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28-Aug-2014 EurActiv
TTIP will sacrifice food safety for faster trade, warn NGOs
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) will irreversibly put EU consumers and animals at risk, the European Commission will be warned today (28 August). -
28-Aug-2014 WDM
TTIP and the Scottish referendum
Whatever the outcome of the independence referendum on 18 September, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership could force Scotland to adopt a system that allows US multinationals to provide public services. -
28-Aug-2014 European Commission
EU agrees rules to manage investor-state disputes
The European Union today took an important step towards creating a comprehensive EU investment policy, with the publication of a Regulation setting out a new set of rules to manage disputes under the EU’s investment agreements with its trading partners. -
28-Aug-2014 Kluwer Arbitration Blog
The “anti-ISDS bill” before the Australian Senate
Indonesia is not the only Asia-Pacific nation that is reassessing investment treaties containing provisions on Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS, especially arbitration). -
28-Aug-2014 Jakarta Globe
Indonesia 1, Newmont 0
US firm Newmont Mining has withdrawn its arbitration claim against Indonesia -
27-Aug-2014 IPWatch
Médecins Sans Frontières warns about IP inclusion in Asian FTA
The inclusion of intellectual property in the ongoing negotiations of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership between 16 countries, most of them Asian, is raising concerns about “TRIPS-plus” measures that could jeopardise generic drugs production in India, according to Médecins Sans Frontières. -
27-Aug-2014 Asia Forum
Why the US struggles against Japan in TPP negotiations
Historically, outside pressure (gaiatsu) from the United States has been effective in prising open Japanese markets in both bilateral and multilateral trade negotiations. Why is it not working now? -
27-Aug-2014 EurActiv
EU gives up on TTIP for US reinsurance reform
Negotiators pushing for better US market access for EU reinsurers have abandoned talks over the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), recognising the trade deal is unlikely to remove rules forcing the industry to post as much as 100% collateral against their American liabilities. -
27-Aug-2014 Channel News Asia
Singapore signs investment treaties with Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast
Both Bilateral Investment Treaties aim to protect investors’ interests from the countries involved, and open up more business and investment opportunities. -
27-Aug-2014 S&D Group in the EP
S&D Group president Gianni Pittella: "We oppose ISDS mechanism in EU-Canada trade deal"
The Socialist & Democrat Group in the European Parliament has always opposed the inclusion of the investor-state dispute settlement mechanism in CETA, says their president G. Pitella, and it will be up to the Parliament to decide whether or not to ratify the agreement. -
27-Aug-2014 Xinhua
China, ASEAN to negotiate on FTA upgrade
China and the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) agreed Tuesday to negotiate on upgrading a free trade area (FTA) to ensure that it remained dynamic and commercially relevant. -
27-Aug-2014 Economic Times
Signing of India-ASEAN FTA likely via circulation process soon
India, which did not attend the ASEAN ministers meeting this week, will propose a circulation process for signing the India-ASEAN trade pact in services and investments. -
27-Aug-2014 Chemical Watch
Chemical industry using TTIP ‘to attack the precautionary principal’
The last 12 months have seen a surge of attacks against the EU’s precautionary principle, with some law firms considering it a potential obstacle to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). -
27-Aug-2014 EFF
Registered lobbyists elbow their way back into TPP committees
New relaxed rules on lobbyists mean that Hollywood will now be able to exercise their influence on US trade policy more than ever. -
27-Aug-2014 Global Research
Plundering the planet: Rigged corporate “free trade partnerships” and “climate change agreements”
What do rigged corporate trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Paris Treaty, an international climate agreement to be signed in 2015, have in common? -
27-Aug-2014 TeleSur
The corporate free trade project reloaded
Twenty years after NAFTA, the US and EU are making a renewed push for global free trade. But today the South is better able to resist such a project. -
26-Aug-2014 Korea JoongAng Daily
FTA benefits elude Kaesong
None of the companies operating in the Kaesong Industrial Complex are eligible for FTA benefits because of sanctions from developed countries against North Korea. -
26-Aug-2014 The Hill
US trade officials give Guatemala more time to install labor overhaul
US trade officials on Monday said they would give Guatemala more time to implement a labor rights enforcement plan under CAFTA. -
26-Aug-2014 IBTimes
US cheesemakers raise stink over geographic labeling restriction proposals
Gouda, muenster and cheddar cheese are staples at delis and restaurants from New York to Vancouver. But if the final version of a cross-Atlantic trade agreement released earlier this month is approved, Canada will include them on a list of 173 food and beverage products barred from being sold under their common names unless they are produced in Canada or in the European regions for which they are named or commonly associated. -
26-Aug-2014 Huffington Post
Trade deals from hell
T-TIP is worse than a distraction. It’s another manifestation of corporate capture of democratic government. As soon as T-TIP is given a decent burial, perhaps we can get on with the business of rebuilding an economy that serves people.