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’Developed countries must stop using arm-twisting measures in FTAs’
22-Jul-2010 Arab News
The European Union is demanding longer patents through free trade agreements (FTAs), longer than demanded by the World Trade Organization.
R-CALF proposes renegotiation of FTAs
22-Jul-2010 Farm Futures
R-CALF USA sent a letter to President Obama Tuesday requesting a moratorium on future FTAs and rejection of the pending FTAs with Colombia, Korea and Panama until the impacts current FTAs have on the profitability and viability of US producers is assessed.
Taiwan may try to reach free trade accord with Singapore, negotiator says
22-Jul-2010 Bloomberg
“We also hope to sign FTA with countries in South East Asia and even Japan,” Taiwan’s top negotiator with China, Chiang Pin-kung, said.
Le stand de l’UE à la conférence sur le sida "saisi" par des militants défenseurs des génériques
21-Jul-2010 AFP
Le stand de la Commission européenne à la Conférence internationale sur le sida à Vienne a été "saisi" symboliquement mercredi par des militants pour protester contre des saisies dans l’UE de médicaments génériques destinés à des pays en développement.
Government agrees to speed up free trade talks with Australia
21-Jul-2010 Tempo Interactive
Indonesia has agreed to speed up the free trade talks with Australia to have the agreement in place soon, Trade Minister Mari Elka Pangestu said today (20/7).
India-Belgium/Luxembourg Bilateral Investment Treaty (1997)
20-Jul-2010
BIT between India and Belgium and Luxembourg PDF of English version
India-France Bilateral Investment Treaty (1997)
20-Jul-2010
European Commission seeks water services in CETA
20-Jul-2010 rabble.ca
We know through a leaked version of an earlier CETA text and verbally from Canada’s negotiating team in Brussels that the European Commission wants access to Canadian water and sanitation services.
EU lawmakers urge probe of Colombian intelligence operations
20-Jul-2010 Deutsche Welle
EU parliamentarians have called on the Commission to look into Colombian intelligence operations in Europe designed to ‘neutralize the influence’ of critics of the Colombian government in parliament, the UNHCR and NGOs. EU officials fear that an investigation could torpedo ratification of the free-trade agreement, which they see as crucial support of Colombia.
When EU talks trade, it receives more than it gives
19-Jul-2010 Edmonton Journal
The reality is that Canada wants CETA more than Europe needs it. Europe recognizes this and will use its leverage to extract a high price.
S.Korea open to "creative" fix for US autos, beef
15-Jul-2010 Reuters
South Korea is ready to consider "creative" solutions to open its market to more US beef and auto imports to help win US approval of a bilateral free trade agreement, South Korea’s ambassador to the United States said on Wednesday.
Namibia: Meat industry holds breath
15-Jul-2010 New Era
The Namibian beef industry has come to terms with the fact that it has to look for alternatives, as there exist no concrete indications that the government will sign the controversial trade agreement with the EU.
Indigenous struggle, ecology, and capitalist resource extraction in Ecuador
14-Jul-2010 Global Research
Last week, when the presidents of the countries involved in the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) were meeting here in Ecuador, they talked about indigenous rights. But the main representatives of the indigenous movement in the country, CONAIE, was never invited to the meeting.
Guyana has no regrets over holding out on EPA
13-Jul-2010 IPS
Two years after 14 Caribbean countries signed a wide-ranging and controversial Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with Europe, Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo still maintains that his country was right in holding out until the last minute to get a "better deal" for the Caribbean.
EU Investment Agreements in the Lisbon Treaty Era: A Reader
12-Jul-2010 TNI
This report is a clear and plain language guide to the EU’s neoliberal investment regime, which has seen the EU Commission prying open poor, vulnerable countries’ economies, stripping their citizens of social, labour or environmental rights, for the sake of big business and its profits; it explains what is wrong with the current regime and presents a number of ethical alternatives.
Brussels moves on negotiating trade treaties
12-Jul-2010 FT
The European Commission wants to replace a thicket of about 1,200 bilateral investment treaties signed by the EU’s 27 member states over five decades with far fewer treaties binding the entire bloc.
US rules out Taiwan free trade deal
12-Jul-2010 AFP
The United States has ruled out a free trade agreement with Taiwan amid a dispute over beef imports, days after the island signed a sweeping accord with longtime adversary China.
Canadian, EU free-trade talks embark on ’stickier issues’
12-Jul-2010 Edmonton Journal
Canadian and European Union negotiators open a new round of talks Monday on an ambitious free-trade agreement amid uncertainty about whether both sides — and in particular the Ontario and Quebec governments — are prepared to make politically sensitive concessions.
Un accord pour tout déréglementer
9-Jul-2010 Politis
Des négociations autour d’un accord de libre-échange entre l’Union européenne et le Canada sont prévues du 12 au 16 juillet à Bruxelles. Quels en sont les enjeux ? Quelles en seront les conséquences ?
Carmakers and trade deals: One-way street
8-Jul-2010
In the next few months European Union governments will have to decide whether to ratify a free-trade agreement (FTA) with South Korea that is described by the EU’s external-trade directorate as “one of the most ambitious and complete deals” it has ever signed.