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13-Jun-2013
Reuters
Salvaging a free-trade deal between Canada and the European Union after four years of talks will require skillful pasture politicking to pacify beef and dairy cow farmers who see more risk than opportunity.
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13-Jun-2013
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13-Jun-2013
CEO
In a ruling delivered on 7 June following a lawsuit by lobby watchdog Corporate Europe Observatory, the EU’s General Court in Luxembourg concludes that the European Commission did not violate EU rules when withholding information about the EU-India free trade talks from the public, even though it had already shared the information with corporate lobby groups
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13-Jun-2013
ABC
Pacific trade ministers have still had no reply to their threat to pull out of long-running negotiations with Europe for an Economic Partnership Agreement.
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12-Jun-2013
Marketplace
The furor over U.S. Internet surveillance could hit transatlantic trade. A senior European lawmaker says the revelations could potentially derail plans for a U.S.-EU free trade deal.
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12-Jun-2013
A transatlantic corporate bill of rights
Leaked draft versions of the EU negotiating mandate for a far-reaching free trade agreement with the US reveal the European Commission’s plans to enshrine more powers for corporations in the deal. The proposal follows a persistent campaign by industry lobby groups and law firms to empower large companies to challenge regulations both at home and abroad if they affect their profits.
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12-Jun-2013
MyJoy
Ghana now has 15 months to sign the full Agreement. This is after the EU reviewed the deadline from 2016 to October next year.
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11-Jun-2013
Xinhua
Israel signed a free trade deal with Colombia on Monday, seeking to boost economic ties and expand its ventures in South America.
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11-Jun-2013
TNI
This new briefing from CEO and TNI analyses leaked proposals for investor-state dispute settlement under the proposed EU-US FTA
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6-Jun-2013
The Province
Members of the Hupacasath First Nations, seen in 2008 at a forestry protest, are now challenging a Canada-China free trade agreement. Photograph by: Wayne Leidenfrost , PNG file photo
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6-Jun-2013
Bernama
Argentina’s Supreme Court revoked a US$19 billion embargo on the assets and future income of Chevron Corp.’s Argentina subsidiary, giving the US oil giant a victory in a decades-old battle with indigenous groups in Ecuador.
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6-Jun-2013
Least Developed Countries might loose the current exceptions from the WTO requirements on Intellectual Property Rights, if the EU, US and other rich countries succeed in their current efforts at the WTO in Geneva this week.
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5-Jun-2013
South Morning China Post
China and Mexico promised broad co-operation on issues ranging from energy to mining and infrastructure during a state visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday, but any free-trade pact between the emerging market powers is still some way off.
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5-Jun-2013
Usine Nouvelle
Les deux pays ont déjà mené trois “rounds” de négociation, mais le quatrième prévu ce printemps a été reporté. Entretien avec Ed Fast, ministre canadien du Commerce international.
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4-Jun-2013
The Malaysian Insider
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement should be debated in Parliament, the Malay Economic Action Council said today when voicing its objection to Malaysia’s inking of the free-trade agreement.
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3-Jun-2013
Alternet
Our first campaign as PopularResistance.org will be to stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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3-Jun-2013
New Europe
EU High Representative, Catherine Ashton and Singapore’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Law K. Shanmugam confirmed last Friday the conclusion of negotiations on an EU-Singapore Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA).
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3-Jun-2013
Financial Review
The Australian government is under pressure to conclude a free-trade agreement with China in an effort to help restore the competitiveness of Australian farmers, who have been hurt by the high dollar and rising costs.
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1-Jun-2013
Eleven Myanmar
International experts have warned that the use of investment treaty ‘Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS)’ for attracting foreign investments into Myanmar is risky as it grants the investors the right to initiate dispute settlement proceedings against the government under international laws.
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1-Jun-2013
The Nation
Wallach, who has been studying such agreements for twenty years with Global Trade Watch, says she has never seen the merging of a trade agreement with terror like this. Not on this scale.
