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New Pacific trade deal carries few benefits for the UK

Given the breadth of the policy areas that CPTPP accession will impact upon, how can UK membership have been subject to so little public debate? The answer is that the structures via which trade deals are negotiated and ratified are opaque and undemocratic.

50,000 people say another world is possible

Together with GRAIN, Local Futures organized the aforementioned workshop ‘Resisting Free Trade Agreements in South Asia’, which brought together activists from South Asian countries to confront the massive proliferation of free trade agreements
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French senators reject EU-Canada free-trade deal

France’s Sénat overwhelmingly voted against a free-trade agreement between the European Union and Canada after an unusual alliance in the upper house between left- and right-wing opponents of French President Emmanuel Macron.

GCC, Turkey launch talks on free trade agreement

Turkey and the Gulf Cooperation Council have signed a deal to begin formal negotiations for a free trade agreement, Turkish Trade Minister Omer Bolat announced, as Ankara looks to boost economic ties in the Middle East.
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