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Battle looms for Aussie dairy over Haloumi
6-Apr-2021 Farm Online
Australia’s dairy industry is bracing for a fight over the name "haloumi", after the European Union voted to restrict cheese manufacturers outside of Cyprus from marketing haloumi cheese under that name.
EFTA insists on the UPOV clause in negotiating mandates for free trade agreements (FTAs)
4-Mar-2021 Swiss Coalition for the Right to Seed
EFTA’s response to the June 2020 open letter, supported by 250 organisations from around the world, is disappointing. EFTA maintains the UPOV 91 requirement in FTAs. The right to seeds therefore remains under pressure.
Patently unfair: Can waivers help solve COVID vaccine inequality?
3-Mar-2021 Aljazeera
The WTO General Council gathered virtually on Monday for the first of two days of talks amid increasing calls from civil society, states and nongovernmental actors to temporarily waive patents for COVID-19 vaccines and other coronavirus-related medical products.
China-EU agreement on geographical indications takes effect
1-Mar-2021 Xinhua
GI is a label used for identifying the geographical origin of a product, and is an important type of intellectual property right.
Intellectual property and COVID-19 medicines: why a WTO waiver may not be enough
25-Feb-2021 The Conversation
The COVID-19 pandemic, and the race to make vaccines and other useful technologies more accessible to people around the world, has once again highlighted the tension between intellectual property rights and the promotion of public health.
TNCs reviving TPP Frankenstein
18-Jan-2021 Financial Express Bangladesh
Corporate globalisation and Covid-19 should also have taught developing countries that they must reject FTAs strengthening IPRs, ISDS and TNCs in order to secure policy space to ’build back better’.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Intellectual property and trade in the Pacific rim
7-Jan-2021 Edward Elgar
This book considers the impact of the Trans-Pacific Partnership [TPP] on intellectual property and trade.
India is ‘unlikely to re-think rejection of huge trade deal’
19-Oct-2020 Khmer Times
In November 2019, India pulled out of the deal primarily through concerns of dumping of manufactured goods from China and agricultural and dairy products from Australia and New Zealand, potentially affecting its own domestic industrial and farming sectors.
How China came to champion free trade
12-Oct-2020 Asia Times
The Chinese government has been strengthening legal protection of intellectual property for many years – for China’s own benefit, not to keep the Americans or anyone else happy. So how much has been accomplished, how much remains to be done, and why?
Mining companies stand to win from Peru-China FTA that neglects environment
28-Sep-2020 Dialogo Chino
Ten years after the entry into force of the Peru-China Free Trade Agreement (FTA), officials from both countries are in stuck a slow renegotiation process in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Trade deals handing Japanese seeds to multinational corporations
24-Sep-2020 GRAIN
Japan need a policy that is based on a major shift from industrial agriculture to agroecology by small farmers. For this to be possible Japan must pull out of TPP and other similar FTAs.
A new trend in trade agreements: Ensuring access to cancer drugs
17-Sep-2020 South Centre
People around the world need to be aware of precedents in recent trade agreements and ensure that they also work for access to medicines for their own citizens.
A possible Indo-US trade agreement would be an imperialist attack on India’s farmers
21-Aug-2020 Down To Earth
Such a deal will have repercussions on our agricultural production and economy.
First bilateral trade agreement signed between EU and China
21-Jul-2020 AgriLand
The first significant bilateral trade agreement has been signed between the European Union (EU) and China this morning, Monday, July 20.
No more EFTA power play against the South!
9-Jul-2020 Swiss Right to Seeds Coalition
Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Norway are undermining farmers’ rights to seeds in the countries of the global South
Tech firms want ‘strong copyright safe harbours’ in US/UK deal
7-Jul-2020 Music Ally
Unsurprisingly, the big American internet companies have views on what that trade deal should require from the UK in terms of copyright and safe harbour rules.
Putting sombreros on par with Champagne
1-Jul-2020 Politico
The European Union mulls protecting handicrafts in the same way as gourmet food amid a push from Latin American countries.
Why Kenya must keep an eye on data rules in US trade deal talks
16-Jun-2020 Business Daily
The US aims to establish commitments to ensure Kenya refrains from imposing measures that restrict cross-border data flows and does not require the use of installation of local computing facilities.
Collectively to reject the RCEP negotiations in the middle of a pandemic
15-Jun-2020 Hukum Online
Amid the pandemic Covid-19 outbreak with the protocol health of all States, the trade negotiations for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is still ongoing. The Government should use the momentum of the pandemic to assess thorough draft related agreements RCEP.
Call to action! Stop EFTA countries to undermine farmers’ rights to seed in free trade agreements
11-Jun-2020 Recht auf saatgut
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