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15-Jul-2013
Vice Economic Affairs Minister Cho Shih-chao agreed Monday with suggestions that a set of standard operating procedures be established in negotiating free trade agreements (FTAs) to strike a balance between confidentiality and open information.
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15-Jul-2013
Mainichi
With upper house elections approaching, Japanese farmers are skeptical about the Liberal Democratic Party after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced his intention to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations.
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15-Jul-2013
AP
American activists urged European trade negotiators on Wednesday not to weaken environmental and food standards as they begin talks in Washington on a trans-Atlantic free trade agreement.
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15-Jul-2013
Corpwatch
Investors started arriving in droves when Colombia and the US negotiated and signed a free trade agreement in May 2012 and they are now looking to acquire land.
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15-Jul-2013
Hindustan Times
India told the US on Friday it was ready to negotiate a Bilateral Investment Treaty, knocking down yet another irritant bedeviling business ties between the two countries.
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15-Jul-2013
Deccan Herald
Although there are serious impacts on food security and the livelihood security of millions of farmers and small retailers, farmers haven’t even been informed nor consulted about the FTA.
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12-Jul-2013
In an open letter to the Prime Minister of India, the Forum Against Free Trade Agreements in India has called upon the government to review its forthcoming economic engagements with the USA, and to reject pressure from the US government and business lobby groups on India’s economic policies.
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12-Jul-2013
You Tube
VIdeo recording of civil society symposium on the US-EU trade agreement negotiations
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12-Jul-2013
Public Service Europe
Topics where EU and US politicians and stakeholders’ interests clash — such as public procurement, data protection, financial services and agricultural issues like geographical indicators and sanitary and phytosanitary measures – will prove the most problematic during talks.
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12-Jul-2013
Reuters
Les Etats-Unis et la Chine sont tombés d’accord pour relancer les négociations sur un traité d’investissements, suspendues depuis plusieurs années en raison de l’insistance de Pékin à exclure certains secteurs des discussions.
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11-Jul-2013
Inside US Trade
A confidential text on the investment provisions of the Canada-European Union free trade agreement (CETA) shows that the two parties have broken new ground in defining the key concept of fair and equitable treatment for investors.
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11-Jul-2013
The Rudd government is likely to face new pressure from rural exporters to push ahead with a free trade agreement with China after New Zealand signed a breakthrough deal with Taiwan on Wednesday.
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11-Jul-2013
CEO
In the face of growing opposition to plans for expanded corporate powers in the proposed pact, the European Commission is trying to dispel concerns with propaganda. See through the rosy PR with Corporate Europe Observatory’s guide to investor-state dispute settlement.
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10-Jul-2013
New Zealand will today become the first OECD nation to strike a free trade deal with Taiwan, promising to remove tens of millions of dollars in annual trade tariffs faced by exporters.
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10-Jul-2013
Tens of millions of dollars of duties on New Zealand’s exports to Taiwan will be eliminated over the next four years, after the island nation signed its first trade deal with an OECD nation.
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10-Jul-2013
Sri Lanka’s main business Chamber urges the government to fast track the signing of the Comprehensive Partnership Agreement with India and also sign more trade deals to avoid over-dependance on one country for exports.
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10-Jul-2013
Concerns about objectivity and accountability of investment dispute arbitrators have prompted calls for tougher ethical guidelines as caseloads have exploded.
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10-Jul-2013
CEO
Corporate Europe Observatory needs your help to shine a light on these important agreements being negotiated in secret, with big business in the driving seat. Please help us create a more just and transparent EU trade policy.
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10-Jul-2013
Bernama
The 18th Round of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Negotiations will be held from July 15 – 25, in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.
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10-Jul-2013
AP
New Zealand on Wednesday signed a free trade agreement with Taiwan in a deliberately low-key ceremony designed to demonstrate the South Pacific nation’s fealty to its formal relations with mainland China.
