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EAC-EU Economic Partnership Agreement negotiations held in Brussels
3-Feb-2014 EAC Secretariat
Ministers from East Africa Community Partner States and the European Commissioner for Trade met in Brussels on 30th January 2014 to conclude three days of negotiations on the Economic Partnership Agreement.
Not a hacker or whistleblower? Here’s how you can still liberate secret documents
3-Feb-2014 Waging Nonviolence
When there are documents that the public has a right to know about, we have a right to go take them, writes Daniel Hunter
Zuma says Eastern, Southern Africa moving toward Free Trade Area
3-Feb-2014 Bloomberg
Twenty-six eastern and southern African nations are making progress toward agreeing on a free trade area that will create a market with nearly 600 million people and combined gross domestic product of $1 trillion, South African President Jacob Zuma said.
Prevent free trade agreements TTIP/TAFTA - please sign!
3-Feb-2014 Care2
Please sign on to this German petition against TTIP/TAFTA before 24 Feb 2013
GCC looks east for win-win trade deals
3-Feb-2014 Gulf News
The Gulf Cooperation Council is increasingly looking eastward to secure trade accords, which in itself reflects the difficulties in concluding free trade agreements with the likes of the European Union.
Give foreign nurses in Japan a boost by treating accord as long-term remedy for labor shortages
3-Feb-2014 Japan Times
Japanese authorities are reluctant to admit the need for foreign labor and consider EPA candidates as part of a serious measure to overcome the shortfall, preferring instead to see them as part of an exchange program where their eventual return are replaced by new batches.
Gold may be excluded from free-trade agreement with India
3-Feb-2014 The Nation
India is considering withdrawing some products from the Free-Trade Agreement (FTA) with Thailand after facing a huge trade deficit, with gold likely to be excluded from the pact.
Investor corruption, bilateral investment treaties and international arbitration: Bribery at centre of failed investor claim
2-Feb-2014 Fraud Intelligence
By losing its rights under a bilateral investment treaty against a sovereign due to corruptly securing its investment, Metal-Tech marks a seemingly growing trend of bribery playing a critical role in international investment arbitration disputes.
Fast track trade in the US hits difficulties
1-Feb-2014 Reuters Analysis: White House hopes for fast-track trade hit political tangle
President Obama’s hopes that the Fast Track mechanism would go through congress have met opposition from leading Congress Democrat, Harry Reid.
European Commission announces composition of TTIP expert group
1-Feb-2014 http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-79_en.htm
Last Monday the Commission launched a special Advisory Group of experts representing a broad range of interests, from environmental, health, consumer and workers’ interests to different business sectors to provide EU trade negotiators with high quality advice in the areas being negotiated in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) talks.
Interview: Dutch expert says TTIP might be game changer for geopolitics
31-Jan-2014 Xinhua
Peter van Ham, senior research fellow at the Dutch Clingendael Institute, thinks that TTIP could have an overwhelming standard-setting power for other countries.
John Kinsman: Why we should oppose the Trans Pacific Partnership
31-Jan-2014 PR Watch
John Kinsman, the author of this op-ed first published in The Capital Times in 2012, passed away on January 20, 2014. He was a leader of the global food sovereignty movement who many of us knew.
Environmental scientists join anti-TTIP tirade
31-Jan-2014 Chemical Watch
The Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership could spell an increase in lawsuits against governments which would not only discourage enforcement of existing environmental regulations, but also diminish the role of environmental scientists, predicts an academic opinion piece.
NAFTA & environmental laws: Ethyl Corp. v. Government of Canada
30-Jan-2014 Global Policy Forum
Chemical firm uses trade pact to contest Environmental Law
Harry Reid deals body blow to Obama on trade
30-Jan-2014 WSJ
US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid broke publicly with the White House Wednesday on trade policy, instantly imperiling two major international trade deals and punching a hole in one piece of the economic agenda the president outlined in his State of the Union address a day earlier.
Protests across North America aim to block ’NAFTA on steroids’
30-Jan-2014 Labor Notes
PHL-EU free-trade pact ‘catastrophic’ for 1.8 million Filipino fishermen–group
30-Jan-2014 Business Mirror
The Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) on Wednesday warned the Aquino administration against entering into a bilateral free trade agreement with the European Union, saying the forging of such an agreement will lead to the flooding of imported fish from EU member-states.
Philippines launches last-minute bid to join new Asia-Pacific FTA
29-Jan-2014
Officials of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) will hold talks with their US counterparts within the next two months in a last-minute bid to join discussions for a free-trade area (FTA) in the Asia-Pacific region.
Mantega insists that the Mercosur/EU trade agreement includes Argentina
28-Jan-2014
Mercosur is preparing for trade negotiations with the European Union and they include Argentina, said on Friday Brazilian finance minister. The comment seems to contradict other recent statements which said the trade deal with the EU will go forward with or without a reluctant Argentina.
SACU: Dead man walking?
28-Jan-2014 Trade Beat
Late last year, the African cyberspace was buzzing with rumours that the region’s oldest trade agreement, the Southern African Customs Union or SACU was about to be finally killed off by South Africa. From Windhoek to Cape Town to Mbabane, trade policy wonks were debating what the most recent moves from Pretoria regarding SACU really meant.