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25-Feb-2019 People Over Profit
Indonesian women’s group reject RCEP
Intervention from Retno Dewi of Indonesian women’s organization SERUNI during the RCEP Stakeholders Consultation for the 25th RCEP TNC Meeting in Westin Hotel, Bali, Indonesia.
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25-Feb-2019 Forum against FTAs
Sign-on letter from India against IPR on seed
A mega free trade agreement, like RCEP that undermines farmers’ seed freedoms in a mega diverse country, with seed diversity and farmers’ knowledge is unacceptable, say over 50 groups and citizens -
25-Feb-2019 People Over Profit
Indonesian activists storm 25th RCEP negotiations in Bali
Press Release: Indonesian activists storm 25th RCEP negotiations in Bali -
25-Feb-2019
People’s movements urge countries to stop RCEP negotiations
Press release: Civil Society Coalition for Economic Justice urges governments not to agree on Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement. -
25-Feb-2019 Reuters
EU no closer to Mercosur deal but sees US beef quota fix in weeks
The EU was looking for concessions in relation to cars, car parts, rules of origins, public procurement, the maritime sector, dairy and geographic indications, ahead of a next round of negotiations in March. -
23-Feb-2019 New Internationalist
Winners and losers
How the Global South is affected by the current trade turmoil – and old patterns of power. -
23-Feb-2019 Open Democracy
Revealed: How dark money is winning ‘the Brexit influencing game’
Documents show the “unfettered” access to ministers and senior politicians enjoyed by secretive think tanks that are “marching the country” to a no-deal Brexit and radical free-trade deals. -
23-Feb-2019 IIED
Reforming investor-state dispute settlement: what about third-party rights?
Existing arrangements for third parties to participate in investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) are not designed to protect people whose rights and interests are directly at stake. -
22-Feb-2019 European Commission
EU-New Zealand FTA: Trade and Sustainable Development draft chapter (EU proposal, Feb 2019)
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22-Feb-2019 Resilience
Tosepan: Resistance and renewal in Mexico
Mexico has signed 12 free trade agreements with 44 nations and 28 bilateral investment treaties. The grim consequences of globalization in Mexico are by now familiar and yet, throughout Mexico, there is a florescence of inspiring resistance and alternatives. -
22-Feb-2019 USA Today
How drug prices could derail new trade pact to replace NAFTA
Democrats in Congress contend that the new pact would force Americans to pay more for prescription drugs, and their argument has dimmed the outlook for one of Trump’s signature causes. -
22-Feb-2019 Morocco World News
Moroccan exporters: free trade with US did not profit Morocco
The free trade agreement between Morocco and the US has not been beneficial to Moroccan exporters, given the size of the US market and the complex procedures yet unfamiliar to Moroccan companies. -
22-Feb-2019 New Internationalist
Just, open and green
Trade is for and about people. It should never be separated from its social context. Trade should improve people’s lives and the public good. -
22-Feb-2019 The Guardian
We cannot allow Liam Fox’s post-Brexit trade plans to go unscrutinised
Trade deals containing clauses that threaten human rights are being debated in parliament – they must be defeated -
22-Feb-2019 Big News Network
Indonesia launches trade talks with the EAEU
Indonesia is striving to improve its access to the European market via three different arrangements with economic unions on the continent. -
22-Feb-2019 The Investor
Korea to speed up CEPA talks with Indonesia
Korea has decided to resume talks on signing the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement with Indonesia, seeking to broaden ties with the Southeast Asian country. -
22-Feb-2019 The Hindu Business Line
RCEP: India moves to narrow differences with China on tariff elimination in Bali Round
India will hold intense bilateral discussions with China to narrow differences on import duty cuts and the implementation period that both seek under the trade pact. -
21-Feb-2019 CEO
TTIP reloaded: big business calls the shots on new EU-US trade talks
Corporate lobby groups roam the corridors of EU negotiators working to set the agenda for the talks with the US, while the European Commission covers over its links with big business. -
21-Feb-2019 Taipei Times
USDA to send trade mission in April
The US has long criticized Taiwan’s zero-tolerance policy regarding meat product imports and views Taiwan’s ractopamine ban as a trade barrier. -
21-Feb-2019 Daily Blog
Russel Norman – climate change and free trade
The panel on a sustainable world at the hui in October 2018 on What an Alternative and Progressive Trade Strategy for New Zealand argued for major changes to address pressing environmental issues.