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Deal reached on fast-track authority for Obama on trade pact
16-Apr-2015 New York Times
The leaders of Congress’s tax-writing committees reached agreement Thursday on legislation to give President Obama “fast track” authority to negotiate an ambitious trade accord with 11 other Pacific nations
New generation free trade agreements: A threat to life and livelihoods
16-Apr-2015 EU-ASEAN FTA Campaign Network
Multi-sectoral network calls on Philippine government to turn back from its FTA ambitions
Liberal allies of Obama: ‘Hell, no’ to TPP trade deal
16-Apr-2015 Al Jazeera
Liberal lawmakers, labor leaders and environmental groups took their insurgency against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal to Congress on Wednesday, staging a protest against the secretive pact on the Capitol Hill lawn and spending the day lobbying lawmakers to derail fast-track authority for the deal.
Unions calling for halt on TPP trade
16-Apr-2015 Dynamic Business
The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) is calling for the federal government to halt all negotiations on “the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal”, saying that the leaked proposals could see the price of medicines rise and foreign companies given rights to sue the Government.
Make the most of FTAs, Fonterra executive tells farmers
16-Apr-2015 The Australian
Australian farmers must work to understand the needs of Chinese consumers if they are to make the most of the free trade agreement signed with Beijing, an executive from New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra says.
EU Commission’s refusal to conduct a human rights impact assessment in the context of trade agreement negotiations constitutes maladministration, says EU Ombudsperson
16-Apr-2015 FIDH
The EU Ombudsperson has found that the European Commission’s failure to carry out a human rights impact assessment in the negotiations for a trade and investment agreement with Vietnam constitutes "maladministration".
The free trade treaty that destroyed Mexico
15-Apr-2015 El Ciudadano
Mexico is the clearest example of the consequences treaties could have on the economic, political and financial life of a nation and its society.
El Salvador, Water is more precious than gold
15-Apr-2015 ITUC
The International Trade Union Confederation calls on the government of El Salvador to denounce all treaties establishing ISDS proceedings.
Will El Salvador be forced to pay $301 million for valuing clean water over gold?
15-Apr-2015 Equal Times
The Central American state of El Salvador could be forced to pay US$301 million in damages to an Australian-Canadian mining company, OceanaGold, after the company’s application for a mining license was rejected on the basis of the projected environmental damage it would cause.
MEPs want health excluded from TTIP talks
15-Apr-2015 EurActiv
MEPs want to exclude public health services, genetically-modified organisms (GMOs), the use of hormones in the bovine sector, chemical legislation REACH and its implementation, and cloning from the talks.
Japan to reduce Thai rice purchases under TPP
15-Apr-2015 Bloomberg
Japan plans to reduce rice purchases from Thailand and import more from the United States if a trans-Pacific trade pact led by the two countries goes through.
Barriers to SA markets a concern for US
15-Apr-2015 Business Day
The failure of the US and South Africa to achieve a free trade agreement in 2006 came to haunt them on Tuesday as their delegations gathered for consultations under the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement signed in 1999.
High time for a global investment agreement
15-Apr-2015 South China Morning Post
In terms of international transactions, FDI is more important than trade but it is subject to global policy disarray.
MEPs say no to TTIP and support the global action day - April 18th
14-Apr-2015 Podemos/EQUO
MEPs of the European Parliament are calling on the public to join this day of mass mobilization in order to halt the EU-US trade agreement that attacks our rights, our environment, our sovereignty and our democracy.
MEPs debate TTIP resolution
14-Apr-2015 BBC
The MEP responsible for drafting the European Parliament’s position on the EU-US trade pact has pledged to find compromises to overcome political disagreements over the deal, during a meeting on 13 April 2015.
India-EU FTA would require compromises by all sides: Merkel
14-Apr-2015 Jagran Post
A Free Trade Agreement between India and the EU would require "compromises" by all sides, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday as Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought her help for an early conclusion of a "balanced and mutually beneficial" deal, stalled for two years.
Lobby group EFILA’s stake in investment arbitration
14-Apr-2015 TNI
In response to growing public criticism of international investment law, a new lobby group has emerged, EFILA, seeking to influence European officials.
Disputes between States and multinationals - The paradigm: The dispute between Suez and Argentina
14-Apr-2015 Observatoire des Multinationales
An international arbitral tribunal has just ordered Argentina to pay nearly 400 million Euro to Suez because in 2006, after years of conflict, Argentina renationalized the water services in Buenos Aires.
Uruguay/Brazil meeting to attempt an advance in Mercosur/EU trade talks
13-Apr-2015 MercoPress
Uruguay and Brazil foreign ministers Rodolfo Nin Novoa and Mauro Vieira will be meeting this week in Brasilia in yet another attempt to push forward the stalled negotiations for a trade agreement between Mercosur and the European Union
Japan, US aim for Pacific trade pact progress before summit
13-Apr-2015 Reuters
Japanese and US officials meet this week in a bid to strike a two-way deal giving momentum to the Trans-Pacific Partnership