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  • 18-Feb-2013
    Plain packaging for cigarettes a legal minefield
    Lawsuits are seen as the inevitable next step if plain packaging of cigarettes is brought in. The government will announce a decision on the matter in the next few days.
  • 18-Feb-2013 EU
    The EU’s free trade agreements – where are we?
    Memo from the European Commission
  • 18-Feb-2013 Manila Bulletin
    EU Parliamentarians push RP FTA
    Visiting EU Parliamentarians expect the bilateral free trade agreement between the Philippines and EU will be completed in one and a half years as the legislators urged for further opening of the domestic economy to shore up the country’s foreign direct investments and more trade.
  • 18-Feb-2013 Reuters
    Germany calls for sweeping EU-US free trade deal
    German Economy Minister Philipp Roesler told Der Spiegel magazine on Sunday he and the German government want a sweeping free trade deal, while France and southern EU nations, by contrast, want to protect their agriculture industry with regulations and also keep out genetically modified US foodstuffs, the magazine said.
  • 18-Feb-2013 Earth Open Source
    EU-US free trade deal will dismantle EU public health protections on GM foods
    An EU-US free trade deal would obliterate EU safeguards for health and the environment with regard to genetically modified (GM) crops and foods, warns Earth Open Source.
  • 18-Feb-2013 Business Day
    New law to deal with compensating foreign investors for expropriation
    One of the most contentious issues dealt with in a draft new Foreign Investment Bill, which the South African Department of Trade and Industry will present to an interministerial committee in the next few months, will deal with how the South African government will compensate foreign investors in the event of expropriation, deputy director-general of international trade Xavier Carim said on Friday.
  • 16-Feb-2013 National Farmers Union
    CETA Investor-State Dispute Settlement process “anti-democratic, unnecessary and unfair,” says NFU
    The National Farmers Union is among the labour, environmental, Indigenous, women’s, academic, health sector and fair trade organizations representing over 65 million people from both sides of the Atlantic that have signed a joint statement demanding that Canada and the EU stop negotiating an excessive and controversial investor rights chapter in the proposed Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).
  • 16-Feb-2013 S2B
    Alert! EU-US Transatlantic FTA - Call for mobilisation in Europe and the United States
    EU-US Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement:. Join us to stop this "free trade" agenda.
  • 16-Feb-2013 CEO
    At your service: the European Services Forum’s privileged access to the EU Commission over EU trade policy
    A recent documentary on lobbying in the EU highlights the historically intimate links between the EU Commission and European services companies. New research reveals that they are as close as ever, working hand in glove to liberalise and deregulate services markets – from Canada to the ASEAN region, from the US to India.
  • 14-Feb-2013
    India-EU FTA negotiations may conclude by April
    Negotiations for the India-EU Free Trade agreement may conclude by April this year, moving a step closer to sealing of the pact that is expected to boost trade and investment.
  • 14-Feb-2013 TNI
    Intra-EU bilateral investment treaties: A test for European solidarity
    Corporations in Western Europe are suing Central and Eastern European countries at international arbitration tribunals through a vast web of intra-EU Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs).
  • 14-Feb-2013 TRNN
    Why can corporate interests trump sovereign rights?
    Real News Network interviews Chakravarthi Raghavan on how companies can sue countries under trade and investment agreements
  • 14-Feb-2013 IANS
    France will help finalise India-EU FTA: Hollande
    France will support India on its negotiations with the EU on clinching a free trade agreement, President Francois Hollande said in New Delhi Thursday, stressing that French companies should have greater access to the Indian market as a result.
  • 14-Feb-2013 Huffington Post
    SOTU, TPP, TAFTA — WTF?
    The Trans-Atlantic FTA’s focus would not be trade per se — border taxes (tariffs) between the EU and the US are already low. Rather, these talks are aimed at eliminating a list of what multinational corporations call "trade irritants" but the rest of us know as strong food safety, environmental and health safeguards, explains Lori Wallach.
  • 13-Feb-2013 BBC
    EU and US free-trade talks launched
    The European Union and the US will begin formal talks on a free-trade agreement, paving the way for the biggest trade deal in history. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso made the announcement following President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address.
  • 13-Feb-2013 Guardian
    Obama details free trade deal between US and Europe in state of the union
    President Barack Obama unveiled plans for a new free trade agreement between and the US and Europe in his annual state of the union speech.
  • 13-Feb-2013
    KCCI urges signing FTA with Thailand
    Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) urged to explore the opportunities of signing Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Pakistan and Thailand in view of existing tremendous trading potential. Exchanging views with the Consul General of Thailand Wichai Sirisujin President KCCI Haroon Agar proposed Thai Consulate’s and KCCI’s Halal Food Pavilion in the 10th My-Karachi Exhibition 2013.
  • 13-Feb-2013
    EU’s ambitious trade and investment agenda: At what cost to the Philippines?
    Statement issued by the EU-ASEAN Network in connection with the European Union - Philippines Inter-parliamentary Meeting where seven Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) from the Delegation of the European Parliament for Relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are visiting the Philippines from 11-15 February 2013.
  • 12-Feb-2013
    EU-FTA’s entry into force marks a new era for Peru’s exports
    Peru will experience a change of era with the entry into force of the Multi-Part Trade Agreement with the European Union (EU) due to it is the world’s largest import market for Peruvian products, EU Ambassador to Peru, Hans Allden.
  • 12-Feb-2013
    NDP leader Tom Mulcair on a tightrope as he ponders Canada-EU free trade
    New Democratic Party leader Tom Mulcair faces a risky balancing act as he weighs the possibility of supporting the proposed Canada-Europe free trade agreement.