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Don’t cry over dead trade agreements
14-Dec-2016     Live Mint
If we can manage our own economies well, new trade pacts will become largely redundant.
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, intellectual property protection and access to medicines
14-Dec-2016     SSRN
This paper identifies TRIPS-Plus provisions in leaked RCEP negotiating texts and examines their implications for low and middle-income countries.
Post-Brexit dreams of empire: arms, free trade and corporate conquest
14-Dec-2016     The Ecologist
A new era of corporate 'free trade' colonialism looms, spearheaded by aid spending, with ramped-up arms exports to the world's most corrupt and repressive regimes
China refuses to give Pakistan more concessions on FTA
14-Dec-2016     Daily Times
Official says Pakistan wanted deeper market access for 35 to 40 tariff lines.
India awaits mandate from EEU to launch talks on free trade deal – Ambassador
14-Dec-2016     Sputnik
According to the Indian ambassador to Russia, New Delhi was ready to start the negotiation process on a free trade agreement with the Eurasian Economic Union.
Longer monopolies and single legal proceedings vs. generics - the gift of CETA to Canadian drug patentees
13-Dec-2016     Lexology
Canadian pharmaceutical patent owners can expect two substantive changes in the next year following implementation of the Canada–European Union trade agreement
APC claims RCEP will intensify landgrabbing and militarization
13-Dec-2016     Asian Peasant Coalition
Groups vow not to pass RCEP
RCEP to consolidate Asian integration
13-Dec-2016     Jakarta Post
The RCEP is part of the efforts of Asian countries to explore avenues of collaborative regional governance. It should be seen as the extension of an integrated ASEAN community
Taiwan to seek US support for investment, trade agreements
13-Dec-2016     Economy Lead
Taiwan will seek the support of the United States for signing bilateral and multilateral investment and free trade agreements, the Taiwanese President has said.
Can Russia ride China’s trade lead in Southeast Asia?
13-Dec-2016     PortNews
Current political unity masks divergent economic interests as Russia attempts to shift its economic interests east to Eurasian and Asian markets.