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Pulp friction: Indian mango ban prompts protest in Britain
19-May-2014 AFP
“With a new Indian government expected to put long-stalled EU free trade talks at the top of its agenda, the mango ban could not have come at a worse time as it risks souring discussions before they even get going,” Allie Renison of business lobby group the Institute of Directors wrote in the Daily Telegraph.
France celebrates "European Day of Alternatives" and protest against TTIP decrying EC corruption
19-May-2014 ACE News Service
About 1,500 protesters gathered in Paris, Saturday, to celebrate the European Day of Alternatives and Resistance and protest against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
TTIP Flashmob Hamburg
19-May-2014 Flickr
TTIP Flashmob in Hamburg bei einer Wahlkampfveranstaltung der CDU (Fischmarkt, vor der Fischauktionshalle) mit Angela Merkel
177 Congressman demand that US defend common food names
16-May-2014 AgWeb
177 members of the US House of Representatives joined the call for US negotiators to push back on the European Union’s efforts to hamper US production and exports by confiscating common food names, an abuse of the geographical indications (GIs) program.
250 arrested in anti-TTIP protest at European Business Summit
16-May-2014 EurActiv
“Our demand is to stop the negotiation of TTIP, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, which is a project for the sake of multinationals and very rich people,” said Felipe Van Keirsbilck, Secretary General, Belgian trade union for employees.
178 groups demand answers about TTIP’s climate impact
15-May-2014 EcoWatch
Will the US and Europe consider the climate and environment during their next round of TTIP negotiations? Nearly 200 civil society organizations hope so, and wrote about their concerns in a letter to trade representatives from the U.S. and Europe.
Nokia invokes India-Finland bilateral treaty to solve tax row
15-May-2014 PTI
With tax authorities pressing with over Rs 21,000 crore in unpaid dues, Finnish telecom major Nokia has invoked the Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (BIPA) India has with Finland to resolve the dispute.
Is US ’chlorinated chicken’ and ‘GM food’ heading to EU?
15-May-2014 France24
French political parties attack the threats to food safety from the proposed EU-US trade agreement.
Mexico is waging war against American apples
15-May-2014 PRI
Mexico’s apple industry is the latest victim of NAFTA — and trying to fight back.
EU-US trade deal sails into new round, despite rough waters
15-May-2014 dpa
EU and US negotiators are to meet for a fifth time starting Monday in Washington in their efforts to create the world’s largest free trade area, but questions from civil society and even some European governments about the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) have slowed things down.
EU publishes negotiating positions in five more areas
15-May-2014 DG Trade
The European Commission has published negotiating positions in five more topics of its current talks with the US on a future trade and investment deal, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
Center for Food Safety report warns TTIP could undermine critical food safety and environmental regulations
14-May-2014 CFS
The US-based Center for Food Safety today released a report examining the potential food and farming impacts of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), a week before EU trade negotiators arrive in Arlington, Virginia, for the fifth round of TTIP talks.
Brazil says Mercosur/EU to meet in Brussels at the end of May for trade talks
14-May-2014
At the end of May Mercosur will be ready to exchange tariff-reduction proposals with the European Union, announced Brazilian Industry minister Mauro Borges who also anticipated the trade block would be holding a preparatory meeting next week in Caracas, Venezuela.
India-Israel FTA talks likely to be completed next year
14-May-2014
Negotiations between India and Israel to forge a free trade agreement (FTA), under way for three years now, are likely to be completed by next year, Ambassador of Israel to India Alon Ushpiz has said.
Populist gains to complicate Europe’s free trade ambitions
14-May-2014 Reuters
Growing support for far-right parties has dominated the run-up to next week’s European Parliament elections but a lesser noticed theme is lurking: that protest parties on both right and left will try to scupper EU free trade talks.
Investor-state arbitration system needs ‘complete overhaul’
14-May-2014 TWN
A prominent international lawyer has launched a scathing critique of the international arbitration system that deals with investor-state disputes, describing the investment treaties that give rise to this system as "weapons of legal destruction"
Doctors warn TPPA takes away our climate protection tools
13-May-2014 Voxy
The New Zealand Climate and Health Council warns that negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) threaten New Zealand’s ability to protect our climate and health.
PHL weighs impact of possible free-trade agreement with EFTA
13-May-2014 Business Mirror
The Philippines is set to undertake a study on the impact of a free-trade agreement with a European economic bloc as the country is scheduled to sign a declaration of economic cooperation with the European Free-Trade Association ministers this June.
Turkey demands free trade agreement with EU and US
13-May-2014 World Bulletin
Turkey has to be party to a proposed Free Trade Agreement between the EU and the US, Turkey’s Economic Ministry declared on Monday, stressing that otherwise Turkey should consider renouncing their custom union agreement with the EU.
Stephen Harper’s free trade deals not living up to the political hype
13-May-2014 National Post
Canada’s Prime Minister may announce the conclusion of marathon trade negotiations with the European Union in Brussels on June 4-5, when he’s in town for a previously scheduled G7 leaders meeting. Then again, he may not.