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Georgia begins round two of free trade talks EFTA
10-Dec-2015 Agenda.ge
The third round of negotiations between Georgia and EFTA will be held in February 2016.
TiSA: A framework for reregulating the global trade in services?
9-Dec-2015 Huffington Post
TiSA is currently being negotiated amongst a group of (mostly rich) countries, rather than amongst all countries.
Secret trade talks could weaken climate targets set in Paris, warn campaigners
4-Dec-2015 The Guardian
Rival international negotiations in Geneva could outlaw subsidies for solar or wind power in ‘great climate change swindle’
Macau and China’s mainland ink new deal on trade services under CEPA
1-Dec-2015 Macau News
Macau and China’s mainland have signed a new agreement under the framework of the Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA), further liberalizing trade in services.
EU to use its chairmanship of TiSA talks on services to push for major progress
1-Dec-2015 Ein News
The EU is to use its chairmanship of the latest round of negotiations for an international agreement on trade in services (TiSA) to push for significant progress on key chapters.
The Free Trade agreement between the EU and Canada threatens water management
2-Nov-2015 European Water Movement
The European Commission always maintained that water would be excluded from the CETA, but a careful reading of the consolidated text of the treaty shows that the reality is different.
US asks India to step up investment treaty talks
2-Nov-2015 Smart Investor
The US government has again pushed India to expedite negotiations on the proposed Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT).
India pitches for market access for professionals in RCEP
23-Oct-2015 The Hindi Business Line
India has raised its pitch for greater market access for professionals in the proposed regional comprehensive economic partnership (RCEP)
India, Canada closely working to finalise CEPA
21-Oct-2015 The Economic Times
India and Canada are closely working to finalise the comprehensive economic partnership agreement (CEPA)
Fallout from EU-US Safe Harbour ruling will be dramatic and far-reaching
16-Oct-2015 Ars Technica
Clever ruling by the Court of Justice will be almost impossible to circumvent. The "Safe Harbour" ruling is likely to affect trade agreements like TISA and TTIP in important ways.
EU deal will put elderly care at risk
14-Oct-2015 The Irish Examiner
Elderly people’s homes in Ireland will be open to unfettered competition putting care at risk under the terms being drafted for the trade and services agreement between the EU and the US.
Public services under attack through TTIP and CETA
12-Oct-2015 CEO
EU trade deals with Canada and the US could endanger citizens’ rights to basic services like water and health, as negotiators are doing the work of some of the EU’s most powerful corporate lobby groups in pushing an aggressive market opening agenda in the public sector.
No to FTAs!
8-Oct-2015 Ibon
TPP, like other Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), is fashioned by industrial countries and their transnational corporations to further intensify the concentration of resources, wealth, and power into their hands leaving developing countries.
TISA: Government agrees on draft initial market access offers
8-Oct-2015 Govmu
The draft initial market access offers of Mauritius in the context of the negotiations on the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) has been agreed by Government.
Singapore concludes free trade negotiations with Turkey
7-Oct-2015 Asia One
Turkey and Singapore have concluded negotiations for the Turkey-Singapore Free Trade Agreement.
Cities and regions express their views on the sharing economy, the Trade in Services Agreement and a fair corporate tax system
30-Sep-2015 Committee of the Regions
The Commission for Economic Policy of the EU Committee of the Regions held an external meeting whose agenda was the adoption of the draft opinionson the local and regional dimension of the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA).
Uruguay, Paraguay drop out of TiSA talks
29-Sep-2015 Politico
U.S. trade officials acknowledged Uruguay and Paraguay’s decision to drop out of talks on the proposed Trade in International Services agreement.
TFTA: Pan-African free trade area announced
22-Sep-2015 Lexology
TFTA states that its aims include harmonisation and improvement of regional trading arrangements, enhancement of trade facilitation.
Uruguay decision to exit controversial trade deal talks with US appropriate
15-Sep-2015 Sputnik
Former Uruguayan senator Alberto Couriel said that there is "no free trade" in the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA), promoted by the United States.
In snub to US push for new services pact, Uruguay pulls out of negotiations
13-Sep-2015 The Wire
Just a week before the deadline for submitting national offers on liberalisation of services sectors under the on-going “secret” talks for a Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA), Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez decided to abandon the plurilateral negotiations.