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New Zealand-GCC free trade deal likely soon
13-Jun-2014 Arab News
New Zealand Trade Minister Tim Groser expressed optimism regarding the signing of a comprehensive free trade agreement (FTA) that will lower trade barriers between Saudi Arabia and other GCC countries.
Countries rush to fast-track FTAs with India after elections
13-Jun-2014 India Briefing
As pro-business leader Narendra Modi settles into office, the European Union, Israel, Canada and Peru, among others, are rushing to expedite free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations with India’s new government.
Fight rages over definition of Tennessee whiskey
12-Jun-2014 AP
The fight over labels on whiskey bottles comes amid a global drive to seek labeling protections by a smorgasbord of regional foods such as cheeses, hams and wines.
Business v state investment disputes in EU spotlight
12-Jun-2014 BBC
Should foreign businesses have the right to take a sovereign state to arbitration to seek compensation for a change in the law or government policy? And if so, in exactly what circumstances?
TTIP agreement may be too big not to happen, says USDA
12-Jun-2014 Farmers Guardian
The US and the European Union may be too big for a free-trade deal not to happen, says USDA chief economist Joseph Glauber
Scholars skeptical of agreement with EU
12-Jun-2014 Daily News
The South Centre has rubbished threats by European Union of withholding support to African countries should they fail to ratify Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA).
New negotiations begin on Chinese-US investment treaty
12-Jun-2014 Prensa Latina
Chinese and US representatives are beginning another round of negotiations here today in this capital on a bilateral investment treaty, said the Commerce Ministry.
Cross-Straits trade agreements stall
12-Jun-2014 ECNS
Lawmakers in Taiwan Monday confirmed that negotiations on a series of economic measures between the island and the Chinese mainland have halted in the wake of disruptive protests in Taipei in March.
Australia: PM seeks to broaden free trade deal with US
12-Jun-2014 Sky News
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott will use a meeting with US President Barack Obama at the White House to seek the reopening of the decade-long agreement, News Corp Australia reports.
Peru’s “Bagua massacre” haunts the TPP
12-Jun-2014 The Hill
The experience of the US-Peru FTA makes clear even improved labor and environmental chapters cannot overcome the NAFTA-style investor protections at the core of the Peru FTA and now TPP.
The European Left launches a campaign against TTIP
11-Jun-2014 European Left
The European Left will organise a political campaign against TTIP in synergy with social movements, unions, ecologists, farmers, small enterprises.
TTIP contradicts post-2015 development goals, experts say
11-Jun-2014 EurActiv
The planned US-EU trade deal, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), has come up against intense criticism from both sides of the Atlantic. Now development officials have joined the choir.
Experts attack EU trade deal deadline
8-Jun-2014 The Observer
At a high level conference on the EAC-EU EPA negotiations in Entebbe recently, experts in trade and regional integration argued that the EAC should not be bound by the pressure of the EU deadline.
Alternative forms of protection for Indonesia’s foreign investors
7-Jun-2014 Mondaq
This Legal alert outlines the several means by which investment protection for foreign investors in Indonesia can be reassured.
US farmers call for Japan to be excluded from TPP
7-Jun-2014 Tax News
United States farming groups are urging that, if Japan continues to insist that it should keep import duties on its ultra-sensitive agricultural products – rice, wheat, beef and pork, dairy products, and sugar and starch – it should be excluded from Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations.
Korea-Colombia free trade agreement excludes rice and rice related products, says USDA Post
6-Jun-2014 Oryza
USDA Post reports that South Korea’s National Assembly has ratified the Korea-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, but the FTA excludes rice and other rice related products.
Panama and Israel expect to finish negotiating FTA in coming months
6-Jun-2014 Marcotradenews
After the visit of the President of Panama, Ricardo Martinelli, to Israel on Thursday, the two governments said they would have a free trade agreement within a couple of months.
France: BNP Paribas row ’puts EU-US trade pact at risk’
6-Jun-2014 BBC
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has said the reported $10bn (£6bn; 7.3bn euros) US fine being faced by banking giant BNP Paribas could hurt EU-US trade treaty talks.
African countries feel cornered in EU trade negotiations
6-Jun-2014 EurActiv
The EU is pointing a gun at the Global South’s chest and do not listen to their concerns, reports EurActiv Germany.
Bernadette Ségol (ETUC) & Richard Trumka (AFL-CIO) - Joint video interview on TTIP
4-Jun-2014 ETUC
Joint interview on TTIP by Bernadette Ségol, ETUC General Secretary & Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO President