23-Oct-2014
Manitoba Cooperator
There is, at best, no gain for Canadian farmers in CETA, explains the president of the National Farmers Union
22-Oct-2014
The Berne Declaration
Governments in industrial countries regularly put pressure on developing countries to introduce stringent plant variety protection (PVP) regimes and to adhere to the 1991 Act of the UPOV Convention, without duly considering its consequences on the enjoyment of human rights of vulnerable groups.
22-Oct-2014
Colombia Reports
Colombia says it has complied with labor reforms required by US Congress as condition for their FTA but labour unions disagree.
22-Oct-2014
Hindu Business Line
India and Russia are ready to start discussions on a long-pending free trade agreement that could increase bilateral trade and investment flow, and help reduce dependence of both countries on the US and the EU.
22-Oct-2014
Central Telegraph
Uruguay files its defence against Philip Morris, a test case for big business lawsuits that could hit the EU through the transatlantic trade and investment deal with the US.
22-Oct-2014
Business Spectator
Australian PM Tony Abbott aim to securing free trade agreement with China by the time of G20 summit in November.
21-Oct-2014
Press Association
Uncertainty over the impact of the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is a "growing source of anxiety" among health workers, nurses’ leaders have warned.
21-Oct-2014
Global Rail News
The European Union has agreed to omit three of Japan’s biggest rail companies from a trade agreement at the WTO in the hope that it will open up the Japanese market to European suppliers under a possible bilateral FTA.
21-Oct-2014
Intellectual Property Brief
Many critics are pointing out that the lack of an Ebola vaccine is due to the intellectual property protections offered through trade deals like the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
21-Oct-2014
Business Spectator
China has promised to repeal the newly introduced tariff on Australia coal imports once a free trade agreement between the two countries is finalised.
21-Oct-2014
The Conversation
The US is again driving the TPP agenda on behalf of its major export industries, but the TPP proposals are more extreme than the Australia-US FTA, writes Pat Ranald.
