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Minority of Japanese support TPP
31-Oct-2016 The Advertiser
Only 38 per cent of Japanese want to ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, according to a survey, showing a growing public distrust of free trade agreements.
EU, Canada sign historic trade deal amid protests
31-Oct-2016 EurActiv
After seven years of negotiations, and a bumpy final landing, the European Union and Canada signed a landmark trade deal on Sunday (30 October).
EU recognises right to boycott Israel
29-Oct-2016 Electronic Intifada
The European Union recognises the right of its citizens to boycott Israel, its top foreign policy official has said. This tardy move comes after three member governments — Sweden, Ireland and the Netherlands — already explicitly recognise this right.
The trade system and climate action: ways forward under the Paris Agreement
29-Oct-2016 Climate Strategies
The relationship between trade policy and climate policy needs to improve in the future, in particular with a view towards implementing the Paris Agreement.
Ceta: EU-Canada trade deal to be signed on Sunday
29-Oct-2016 BBC
Canada and the European Union are to sign a long-delayed landmark trade deal at a summit in Brussels on Sunday (30 October 2016).
TiSA - Norway second revised conditional offer (October 2016)
28-Oct-2016 Government of Norway
As released by the Government of Norway
TiSA - second revised Swiss offer (October 2016)
28-Oct-2016 Secrétariat d’Etat suisse à l’économie
Released by the Government of Switzerland
EU-Canada FTA (CETA) - joint interpretative instrument (October 2016)
28-Oct-2016 Council of the European Union
As released by the Council of the European Union
How the TPP trades away migrant rights
28-Oct-2016 AFL-CIO
The TPP would fuel displacement and fail migrant workers
Primer on RCEP and TPPA
28-Oct-2016 People Over Profit
FTAs operate as extensions of the WTO resulting in decentralized and yet intensifying attacks against workers and peasants across the different global regions.
Vietnam’s reluctance to ratify the TPP is bad news for Washington
28-Oct-2016 Nikkei Asian Review
Vietnam’s decision to hold off ratifying the Trans-Pacific Partnership is a further blow to the beleaguered trade pact and a setback for American economic ambitions in Asia.
Swiss cheese threatened by trade deals
28-Oct-2016 swissinfo
Chemical products and cheese top the list of Swiss exports endangered by a proposed trade deal between the European Union and the United States, a government agency reported on Thursday.
El Salvador lessons for the TPP fight
28-Oct-2016 Inequality
In a tale of people power over corporate power, a tribunal has ruled against a global company in a case over mining rights. Now we need to block trade deals that allow these “investor-state” lawsuits.
Rusal demands compensations from Ukraine in international arbitration
27-Oct-2016 Rapsi
Subsidiaries of Russian aluminum giant Rusal filed a claim with the ICSID, demanding Ukraine to compensate the company for the investments into the Zaporozhsky Aluminium Plant
Back to the future? Foreign investment protection in Cuba
27-Oct-2016 Lexology
Cuba’s investment protection framework is surprisingly robust, though there are serious questions about the de facto protections actually afforded to U.S. and other investors.
One step closer to a deal: Here are Belgium’s conditions for signing CETA
27-Oct-2016 Financial Post
After doubt was cast on Europe’s ability to negotiate a free trade deal with Canada, the tides turned as Belgium came to an internal consensus on conditions for signing the EU-Canada deal
Peruvians urge Himes to oppose TPP
27-Oct-2016 Stamford Advocate
"Our experience in Peru demonstrates how the TPP model prioritizes trade and investment above the protection of the environment, ecosystems, and life itself."
Intl. investment policy exacerbates vulnerabilities of people to corporate land grabs, says expert
27-Oct-2016 Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
As commercial pressures on resources increase, some of the world’s poorest people face the risk of dispossession under contested circumstances.
What do trade agreements do for open access—and what don’t they do?
27-Oct-2016 Electronic Frontier Foundation
The absence of support for open access in trade agreements comes as no surprise when considering that there are no representatives from the education sector, nor any library or archive representatives, in the relevant closed-door trade advisory committees
Belgium keeps EU, Canada waiting over trade deal
27-Oct-2016 Reuters
Belgian politicians failed to break their deadlock over a planned EU-Canada free trade agreement. The news prompted Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to call off plans to fly to Brussels.