Parliament in Kiev. -
16-Sep-2014 Food Navigator Asia
Minister: Australia’s “food bowl of Asia” no threat to Chinese farmers
Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce is touring China in a bid to assuage local farmers’ fears over Australia’s ambition to be the “food bowl of Asia” as the two countries attempt to reach a conclusion to talks over a free-trade agreement. -
16-Sep-2014 Antara
Indonesia fishermen to suffer more under Asean Economic Community
Indonesian fishermen will suffer more when the ASEAN Economic Community is implemented in 2015, the environmentalist organization Walhi said. -
16-Sep-2014 The Star
Kenya: Civil society raises concerns over EAC-EU trade deal
Kenya Human Rights Commission and others demand extension of September 30 deadline to sign the pending trade deal between the East African Community and EU on the grounds that failure to reach agreement will hurt half a million horticultural workers, mostly women. -
16-Sep-2014 Colombo Page
Sri Lanka-China to negotiate on FTA during Chinese President’s visit
During Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to the island this week, the two sides will launch negotiations on a China-Sri Lanka free trade agreement. -
16-Sep-2014 Huffington Post
Economist Jeffrey Sachs says NO to TPP and TAFTA trade deals
Jeffrey Sachs, world-renowned professor of economics, lays out five reasons why the Trans-Pacific Partnership and Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement should not be passed or ratified.
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16-Sep-2014 CIP Americas
The carrot, the stick, and the seeds: US development policy faces resistance in El Salvador
While the seeds dispute was an effective rallying point, social movements must confront the elephant in the room – CAFTA. -
16-Sep-2014 Irish Examiner
Government ‘ignoring’ plea not to sign EU-Colombia trade deal
Aid agencies and human rights groups want Ireland to stall on signing the EU free trade agreement with Colombia which they say will put that country’s oppressed agricultural communities in peril and undermine its fragile peace process. -
14-Sep-2014 NJGI
Strategy conversations: From protest to proposal – Launch of alternative proposal to the global investment regime
‘A Call for the Building of an Alternative Legal Framework to the International Investment Treaties. Favoring the Public Interest while doing away with Transnational Corporate Impunity.’ -
14-Sep-2014 ABC
ISDS: The devil in the trade deal
A common provision allowing foreign investors to sue host governments has become a ticking time bomb inside trade agreements. Some countries are now refusing to agree to the provision and are questioning its legal legitimacy. Jess Hill investigates.
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12-Sep-2014 Politics
Outrage as EU blocks democratic challenge to US trade deal
The European Commission’s decision to block a citizens’ initiative to challenge the secret trade talks it is holding with the US government is a slap in the face for the 230 civil society organisations that have lined up behind the initiative and the millions of European citizens they represent. -
12-Sep-2014 CBC
Harper OKs Canada-China foreign investment deal after lengthy delay
Sources tell CBC the federal government will quietly announce it is ratifying the investment treaty later this afternoon. -
12-Sep-2014 The Tyee
How Greens in one German state threaten Euro-Canada trade deal
The survival of the new trade deal hammered out in secret between Canada and the European Union is threatened by opposed Green politicians in Germany’s most populated state, writes Andrea Rexer. -
12-Sep-2014 China Briefing
Bilateral Investment Treaties: What they are and why they matter
The US-China Business Council, a corporate lobby group, outlines what a US-China BIT might amount to. -
11-Sep-2014 Netzpolitik
EU-Canada FTA (CETA) (complete leak, 11 Sep 2014)