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19-Dec-2013 Libya Herald
US-Libyan trade and investment council agreed
Libya and the US have signed today a Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) which establishes an American-Libyan Council for Trade and Investment to regulate all commercial matters between the two countries -
19-Dec-2013 Global Legal Post
Romania loses major arbitration case
In a victory which may have major ramifications for international law, US law firm King & Spalding has won a $250 million arbitration case for Romanian company Micula against the Republic of Romania. -
19-Dec-2013 Prensa Latina
Half million Germans refuse to sign FTA with USA
In just five days, 500,000 Germans signed a petition addressed to the European Commissioner for Trade Karel De Gucht and to President of the European Parliament, Martin Schultz to halt the negotiations that began in Washington. -
19-Dec-2013 Diane Rehm Show
Debate over proposed global trade agreements
The pros and cons of two trade agreements in the works, TPP and TTIP, from a US perspective.
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18-Dec-2013 Al Jazeera
’Free trade’ and the death of democracy
If these deals come into effect, multinational corporations will be empowered to regulate democratic states, rather than the other way around. -
18-Dec-2013 CNA
Early ratification of EU-S’pore FTA may not be possible, say analysts
Singapore has been pushing for the ratification of the European Union-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (FTA) as early as possible — but observers say that as it is a complex process involving all the different members of the EU, the goal will be a difficult one. -
18-Dec-2013 Info Sur Hoy
US mulls wider trade pact with Latin America
The United States is exploring the idea of setting up a wider regional trade pact with Latin America, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Dec. 15. -
18-Dec-2013 Economic Times
India-UAE BIPPA: Government builds safeguards to protect itself
India has introduced provisions in the just-concluded bilateral investment protection and promotion agreement (BIPPA) with the United Arab Emirates to ensure that only executive decisions can be challenged and that too within a stipulated period. -
18-Dec-2013 Ventures
Ethiopia–Sudan bilateral relations: A model for regional integration
Ethiopia and Sudan recently concluded their third Joint Commission Meeting, signing 13 agreements including a Framework Agreement for Trade and Economic cooperation -
18-Dec-2013 EU Observer
EU-US trade talks could become ’another Acta’
EU-US free trade talks risk following the same path as Acta, the controversial anti-counterfeit treaty which collapsed in 2012, warns BEUC, a pan-EU organisation representing consumer groups -
17-Dec-2013 The Conversation
Why South Africa has ripped up foreign investment deals
As the nation looks to move on from the loss of Nelson Mandela, these moves to regain control over foreign investment will prove valuable. -
17-Dec-2013 Creative Time Reports
20 years after NAFTA, many worlds are possible
Caleb Duarte and Mia Eve Rollow from EDELO (En Donde Era La UNO/Where the United Nations Used to Be) explore the effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement in Chiapas, Mexico’s poorest state and the site of the Zapatista revolution. -
17-Dec-2013 Canadian Press
No free trade until cheese deal, Marois says
Premier Pauline Marois says the Quebec legislature will not endorse the Canada-Europe free-trade agreement until Ottawa explains how it will compensate the province’s cheese producers. -
17-Dec-2013 Business Europe
Advancing regulatory cooperation in the Transatlantic trade and investment partnership
Position paper from Business Europe -
17-Dec-2013 Reuters
EU negotiators to press US to include energy exports in trade talks
European negotiators, hoping to cut fuel bills, will press their US counterparts in Washington this week on including energy exports in a transatlantic trade pact that aims to integrate two markets accounting for half the world’s economy. -
16-Dec-2013 CEO
EU-US FTA (TTIP) - Regulatory coherence chapter (draft EC proposal, Dec 2013)
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16-Dec-2013 CEO
Leaked proposal for EU-US trade deal increases business power in decision-making
A leaked EU negotiation proposal for the EU-US trade agreement reveals the European Commission’s plans to fundamentally change the way regulations will be adopted in the future, says the activist group CEO -
16-Dec-2013 CMAJ
Canadians balk at longer brand-name drug patents
Nearly two-thirds of Canadians oppose longer patents for brand-name drugs under a proposed trade deal with the European Union, according to a poll commissioned by the Council of Canadians. -
16-Dec-2013 The Malaysian Reserve
M’sia said to have backed down on TPP stance
The Bantah TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) agreement organisation expressed disappointment vis-à-vis the Malaysian negotiators, saying they are cowing to the Americans in the last rounds of the highly secretive trade talks. -
16-Dec-2013 Stock Journal
Ag the lynchpin for TPP
"We are in a position to hold up the whole TPP to advance agriculture," says Alan Oxley, Australian APEC Study Centre chairman.