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India in no hurry to begin bilateral investment talks with US

13-Feb-2015 Hindu Business Line

New Delhi wants to finalise model text on investment treaties first

TiSA must include a gold-standard clause to protect public services

13-Feb-2015 EurActiv

European Confederation of Independent Trade Unions pushes for a compromise: a clause which would clearly exclude as widely as possible public services from the scope of TiSA.

Ukraine and Israel agree to intensify free-trade area talks

13-Feb-2015 Ukrainian Journal

Ukraine and Israel have agreed to intensify their talks over the creation of a free trade area (FTA), Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlov Klimkin has said.

Call for transparency in new generation trade deals

13-Feb-2015 The Lancet

"As health practitioners in seven of the involved Pacific-Rim countries, we call on our governments to publicly release the full draft TPPA text, and to secure independent and comprehensive assessments of the health and human rights consequences of the proposed agreement for each nation," write 27 professionals in The Lancet.

Protect our climate and health, not multinational profits

13-Feb-2015 Scoop

This week’s edition of world-leading medical journal The Lancet includes a call by 27 health experts from New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, the USA, and Vietnam for the TPPA to be made public so its overall health impacts can be assessed.

The secret business plan that could spell the end for SMEs

13-Feb-2015 SME Insider

While benefits of TTIP to big business are clear, SMEs seem set to lose out, reports SME Insider.

Go to prison for sharing files? That’s what Hollywood wants in the secret TPP deal

13-Feb-2015 EFF

Like the various other digital copyright enforcement provisions in TPP, the criminal enforcement language loosely reflects the United States’ DMCA but is abstracted enough that the US can pressure other nations to enact rules that are much worse for users.

EU Commission sets out TTIP regulatory cooperation principles

13-Feb-2015 Chemical Watch

The European Commission has published the draft legal text for a chapter on general regulatory cooperation which it presented to the US during the latest round of negotiations for a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), held last week in Brussels.

Germany: Investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) is unconstitutional

13-Feb-2015 Stop TTIP

A report authored by Prof. Dr. Siegfried Broß and recently published by the German Hans Böckler Stiftung concludes that the Investor-State-Dispute Settlement (ISDS) tribunals currently planned to be included in the TTIP and CETA free-trade agreements are not in accordance with Germany’s constitution.

TPPA secret while EU releases TTIP documents

12-Feb-2015 Scoop

New Zealand Trade Minister Tim Groser needs to explain why NZ must keep TPPA secret while EU releases TTIP documents, argues Prof Jane Kelsey

AIPAC behind new US/EU trade legislation designed to thwart BDS

12-Feb-2015 Mondoweiss

AIPAC is behind the draft US legislation that would make the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership being negotiated between the US and EU conditional on whether the EU takes action to stop BDS, according to US sources.

US bill seeks to tie massive trade pact to EU rejection of BDS

11-Feb-2015 Times of Israel

A new US Congressional bill, "The Israel Trade and Commercial Enhancement Act", seeks to make rejection of BDS a requirement for Washington to sign TTIP.

India, Israel FTA not likely to be signed soon

11-Feb-2015 Business Standard

The India and Israel free trade agreement is not going to be reality soon, even as Israel plans expand its footprint in the Indian market in areas such as water management, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology.

Goldman pushes China investment deal as Silicon Valley wary

11-Feb-2015 Bloomberg

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is exhorting the US to quickly complete a treaty with China to open the long-sheltered market of the world’s most populous nation to American banks and other firms.

DNP+ response to RCEP negotiations on Intellectual Property ongoing in Thailand

11-Feb-2015 DNP+

Japan is pushing for intellectual property rules in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership that will undermine and delay access to affordable generic medecine in Asia.

Egypt reaches free trade agreement with Eurasian Economic Union

10-Feb-2015 Public Radio of Armenia

Egypt has reached a free trade zone agreement with the Eurasian Economic Union (Russia, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Belarus), Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Sisi said Tuesday.

Foodwatch: German TTIP study ‘utopian’

10-Feb-2015 EurActiv

Consumer rights NGO foodwatch sharply criticised a German Development Ministry study on TTIP, saying the planned EU-US free trade agreement is a poverty scheme for the world’s poorest countries, and is an “interest-driven sham”

Japan, Mongolia ink trade pact that may increase car exports

10-Feb-2015 AP

Japan and Mongolia signed a free trade agreement Tuesday that is expected to open the landlocked frontier market to more Japanese auto exports and strengthen Tokyo’s leverage with a key partner in its dealings with North Korea.