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3-Feb-2014 IP Watch
Move on data protection or fail on TTIP, EU Parliament chair says
On 31 January, there was a stern warning from Elmar Brok, chair of the European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee, that the United States must move quicker on joint data protection standards to avoid failure of the bilateral talks between the EU and the US. -
3-Feb-2014 Business World
PH: Businessmen mixed on country’s TPP bid
"The Philippines should not just enter into a deal out of fear of being left out," Alfredo M. Yao, president of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry, says. -
3-Feb-2014 iPolitics
EU ambassador: finishing CETA technical negotiations ‘a question of weeks’
“We think that it might be in about six months that we have a text, which will be not the final text, I think that for the final text we have to wait two years — it will be 2015,” the EU’s ambassador to Canada said. -
3-Feb-2014 EAC Secretariat
EAC-EU Economic Partnership Agreement negotiations held in Brussels
Ministers from East Africa Community Partner States and the European Commissioner for Trade met in Brussels on 30th January 2014 to conclude three days of negotiations on the Economic Partnership Agreement. -
3-Feb-2014 Waging Nonviolence
Not a hacker or whistleblower? Here’s how you can still liberate secret documents
When there are documents that the public has a right to know about, we have a right to go take them, writes Daniel Hunter -
3-Feb-2014 Bloomberg
Zuma says Eastern, Southern Africa moving toward Free Trade Area
Twenty-six eastern and southern African nations are making progress toward agreeing on a free trade area that will create a market with nearly 600 million people and combined gross domestic product of $1 trillion, South African President Jacob Zuma said. -
3-Feb-2014 Care2
Prevent free trade agreements TTIP/TAFTA - please sign!
Please sign on to this German petition against TTIP/TAFTA before 24 Feb 2013 -
3-Feb-2014 Gulf News
GCC looks east for win-win trade deals
The Gulf Cooperation Council is increasingly looking eastward to secure trade accords, which in itself reflects the difficulties in concluding free trade agreements with the likes of the European Union. -
3-Feb-2014 Japan Times
Give foreign nurses in Japan a boost by treating accord as long-term remedy for labor shortages
Japanese authorities are reluctant to admit the need for foreign labor and consider EPA candidates as part of a serious measure to overcome the shortfall, preferring instead to see them as part of an exchange program where their eventual return are replaced by new batches. -
3-Feb-2014 The Nation
Gold may be excluded from free-trade agreement with India
India is considering withdrawing some products from the Free-Trade Agreement (FTA) with Thailand after facing a huge trade deficit, with gold likely to be excluded from the pact. -
2-Feb-2014 Fraud Intelligence
Investor corruption, bilateral investment treaties and international arbitration: Bribery at centre of failed investor claim
By losing its rights under a bilateral investment treaty against a sovereign due to corruptly securing its investment, Metal-Tech marks a seemingly growing trend of bribery playing a critical role in international investment arbitration disputes. -
1-Feb-2014 Reuters Analysis: White House hopes for fast-track trade hit political tangle
Fast track trade in the US hits difficulties
President Obama’s hopes that the Fast Track mechanism would go through congress have met opposition from leading Congress Democrat, Harry Reid. -
1-Feb-2014 http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-79_en.htm
European Commission announces composition of TTIP expert group
Last Monday the Commission launched a special Advisory Group of experts representing a broad range of interests, from environmental, health, consumer and workers’ interests to different business sectors to provide EU trade negotiators with high quality advice in the areas being negotiated in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) talks. -
31-Jan-2014 Xinhua
Interview: Dutch expert says TTIP might be game changer for geopolitics
Peter van Ham, senior research fellow at the Dutch Clingendael Institute, thinks that TTIP could have an overwhelming standard-setting power for other countries. -
31-Jan-2014 PR Watch
John Kinsman: Why we should oppose the Trans Pacific Partnership
John Kinsman, the author of this op-ed first published in The Capital Times in 2012, passed away on January 20, 2014. He was a leader of the global food sovereignty movement who many of us knew. -
31-Jan-2014 Chemical Watch
Environmental scientists join anti-TTIP tirade
The Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership could spell an increase in lawsuits against governments which would not only discourage enforcement of existing environmental regulations, but also diminish the role of environmental scientists, predicts an academic opinion piece. -
30-Jan-2014 Global Policy Forum
NAFTA & environmental laws: Ethyl Corp. v. Government of Canada
Chemical firm uses trade pact to contest Environmental Law -
30-Jan-2014 WSJ
Harry Reid deals body blow to Obama on trade
US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid broke publicly with the White House Wednesday on trade policy, instantly imperiling two major international trade deals and punching a hole in one piece of the economic agenda the president outlined in his State of the Union address a day earlier. -
30-Jan-2014 Labor Notes
Protests across North America aim to block ’NAFTA on steroids’
Labor Notes | 29 Jan 2014 Protests across North America aim to block ’NAFTA on steroids’ By Benjamin Gerritz, Labor Notes Workers across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico will unite in an Inter-Continental Day of Action Friday to stop a massive new trade agreement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership — commonly referred to as "NAFTA on steroids." In the U.S., the immediate fight is to block a bill that would grant the president "fast track" authority to sign off on the TPP. Defeating fast (...) -
30-Jan-2014 Business Mirror
PHL-EU free-trade pact ‘catastrophic’ for 1.8 million Filipino fishermen–group
The Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) on Wednesday warned the Aquino administration against entering into a bilateral free trade agreement with the European Union, saying the forging of such an agreement will lead to the flooding of imported fish from EU member-states.