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Some trade deals on hold after Trump’s election, but danger lurks in the lesser-known Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA)
29-Nov-2016 Huffington Post
Fair Traders who are celebrating the defeat of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) may see their hard work undone if the talks towards the proposed Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) continue under a Trump administration
Analysis of the TiSA “annex on transparency”
29-Nov-2016 Greenpeace
Better and more comprehensive transparency – these are core demands of civil society organizations in the debate surrounding free trade agreements.
TiSA - draft annex on electronic commerce (September 2016)
28-Nov-2016 Greenpeace
As leaked by Greenpeace
TiSA - draft annex on state-owned enterprises (September 2016)
28-Nov-2016 Greenpeace
As leaked by Greenpeace
TiSA - draft annex on professional services (September 2016)
28-Nov-2016 Greenpeace
As leaked by Greenpeace
TiSA - draft annex on transparency services (September 2016)
28-Nov-2016 Greenpeace
As leaked by Greenpeace
Secret trade proposal would give Facebook free reign to censor by algorithm
28-Nov-2016 Motherboard
Under leaked proposals from a controversial service trade deal, Facebook and other online services could be granted legal immunity when censoring any content
New leaks confirm TiSA proposals that would undermine civil liberties
25-Nov-2016 EDRi
New leaked documents concerning the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) have been published.
TiSA - draft annex on telecommunications services (November 2016)
25-Nov-2016 Netzpolitik
As leaked by Netzpolitik & Greenpeace
TiSA negotiations fall victim to the Trump tremor
23-Nov-2016 Live Mint
In these quixotic and post-truth times, nemesis has its subtle ways of catching up with the reality.
TiSA - EU second revised offer (November 2016)
21-Nov-2016 European Commission
As released by the European Commission
Bell tolls for TiSA
21-Nov-2016 Politico
The meeting was supposed to bring the three-year-old talks to a close, but major obstacles between the United States and European Union bogged down the negotiators.
Trade and privacy: complicated bedfellows?
18-Nov-2016 Institute for Information Law
How to achieve data protection-proof free trade agreements?
A swan song for TiSA talks
14-Nov-2016 Politico
The prospects for concluding negotiations on the Trade in Services Agreement now appear slim.
Negotiators question EU commitment to services deal
8-Nov-2016 Bloomberg
Negotiators working to increase market access for services are beginning to question whether the European Union is capable of forging a multi-trillion dollar services agreement.
EU-US Privacy Shield pact faces second legal challenge
3-Nov-2016 EurActiv
A new EU-US pact governing the transfer of personal data faces a second legal challenge, putting the details of the deal which underpins billions of dollars of transatlantic trade in digital services under further scrutiny.
TiSA - Norway second revised conditional offer (October 2016)
28-Oct-2016 Government of Norway
As released by the Government of Norway
TiSA - second revised Swiss offer (October 2016)
28-Oct-2016 Secrétariat d’Etat suisse à l’économie
Released by the Government of Switzerland
World union meeting unites against TiSA and CETA
27-Oct-2016 ITF
Global trade union leaders meeting in Panama have united in condemnation of TiSA (the Trade in Services Agreement) and CETA (the Comprehensive Economic & Trade Agreement), highlighting the risks that both trade agreements pose to jobs and job security.
Public sector unions to oppose Asia Pacific mega trade deal RCEP
27-Oct-2016 PSI
On 12 October, the closing day of the Asia Pacific Regional Conference in Fukuoka, around 250 delegates representing more than 70 PSI affiliates from 18 countries resolved to intensify the struggle against the ambitious Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership under negotiation among 16 countries in the region.