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How the EAC locked horns with the EU over the EPA negotiations
20-Aug-2014 Trade Beat
Godfrey Ssali from the Uganda Manufacturers Association explains what is behind the current deadlock between the East African Community and the European Union on the negotiations underway to agree a set of Economic Partnership Agreements
China against Malaysia-Taiwan FTA
20-Aug-2014 The Sun Daily
Chinese ambassador to Malaysia Huang Huikang says China is against any move by Malaysia to sign a free trade agreement (FTA) with Taiwan.
Sri Lanka to focus on increasing trade and investment with China
20-Aug-2014 Xinhua
Sri Lanka will focus on increasing trade and investment with China as well as broadening the scope of a proposed Free Trade Agreement (FTA), a top official said on Tuesday.
Careful on those FTAs
20-Aug-2014 Financial Express
The ultimate metric for assessing the impact of a trade agreement is its ability to create jobs, not just bring in foreign exchange, argues Ajit Ranade
What the leaked EU-Canada trade paper means for TTIP
20-Aug-2014 EU Observer
EU trade negotiators, who like to give as little away as possible, will have been deeply dismayed by the leak of 520 pages of their latest baby: the EU-Canada free trade agreement (Ceta).
US trade officials say it’s their way or the highway on TPP
18-Aug-2014 CIO
A new website is highlighting that United States trade officials could dictate to other countries their laws and regulations relating to the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA).
CETA: What the leaked version reveals
17-Aug-2014 Le Monde
The most controversial provisions include the investor state dispute resolution mechanism (ISDS), an arbitral tribunal meant to settle disputes between governments and corporations.
Africa’s "grand" FTA negotiation progressing well: SADC officials
17-Aug-2014 Xinhua
Negotiations to set up a grand free trade zone encompassing 26 countries in eastern and southern Africa are progressing well and may be completed in 2015, a year before schedule, SADC officials reveal.
Don’t let Americans put hormones and pesticides in our dinner, warns Jamie Oliver as he launches latest food offensive
17-Aug-2014 Daily Mail
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver is planning a campaign to stop British food standards being lowered to allow American food imports pumped full of pesticides and hormones into the UK under TTIP.
EU sugar industry fears import pressures In TTIP talks
15-Aug-2014 American Ag Radio Network
Europe’s sugar industry fears there could be sugar imports from the combined US and Mexican market if sugar is becomes part of the ongoing Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations.
EU-Canada trade deal leak ‘ridicules’ TTIP consultation, campaigners say
15-Aug-2014 EurActiv
The leaked EU-Canada trade agreement contains a controversial chapter on investor-state disputes settlement that is substantially unchanged from previous drafts that were used as a basis for the EU’s recently held public consultation.
Japan, US make no progress in TPP-related talks
14-Aug-2014 Xinhua
Japan and the United States conclude talks on opening Japan’s auto sector as a part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade deal without major progress.
Leaked EU trade pact suggests Canada caved on drug patents
14-Aug-2014 Canadian Press
A leaked copy of the full text of the Canada-EU free trade agreement was posted online late Wednesday and appeared to confirm the fears of the deal’s critics on both sides of the Atlantic.
Rights group files complaint over EU-Vietnam trade talks
14-Aug-2014 VoA
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) says it has filed a complaint with the European Union over its free trade talks with Vietnam.
EU-Canada FTA (CETA) (consolidated draft, 1 Aug 2014)
13-Aug-2014
As leaked by German news outlet Tagesschau
EU-ECOWAS EPA (draft, Feb 2014)
13-Aug-2014
AFTINET on ISDS
13-Aug-2014 AFTINET
Australia Fair Trade and Invesment Network’s Convener, Dr Patricia Ranald, gave evidence to the Senate Committee for Foreign Affairs Defense & Trade on the 6th August 2014 about the dangers of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) in trade agreements.
Website reveals how US could rewrite Australian medicine, media content and data storage laws through Trans-Pacific trade deal (TPP)
13-Aug-2014 AFTINET
“A new website has been launched today http://tppnocertification.org/ which reveals that the United States claims the right to vet and approve other countries’ laws before it will allow a trade and investment treaty to come into force,” Dr Patricia Ranald, Convenor of the Australian Fair Trade and Investment network, said today.
West Africa: New pact aims to expand trade between US, West Africa
13-Aug-2014 US Department of State
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the United States have signed a trade and investment framework agreement (TIFA), usually a precursor to a US FTA.
FTAs key for Aus agribusiness: Rabo
13-Aug-2014 North Queensland Register
A new report released by global agribusiness specialist Rabobank points to free trade agreements (FTAs) and building strategic government and business relationships as the keys to improving market access for Australian exporters.