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29-Nov-2013 Sydney Morning Herald
Free-trade pact may muddy GrainCorp deal
A side deal in the free-trade agreement with the United States that the Howard government negotiated in 2004 is a wildcard as the Abbott government deals with divisions in its ranks over Archer Daniels Midland’s $3.4 billion takeover offer for GrainCorp, the biggest grain handler in eastern Australia. -
28-Nov-2013 Bloomberg
Ukraine sees positive result at EU summit on free-trade pact
The EU reiterated that the deal is still on the table. “We have to get over this either-or mentality,” Merkel said. “The Cold War is over.” -
28-Nov-2013 EU Observer
Brussels nervous on public reaction to EU-US trade talks
The European Commission last week discussed with member states how best to go about communicating a EU-US trade deal to the public and national media. -
28-Nov-2013 Countercurrents
TICFA, political economy of US bilateralism and Bangladesh
It should come as no surprise that TICFA is not really an economic cooperation or development agreement, writes Mohammad Tanzimuddin Khan in Countercurrents. -
27-Nov-2013 Forbes
Scrapped EU-Ukraine trade deal is good news for China
A long-term beneficiary of Ukraine’s decision could prove to be China, who is investing heavily in Ukraine as a major source of energy and agricultural products -
26-Nov-2013 TNI
The alternative trade mandate
The Alternative Trade Mandate has been developed in extensive civil society consultations all over Europe. -
26-Nov-2013
Zero tariff for 10 categories of Indian imports
Despite the adverse impact on local industries, the Government has allowed tariff-free imports on ten categories of Indian goods, which had hitherto remained in the negative list under the Indo-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement, Daily Mirror learns. -
26-Nov-2013
Is ICSID really good for the Canadian taxpayer?
Most trade lawyers across the country are lauding Canada’s ratification of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes Convention. But they glaze over the serious and far-reaching effects for Canadian public policy. -
26-Nov-2013
Korea, Vietnam agree to work more closely on FTA
The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy announced on November 24 that it held the fourth bilateral joint committee meeting with the Vietnamese government in Can Tho City. The conclusion of the free trade agreement between Korea and Vietnam is expected to speed up. -
26-Nov-2013
FTA talks with Seoul, Beijing start
Japan, China and South Korea began their third round of free trade talks in Tokyo on Tuesday, with a wide range of areas such as intellectual property and goods and services on the agenda. -
26-Nov-2013 Israel21C
Israel’s argiculture seeds taking root in Vietnam
An Israeli-Vietnamese agriculture research and development fund — and a free-trade agreement between the two countries — may be established soon, following a series of high-level visits. -
26-Nov-2013 Daily Star
Ticfa with US signed at last
The government of Bangladesh, after more than a decade of talks, yesterday inked the Trade and Investment Cooperation Forum Agreement (Ticfa) with the US -
26-Nov-2013 Business Standard
Ill-fated India-EU FTA gets new demand from Belgium
Belgium has demanded greater access to public procurement market for large-scale contracts under the proposed India-EU free trade agreement (FTA), whose fate already hangs in balance. The country also stressed on further tariff reduction on goods by India. -
26-Nov-2013 4traders
Trade unions oppose privileged rights for Big Business in EU-Canada trade deal
The European Trade Union Confederation strongly opposes the inclusion of ISDS in CETA, and the subsequent creation of a parallel court system which allows multinationals to sue and threaten governments with heavy costs for doing their democratic job of regulating their societies and economies. -
26-Nov-2013 Business World
Possible FTA with EU raises fears for agriculture
Further opening up the Philippine’s agriculture industry to competition with the European Union through a free trade agreement may put the sector at risk, according to the head of the non-government organization IBON Foundation, Inc. -
26-Nov-2013 Council of Canadians
More than 100 organizations sign transatlantic statement opposing dangerous investor "rights" chapter in CETA
As European and Canadian trade officials meet again in Brussels today to continue negotiating an investment protection chapter in the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), transatlantic civil society groups are demanding that this chapter be removed entirely as an affront to democracy, an attack on the independent judiciary, and a threat to climate change and our shared environment. -
26-Nov-2013 GTAG
Access to medecines and the TPP: Open letter to the PM of Canada
Delivered by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network -
25-Nov-2013 Eurasianet
Turkey: Not making eyes at the Eurasian Union — for now
After 26 years of frustration over its start-and-stop bid to join the European Union, would Turkey ever consider joining a rival regional bloc led by the Kremlin? Few observers believe it likely, but it’s not completely out of the question. -
25-Nov-2013 Business Korea
Korea-China FTA: Latest round of talks includes liberalization of some farm products, noted controversies
The Korean government revealed its intention to open the agricultural sector during the first round of the so-called “second phase negotiations” for a free trade agreement between South Korea and China, showing its will to accelerate the FTA negotiation. -
22-Nov-2013 Intercontinental Cry
#Maori culture could be trademarked by TPP multinationals
The scary thing about the TPP is that it won’t only affect indigenous free-hold land, nor will it just push our people further into poverty. The TPP will give multinationals the right to exploit and rape the ecosystem and further aid them in the acquiring of enforced trademarking and copyrighting of indigenous intellectual property and cultural/traditional knowledge.