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22-Jul-2010
PIJIP
It appears that the EU has dropped its demands for patent
extensions and may have made data exclusivity subject to compulsory licensing in the EU-India FTA.
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22-Jul-2010
Arab News
The European Union is demanding longer patents through free trade agreements (FTAs), longer than demanded by the World Trade Organization.
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22-Jul-2010
Farm Futures
R-CALF USA sent a letter to President Obama Tuesday requesting a moratorium on future FTAs and rejection of the pending FTAs with Colombia, Korea and Panama until the impacts current FTAs have on the profitability and viability of US producers is assessed.
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22-Jul-2010
Bloomberg
“We also hope to sign FTA with countries in South East Asia and even Japan,” Taiwan’s top negotiator with China, Chiang Pin-kung, said.
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21-Jul-2010
AFP
Le stand de la Commission européenne à la Conférence internationale sur le sida à Vienne a été "saisi" symboliquement mercredi par des militants pour protester contre des saisies dans l’UE de médicaments génériques destinés à des pays en développement.
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21-Jul-2010
Tempo Interactive
Indonesia has agreed to speed up the free trade talks with Australia to have the agreement in place soon, Trade Minister Mari Elka Pangestu said today (20/7).
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20-Jul-2010
BIT between India and Belgium and Luxembourg
PDF of English version
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20-Jul-2010
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20-Jul-2010
rabble.ca
We know through a leaked version of an earlier CETA text and verbally from Canada’s negotiating team in Brussels that the European Commission wants access to Canadian water and sanitation services.
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20-Jul-2010
Deutsche Welle
EU parliamentarians have called on the Commission to look into Colombian intelligence operations in Europe designed to ‘neutralize the influence’ of critics of the Colombian government in parliament, the UNHCR and NGOs. EU officials fear that an investigation could torpedo ratification of the free-trade agreement, which they see as crucial support of Colombia.
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19-Jul-2010
Edmonton Journal
The reality is that Canada wants CETA more than Europe needs it. Europe recognizes this and will use its leverage to extract a high price.
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15-Jul-2010
Reuters
South Korea is ready to consider "creative" solutions to open its market to more US beef and auto imports to help win US approval of a bilateral free trade agreement, South Korea’s ambassador to the United States said on Wednesday.
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15-Jul-2010
New Era
The Namibian beef industry has come to terms with the fact that it has to look for alternatives, as there exist no concrete indications that the government will sign the controversial trade agreement with the EU.
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14-Jul-2010
Global Research
Last week, when the presidents of the countries involved in the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) were meeting here in Ecuador, they talked about indigenous rights. But the main representatives of the indigenous movement in the country, CONAIE, was never invited to the meeting.
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13-Jul-2010
IPS
Two years after 14 Caribbean countries signed a wide-ranging and controversial Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with Europe, Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo still maintains that his country was right in holding out until the last minute to get a "better deal" for the Caribbean.
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12-Jul-2010
TNI
This report is a clear and plain language guide to the EU’s neoliberal investment regime, which has seen the EU Commission prying open poor, vulnerable countries’ economies, stripping their citizens of social, labour or environmental rights, for the sake of big business and its profits; it explains what is wrong with the current regime and presents a number of ethical alternatives.
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12-Jul-2010
FT
The European Commission wants to replace a thicket of about 1,200 bilateral investment treaties signed by the EU’s 27 member states over five decades with far fewer treaties binding the entire bloc.
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12-Jul-2010
AFP
The United States has ruled out a free trade agreement with Taiwan amid a dispute over beef imports, days after the island signed a sweeping accord with longtime adversary China.
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12-Jul-2010
Edmonton Journal
Canadian and European Union negotiators open a new round of talks Monday on an ambitious free-trade agreement amid uncertainty about whether both sides — and in particular the Ontario and Quebec governments — are prepared to make politically sensitive concessions.
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9-Jul-2010
Politis
Des négociations autour d’un accord de libre-échange entre l’Union européenne et le Canada sont prévues du 12 au 16 juillet à Bruxelles. Quels en sont les enjeux ? Quelles en seront les conséquences ?
