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American mining giant escaped Indonesian law with ISDS
29-Dec-2015 http://www.ipsnews.net/2015/12/amer...
American mining corporation Newmont escaped the domestic processing requirement from Indonesia’s 2009 Mining Law. It achieved this by using a clause in a Dutch investment treaty.
Abertis hauls Argentina’s new government before the World Bank on account of two motorways
22-Dec-2015 El Diario
Abertis has hauled Argentina’s Attorney General’s Treasury Office before the World Bank’s Arbitration Dispute Settlement body (known as ICSID) for freezing tariffs applied to two concessions for motorways controlled by the Spanish company in Argentina.
Ten years after the defeat of the free trade area of the Americas (FTAA) – lessons for current struggles
5-Nov-2015 ALAI
This month marks the tenth anniversary of the defeat of the FTAA. What can we learn from that victory and the subsequent corporate counter-offensive in Latin America for our current global struggles against free trade and corporate power?
Shallow justifications for TPPA
28-Oct-2015
Catherine Beard claims there is no problem with the ability of corporations to sue the New Zealand government in offshore tribunals for loss of profits under the TPPA. She bases this on "commissioned research" from the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER).
Geographical indications in TTIP: an impossible task
23-Oct-2015 Cato
The protection of geographical indications (GIs) is slated to be one of the more contentious parts of the TTIP negotiations.
Trans Pacific Partnership IP chapter – trademarks, thoughts on geographical indications
16-Oct-2015 IP Watchdog
This article offers accompanying commentary together on the TPP’s trademark provisions together with thoughts on portions of the TPP text regarding Geographical Indications (GIs)
Member states give Commission green light to go ahead with second tariff offer in TTIP
15-Oct-2015 Vieuws
Following intensive technical discussions, the trade representatives backed the Commission’s proposal to upgrade from 96% to 97% the EU’s offer on full abolition of tariff lines at the entry into force of the agreement.
Health and trade: What hope for SDG 3
1-Oct-2015 Health and Trade Network
Emma Woodford from the Health and Trade Network examines SDG3 on health and well-being and questions if its targets are achievable given the damaging nature of legally binding trade agreements being simultaneously negotiated by SDG signatories.
RCEP pact: Commerce Ministry to hold consultations with industry on goods
7-Sep-2015 The Economic Times
With negotiations on the mega trade deal RCEP at an advance stage, the Commerce Ministry will hold stakeholders’ consultation with industry.
TISA and tech’s double standards on secret government Internet deals
29-Aug-2015 Electronic Frontier Fondation
The stash of previously-secret correspondence about the Trade In Services Agreement (TISA) speaks volumes about the extent to which technology companies into the dangerous idea that trade agreements should be used to govern the Internet.
Commission breaks new ground on TTIP tobacco transparency
26-Aug-2015 Hard in Europe
The European Commission has broken new ground in transparency over Big Tobacco lobbying around the ongoing EU-US trade talks. Philip Morris topped a EU lobbying spending table last year, spending more than petrol giant ExxonMobil.
TUC briefing on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)
20-Aug-2015 TUC
TUC Congress believes that the primary purpose of TTIP is to extend corporate investor rights’ and thus adopted a position of ‘outright opposition’ to TTIP.
Don’t believe the hype - TTIP is not for small companies
18-Aug-2015 CEO
Publicly, business lobby groups are heavily pushing the idea that TTIP will benefit small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). But behind closed doors they admit the reality: that small companies will “face increased competition” and that “benefits remain hypothetical”.
Obama woos Asia with trade deal asserting US Pacific role
24-Jul-2015 Bloomberg
Trade officials from 12 governments are gathering in Hawaii next week to attempt to hash out the final details of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a potential bonanza for US corporations.
Corporate lobbying expense jumps as US trade debate rages
24-Jul-2015 Reuters
Washington lobbying by companies and groups involved in global trade boomed in the past nine months, records show, as Congress debated a landmark trade pact proposed by President Barack Obama, the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
Time to challenge the influence of big business in EU policy making
21-Jul-2015 The Parliament Magazine
The EU’s well-oiled revolving doors are keeping corporate lobbying in the TTIP driving seat, argue Vicky Cann and David Lundy
How global trade agreements undermine sustainable business: The American Sustainable Business Council perspective
15-Jul-2015 Just Means
The American Sustainable Business Council explains that the point of greatest concern in TPP, TTIP and especially the TiSA agreement is the proposal to allow corporations to sue governments in an international tribunal.
TTIP: a corporate lobbying paradise
14-Jul-2015 CEO
Which businesses are pushing most for the proposed EU-US trade deal TTIP? Who’s influencing EU negotiators?
’If the US can offer TPP transparency, so can we’
13-Jul-2015 ABC
’Too many trade deals have failed to live up to the hype,’ the CEO of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry says.
Morocco: EU Court to give verdict ’in few months’ on Sahrawi appeal against EU-Morocco agricultural agreement
19-Jun-2015 Sahara Press Service
The European Union Court examined Tuesday the appeal of the Polisario Front against the agricultural agreement concluded in 2000 between the European Union and Morocco, and the decision on this issue will be given in a few months