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How global trade agreements undermine sustainable business: The American Sustainable Business Council perspective
15-Jul-2015 Just Means
The American Sustainable Business Council explains that the point of greatest concern in TPP, TTIP and especially the TiSA agreement is the proposal to allow corporations to sue governments in an international tribunal.
TDM 4 (2015) ArbitralWomen/TDM Special
14-Jul-2015 Transnational Dispute Management
In this joint ArbitralWomen/TDM special on "Dealing with Diversity in International Arbitration" the contributing authors from around the globe place the arbitration community under a microscope, analyze critically what they find, ask whether we can do it better with diversity, how diversity will improve the process and how to bring diversity into the mainstream of the arbitration world.
CUPE delegates in Colombia to oppose secret trade deal
14-Jul-2015 Canadian Union of Public Employees
Four national public sector unions have joined forces with sister unions in Colombia to fight against the privatization of public services and to strengthen each other’s struggles to defend human and labour rights.
TTIP: a corporate lobbying paradise
14-Jul-2015 CEO
Which businesses are pushing most for the proposed EU-US trade deal TTIP? Who’s influencing EU negotiators?
TTIP will force all Europeans to take Greece’s medicine
14-Jul-2015 Politics.co.uk
If the Greek crisis has shown how the institutions of the EU will stop at nothing to force through their own brand of capitalist discipline, TTIP is confirmation that we will all soon be tasting the same medicine.
’India-Canada FTA likely to be concluded by March 2016’
14-Jul-2015 PTI
The proposed free trade agreement between India and Canada, which aims to reduce or eliminate duties on a large number of products traded between the two nations, is likely to be concluded by March next year, a senior official told PTI.
The position of REDES – AT Uruguay on the recent ICSID decision
13-Jul-2015 REDES - AT
Devastating news for Uruguay and the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
SADC, EU inch closer to ratifying EPA agreement
13-Jul-2015 Southern Times
The European Union and Southern African Development Community are on the verge of finalising the signing of an Economic Partnership Agreement.
Taiwan to propose economic cooperation pact with Australia
13-Jul-2015 CNA
Following signature of the China-Australia FTA last month, Taiwan will express the idea of signing one with Australia at an upcoming vice ministerial-level trade and economic meeting between the two nations in Taipei.
Riding the Pacific trade winds
13-Jul-2015 Indian Express
Labour, environment and IPR standards in the Trans-Pacific Partnership will influence future Indo-US agreements.
Renegotiation of PH-Japan economic deal sought
13-Jul-2015 Philippine Daily Inquirer
A group of banana exporters is calling for a renegotiation of the Philippines-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement, saying that shipments to Japan have been dwindling due to tariffs that make them uncompetitive.
’If the US can offer TPP transparency, so can we’
13-Jul-2015 ABC
’Too many trade deals have failed to live up to the hype,’ the CEO of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry says.
Indian exports may be affected in TPP markets
13-Jul-2015 PTI
The Trans-Pacific Partnership’s impact on India and South Asia will be much more than the short-term tariff-preference erosions for the region’s exports, a senior researcher at Singapore’s Institute of South Asian Studies says.
IBON primer on 21st Century free trade agreements
13-Jul-2015 IBON
New free trade deals across regions such as the TPPA, TTIP and TiSA, among many others are being negotiated that will have far-reaching implications for peoples in both the global North and South and for the future of the world economy. But these deals will neither benefit the democratic majority nor rescue the world economy in crisis.
Ministry of economy to assess TTIP impact in Belgium
12-Jul-2015 Belga
In a public invitation to tender, the Ministry of the Economy announced recently that it is to investigate the potential impact the free trade agreement between the United States and Europe (TTIP) would have on Belgium.
US weighs completing Pacific Rim trade deal without Canada: sources
12-Jul-2015 Reuters
The United States, frustrated over the lack of progress with Canada over new rules for agriculture trade, is weighing "contingencies" that could include completing a Pacific Rim trade pact that excludes Canada, according to two sources familiar with the issue.
US upgrades Malaysia in annual human trafficking report - sources
12-Jul-2015 Reuters
The United States is upgrading Malaysia from the lowest tier on its list of worst human trafficking centers so that the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal can go through.
China, Eurasian Economic Union to launch EPA talks: official
12-Jul-2015 Xinhua
China and the Eurasian Economic Union will start negotiations on an economic partnership agreement as soon as possible, Chinese Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng said Friday.
Japan mulling import quota for Aussie, US rice in TPP talks
10-Jul-2015 World Grain
Japan is considering establishing a rice import quota each for the United States and Australia instead of lowering tarriffs
Infographic: Lessons from NAFTA for the Trans-Pacific Partnership
10-Jul-2015 IPS
Two decades of high costs for Mexico’s agriculture, economy, families, and environment