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4-Apr-2014 Reuters
Mexico and Panama sign free trade agreement
The presidents of Mexico and Panama signed a free trade deal on Thursday, moving the smaller nation a step closer to joining the Pacific Alliance, a regional pact. -
4-Apr-2014 ABC
Dairy industry fears a raw deal from Japan FTA
Dairy farmers believe Australia’s free trade agreement with Japan could signed by Monday. But they don’t believe the deal will deliver them anything. -
3-Apr-2014 IP Watch
TTIP: EU Commissioner points finger at US secrecy, investor-state provisions
April Fool’s? European trade commissioner Karel de Gucht says, during a 1 April hearing in Brussels of the International Trade Committee of the European Parliament, that he would agree to drop ISDS from the TTIP if the United States would agree. -
3-Apr-2014 Business World
Philippines: Talk deal set with EFTA
An agreement that will spur further talks on a possible trade arrangement between the Philippines and the four-member European Free Trade Association (EFTA) is expected to be signed in June -
3-Apr-2014 This Day
Why Nigeria scuttled the EU-ECOWAS trade deal
The federal government has stated that it declined endorsing the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union because acting otherwise would have been inimical to the advancement of the varied growth policies currently being implemented by the government. -
3-Apr-2014 Taipei Times
TRADE PACT SIEGE: Student leaders host talk on protest on Reddit site
Student leaders of the Sunflower movement yesterday hosted a question-and-answer session on the US-based community platform Reddit to answer questions from around the world about their protest, in another effort to use their expertise in social networking technology to communicate with the outside world.
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3-Apr-2014 Lobbycontrol
A journey through the lobby jungle in Brussels
During the last TTIP negotiating round, CEO and the German lobby watchdog Lobbycontrol organised guided tours through the EU quarter in Brussels, focusing on the corporate lobbying behind the TTIP negotiations and the way that the European Commission allows corporations to set the agenda for the talks. -
2-Apr-2014 La Via Campesina
International Day of farmers’ struggles in defense of peasants’ and farmers’ seeds
This day of action is particularly important since on the 11th of March the European Parliament rejected the European Commissions’ regulation proposal for the marketing of seeds. This vote has taken place in the context of a Europe dominated by trade negotiations with the USA, known as TAFTA, and the European Parliament election campaign until May 2014. -
2-Apr-2014 Business Daily
Draft bill no threat to foreign investors in South Africa
"There are various perceptions that the draft bill falls short of acceptable international standards. This is not so," says the Department of Trade and Industry -
2-Apr-2014 Jakarta Post
Indonesia should withdraw from the ICSID!
If there is dispute against the government, investors, be they foreign or local, they should bring their cases to the Indonesian judiciary or other available national dispute mechanisms. -
2-Apr-2014 MercoPress
Brazil/Argentina agree on deal to promote bilateral trade by guaranteeing ’dollar liquidity’
Brazil and Argentina signed a deal over the weekend that seeks to guarantee importers will have enough U.S. dollars to pay for exports, a move to increase trade between both nations that has been hit hard by a sharp depreciation of the Argentine peso. -
2-Apr-2014 Reuters
China’s Xi wins EU pledge to consider free-trade deal
Chinese President Xi Jinping won a promise from the European Union on Monday to consider a multi-billion-dollar free-trade deal with his country, a long-held goal for Beijing which divides Europe. -
2-Apr-2014 The Point
West Africa: Ecowas postpones signing EU trade deal
"We believe it needs further scrutiny," announced President Yahya Jammeh, referring to the issue of signing an Economic Partnership Agreement negotiated by ECOWAS with the European Union. -
1-Apr-2014 Bloomberg
Southern African nations push for European trade-deal extension
Southern African trade ministers will lobby for an extension of a trade agreement with Europe before it expires in October, a senior Botswana official said. -
31-Mar-2014 Yonhap
Fisheries minister promises efforts to minimize loss for fishermen from China FTA
South Korea’s fisheries minister pledged full government efforts to limit losses by local fishermen from a free trade agreement with China and take compensatory measures for businesses inevitably hurt by the pact, reports state news agency Yonhap. -
31-Mar-2014 Links
Ukrainian leftist: ’The enemy is within – whether in Russia, Ukraine or the West’
What will happen next in Ukraine? The coordinated plundering of the country by both sides (the West and Russia), says Kolesnik Dmitry. -
31-Mar-2014 NYTimes
Large crowds fill Taipei streets in protest over China trade bill
More than 100,000 demonstrators — some television news stations put the number as high as 700,000 — took to the streets of Taipei on Sunday to protest efforts by the government to approve a trade pact with China and to show support for the students who have occupied Taiwan’s Legislature for nearly two weeks. -
28-Mar-2014 KEI
Leaked EU analysis of TTIP IPR negotiations
Here is a two-page excerpt from a March 20, 2014 EU analysis of the TransAtlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations on intellectual property rights, including geographical indications. -
28-Mar-2014 Lexology
Indonesia terminates its BIT with the Netherlands from 1 July 2015 and may terminate all of its BITs
While certain countries have terminated individual BITs, termination of all BITs would be unprecedented. -
28-Mar-2014 Prensa Latina
Spanish organizations denounce transatlantic free trade agreement
Spanish social and union organizations condemned today trade negotiations between the European Union and the United States to sign the Transatlantic Free Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).