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EU-PH FTA must be comprehensive – UK
11-Mar-2014 Manila Bulletin
The British government would like the proposed EU-Philippines free trade agreement to be a comprehensive one with very few exceptions.
What does the TTIP really mean for workers?
11-Mar-2014 Equal Times
As public awareness increases about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), an EU-US trade deal being negotiated behind closed doors, so too do concerns about its potential impact.
S.Korea, Canada wrap up free-trade deal
11-Mar-2014 AFP
South Korea and Canada concluded a free-trade agreement Tuesday, wrapping up a negotiating process that began nine years ago and focused on barriers in the auto and agriculture sectors.
Give and take in the EU-US trade deal? Sure. We give, the corporations take
10-Mar-2014 The Guardian
George Monbiot asks why businesses have got more access to the negociations than citizens and their representative organisations have and sets down some challenges to the architects of TTIP.
Chemical industry secretly manipulating US-EU trade negotiations (TTIP)
10-Mar-2014 CIEL
A report published today by ClientEarth and CIEL shows that a leaked proposal from lobby groups, the American Chemistry Council and the European Chemical Industry Council, to the US-EU trade negotiations would damage future protective legislation on toxic chemicals.
EU-Vietnam Free Trade agreement must protect human rights and be preceded by a human rights impact assessment
10-Mar-2014 FIDH
The European Parliament will vote a resolution on “the state of play in the EU-Vietnam Free Trade agreement”. While not having a legislative aim at this stage, it represents an important opportunity for the EP to formulate the human rights safeguards that will ensure its latter consent, say FIDH in this open letter to MEPs.
Profiting from crisis: How corporations and lawyers are scavenging profits from Europe’s crisis countries
10-Mar-2014 TNI
Corporations, backed by lawyers, use international investment agreements to scavenge for profits by suing Europe’s crisis countries.
Companies must not get more rights than people in EU-US trade deal
10-Mar-2014 FOEE
A new round of talks between the EU and US on a transatlantic trade agreement opens today in Brussels amid growing public concern and opposition.
Stephen Harper heads to South Korea to ink long-awaited free-trade pact
9-Mar-2014
Prime Minister Stephen Harper departed Sunday for South Korea, widely expected to complete another long round of free-trade negotiations that his critics were denouncing as secretive and potentially bad for Canadian workers.
Govt looks to sign FTAs with rich nations
7-Mar-2014
The government plans to sign free trade agreements (FTAs) with developed countries to boost exports following similar moves by India, Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed said yesterday.
China, S.Korea, Japan advance FTA negotiations further
7-Mar-2014
China, South Korea and Japan advanced their free trade deal negotiations further at the fourth round of talks held in Seoul for four days through Friday, the South Korean trade ministry said.
EU-secretdeals.info - new website reveals texts from Europe’s US and Canadian trade negotiations (TTIP, CETA)
7-Mar-2014 Power Shift et al.
A new website was launched today dedicated to enlarging the public debate on the EU’s controversial policies for investment protections and investor-to-state dispute settlement systems (ISDS) in the EU-US and EU-Canada trade negotiations.
Failure to launch
7-Mar-2014 DNA
Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation’s lack of concrete achievement points to the need for greater political will and clarity of purpose
Eight reasons to purge investor-state dispute settlement from trade agreements
6-Mar-2014
For a variety of reasons, including poor management of public perceptions, the administration’s trade agenda is in trouble. Much of the public’s antipathy toward trade agreements can be boiled down to concerns about the so-called Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) provision. ISDS enables foreign investors to circumvent domestic legal processes and sue host governments in third-party arbitration tribunals for unfair or discriminatory treatment – described hyperbolically by those fanning the flames of opposition as “running roughshod over domestic laws, regulations, and sovereignty.”
Process to sign FTA with ASEAN completed: Salman Khurshid
6-Mar-2014
India has completed the internal process for signing the much-waited free trade agreement in services and investments with ASEAN which is set to significantly boost its economic engagement with the 10-nation grouping.
Farms, unis welcome FTA with Chinese
6-Mar-2014
National Farmers Federation president Brent Finlay says he is "excited" at the prospect of a free trade agreement with China but has urged the government not to allow "carve-outs and exclusions" in any deal.
Peru to launch free trade agreement talks with Indonesia this year
6-Mar-2014 Agencia Andina
Peruvian Trade and Tourism Minister Magali Silva has announced that, in the second half of this year, Peru and Indonesia will begin negotiations to reach an agreement that favors preferential trade between both countries.
Asean free trade agreement with HK expected to benefit PH
6-Mar-2014 PDI
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is eyeing to forge a free trade agreement with Hong Kong, which is seen to benefit the Philippines significantly, according to Trade Secretary Gregory L. Domingo.
Lex AT&T? EU Commisson’s TTIP proposal to revise telecoms law
6-Mar-2014 IP Integrity
The European Union could give away unlimited rights to foreign telecoms companies to buy up rivals in Europe as part of the proposed new transatlantic trade deal (TTIP). This is one of an astonishing set of proposals revealed in a Commission document leaked by the German newspaper Die Zeit last week.
TTIP: American business confident no issue can derail talks, says AmCham EU
6-Mar-2014 EU Trade Insights
In an exclusive interview with viEUws, Susan Danger, Managing Director of the American Chamber of Commerce to the EU, talks to Lénaïc Vaudin d’Imécourt, viEUws Trade Editor, about the TTIP negotiations.