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TTIP negotiating mandate published
9-Oct-2014 Stop-TTIP.org
The European Council today published the negotiating mandate for the proposed transatlantic trade and investment partnership (TTIP).
China, US likely to conclude BIT talks in two years, says official
9-Oct-2014 Xinhua
China and the United States are likely to conclude bilateral investment treaty (BIT) negotiations within two years, China’s Vice Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao said Wednesday.
Slovenia: Panel issues strong criticism of EU’s secret free trade talks
9-Oct-2014 STA
A Slovenian NGO-sponsored panel criticises the lack of transparency in the EU’s talks on free trade agreements with the US and Canada.
Six years after JPEPA: PHL the world’s toxic waste dump site?
8-Oct-2014 GMA News
Six years after the controversial Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) was signed, Philippines may be becoming the world’s dump site for toxic waste.
Myanmar and Israel sign an agreement to cement bilateral trade
8-Oct-2014 The Nation
Israeli Ambassador to Myanmar Hagay M Behar and DICA director general Aung Naing signed a reciprocal promotion and protection of investments agreement in Yangon yesterday.
’Plan B’ needed for EU-US trade pact - Italian minister
8-Oct-2014 Reuters
Italy said on Wednesday there needed to be a "plan B" that foresees a partial EU-US trade deal in order to sidestep deadlock over specific issues.
Responding to frequently asked questions: TPP TTIP pharmaceutical reimbursement “transparency”
8-Oct-2014 Infojustice
Brand name pharmaceutical companies are advocating for inclusion of disciplines on public pharmaceutical reimbursement programs in the ongoing negotiations of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
Canada braces for EU trade pact dispute with Germany
8-Oct-2014 Bloomberg
Canada is bracing for a dispute with Germany over whether its newly-agreed free trade pact with the European Union should be re-opened to erase arbitration clauses.
CETA and climate change: Why the new Euro-Canada treaty is a gift to oil firms
8-Oct-2014 Counter Punch
Short of an international treaty banning all government regulations outright, CETA gives the oil and gas industry virtually everything it has been asking for, for decades.
Critical China free trade agreement based on what?
8-Oct-2014 News Weekly
How can the government of Australia evaluate gains to agriculture from a China free trade agreement if it uses flawed statistical calculations?
European Union drops plan to label oilsands crude ’dirty’
7-Oct-2014 CBC
The European Union has backed off a plan to label oil from Alberta’s oilsands as dirtier than other oils and to make it harder to import.​
Free flight for EU leaders not needed, German official says
7-Oct-2014 CBC
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s offer of a free ride home for visiting European leaders — at a cost of more than $300,000 — is raising eyebrows on both sides of the Atlantic.
Can China and Russia squeeze Washington out of Eurasia?
7-Oct-2014 The Nation
There could soon be a trade alliance between Beijing, Moscow and Berlin—but you wouldn’t know it from the triumphal tone in Washington.
War, neoliberal fundamentalism and the plundering of national economies
7-Oct-2014 Global Research
The real threats to ‘freedom’, ‘democracy’, ‘decency’ and ‘fairness’ do not lie in Syria or Iraq. The destruction of national sovereignty, democracy, freedom, decency, quality of life and livelihoods is being carried out by corporate vultures under the guise of the secular theology of neoliberalism, not least in practice via free trade and investor rights agreements.
The trade clause that overrules governments
6-Oct-2014 Washington Post
The Obama administration’s insistence on ISDS may please Wall Street, but it threatens to undermine some of the president’s landmark achievements in curbing pollution and fighting global warming.
TUC 2014 Congress resolution on TTIP
6-Oct-2014 TUC
Resolution of the Trades Union Congree of the UK
Appointment of first EU envoy to ASEAN will boost ties
6-Oct-2014 Jakarta Post
EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht has said the EU-ASEAN free trade agreement negotiations could be revived once the ASEAN Economic Community is in place (end 2015).
TPP ministerial talks set for Oct. 25-27 in Sydney
6-Oct-2014 Jiji Press
The 12 countries aim to break the impasse for an envisioned broad accord in November.
S. Korea’s biz community sets up consultative group on China FTA
6-Oct-2014 Yonhap
South Korea’s business community has set up a consultative group aimed at reflecting their interests in ongoing free trade agreement (FTA) talks with China.
Bar set low for a ‘do no harm’ China-Australia FTA
6-Oct-2014 The Conversation
The excitement behind the likely conclusion of an agreement — the speculation is a grand signing will take place in mid-November when President Xi Jinping will be in Brisbane for the G20 meeting — will exceed the actual significance of such an agreement.