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12-Jun-2014 Farmers Guardian
TTIP agreement may be too big not to happen, says USDA
The US and the European Union may be too big for a free-trade deal not to happen, says USDA chief economist Joseph Glauber -
12-Jun-2014 Daily News
Scholars skeptical of agreement with EU
The South Centre has rubbished threats by European Union of withholding support to African countries should they fail to ratify Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA). -
12-Jun-2014 Prensa Latina
New negotiations begin on Chinese-US investment treaty
Chinese and US representatives are beginning another round of negotiations here today in this capital on a bilateral investment treaty, said the Commerce Ministry. -
12-Jun-2014 ECNS
Cross-Straits trade agreements stall
Lawmakers in Taiwan Monday confirmed that negotiations on a series of economic measures between the island and the Chinese mainland have halted in the wake of disruptive protests in Taipei in March. -
12-Jun-2014 Sky News
Australia: PM seeks to broaden free trade deal with US
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott will use a meeting with US President Barack Obama at the White House to seek the reopening of the decade-long agreement, News Corp Australia reports. -
12-Jun-2014 The Hill
Peru’s “Bagua massacre” haunts the TPP
The experience of the US-Peru FTA makes clear even improved labor and environmental chapters cannot overcome the NAFTA-style investor protections at the core of the Peru FTA and now TPP. -
11-Jun-2014 European Left
The European Left launches a campaign against TTIP
The European Left will organise a political campaign against TTIP in synergy with social movements, unions, ecologists, farmers, small enterprises. -
11-Jun-2014 EurActiv
TTIP contradicts post-2015 development goals, experts say
The planned US-EU trade deal, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), has come up against intense criticism from both sides of the Atlantic. Now development officials have joined the choir. -
8-Jun-2014 The Observer
Experts attack EU trade deal deadline
At a high level conference on the EAC-EU EPA negotiations in Entebbe recently, experts in trade and regional integration argued that the EAC should not be bound by the pressure of the EU deadline. -
7-Jun-2014 Mondaq
Alternative forms of protection for Indonesia’s foreign investors
This Legal alert outlines the several means by which investment protection for foreign investors in Indonesia can be reassured. -
7-Jun-2014 Tax News
US farmers call for Japan to be excluded from TPP
United States farming groups are urging that, if Japan continues to insist that it should keep import duties on its ultra-sensitive agricultural products – rice, wheat, beef and pork, dairy products, and sugar and starch – it should be excluded from Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations. -
6-Jun-2014 Oryza
Korea-Colombia free trade agreement excludes rice and rice related products, says USDA Post
USDA Post reports that South Korea’s National Assembly has ratified the Korea-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, but the FTA excludes rice and other rice related products. -
6-Jun-2014 Marcotradenews
Panama and Israel expect to finish negotiating FTA in coming months
After the visit of the President of Panama, Ricardo Martinelli, to Israel on Thursday, the two governments said they would have a free trade agreement within a couple of months. -
6-Jun-2014 BBC
France: BNP Paribas row ’puts EU-US trade pact at risk’
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has said the reported $10bn (£6bn; 7.3bn euros) US fine being faced by banking giant BNP Paribas could hurt EU-US trade treaty talks. -
6-Jun-2014 EurActiv
African countries feel cornered in EU trade negotiations
The EU is pointing a gun at the Global South’s chest and do not listen to their concerns, reports EurActiv Germany. -
4-Jun-2014 ETUC
Bernadette Ségol (ETUC) & Richard Trumka (AFL-CIO) - Joint video interview on TTIP
Joint interview on TTIP by Bernadette Ségol, ETUC General Secretary & Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO President
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3-Jun-2014 Counterpunch
The geopolitics of the Eurasian Economic Union
The deal signed last week by Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan to create a Eurasian Economic Union is yet another countermeasure against US and European attempts to isolate Russia. -
3-Jun-2014 Solomon Star News
PNG needs to grow its own food: Minister
Trade minister Maru says PNG has an urgent need to negotiate and enter into new trade and investment agreements with Indonesia, Philippines, China and Malaysia in order to produce food locally. -
3-Jun-2014 Reuters
Deal or no deal? EU-Canada trade deal falters at final hurdle
Canada and the European Union are struggling to finalize a multibillion-dollar trade pact six months after political leaders said it was sealed, an embarrassment for Brussels as it seeks a far bigger deal with the United States. -
30-May-2014 Common Dreams
Why is it so acceptable to lie to promote trade deals?
It’s not polite to use the "L" word here in Washington, but it’s hard not to be more than a bit disgusted with the frequency with which trade pacts are sold as great engines of job creation and economic growth, when they clearly are not, writes Dean Baker.