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TTIP/TAFTA et ses investisseurs tout-puissants expliqués en moins de 4 minutes
19-Aug-2015 Campact.de
L’ISDS permet aux entreprises de traîner les gouvernements devant des tribunaux secrets privés. La facture incombera au contribuable européen.
FIPA license to treat Canadians
19-Aug-2015 The News Review
The Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA), ratified in 2014, is a license to be unfair to Canadians.
Why Argentina’s petition to vacate an wward in AWG Group Ltd v. Republic of Argentina matters for future arbitrations
18-Aug-2015 JD Supra
Argentina filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia a petition to vacate an UNCITRAL arbitration award, which could have broader implications for determining partiality of arbitrators.
S. Korea’s membership in TPP only matter of time: trade minister
18-Aug-2015 Global Post
South Korea has no other choice but to join the U.S.-led regional free trade agreement, known as the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), the country’s trade minister said.
Mali : commerce et industrie: les mesures de défenses commerciales au centre des débats
18-Aug-2015 Mali Actu
Un atelier de formation à Bamako pour combattre des politiques commerciales agressives des entreprises à la recherche de marchés d’exportation
ASEAN puts last touches to economic community
18-Aug-2015 Viet Nam News
With most of the high-priority measures in the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) blueprint already adopted, policymakers and businesses need to work closely on the remaining challenges to achieve benefits of full economic integration beyond 2015
Free-trade treaties are anti-free trade
18-Aug-2015 Toward Freedom
Free trade treaties are not really based on free trade but rather on protectionism.
Ex-minister seeks to outlaw TPP
18-Aug-2015 Agri HQ
Not content with suing the Japanese government, a lawyer and former Japanese agriculture minister has been leading a group who filed a lawsuit against the Japanese government
How Canada caved to US pressure at TPP talks in Hawaii
18-Aug-2015 The Tyee
Negotiators dropped patent and copyright demands but failed to garner agreement.
Don’t believe the hype - TTIP is not for small companies
18-Aug-2015 CEO
Publicly, business lobby groups are heavily pushing the idea that TTIP will benefit small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). But behind closed doors they admit the reality: that small companies will “face increased competition” and that “benefits remain hypothetical”.
Pakistan’s FTAs have borne no fruit so far
18-Aug-2015
Chicken war with US shows free trade threat to Vietnamese farmers
18-Aug-2015
Hanoi chicken farmer Nguyen Huu Tuyen blames inexpensive poultry imported from the US for the loss of almost $14,000 this year.
RCEP seen as more important than TPP for now
18-Aug-2015
Deputy Commerce Minister Apiradi Tantraporn has suggested that Thailand should eventually join the US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership, which will control about 40 per cent of global gross domestic product and one-third of world trade if approved. But until the TPP is finalised, Thailand should focus on the Asean-led Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), she said.
Mexico car makers seek 50% regional content in TPP trade deal
18-Aug-2015
A 12-nation Pacific trading bloc must guarantee that half the content of cars is locally made within the group, and be close to that for auto parts, according to top Mexican auto industry officials, as negotiators seek to bring the talks to a close.
Thailand, Pakistan bid to finalise FTA in 2017
18-Aug-2015
Thailand and Pakistan are seeking to conclude a free-trade agreement by mid-2017 in a bid to reduce over-reliance on the traditional export markets of both nations. The FTA negotiations will begin late next month.
Financial Times reports on Vietnam-EU free trade deal
17-Aug-2015 Vietnam+
EU negotiators fear China will use Vietnam as a backdoor for cheap textile imports into the EU
EU, India working to resolve trade row over generic drugs
17-Aug-2015 Euractiv
The EU and India are taking steps to end a trade row sparked by an EU ban of 700 Indian pharmaceutical products after New Delhi cancelled talks on a free trade accord earlier this month.
Trojan horse erected in protest against ‘dangerous’ EU-US trade agreement
17-Aug-2015 Malta Today
A huge Trojan horse – the infamous horse that hid thousands of Greek fighters to overthrow the city of Troy – has been erected in Valletta this morning to protest against the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)
ETU sparks trade debate
17-Aug-2015 Mornington News
Frankston and Mornington residents have been receiving automated phone calls, part of a campaign by the Electrical Trades Union to “stop the China Free Trade Agreement” amid union fears electricians’ jobs are at risk.
Tariff cuts, exemptions for Vietnam-EU FTA clarified
17-Aug-2015 Vietnamnet Bridge
The European Union (EU) will remove 85.6% of tariff lines for Vietnam’s goods exports immediately after a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) between the two sides comes into force.