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10-Mar-2014 The Guardian
Give and take in the EU-US trade deal? Sure. We give, the corporations take
George Monbiot asks why businesses have got more access to the negociations than citizens and their representative organisations have and sets down some challenges to the architects of TTIP. -
10-Mar-2014 CIEL
Chemical industry secretly manipulating US-EU trade negotiations (TTIP)
A report published today by ClientEarth and CIEL shows that a leaked proposal from lobby groups, the American Chemistry Council and the European Chemical Industry Council, to the US-EU trade negotiations would damage future protective legislation on toxic chemicals. -
10-Mar-2014 FIDH
EU-Vietnam Free Trade agreement must protect human rights and be preceded by a human rights impact assessment
The European Parliament will vote a resolution on “the state of play in the EU-Vietnam Free Trade agreement”. While not having a legislative aim at this stage, it represents an important opportunity for the EP to formulate the human rights safeguards that will ensure its latter consent, say FIDH in this open letter to MEPs. -
10-Mar-2014 TNI
Profiting from crisis: How corporations and lawyers are scavenging profits from Europe’s crisis countries
Corporations, backed by lawyers, use international investment agreements to scavenge for profits by suing Europe’s crisis countries. -
10-Mar-2014 FOEE
Companies must not get more rights than people in EU-US trade deal
A new round of talks between the EU and US on a transatlantic trade agreement opens today in Brussels amid growing public concern and opposition. -
9-Mar-2014
Stephen Harper heads to South Korea to ink long-awaited free-trade pact
Prime Minister Stephen Harper departed Sunday for South Korea, widely expected to complete another long round of free-trade negotiations that his critics were denouncing as secretive and potentially bad for Canadian workers. -
7-Mar-2014
Govt looks to sign FTAs with rich nations
The government plans to sign free trade agreements (FTAs) with developed countries to boost exports following similar moves by India, Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed said yesterday. -
7-Mar-2014
China, S.Korea, Japan advance FTA negotiations further
China, South Korea and Japan advanced their free trade deal negotiations further at the fourth round of talks held in Seoul for four days through Friday, the South Korean trade ministry said. -
7-Mar-2014 Power Shift et al.
EU-secretdeals.info - new website reveals texts from Europe’s US and Canadian trade negotiations (TTIP, CETA)
A new website was launched today dedicated to enlarging the public debate on the EU’s controversial policies for investment protections and investor-to-state dispute settlement systems (ISDS) in the EU-US and EU-Canada trade negotiations. -
7-Mar-2014 DNA
Failure to launch
Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation’s lack of concrete achievement points to the need for greater political will and clarity of purpose -
6-Mar-2014
Eight reasons to purge investor-state dispute settlement from trade agreements
For a variety of reasons, including poor management of public perceptions, the administration’s trade agenda is in trouble. Much of the public’s antipathy toward trade agreements can be boiled down to concerns about the so-called Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) provision. ISDS enables foreign investors to circumvent domestic legal processes and sue host governments in third-party arbitration tribunals for unfair or discriminatory treatment – described hyperbolically by those fanning the flames of opposition as “running roughshod over domestic laws, regulations, and sovereignty.” -
6-Mar-2014
Process to sign FTA with ASEAN completed: Salman Khurshid
India has completed the internal process for signing the much-waited free trade agreement in services and investments with ASEAN which is set to significantly boost its economic engagement with the 10-nation grouping. -
6-Mar-2014
Farms, unis welcome FTA with Chinese
National Farmers Federation president Brent Finlay says he is "excited" at the prospect of a free trade agreement with China but has urged the government not to allow "carve-outs and exclusions" in any deal. -
6-Mar-2014 Agencia Andina
Peru to launch free trade agreement talks with Indonesia this year
Peruvian Trade and Tourism Minister Magali Silva has announced that, in the second half of this year, Peru and Indonesia will begin negotiations to reach an agreement that favors preferential trade between both countries. -
6-Mar-2014 PDI
Asean free trade agreement with HK expected to benefit PH
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is eyeing to forge a free trade agreement with Hong Kong, which is seen to benefit the Philippines significantly, according to Trade Secretary Gregory L. Domingo. -
6-Mar-2014 IP Integrity
Lex AT&T? EU Commisson’s TTIP proposal to revise telecoms law
The European Union could give away unlimited rights to foreign telecoms companies to buy up rivals in Europe as part of the proposed new transatlantic trade deal (TTIP). This is one of an astonishing set of proposals revealed in a Commission document leaked by the German newspaper Die Zeit last week. -
6-Mar-2014 EU Trade Insights
TTIP: American business confident no issue can derail talks, says AmCham EU
In an exclusive interview with viEUws, Susan Danger, Managing Director of the American Chamber of Commerce to the EU, talks to Lénaïc Vaudin d’Imécourt, viEUws Trade Editor, about the TTIP negotiations.
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6-Mar-2014 TTIP unfairhandelbar
Sign the petition to candidates running in the 2014 European elections: Stop the TTIP and CETA!
A sign-on message for candidates running in the 2014 European Parliament elections launched by the German anti-TTIP coalition. Please join! -
6-Mar-2014 NPR
Europe tells US to lay off Brie and get its own cheese names
The European Union wants US food makers to stop using names with historical ties to Europe. But what else would you call, say, Parmesan or Brie?
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6-Mar-2014 FFII
US wants to outlaw EU cloud in TTIP negotiations
Privacy is not on the table in the TTIP negotiations, but data flows are, which brings privacy to the table, explains Ante Wessels of the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII)