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10-Dec-2013 GRAIN
Food safety in the EU-US trade agreement: going outside the box
The transantlantic trade deal’s agenda for food safety if all about reducing hoops for agribusiness. Not only would this hurt Europeans, whose clearly higher standards would be dragged down, but it would affect many other countries’ food producers and consumers, since any deal reached between Washington and Brussels will set a new international benchmark. -
10-Dec-2013 Mainchi
TPP ministerial session ends without final agreement
Japan and the United States, which have been in bitter conflict over thorny issues including Japanese tariffs on farm products as well as auto trade, failed to fill the gaps during the key session in Singapore, hampering the whole negotiation. -
10-Dec-2013 The Africa Report
Canada - Africa: Aggressively negotiating treaties
Canada’s Minister of international trade, Ed Fast explains the country’s strategic shift to link development aid with private sector investments. -
9-Dec-2013 IATP
Webinar: The promises and perils of proposed US-EU trade deal for food and agriculture
On the occasion the third round of negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the Heinrich Boell Foundation and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) invite you to join them for a webinar on the agreement’s potential impacts on agriculture in the US and EU. -
9-Dec-2013 IT News
2nd Wikileaks release: US refusing to budge on TPP issues
A new set of leaked documents from the latest round of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations show large differences remain between the 12 nations trying to hammer out a trade agreement. -
9-Dec-2013 ANI
India-UAE to sign bilateral investment protection agreement
India and the UAE will next week sign an agreement to promote and protect bilateral investments. -
9-Dec-2013 PTI
India-EU free trade pact not likely in 3-4 years: Think tank
India and the European Union are unlikely to ink a free trade pact in the next three to four years, a Belgium-based independent think tank, the European Centre for International Political Economy, has said. Echoing similar views, an MEP said, "It all depends on whether the Indian Parliament gets to pass the Insurance Bill in the Winter Session." -
9-Dec-2013 Euractiv
EU brewers want ’unfair’ beer tax removed through TTIP
European brewers last week urged EU negotiators to put a removal of taxes on European brewers, from which their American competitors are exempt, on the table in the free-trade negotiations with the US. -
9-Dec-2013 China Post
Taipei-Manila ECA study almost complete: envoy
A feasibility study on signing an Economic Cooperation Agreement (ECA) between Taiwan and the Philippines is nearing completion, the Philippines’ top envoy to Taiwan said recently. -
8-Dec-2013 KEI
Joe Stiglitz writes open letter to TPP negotiators
"At this point in time, we do not need a TRIPS plus trade agreement, we need a TRIPS minus agreement." -
6-Dec-2013 Eurasia Review
China-EU bilateral investment treaty: Can it be achieved? – analysis
The BITs China signed with individual European countries in the 1980s and 1990s were mainly intended to attract FDI and are no longer suitable for the new economic realities facing China. -
6-Dec-2013 The Messenger
EU-Georgia Association Agreement made public
The text of the Association Agreement initialed between the European Union and Georgia has been made public. -
6-Dec-2013 European Commission
EU-Moldova FTA (2013)
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6-Dec-2013 DG Trade
EU-Georgia FTA (2013)
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5-Dec-2013 Redeye
Leaks confirm fears about Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement
In mid-November, Wikileaks released the secret draft text for the Intellectual Property Rights Chapter of the TPP. Stuart Trew talks about what this leak tells us about the agreement as a whole.
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5-Dec-2013 KEI
Vatican criticises TTP and TTIP
At the WTO 9th Ministerial in Bali, Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi delivered a withering critique of the Trans Pacific Partnership and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. -
5-Dec-2013 Financial Express
Writ challenging legality of TICFA filed
A writ petition was filed with the High Court in Dhaka Wednesday challenging the legality of the Trade and Investment Cooperation Framework Agreement (TICFA), signed recently between Bangladesh and the USA. -
5-Dec-2013 Business Korea
Korea, China likely to join US-led trans-Pacific trade pact
The South Korean government recently unveiled its interest in joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership while some experts forecast that China cannot help but to join as well. -
5-Dec-2013 The Diplomat
Korea-Canada free trade: The thaw begins
A number of obstacles to a free trade agreement remain on both sides, but there is growing incentive to overcome them. -
5-Dec-2013 Jordan Times
Jordan, EU launch negotiations for free trade agreement
European Commission President José Manuel Barroso and His Majesty King Abdullah launched negotiations between Jordan and the EU over a comprehensive free trade agreement, reports Jordan Times