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  • 25-Aug-2014 Business World
    Philippines: TPP technical consultations wrapped up by yearend
    The Philippine government aims to finish technical consultations with member states of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) by the end of the year before it can decide whether the Philippines will participate in the regional free trade agreement, an official said.
  • 25-Aug-2014 The Standard
    Kenya flowers at crossroads over EPAs trade talks
    A senior Kenyan Government officer who wished not to be named confirmed that Tanzania has been dragging its feet in embracing the new EU trade deal. “This might prompt Kenya to sign the agreement alone," he said.
  • 25-Aug-2014 Xinhua
    East Africans seeking to unlock trade talks with European Union
    East African countries are scheduled to hold a meeting in September to resolve outstanding issues in order to conclude negotiations on the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPAs) with EU.
  • 25-Aug-2014 Dow Jones Newswires
    Vietnam, EU expect to finish trade pact in October
    Vietnam and the European Union are expected to complete negotiations on a free-trade agreement in October, officials said Monday.
  • 25-Aug-2014 Crikey
    Palmer’s China comments could scupper trade deal
    The Abbott government in Australia was close to negotiating a free trade agreement with China. That is, until Clive Palmer got involved.
  • 24-Aug-2014 Solidar
    TTIP - German welfare organisations demand exclusion of social services
    In a common position paper, SOLIDAR member Arbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO) as a member of the German coordination organization of welfare organization together with another network outlined their position on the ongoing negotiations of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) regarding social and health care services.
  • 23-Aug-2014 Public Citizen
    CAFTA investor rights undermining democracy and the environment: Pacific Rim mining case
    Pacific Rim Mining Corp., a Canadian-based multinational firm, sought to establish a massive gold mine using water-intensive cyanide ore processing in the basin of El Salvador’s largest river, Rio Lempa.
  • 23-Aug-2014 Trade Union Left Forum
    TULF on TTIP
    Trade Union Left Forum is urging workers to sign a petition calling on the Irish Congress of Trade Unions to get TTIP scrapped.
  • 23-Aug-2014 SIS
    Russia asks Egypt to start negotiations on agreement with Eurasian customs union
    Russia has asked Egypt to start negotiations to sign a free trade agreement with the Eurasian Customs Union, which groups Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus, said Minister of Trade and Industry Mounir Fakhri Abdel-Nour.
  • 23-Aug-2014 Kluwer
    Indonesia’s termination of the Netherlands–Indonesia BIT: Broader implications in the Asia-Pacific?
    While Indonesia intends to renegotiate its BITs to provide greater capacity to regulate in the public interest, the current Australian government has indicated it will consider the inclusion of ISDS on a case-by-case basis.
  • 21-Aug-2014 DW
    TTIP - Debate: European goals and fears
    "Multilateral negotiations on the WTO level should be the norm, but at the moment this TTIP will actually set world standards and the rest has to follow," says Olaf Böhnke of the European Council on Foreign Affairs
  • 21-Aug-2014
    US ambassadors heart TTIP
    US embassies across Europe are pushing the proposed US-European Union trade deal through bicycle tours and cash grants.
  • 20-Aug-2014 DW
    Chlorine chicken: No thank you
    There’s strong criticism of the planned free trade agreement TTIP. Europe’s organic farming sector is especially skeptical. Deutsche Welle reports.
  • 20-Aug-2014 Business World
    War of the FTAs
    As an exhausted World Trade Organisation struggles, expect a war of FTAs as rich countries hit back with new trade regimes under TPP and TTIP while emerging markets build the RCEP
  • 20-Aug-2014 The Tyee
    Leaked CETA treaty: One thing to applaud
    Massive, controversial EU-Canada deal manages to do copyright right, says Michael Geist
  • 20-Aug-2014 Trade Beat
    How the EAC locked horns with the EU over the EPA negotiations
    Godfrey Ssali from the Uganda Manufacturers Association explains what is behind the current deadlock between the East African Community and the European Union on the negotiations underway to agree a set of Economic Partnership Agreements
  • 20-Aug-2014 The Sun Daily
    China against Malaysia-Taiwan FTA
    Chinese ambassador to Malaysia Huang Huikang says China is against any move by Malaysia to sign a free trade agreement (FTA) with Taiwan.
  • 20-Aug-2014 Xinhua
    Sri Lanka to focus on increasing trade and investment with China
    Sri Lanka will focus on increasing trade and investment with China as well as broadening the scope of a proposed Free Trade Agreement (FTA), a top official said on Tuesday.
  • 20-Aug-2014 Financial Express
    Careful on those FTAs
    The ultimate metric for assessing the impact of a trade agreement is its ability to create jobs, not just bring in foreign exchange, argues Ajit Ranade
  • 20-Aug-2014 EU Observer
    What the leaked EU-Canada trade paper means for TTIP
    EU trade negotiators, who like to give as little away as possible, will have been deeply dismayed by the leak of 520 pages of their latest baby: the EU-Canada free trade agreement (Ceta).