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6-Sep-2011 ABC
Labor unions rally at Grant Park
Chicago labor unions say a looming free trade agreement, the "Trans Pacific Partnership," will lead to the loss of good-paying US jobs. They compare it to NAFTA.
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6-Sep-2011 Chicago Tribune
Pro-labor activists in Chicago protest Trans-Pacific Partnership pact
Politicians, labor activists and ice cream makers gather to influence free-trade agreement -
6-Sep-2011
Malaysian declaration on the TPPA and access to medicines
Call for all civil society groups, people living with HIV, all communities facing communcable, chronic and/or non-communicable diseases in the TPPA signatory countries to join forces to halt any & all trade agreements that restrict access to generic medicines. -
6-Sep-2011 Europolitics
EU-Singapore FTA talks to be completed soon
Following his meeting with Lee Hsien Loong, prime minister of Singapore, European Commission President José Manuel Barroso confirmed that the ongoing negotiations on a free trade agreement (FTA) with the Asian country are on track and “can be finalised successfully very soon”. -
5-Sep-2011 Live Trading News
China builds trade with South America
Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman Saturday urged a boost to the south American country ‘s trade ties with China, saying a free trade agreement (FTA) between Beijing and the Common Market of the South (Mercosur) could be “extraordinary”. -
5-Sep-2011 People’s World
Trans-Pacific trade pact called new NAFTA
Warning of a new "NAFTA for the Pacific Rim," labor and its allies are demanding a new free trade deal being negotiated for the Pacific region include protections for workers rights, health care and the environment. -
5-Sep-2011 Color Lines
Labor Day showdown: Can advocates stop ‘NAFTA of the Pacific’?
This Labor Day, the Pacific Rim will wash into the Midwest’s flagship city, and activists will confront the tides of global commerce with a demand for global economic justice. -
5-Sep-2011
Human Rights Commission rejection of Trans-Pacific Partnership audit latest blow to democratic process
The New Zealand Human Rights Commission has declined a request for a scoping study on the human rights implications of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), saying it doesn’t have the resources. -
4-Sep-2011
Pakistan improves offer, but still no MFN status to India
Pakistan is ready to double the number of goods it imports from India, but has stopped short of offering full-fledged most-favoured nation, or MFN, status it had promised earlier this year as part of bilateral confidence-building measures. -
4-Sep-2011
Ongoing negotiations for EU-S’pore FTA progressing well
Negotiation for an EU-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (EUSFTA) is progressing well. -
4-Sep-2011
Let the people speak
A quite amazing event took place in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, on August 29 and 30. Two hundred representatives of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) from China and 19 African countries held a China-Africa People’s Forum. -
4-Sep-2011
EU pits Alberta beef against Quebec dairy products in Canada trade talks
The European Union may refuse to open its market to more Canadian beef, pork and sweet corn unless Canada provides better access to its heavily protected dairy sector, a senior European diplomat said. -
4-Sep-2011
Commerce Min for protection of domestic auto industry: Patel
Heavy Industry Minister Praful Patel has said the Commerce Ministry is "broadly supportive" of the view that the domestic automobile industry should be protected when India signs a free trade agreement with the European Union. -
4-Sep-2011
Is regional integration mere rhetoric?
The song of Southern African Development Community (SADC) regional integration is sung so loudly that even the deaf can hear it. But my recent experience in Windhoek, Namibia tends to prove that the reality on the ground does not match the rhetoric. -
4-Sep-2011
Mercosur-China FTA could be "extraordinary", says Argentine FM
Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman Saturday urged to boost the south American country ’s trade ties with China, saying a free trade agreement (FTA) between Beijing and the Common Market of the South (Mercosur) could be "extraordinary". -
3-Sep-2011 Xinhua
China mulls free trade zone among SCO member states
Chinese Vice Minister of Commerce Zhong Shan said member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization should consider setting up a free trade agreement which, once in place, would cover about three fifths of the Eurasia’s landmass. -
2-Sep-2011 Radio Australia
Pacific’s Chief Trade Advisor resigns with a warning for Australia
The Pacific’s Chief Trade Advisor has resigned with a warning that unless Australia and New Zealand act soon to put something of value on the table for the PACER plus trade negotiations, the talks risk falling over.
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2-Sep-2011
Free Trade in Africa, For Better or Worse?
It is not certain that an African free trade area will further regional integration or deepen the existing inequality between countries. -
2-Sep-2011 IPS
Capital controls and the Trans-Pacific Partnership
US negotiators are hardliners against capital controls in current Trans-Pacific trade talks with eight other countries. -
2-Sep-2011
India plans to delete 48 apparel items from sensitive list to allow Bangladesh garment sector duty-free access
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and chief ministers of eastern and northeastern states will push for a thaw in relations with Bangladesh by talking trade next week. And trade with Bangladesh invariably means textiles.