19-Jul-2012
The Detroit News
Ford Motor Co. on Wednesday was the first automaker to voice displeasure after the European Union announced it wants to start free-trade negotiations with Japan.
16-Jul-2012
The Sun Daily
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which has gone through 13 rounds of negotiations, could be concluded by October next year, East Asian International Economic Law and Policy Programme chairman Lim Chin Leng said.
11-Jul-2012
Socialist Worker
Rick Greenblatt reports on the Obama administration’s secret negotiations for a new free-trade agreement—and the voices raised in dissent against it in San Diego.
11-Jul-2012
Bureau of Investigative Journalism
A secret deal that saw Brussels blamed for ‘forcing’ Britain to take in 12,000 Indian workers – despite high unemployment – was supported by a lobbying push from British financial services companies.
11-Jul-2012
Middle East Monitor
A new report by Cambridge law professor James Crawford says that "there do not appear to be any EC laws which could be breached by a member state taking the decision to ban the import of settlement produce on public policy grounds."
11-Jul-2012
Asahi Shimbun
Korean pig farmers are increasingly finding themselves in a pickle after the European Union began exporting pork bellies, a fixture in the Korean diet, for less than one-third of the local price under the FTA that took effect in July last year.
10-Jul-2012
michaelgeist.ca
10-Jul-2012
Council of Canadians
According Michael Geist, Canada and the European Union are trying to ratify the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement through the backdoor, by including almost all its Internet and enforcement provisions in the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).
