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1-Feb-2014
Reuters Analysis: White House hopes for fast-track trade hit political tangle
President Obama’s hopes that the Fast Track mechanism would go through congress have met opposition from leading Congress Democrat, Harry Reid.
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1-Feb-2014
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-79_en.htm
Last Monday the Commission launched a special Advisory Group of experts representing a broad range of interests, from environmental, health, consumer and workers’ interests to different business sectors to provide EU trade negotiators with high quality advice in the areas being negotiated in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) talks.
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31-Jan-2014
Xinhua
Peter van Ham, senior research fellow at the Dutch Clingendael Institute, thinks that TTIP could have an overwhelming standard-setting power for other countries.
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31-Jan-2014
PR Watch
John Kinsman, the author of this op-ed first published in The Capital Times in 2012, passed away on January 20, 2014. He was a leader of the global food sovereignty movement who many of us knew.
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31-Jan-2014
Chemical Watch
The Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership could spell an increase in lawsuits against governments which would not only discourage enforcement of existing environmental regulations, but also diminish the role of environmental scientists, predicts an academic opinion piece.
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30-Jan-2014
Global Policy Forum
Chemical firm uses trade pact to contest Environmental Law
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30-Jan-2014
WSJ
US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid broke publicly with the White House Wednesday on trade policy, instantly imperiling two major international trade deals and punching a hole in one piece of the economic agenda the president outlined in his State of the Union address a day earlier.
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30-Jan-2014
Labor Notes
Labor Notes | 29 Jan 2014
Protests across North America aim to block ’NAFTA on steroids’
By Benjamin Gerritz, Labor Notes
Workers across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico will unite in an Inter-Continental Day of Action Friday to stop a massive new trade agreement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership — commonly referred to as "NAFTA on steroids."
In the U.S., the immediate fight is to block a bill that would grant the president "fast track" authority to sign off on the TPP. Defeating fast (...)
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30-Jan-2014
Business Mirror
The Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) on Wednesday warned the Aquino administration against entering into a bilateral free trade agreement with the European Union, saying the forging of such an agreement will lead to the flooding of imported fish from EU member-states.
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29-Jan-2014
Officials of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) will hold talks with their US counterparts within the next two months in a last-minute bid to join discussions for a free-trade area (FTA) in the Asia-Pacific region.
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28-Jan-2014
Mercosur is preparing for trade negotiations with the European Union and they include Argentina, said on Friday Brazilian finance minister. The comment seems to contradict other recent statements which said the trade deal with the EU will go forward with or without a reluctant Argentina.
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28-Jan-2014
Trade Beat
Late last year, the African cyberspace was buzzing with rumours that the region’s oldest trade agreement, the Southern African Customs Union or SACU was about to be finally killed off by South Africa. From Windhoek to Cape Town to Mbabane, trade policy wonks were debating what the most recent moves from Pretoria regarding SACU really meant.
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28-Jan-2014
DG Trade
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28-Jan-2014
FT
The EU is seeking to include financial regulation in a sweeping trade pact with the US, arguing that leaving it out of any deal would represent a threat to global financial stability.
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28-Jan-2014
Council of Canadians
The federal government of Canada has denied an access to information request from the Council of Canadians for the working text of the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).
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28-Jan-2014
Trend
Negotiations on concluding a free trade agreement among the member-states of the Customs Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation and the countries of the European Free Trade Association (Iceland, Lichtenstein, Norway and Switzerland) are under way.
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28-Jan-2014
AFP
Japan and Australia are moving closer to signing a free trade agreement, officials said Tuesday amid reports the deal will be inked within months.
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28-Jan-2014
DG Trade
The European Commission publishes today a non-paper clarifying its objectives for financial services in the negotiations for a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
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27-Jan-2014
Beijing’s top diplomat called on Monday for China and the European Union to consider a multi-billion-dollar free-trade deal, a once unthinkable step that shows a big improvement in relations between two of the world’s largest markets.
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27-Jan-2014
Business Mirror
In the likelihood of a free-trade agreement between the Philippines and European Union, big processors, exporters of fish and the fish consumers in general will be the gainers while small-scale fishermen, small-scale fish processors and marketing agents, including women, will be among the losers, PIDS said in a report issued recently.
