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Newly leaked TISA texts expose the scope of the corporate power grab
17-Oct-2016     IUF
"It's time to halt the negotiations, publish the secret texts and ensure the widest possible public debate to expose the full extent of the threat these treaties pose to democracy and the labour movement," international trade union organizations say.
India-SACU trade pact talks need to be revived: South Africa
17-Oct-2016     Business Standard
South Africa pressed for revival of the negotiations for the proposed preferential trade agreement between India and five-nation Southern African Customs Union (SACU).
An open letter to the sixteen governments negotiating the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)
17-Oct-2016    
95 health, community and development organisations in the Asia Pacific region call on trade negotiators from sixteen countries in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement negotiations to ensure access to medicines is protected. We the undersigned organisations call on negotiators to protect health and reject all TRIPS plus intellectual property measures in the RCEP.
After seven years and millions of dollars, decision announced in Pac Rim mining company vs. El Salvador
16-Oct-2016     Institute for Policy Studies
Coalition of groups state “there are no winners," investor-state arbitration subverts democracy.
Hopes high as services negotiators enter final sprint
16-Oct-2016     Bloomberg
After their high-level Washington, D.C., meeting on Oct. 16-17, TiSA negotiators will next meet on the sidelines of an Oct. 21-22 WTO “mini-ministerial” meeting in Oslo.
GSP+ is by far a much better option for Ghana than implementing its interim EPA
14-Oct-2016     SOL
Asking to the EU the benefit of GSP+ would be by far a much better option than implementing its interim EPA it has already ratified.
Spain: Partnership agreement between EU and SADC rejected
14-Oct-2016     Fresh Plaza
The Joint Parliamentary Group has presented a non-legislative motion at the Parliament, urging the Government not to ratify the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the EU and the Southern African Development Community.
‘Strange’ manoeuvering over CETA exposes democratic deficit
14-Oct-2016     EurActiv
French lawmakers are continuing their battle against the EU’s free trade deal with Canada (CETA).
Commission faces EU court battle over secret TTIP documents
14-Oct-2016     EurActiv
The European Commission faces an EU court battle to keep secret its lawyers’ analysis on whether the controversial investor-state-dispute (ISDS) clause in draft trade deals with the USA and Canada is illegal.
Is Argentina looking for reconciliation with ISDS?
14-Oct-2016     Kluwer Arbitration Blog
In a quite short period the new government, led by the recently elected President Mauricio Macri, has turned around its foreign policy and alignments.