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9-Sep-2013 Kyodo
S. Korea considering joining TPP: report
South Korea has decided to join the US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership and is studying the schedule and potential impact, a Seoul daily reported Monday, citing a high-ranking South Korean government official. -
9-Sep-2013 Yonhap
S. Korea, Vietnam agree to conclude free trade deal next year
South Korea and Vietnam agreed Monday to conclude a bilateral free trade agreement next year and cooperate closely for nuclear power development in the Southeast Asian nation. -
9-Sep-2013 Economic Times
India-Thailand free trade agreement talks move ahead
Thailand has indicated softening of stance on some of the issues in the freetrade agreement it is negotiating with India, bringing the pact closer to reality after more than 10 years of talks. -
9-Sep-2013 Global Meat News
FTA between EU and New Zealand called for
New Zealand’s High Commissioner has called for a free trade agreement between his country and the European Union so there can be increased trade in meat. -
9-Sep-2013 SOMO
Free trade: Bilateral and multilateral negotiations dangerous for financial regulation and taxation
Financial services — both in terms of market access and how they are regulated — are a critical issue in the EU-US FTA (TTIP) talks. Analysis from WEED and SOMO. -
8-Sep-2013
To confront the climate emergency we need to dismantle the WTO and the free trade regime
Sign-on statement -
6-Sep-2013 Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
Inversiones, transnacionales y desarrollo: el caso de Uruguay
El contexto actual, pasados ocho años de gobierno del Frente Amplio en Uruguay, es particularmente propicio para reflexionar acerca de las diversas condicionantes para la aplicación de estrategias de desarrollo económico, productivo y social. -
6-Sep-2013 FSRN
Farmers’ strike in Colombia highlights impact of free trade deal on local communities
Radio interview with Julia Duranti, with Witness for Peace. The group works in some of the hardest-hit regions for farmers in Colombia.
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6-Sep-2013 CTA
US Pacific Island Country trade and development agreement being explored
In July 2013, Pacific Island Country Trade Ministers called on the Pacific Forum Secretariat to give priority to trade and economic cooperation discussions with the United States. -
6-Sep-2013 Yonhap
Seoul, Beijing agree on basic guidelines for FTA negotiations
South Korea and China have reached an agreement on the modality or basic guidelines for their negotiations on a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA), the Seoul government said Friday. -
5-Sep-2013 IUF
Colombian workers and farmers take on global neoliberalism
The wave of strikes and demonstrations is not only the most significant social movement in decades in Colombia. It is currently the most broadly based challenge to the global neo-liberal project. -
5-Sep-2013 Hurriyet
Transatlantic alliance to cost Turkey ‘$20 billion’
Turkey’s exclusion from the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) of the US and the EU would cause 2.5 percent of its national income to melt, a recently published study shows -
5-Sep-2013 Dhaka Tribune
Dhaka keen to join a free-trade move
The government of Bangladesh has already taken up its desire to join the Trans Pacific Partnership talks through its embassy in Washington -
5-Sep-2013 Tax News
Guatemala opts into Central American FTA with Mexico
As Guatemala has now approved its participation in the free trade agreement between Mexico and the other Central American countries – Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua – the agreement entered into effect on September 1, 2013. -
5-Sep-2013 GRAIN
Colombia farmers’ uprising puts the spotlight on seeds
On 19 August, Colombian farmers’ organisations initiated a massive nationwide strike against the government’s policies. Seeds emerged as one highly visible issue. -
4-Sep-2013 Voice of Russia
Signing of treaty on free trade zone between Ukraine, EU will create problems for Ukraine, Russia - Putin
"If Ukraine believes it needs to sign a treaty on free trade with the EU, it means that’s how it should be. However, we see some problems for us and them here," Putin said in an interview with Russia’s Channel One and the Associated Press. -
4-Sep-2013 Scoop
TPPA goes into overdrive and underground
Moves to get the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement to the point of sign-off by the end of the year went into overdrive at the round just ended in Brunei, according to Professor Jane Kelsey. Remaining negotiations will be tackled through informal intersessional meetings. -
4-Sep-2013 Mondaq
"Investment" narrowly construed under NAFTA in Apotex v. US
In a recent NAFTA Investor-State claim brought against the United States by Apotex Inc., Canada’s largest producer of generic drugs, the Tribunal upheld the US’ preliminary objections to jurisdiction on the grounds that the company’s efforts to win approval for generic drugs in the US market did not make it an "investor" under NAFTA Chapter Eleven. -
4-Sep-2013 AFP
Armenia-EU free trade deal blocked: Lithuania
Armenia has blocked its chances of signing a free trade deal with the European Union by choosing to join the Russia-led customs union, EU president Lithuania said Tuesday. -
3-Sep-2013 Tanh Nien News
US’s controversial TPP proposal is smoking gun for corporate agenda
Vietnam and other countries involved in the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations face aggressive interference from Big Tobacco in the passage and implementation of public health policies, critics warn