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Sign the petition to candidates running in the 2014 European elections: Stop the TTIP and CETA!
6-Mar-2014 TTIP unfairhandelbar
A sign-on message for candidates running in the 2014 European Parliament elections launched by the German anti-TTIP coalition. Please join!
Europe tells US to lay off Brie and get its own cheese names
6-Mar-2014 NPR
The European Union wants US food makers to stop using names with historical ties to Europe. But what else would you call, say, Parmesan or Brie?
US wants to outlaw EU cloud in TTIP negotiations
6-Mar-2014 FFII
Privacy is not on the table in the TTIP negotiations, but data flows are, which brings privacy to the table, explains Ante Wessels of the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII)
New report: No fracking way How the EU-US trade deal risks expanding fracking in Europe and the US
6-Mar-2014 FOEE
A trade deal between the EU and the US risks opening the backdoor for the expansion of fracking in Europe and the US, reveals a new report released today.
Tell MEPs to Stop the TTIP and CETA!
6-Mar-2014
US judge annuls Ecuador oil ruling against Chevron
6-Mar-2014 BBC
A judge in the US has ruled that lawyers representing Amazonian villagers used bribes to secure compensation worth billions of dollars from oil company Chevron in Ecuador.
East Kutai may file criminal charges against Churchill
5-Mar-2014
The local administration in East Kutai regency, East Kalimantan, has threatened to file criminal charges against British company Churchill Mining Plc for allegedly forging its mining permits to operate mine areas in the regency.
Govt may revisit all preferential, free trade agreements
5-Mar-2014
The government of Pakistan is revisiting all the FTAs and PTAs as there is a growing realisation among policymakers that they had been poorly negotiated and were now causing injury to the domestic industry, official sources said on Tuesday.
TTIP: A charter for deregulation, an attack on jobs, an end to democracy.
5-Mar-2014 Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
This new booklet, written by John Hilary, Executive Director of War on Want, explains in short what TTIP is and how it will affect the lives of all of us if it comes into force.
South Africa: FAQs on foreign direct investment featured
5-Mar-2014 TheTrade Beat
Foreign direct investment (FDI) has recently been a hot topic in South Africa, following the government’s unilateral cancellation of bilateral investment treaties with the European Union and the release of the draft Promotion and Protection of Investment Bill. But what is FDI, and why is it important?
China to accelerate Australia free trade agreement
5-Mar-2014 SMH
China will "accelerate" negotiations for a free trade agreement with Australia, Premier Li Keqiang has said in his opening speech to the National People’s Congress.
USTR sets 2014 as goal of signing Pacific free trade deal
5-Mar-2014 Kyodo
"The administration will work to conclude negotiations of the TPP in 2014," the office of the US Trade Representative said in a document attached to President Barack Obama’s budget blueprint for fiscal 2015.
Costa Rica & Colombia approve free trade agreement
5-Mar-2014 Costa Rica Times
The Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica has approved the country’s Free Trade Agreement with Colombia, a prerequisite for Costa Rica to gain admittance into the Pacific Alliance group, composed of Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Chile.
EU-US FTA: "Free trade agreement must immediately stop"
5-Mar-2014 Frankfurter Rundschau
IG Metall leader Detlef Wetzel fears disadvantages for workers and consumers if the EU and the US create a free trade zone. "The negotiations must be stopped," he states categorically.
NAFTA partners pushing North American competitiveness integration agenda
4-Mar-2014 Be Your Own Leader
The growing domestic and international opposition to the secret trade talks have put the Globalists plan to use the TPP to upgrade and expand NAFTA to more countries in serious jeopardy.
US back ECOWAS’ efforts to attain borderless trade status
4-Mar-2014
Countries in the West African sub-region were yesterday reassured of the support of the United States in their quest to establishing a borderless trade environment in the ECOWAS region.
Let us seal FTA early, Prime Minister tells regional club
4-Mar-2014
Urging the seven-member BIMSTEC grouping to fast-track trade and economic cooperation, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday called for “early conclusion” of the BIMSTEC Free Trade Agreement and said it should be extended to investment and services.
Turkish firm’’s claim: government seeks 20 days to file reply
4-Mar-2014
Pakistan has sought a 20-day extension to file its reply to the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) against a damage claim of $2.1 billion filed by Turkish firm M/s Karkey Karadeniz Elektrik Uretim. The sources said Pakistan had to submit its reply to the international body by February 28, 2014 but it was delayed due to a change in legal firm.
Japan, Denmark eye cooperation on maritime security, FTA
4-Mar-2014
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Danish counterpart Helle Thorning-Schmidt agreed Tuesday to strengthen bilateral cooperation on maritime security and pledged to seek the early conclusion of a free trade agreement between Japan and the European Union.
Lessons from Vodafone tax case: Govt to rewrite BIPA to exclude taxation, intellectual property right issues
4-Mar-2014 Economic Times
India has readied a new draft to negotiate bilateral investment treaties in the future, keeping taxation and intellectual property right issues out of its ambit