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US firms urge China to open up for investment treaty
18-Jun-2015 Reuters
Opening more sectors in China to foreign competition is the critical element to negotiating an investment treaty with the United States, a US trade group said on Wednesday.
Lying to get ISDS through the European Parliament
9-Jun-2015 EurActiv
BusinessEurope, and especially its Director General, should be factual and truthful when lobbying the European Parliament on ISDS and TTIP, argue Bart Staes and Molly Scott Cato.
US DoE grants export authorisation for Alaska LNG Project
2-Jun-2015 Hydrocarbons Technology
Alaska can now export liquified natural gas (LNG) to countries with which the US does not have a free trade agreement - such as Japan, Taiwan, China and India.
Exporters for FTA, CEPA with EU
1-Jun-2015 The Hindu
Indian knitwear exporters have made an appeal to expedite the signing of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the European Union.
EU dropped pesticide laws due to US pressure over TTIP, documents reveal
25-May-2015 The Guardian
EU moves to regulate hormone-damaging chemicals linked to cancer and male infertility were shelved following pressure from US trade officials over the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) free trade deal, newly released documents show.
Fruits et légumes : moins on consomme plus on importe
29-Apr-2015 L’Humanité
Le déclin de la production est imputable à la stratégie commerciale des grandes surfaces pour faire chuter les cours grâce aux accords bilatéraux que la Commission européenne a négocié avec des pays tiers comme le Maroc.
Transpacific Partnership: Canadian participation has been approved
28-Apr-2015 La Presse Canadienne
The US Chamber of Commerce is in favor of Canada entering into the negotiations for the Transpacific Partnership for a free trade agreement with lucrative Asian markets. So declared the powerful pressure group.
Insurers lead moves to include financial services in TTIP
23-Apr-2015 EurActiv
Insurers from the US and EU are amongst leading backers of a financial services chapter within the Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP), although the US remains opposed officially.
Noam Chomsky: Every word in the phrase ‘free trade agreement’ is false
23-Apr-2015 TruthDig
Noam Chomsky discusses how so-called free trade agreements, such as the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership, enrich corporations while creating migration crises.
EU-US trade talks should pick up steam once “fast-track” bill is voted through Congress, says top US farm lobbyist Bob Young
22-Apr-2015 ViEUws
Bob Young, Deputy Executive Director at the American Farm Bureau Federation, talks with journalist Rose O’Donovan (AGRA FACTS) about on-going agricultural developments in negotiations towards a Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP).
Lobby group EFILA’s stake in investment arbitration
14-Apr-2015 TNI
In response to growing public criticism of international investment law, a new lobby group has emerged, EFILA, seeking to influence European officials.
Auto sector inclusion in India-EU FTA against ’Make in India’
13-Apr-2015 PTI
The proposed India-EU trade liberalisation pact will not benefit domestic automobile firms and runs counter to the government’s flagship programme ’Make in India, auto industry body SIAM has said.
Free trade and Mexico’s junk food epidemic
10-Apr-2015 GRAIN
Food companies are infiltrating, inundating and taking over traditional food distribution channels and replacing local foods with cheap, processed junk foods. Free trade and investment agreements have been critical to their success.
TTIP: The newborn in the neoliberal saga
8-Apr-2015 Marcha
Since the mid 1990s, some relevant economic actors have been trying to contribute to the evolution of a massive free trade zone linking the US and Europe, two of the richest regions in the world.
JPEPA: Keep existing fiscal perks, Japan firms urge gov’t
7-Apr-2015 PDI
The Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Philippines will appeal to the government anew to retain the existing fiscal incentive regime in an upcoming meeting under the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (Jpepa).
WPF motion on TNCs and human rights violations
31-Mar-2015 World Parliamentary Forum
The World Parliamentary Forum calls on national and regional Parliaments to reject both free trade agreements (FTAs) that benefit corporations and major international investors, as well as abusive bilateral investment treaties (BITs), that some governments have already cancelled.
European trade lobby urges restart of FTA talks
31-Mar-2015 The Nation
The European Association for Business and Commerce (EABC) is calling for an early resumption of talks on a Thailand-European Union free-trade agreement, arguing that there is no need to wait for the return of democracy.
Chevron’s "fight it out on the ice" strategy for Ecuador case is slipping, fast
28-Mar-2015 Huffington Post
In Chevron’s massive international arbitration directly against the government of Ecuador, it has gotten everything it has asked for from the panel of arbitrators — until last week.
German industry slashes estimates of benefits of US trade deal
12-Mar-2015 AFP
German industry federation BDI has been forced to slash its estimate of the economic benefits for Europe of a proposed US-EU free trade pact by a factor of 10, it conceded Wednesday.
LN: Czech state hampers EU-Georgia deal over firm’s interests
10-Mar-2015 Czech News Agency
The Czech Foreign Ministry has been using the association agreement between the European Union and Georgia as an instrument of pressure exerted on the Georgian authorities in order to protect the investments of the Czech Energo-Pro firm, daily Lidove noviny (LN) writes Monday.