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Release of the full TPP text after five years of secrecy confirms threats to users’ rights
6-Nov-2015 Electronic Frontier Foundation
Some of the more dangerous threats to the public’s rights to free expression, access to knowledge, and privacy online are contained in the copyright provisions in the Intellectual Property (IP) chapter
The gathering financial storm is just one effect of corporate power unbound
5-Nov-2015 The Guardian
What have governments learned from the financial crisis? I could write a column spelling it out. Or I could do the same job with one word: nothing.
Ten years after the defeat of the free trade area of the Americas (FTAA) – lessons for current struggles
5-Nov-2015 ALAI
This month marks the tenth anniversary of the defeat of the FTAA. What can we learn from that victory and the subsequent corporate counter-offensive in Latin America for our current global struggles against free trade and corporate power?
TPP text shows some impacts from community campaigns, but still favours corporate rights over citizens and communities
5-Nov-2015 AFTINET
Preliminary analysis of the thousands of pages of the main chapters of the TPP text show there are still devils in the detail on medicine monopolies, investor rights to sue governments and copyright monopolies.
Japan, five TPP partners agree to review terms after seven years
5-Nov-2015 The Japan Times
Japan has agreed with five of the 12 nations involved in the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade initiative to launch talks, if requested, on their terms of agreement seven years after the pact’s ratification
Despite assurances to contrary, intellectual property covered asset for TPP ISDS mechanism
5-Nov-2015 KEI
Despite assurances from the contrary by Australia and USTR, intellectual property is a covered asset subject to Investor State Dispute Settlement
Details of Trans-Pacific Partnership text finally released
5-Nov-2015 Sidney Morning Herald
The final text of a huge 12-country trade agreement has confirmed the "worst nightmares" of environmental groups, with no mention of climate change in its lone environment chapter and weak enforcement mechanisms
TISA parties plan four rounds by July 2016 to advance priority annexes
4-Nov-2015 World Trade Online
The participants in the Trade In Services Agreements (TISA) have agreed to hold four more rounds of negotiations between November and mid-July 2016
Will the Trans Pacific Partnership have an impact on Indian pharma industry?
4-Nov-2015 DNA India
Implications of the TPP on the Indian pharma industry might not be entirely clear yet. But there is a need for India to engage in the debate of trade deals and public interest.
Abim, NGOs file suit to stop Putrajaya from signing TPPA
4-Nov-2015 The Malaysian Insider
Angkatan Belia Islam Malaysia (Abim) and two other Malay non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have filed for a judicial review to stop Putrajaya from signing the contentious Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA).
Dissents matter
4-Nov-2015 Todd N. Tucker
Ecuador has been partially relieved of its debt to Occidental, which constitutes a pretty legalistic and conservative application of property rights by a state appointee dissenter.
The rise in arbitration claims filed by renewable energy investors under the Energy Charter Treaty
4-Nov-2015 Lexology
The number of claims filed by renewable energy investors under the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) has risen significantly.
New Zealand/EU free trade talks criticised
4-Nov-2015 The Irish Examiner
Irish Farmers Association president Eddie Downey has already warned that farmers across Europe would resist any trade deal with New Zealand that could undermine the EU’s valuable domestic markets for beef, sheep, and dairy products.
What the Internet needs vs. What the TPP demands
3-Nov-2015 Open Media
Who should make the policies that will determine the future of the Internet? A select list of corporate lobbyists and unelected government officials, meeting without public oversight or involvement?
Why Internet users should be very angry about the TPP
3-Nov-2015 Open Media
The TPP is about a lot more than dairy and cars – it’s also about our fundamental right to free expression.
Japan releases TPP details – Vietnam to abolish tariffs and economic needs test
3-Nov-2015 Lexology
Besides abolishing tariffs and providing for investor-state dispute settlement, some of Vietnam’s highlights under the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade pact include removing the dreaded economic needs test
Ecuador-Occidental arbitration award reduced to $1 bln
3-Nov-2015 Reuters
A World Bank tribunal reduced to about $1 billion the amount Ecuador must pay Occidental Petroleum Corp in compensation for seizing the U.S.-based company’s assets
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).
TPP fishery impact to be ‘limited,’ for now: farm ministry
2-Nov-2015 The Japan Times
The impact on fishery products from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement is likely to be “limited,” although tariffs are set to be axed for most of the 300 or so items listed in the free trade pact.