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Trade and patent changes could increase healthcare costs by $100bn, CPHI annual report warns
9-Oct-2018 European Pharmaceutical Manufacturer
Patients may need to wait an extra five or 10 years to access generic medicines, which could raise healthcare costs by as $100 billion over the next five years, according to the latest CPhI annual report
Inclusion of Paris Agreement in CETA at risk
9-Oct-2018 Euractiv
France wants to make compliance with the Paris Agreement on climate a precondition to signing European trade agreements. However, this is an issue where France is struggling to get the other 27 EU members to agree.
Lessons for the Left from NAFTA Mark-II
9-Oct-2018 Daily Blog
The choice is not between the unilateralism of a populist autocrat, captive of the world’s most powerful corporations, on one hand, and the failed neoliberal model, polished in the TPPA on the other. A few clip-on statements on gender and small and medium enterprises is not a progressive alternative.
EU ready to offer UK ‘super-charged’ free-trade deal
8-Oct-2018 Bloomberg
The European Union is set to offer the UK a free-trade deal deeper than any agreement that’s gone before.
US may push Japan, EU not to strike trade deals with China: Ross
8-Oct-2018 The Mainichi
The "poison pill" provision to deter trade deals with China in the new US trade agreement with Canada and Mexico may be replicated in future US trade pacts, such as those with Japan and the European Union.
Brazil keen to sign FTA with Bangladesh
8-Oct-2018 Dhaka Tribune
The signing of FTA will open a new avenue for Bangladeshi goods in the Latin American country.
US farm chief wants ‘TPP-plus trade deal’
8-Oct-2018 Japan News
US Agriculture Secretary indicated his desire to demand Japan open its markets more than the extent agreed under the Trans-Pacific Partnership and its economic partnership agreement with the European Union.
Vietnam to approve TPP-11 by November, prime minister says
8-Oct-2018 Nikkei Asian Review
Hanoi’s ratification would be fourth of six needed for trade deal to take effect.
NAFTA by any other name is still NAFTA
8-Oct-2018 Idaho State Journal
Is USMCA “brand new”? Or is it simply Reagan/Bush/Clinton’s NAFTA with a heavy dose of President Obama’s TPP thrown in the mix, just a rose by another name?
Tanzania ends investment treaty with Netherlands
8-Oct-2018 The East African
Tanzania has terminated its Bilateral Investment Agreement with the Netherlands that East African and Dutch civil society had said was biased against the country.
Canada ’caved’ on intellectual property provisions in USMCA trade deal, experts say
5-Oct-2018 Financial Post
Experts are fuming, saying USMCA will hamper Canada’s innovation economy and hike costs to the health care system over patented drugs.
Why Europeans may not want a US trade deal
5-Oct-2018 Washington Post
The opposition to TTIP suggests that a simple choice between “protectionism” and “free trade” fails to capture the nuances of the European debate on trade.
Big oil and gas companies are winners in Trump’s new trade deal
4-Oct-2018 Washington Post
The oil business persuaded the White House to keep a number of features of the old NAFTA, including provisions that help protect US oil companies’ investments abroad and allow for tax-free transport of raw and refined products across borders.
How the USMCA falls short on digital trade, data protection and privacy
4-Oct-2018 Washington Post
The digital trade chapter restricts data localization policies and bans restrictions on data transfers across borders.
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia agree to negotiate FTA
4-Oct-2018 Express Tribune
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia agreed to negotiate a free trade agreement for trade liberalisation and increasing the volume between the two countries.
Petition against Singapore FTA postponed to next year
4-Oct-2018 Adaderana
The petition filed seeking a court order pronouncing that the Sri Lanka-Singapore Free Trade Agreement is against the Constitution, will be taken up for consideration on January 09, the Supreme Court has decided.
Trade pact clause seen deterring China trade deal with Canada, Mexico
3-Oct-2018 Reuters
China’s hopes of negotiating a free trade pact with Canada or Mexico were dealt a sharp setback by a provision deep in the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement that aims to forbid such deals with “non-market” countries.
’New NAFTA’ falls flat for farmers, food advocates
3-Oct-2018 IATP
The reworked agreement between the United States, Mexico and Canada neglects the demands of farm groups.
Converting resistance to TPPA into a new agenda for change
3-Oct-2018 Daily Blog
Our aim is to move beyond campaigns to stop these deals one by one, and create popular and political momentum for a genuinely alternative agenda.
’This is life or death for us’: Mexico’s farm movement rejects new NAFTA agreement
3-Oct-2018 Common Dreams
Leaders of Mexico’s farm movement strongly condemned the new NAFTA, calling on the new president they supported in recent elections to get involved and slow the race to the new agreement.