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8-Oct-2018 Dhaka Tribune
Brazil keen to sign FTA with Bangladesh
The signing of FTA will open a new avenue for Bangladeshi goods in the Latin American country. -
8-Oct-2018 Japan News
US farm chief wants ‘TPP-plus trade deal’
US Agriculture Secretary indicated his desire to demand Japan open its markets more than the extent agreed under the Trans-Pacific Partnership and its economic partnership agreement with the European Union. -
8-Oct-2018 Nikkei Asian Review
Vietnam to approve TPP-11 by November, prime minister says
Hanoi’s ratification would be fourth of six needed for trade deal to take effect. -
8-Oct-2018 Idaho State Journal
NAFTA by any other name is still NAFTA
Is USMCA “brand new”? Or is it simply Reagan/Bush/Clinton’s NAFTA with a heavy dose of President Obama’s TPP thrown in the mix, just a rose by another name? -
8-Oct-2018 The East African
Tanzania ends investment treaty with Netherlands
Tanzania has terminated its Bilateral Investment Agreement with the Netherlands that East African and Dutch civil society had said was biased against the country. -
5-Oct-2018 Financial Post
Canada ’caved’ on intellectual property provisions in USMCA trade deal, experts say
Experts are fuming, saying USMCA will hamper Canada’s innovation economy and hike costs to the health care system over patented drugs. -
5-Oct-2018 Washington Post
Why Europeans may not want a US trade deal
The opposition to TTIP suggests that a simple choice between “protectionism” and “free trade” fails to capture the nuances of the European debate on trade. -
4-Oct-2018 Washington Post
Big oil and gas companies are winners in Trump’s new trade deal
The oil business persuaded the White House to keep a number of features of the old NAFTA, including provisions that help protect US oil companies’ investments abroad and allow for tax-free transport of raw and refined products across borders. -
4-Oct-2018 Washington Post
How the USMCA falls short on digital trade, data protection and privacy
The digital trade chapter restricts data localization policies and bans restrictions on data transfers across borders. -
4-Oct-2018 Express Tribune
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia agree to negotiate FTA
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia agreed to negotiate a free trade agreement for trade liberalisation and increasing the volume between the two countries. -
4-Oct-2018 Adaderana
Petition against Singapore FTA postponed to next year
The petition filed seeking a court order pronouncing that the Sri Lanka-Singapore Free Trade Agreement is against the Constitution, will be taken up for consideration on January 09, the Supreme Court has decided. -
3-Oct-2018 Reuters
Trade pact clause seen deterring China trade deal with Canada, Mexico
China’s hopes of negotiating a free trade pact with Canada or Mexico were dealt a sharp setback by a provision deep in the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement that aims to forbid such deals with “non-market” countries. -
3-Oct-2018 IATP
’New NAFTA’ falls flat for farmers, food advocates
The reworked agreement between the United States, Mexico and Canada neglects the demands of farm groups. -
3-Oct-2018 Daily Blog
Converting resistance to TPPA into a new agenda for change
Our aim is to move beyond campaigns to stop these deals one by one, and create popular and political momentum for a genuinely alternative agenda. -
3-Oct-2018 Common Dreams
’This is life or death for us’: Mexico’s farm movement rejects new NAFTA agreement
Leaders of Mexico’s farm movement strongly condemned the new NAFTA, calling on the new president they supported in recent elections to get involved and slow the race to the new agreement. -
3-Oct-2018 Scoop
NZ, Australia face pressure to exit RCEP negotiations
There are some suggestion that New Zealand, and perhaps Australia, would be politely invited to exit the RCEP negotiations in the interests of concluding them. -
2-Oct-2018 Knowledge Ecology International
US-Canada-Mexico trade agreement provisions on injunctions and damages
The damages provisions in the new trade agreement are dangerous, and create a norm that is in conflict with national laws. -
2-Oct-2018 Financial Watch
Financial regulation challenged by European trade policy
Trade agreements currently being negotiated or already approved introduce numerous restrictions over the right of states to regulate, especially in the field of financial regulation, and limits their capacity to react to ensure financial stability. -
2-Oct-2018 It’s Our Future
What an alternative & progressive trade strategy should look like
19 – 20 October 2018. Fale Pasifika, University Of Auckland. -
1-Oct-2018 Sierra Club
Trump’s NAFTA deal threatens our air, water, and climate
More outsourcing of pollution and jobs, handouts to corporate polluters, and climate denial