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Corporate power doesn’t always win: remembering the FTAA
27-Jan-2016 Foreign Policy in Focus
A decade ago, a transnational coalition beat back the largest corporate trade deal in history. Here’s what they can teach opponents of the TPP.
Trade deals and the TPP corporate power grab - resistance must continue!
27-Jan-2016 IUF
Unions and their allies have a window of opportunity to stop the TPP.
Peterson Institute study shows TPP will lead to $357 billion increase in annual imports
27-Jan-2016 Medium
There are several important issues that may have been missed thus there are reasons for believing that these projections may not prove correct.
Anger as government blocks TTIP legal documents relating to health service
27-Jan-2016 The Guardian
Business secretary refuses to disclose advice that could show how private health firms might sue government under US-Europe trade deal.
Indonesia to speed up EU CEPA negotiation
27-Jan-2016 The Jakarta Post
Indonesia will speed up negotiations on the Indonesia-European Union (EU) Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA).
Court ordered disclosure of the negotiating documents of KorUS FTA
26-Jan-2016 Occupy FTA
The Korean Administrative Court in Seoul held that the negotiating documents of the KorUS FTA be disclosed.
Court rules in favour of Spain in suit against renewable energy cuts
26-Jan-2016 Reuters
An international arbitrator threw out claims from two investors protesting against Spain’s 2010 cuts to renewable energy subsidies, setting a potential precedent for other lawsuits pending.
France for resumption of India-EU FTA talks
26-Jan-2016 Financial Express
Outstanding issues include the EU demand for a reduction in the duties on automobiles, wines and spirits, and Indian demand for greater movement of professionals.
Correa: ’corruption’ lets Chevron off hook for Amazon pollution
26-Jan-2016 Tele Sur
The ruling from the District Court of the Hague in favor of U.S. oil giant Chevron effectively exonerated the company from any responsibility for remediating the contamination in the Amazon.
Mexico and the European Free Trade Association to update free trade agreement
25-Jan-2016 Gobierno de México
The document, signed by the parties, establishes the terms for the negotiations to update and expand the FTA between Mexico and the EFTA.
Anti-TPPA rally tells deaf gov’t off
25-Jan-2016 The Heat Malaysia
Protestors at the anti-TPPA (Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement) demonstration say the people are sending the message that they do not want the secretive agreement signed by the government.
Haiti’s fraudulent presidential frontrunner seizes land for his own banana republic
22-Jan-2016 Other Worlds
Farmers remain homeless and out of work while the land grabbed by the company Jovenel Moïse founded, Agritrans, now hosts a private banana plantation. Moïse is the only man running in Haiti’s fraudulent runoff presidential elections this Sunday, and is connected to the land grab responsible for the expulsion of as many as 800 peasants.
Chilean social groups to protest Monsanto, anti-democratic TPP
22-Jan-2016 Tele Sur
Citizen opposition to the signing of the TPP will take place throughout the region, with joint mobilizations taking place in Peru and Argentina.
Better Regulation, TTIP under the radar?
22-Jan-2016 EBB
The negotiations the EU are having with the US over TTIP would lead to new governance structures and procedures with a central objective of eliminating trade and investment barriers.
Consumer rights group launches petition to exclude cosmetics from TTIP
22-Jan-2016 EurActiv
The Danish consumer rights organisation Forbrugerrådet Tænk wants to keep cosmetics regulation out of the Transatlantic free trade negotiations, saying it is worried that the EU will "sell out" its strict standards.
Say NO to the new legislations on trade secrets
22-Jan-2016 Xnet
What is hiding behind the new laws on trade secrets?
EU quietly asks Canada to rework trade deal’s thorny investment clause
22-Jan-2016 CBC
Both sides admit surprise as deal risks losing ratification vote thanks to anti-American sentiment.
MEPs support ambitious global trade pact
21-Jan-2016 Politico
The Trade in Services Agreement will be important for the exchange of data flows, lawmakers say.
India’s new BIT and arbitration law send mixed signals to foreign investors
21-Jan-2016 Lexology
India’s new model BIT text follows the trend of divergent approaches to investment treaty-making by focusing on a more defensive-minded strategy than in its prior treaties.
South America forms alternative to free trade kangaroo courts
21-Jan-2016 Tele Sur
Experts from UNASUR met in the Uruguayan capital Montevideo in order to finalize and sign agreements regarding the proposed center for investigation of international settlement dispute cases.