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S. Korea, China ink MOU to tackle non-tariff barriers
3-Sep-2015 Yonhap
South Korea and China have agreed to tackle the issue of non-tariff barriers following their signing of a free trade agreement (FTA)
Why EU’s and US’ new trade deal threatens progressive business
27-Aug-2015 Chemsec
In the EU, representatives from parts of the chemical and pesticide industry have used TTIP to fiercely lobby against stronger protections from hormone (endocrine) disrupting chemicals (EDCs)
AFTINET: Reply to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Myths and Realities document, June 2015
30-Jun-2015 Scoop
The Australian government misrepresents the claims of critics and fails to address substantial criticisms of the Trans Pacific Partnership, says civil society network AFTINET.
The hidden costs of trade treaties
29-May-2015 Zeit
The free trade treaties with Canada (CETA) and the United States (TTIP) are not threatening European standards, the negotiators in Brussels assure us. Yet environmental and food safety regulations have already been weakened.
Obama and Republicans agree on the Trans-Pacific Partnership … unfortunately
22-Apr-2015 New York Times
Fast-track must be defeated, and a solid debate about TPP must be opened among well-informed representatives, with plenty of public input, says renowned food writer Mark Bittman.
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).
The EU claims that TTIP won’t reduce EU food safety standards – but is this true?
21-Apr-2015 ChemTrust
The EU commission has claimed that there will be no lowering of food safety standards in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) that is currently being negotiated with the United States. However, an examination of the EU’s negotiating position shows that they are already offering changes which could lead to increased amounts of pesticide residues in food in the EU in the future.
FTA commitments to be strengthened between the US and Peru
25-Mar-2015 Peru This Week
Peru hopes to upgrade access to the US market for farm products.
Foodwatch boss: ’Europeans will not stomach TTIP anymore’
18-Mar-2015 EurActiv
The EU-US free trade agreement, TTIP, is a big lie, says Thilo Bode, the director of the NGO Foodwatch, discussing his latest book on the transatlantic trade deal.
US-EAC Cooperation Agreement on SPS, TBT and Trade Facilitation (2015)
27-Feb-2015 USTR
US moves toward greater trade with Africa
27-Feb-2015 WSJ
Pact with Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda — to be expanded to other countries later on — seen as a stepping stone to full fledged FTA
South Korea bans Canadian beef exports in light of BSE
17-Feb-2015 iPolitics
South Korea says it’s banning imports of Canadian beef after a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or “mad cow disease,” was found on a northern Alberta farm earlier this week, despite reassurances from Canada’s agriculture minister the case would not impact Canadian beef trade.
EU-US trade deal threatens food safety
5-Feb-2015 FOEE
The trade agreement being negotiated between the US and EU threatens public health, consumer rights and animal welfare standards, shows new analysis today by food and trade experts
Government urged to protect interests of UK poultry farmers
21-Jan-2015 Western Morning News
The competitiveness of UK poultry producers is at risk if the EU-US trade negotiations proceed on the basis that products are of an ’equivalent’ standard.
EU health chief says no clear majority yet for US trade deal
19-Jan-2015 Reuters
No clear majority has so far emerged among EU states for a free-trade agreement between the European Union and the United States and both sides need to explain the benefits of such a deal, the EU’s health chief said.
Lifting of US beef ban ’not a TTIP trade off’, EU says
8-Jan-2015 EurActiv
The United States’ decision to lift its long-standing ban on EU beef imports is not a trade-off as part of the ongoing transatlantic free-trade talks, the European Commission has said.
EU-US FTA (TTIP) - draft on sanitary and phytosanitary measures (SPS) (September 2015)
7-Jan-2015 European Commission
Published by the European Commission
Agriculture, food and the TTIP: Possibilities and pitfalls
5-Jan-2015 CEPS
Two think tanks - the Centre for European Policy Studies and the Center for Transatlantic Relations - lay out possible "landing zones" on agriculture and food regulations in the TTIP
TTIP: A recipe for disaster
15-Dec-2014 CEO
This brochure explains how TTIP will promote the industrial model of food and farming, further threatening the survival of small family farms, local food initiatives, standards for healthy and safe food, animal welfare, the environment, and public health.
Deal set to boost food cooperation
18-Nov-2014 China Daily
An unprecedented agreement was signed by agriculture tycoons from China and Australia on Monday providing that food from Australia sold to China will be of the highest quality and "marked under one brand and under one logo".