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28-Aug-2013
New American
“I have heard the argument that transparency would undermine the administration’s policy to complete the trade agreement because public opposition would be significant,” a US senator wrote. “This argument is exactly backwards. If transparency would lead to widespread opposition to a trade agreement, then that trade agreement should not be the policy of the United States.”
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28-Aug-2013
Be Your Own Leader
In many ways, the Pacific Alliance represents a resurgence of the failed U.S. initiated FTAA which was part of an agenda to consolidate corporate control.
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27-Aug-2013
BBC
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos says his government will enter into negotiations with agricultural workers as their strike enters its ninth day.
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27-Aug-2013
Counterpunch
As Colombian peasants ended their eighth day of an anti-free trade agreement strike last night by forcing President Juan Manuel Santos to the negotiating table, thousands of protesters banging pots and pans filled the main plaza of the capital Bogota in solidarity.
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27-Aug-2013
Dawn
Keen to attract direct foreign capital, the government of Pakistan has evolved a ‘model template’ that would serve as the basis for negotiations for future bilateral investment treaties.
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27-Aug-2013
Lexology
This is the second BIT terminated as part of South Africa’s planned review of its investment treaties
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27-Aug-2013
NY Times
Debt woes, broken contracts and soured business deals may cost global investors billions in losses and create seemingly never-ending headaches for policy makers. But there is a set of specialists profiting from such geopolitical problems: arbitration lawyers.
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27-Aug-2013
Kyodo
The Malaysian government should pull out from the trans-Pacific free trade talks, former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Monday, calling the proposed trade pact a US tool to extend its hegemony.
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27-Aug-2013
Gulf Times
The proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the US and Europe will impact the GCC region’s aviation, energy and financial services’ sectors, a report has shown.
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27-Aug-2013
CNA
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who is in China for a one-week visit, has said that China is keen to review and improve its Free Trade Agreement with ASEAN and that Singapore will do its part in this development.
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27-Aug-2013
Business Day
Negotiations between three trade blocs in Africa to create a free trade area were running behind schedule in terms of reaching their 2014 deadline but were nevertheless progressing, South Africa Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies said last week.
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26-Aug-2013
Kenya’s sugar sector is in limbo as the COMESA safeguard period nears its end. COMESA is the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa.
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26-Aug-2013
The executive chairman of the company behind Australia’s top-selling cheese brand has warned that the Australian government’s support for the car industry is holding up a free-trade agreement with China.
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26-Aug-2013
Yomiuri Shimbun
After the 19th round of the Trans-Pacific Partnership multilateral trade negotiations concluded in Brunei on Friday, Malaysia and Singapore openly expressed opposition to U.S. demands, including its push for conclusion of the talks by year-end, indicating a rough road lies ahead for the negotiations.
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26-Aug-2013
iNet Bridge
Representatives from countries negotiating a free trade pact that will cover nearly 40 percent of global economic output said on Friday that differences between them persisted, as the US sought to assuage concerns over a looming year-end deadline.
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26-Aug-2013
Bernama
A delegation of the European Economic and Social Committee will arrive on Monday in Peru in order to evaluate the progress on the implementation of the Multi-Party Trade Agreement between the European Union and the Andean country.
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26-Aug-2013
Common Dreams
At least 200,000 people blocked roads and launched protests against a US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement and devastating policies of poverty and privatization pushed by US-backed right-wing President Juan Manuel Santos.
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26-Aug-2013
Workday Minnesota
Hundreds of labor, fair trade, environmental and community activists marched through downtown Minneapolis Tuesday to protest the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a massive trade deal that could jeopardize American jobs, wages, consumer safety, health care and environmental standards.
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25-Aug-2013
Fast-moving trade talks aimed at reaching an ambitious Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal have hit a major snag over anti-smoking policies, as divisions emerged over a proposal critics say would expose governments to lawsuits from tobacco companies.
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25-Aug-2013
Malaysia Kini
The Malaysian government must not sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) given the ‘Red Lines’ issued by civil society groups are not accepted by the other TPPA countries.
