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Free trade deal with Japan took priority over whaling dispute, says Trade Minister Andrew Robb
10-Feb-2014 Sydney Morning Herald
Australia’s federal government has prioritised a free trade deal with Japan before a dispute between the two countries over whaling in the Southern Ocean, says Trade Minister Andrew Robb.
Jordan, EU urge more Arab states to join Agadir Agreement
10-Feb-2014 Jordan Times
Jordan and the European Union on Thursday called on Arab Mediterranean countries to join Agadir free trade agreement between the Kingdom, Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco.
EJN cautions ECOWAS over EPA
7-Feb-2014 Spy Ghana
After over 10 years of objecting to demands by the European Union in the Economic Partnership Agreement negotiations, ECOWAS, last week, suddenly reversed its position and made serious and incomprehensible concessions to the EU.
Doubt over Canada-Caricom trade talks
7-Feb-2014 Trinidad Express
Negotiations on a trade agreement between Canada and Caricom countries have limped along for over five year and could fizzle out by the end of June—a “drop-dead” date now accepted by both sides.
Investor-state dispute settlement under TTIP - a risk for environmental regulation?
6-Feb-2014 HBF
New report from the Heinrich Boell Foundation reviews the implications of an investor-state dispute settlement provision in TTIP for environmental policies and standards
EU seals free trade deal with West Africa
6-Feb-2014 Euractiv
Negotiators from West Africa and the EU have put pen to paper on a €42 billion-a-year free trade deal after 10 years of haggling, but ongoing talks with East African states remain mired in fine print.
65,000 protest TPP in Mexico, see repeat of NAFTA mistakes
5-Feb-2014 Popular Resistance
Farmers, union, environmental and women’s activists gathered in Mexico City last week to take stock of the lessons from NAFTA and plan strategies to confront the next big threat: the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP).
New Zealand gov’t TPP forecast "doubtful": review
5-Feb-2014 Shanghai Daily
Government claims that New Zealand will see an economic gain of 4.5 billion US dollars from the proposed 12-nation Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal are "doubtful," according to an academic review released Wednesday.
TPP would ’upgrade’ US trade pacts, says US Commerce chief
5-Feb-2014 WSJ
The TPP is designed "to create a high-standard global trade agreement that addresses a bunch of issues that have not been addressed before in our trade agreements," US Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker said, adding, "And frankly, if we don’t do it, someone else is going to set the standard."
Stir over end to trade deals fades
5-Feb-2014 Business Day
A stir greeted last year’s announcement by the South African government that it would not be renegotiating bilateral investment agreements with major trading partners such as the EU. However, it now seems as if a lot of dust has settled around the Promotion and Protection of Investment Bill, which is set to replace the agreements.
German public TV videos on TTIP - now in EN
5-Feb-2014 CEO
CEO has put English subtitles to two excellent media reports on TTIP that were shown on German public TV in the previous months.
Is the TPP dead?
5-Feb-2014 Acronym TV
An interview with Kevin Zeese, organizer with Flush the TPP and Popular Resistance.
Rurelec wins historic Bolivian compensation award
4-Feb-2014 Stock Market Wire
UK power generator Rurelec has won an historic Bolivian compensation award worth $35.5m, the first granted by an international court against Bolivia.
German unrest mounts over EU-US FTA
4-Feb-2014 Tax News
There is mounting opposition among members of Germany’s black-red Grand Coalition Government to the planned Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and the US.
Move on data protection or fail on TTIP, EU Parliament chair says
3-Feb-2014 IP Watch
On 31 January, there was a stern warning from Elmar Brok, chair of the European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee, that the United States must move quicker on joint data protection standards to avoid failure of the bilateral talks between the EU and the US.
PH: Businessmen mixed on country’s TPP bid
3-Feb-2014 Business World
"The Philippines should not just enter into a deal out of fear of being left out," Alfredo M. Yao, president of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry, says.
EU ambassador: finishing CETA technical negotiations ‘a question of weeks’
3-Feb-2014 iPolitics
“We think that it might be in about six months that we have a text, which will be not the final text, I think that for the final text we have to wait two years — it will be 2015,” the EU’s ambassador to Canada said.
EAC-EU Economic Partnership Agreement negotiations held in Brussels
3-Feb-2014 EAC Secretariat
Ministers from East Africa Community Partner States and the European Commissioner for Trade met in Brussels on 30th January 2014 to conclude three days of negotiations on the Economic Partnership Agreement.
Not a hacker or whistleblower? Here’s how you can still liberate secret documents
3-Feb-2014 Waging Nonviolence
When there are documents that the public has a right to know about, we have a right to go take them, writes Daniel Hunter
Zuma says Eastern, Southern Africa moving toward Free Trade Area
3-Feb-2014 Bloomberg
Twenty-six eastern and southern African nations are making progress toward agreeing on a free trade area that will create a market with nearly 600 million people and combined gross domestic product of $1 trillion, South African President Jacob Zuma said.