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A Canadian court is allowing Ecuadorians to pursue their long-running pollution suit against Chevron
4-Jan-2014 Public Radio International
Last month, a judge ruled that the Ecuadorians can pursue their case against Chevron in Canada.
Tribunal pushes back Ecuador, Chevron hearing
4-Jan-2014 Wall St Journal
An international arbitration tribunal in The Hague hearing a claim from Chevron Corp. against Ecuador pushed back a scheduled hearing to Feb. 7 from Jan. 20 and called on both parties to meet in Washington on Jan. 20 instead.
NAFTA does not fulfil Mexican expectations
3-Jan-2014 Associated Press
Although NAFTA fundamentally changed the country in some ways, it did not meet expectations of putting Mexican wages on the same level as US wages, boosting employment, reducing poverty or protecting the environment.
Investment deal? Just watch it
2-Jan-2014 The Hindu Business Line
In the last couple of years, South Africa has become the unlikely champion of the anti-BIT movement.
Anti-TPP Twitter Storm Wednesday 1/8/14 @ 10am PST/1pm EST
2-Jan-2014 The Anti-Media
The goal of this" "hashtag storm" is to get this hashtag trending on both Twitter and Facebook, so we can inform the public about the dangers of the Trans Pacific Partnership and agitate people to ACT to stop the TPP.
China hints at joining TPP talks
2-Jan-2014 New Straits Times
Foreign Minister Wang Yi, while outlining diplomatic priorities for this year, said that "China will face the member states of the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks with an open attitude".
Free trade’s tarnished silver anniversary
31-Dec-2013 Toronto Star
On the 25th anniversary of the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement, big corporations have gained at the expense of the public good.
NAFTA’s 20 years of unfulfilled promises
31-Dec-2013 Toward Freedome
Twenty years after it took effect, NAFTA has failed the vast majority of Mexicans
Les peuples amérindiens mettent en garde sur la destruction de la Terre-Mère
31-Dec-2013 El Correo
Lors du « 5e Sommet continental », qui s’est tenu récemment dans le département du Cauca en Colombie, 4 000 représentants indigènes du continent américain ont exigé un arrêt des signatures de Traités Bilatéraux d’Investissement et d’Accords de Libre Échange qui créent des politiques d’expropriation de ressources naturelles et des règles permettant le pillage des biens et des cultures des peuples.
Envoy calls for free trade pact between Taiwan and Malaysia
31-Dec-2013 China Post
The Republic of China representative to Malaysia called on the Malaysian government to consider signing an economic cooperation agreement with Taiwan.
Mauritius keen to sign free trade accord
28-Dec-2013
Mauritius is keen to develop economic relations with Pakistan and enter into a free-trade agreement (FTA) to tap the bilateral trade potential, Mauritius Deputy Prime Minister Dr Ahmad Rashid Beebeejaun said on Saturday.
LPG firm’s investor seeks compensation
28-Dec-2013
A shareholder from the United Kingdom of the company Progas Pakistan has initiated international arbitration proceedings of $573 million against Pakistan for alleged expropriation of its LPG infrastructure in Karachi and the government has decided to vigorously contest the case.
Indigenous groups win right to seize Chevron’s Canadian sssets over $18 billion in Amazon pollution
28-Dec-2013 Democracy Now
A court in Canada has ruled Ecuadorean farmers and fishermen can try to seize the assets of oil giant Chevron based on a 2011 decision in an Ecuadorean court found it liable for nearly three decades of soil and water pollution near oil wells, and said it had ruined the health and livelihoods of people living in nearby areas of the Amazon rainforest.
EU-Mercosur talking across each other over trade agreement
27-Dec-2013 Buenos Aires Herald
After 31 months of talks, 2013 was supposed to mark the time when the European Union and the Mercosur bloc were going to present their respective offers for a free trade deal all sides claim to want. Yet 2013 will end as it began —without any concrete progress.
‘Havoc for palm oil sector’
27-Dec-2013 New Straits Times
Palm oil refiners, some of which are owned by the country’s largest conglomerates, may face a bleak future if Malaysia accedes to demand under free trade pacts to dismantle the crude palm oil (CPO) tax.
PH-EU free trade agreement may start talks in first quarter of 2014 - trade official Cristobal
27-Dec-2013 InterAksyon.com
The initial stages of negotiations for the Philippines-European Free Trade Agreement may start first quarter of 2014, Trade undersecretary Adrian Cristobal Jr. said.
Raw deal: How the Trans-Pacific Partnership could threaten our climate
27-Dec-2013 Sierra Club
"The broad implications of the TPP are that governments would lose ability to put in place policies to address the climate crisis while corporations would gain the ability to challenge climate and environmental laws and policies," writes the Sierra Club.
Open letter of civil society against investor privileges in TTIP
27-Dec-2013 Tlaxcala
Over 100 civil society groups and social movements from Europe and the USA have signed on an open letter that was sent to the chief negotiators of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership to voice one joint demand: to exclude any Investor-state Dispute Settlement mechanism from the TTIP
A TTIP Christmas wish
27-Dec-2013 IPtegrity
The European authorities want industry to come up with a counter-narrative to civil society in what would appear to be fear of an ACTA protest Mk2. This was revealed in a cosy Brussels soirée held at the American Chamber of Commerce to discuss the intellectual property content of the EU-US trade agreement known as TTIP.
India to reassess FTAs to protect domestic industry: Commerce Minister
27-Dec-2013 PTI
India will look into the provisions of all the Free Trade Agreements with other countries so as to protect the interest of the domestic industry, Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry E M S Natchiappan said.