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ASEAN, EAEU favor setting up free trade zone - minister
5-Aug-2016     Belta
Countries members of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and the Association of the South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) want to create a free trade zone.
NTBs progressively reduced in Asean : Mustapa
5-Aug-2016     New Straits Time
Non-tariff barriers – regarded as the main stumbling block in the shaping of the Asean Economic Community – have been progressively reduced.
Glencore begins arbitration over Bolivia assets expropriation
5-Aug-2016     BNamericas
Swiss trader Glencore filed for arbitration against the Bolivian government for the expropriation of its mining and smelting assets, adding to a series of lawsuits against the Andean country.
Water for gold
5-Aug-2016     Loading Docs
Water for Gold tells the alarming story of how international trade law is leading us to trade our most basic rights to clean, safe water for access to gold.
Briefer on the RCEP – Robbing communities to extract profit
5-Aug-2016     APWLD
Similar to the TPP, this trade agreement will institutionalise inequalities;it will severely curtail peoples’ rights and freedoms and cement corporate rights over national public interest law and the right of governments to govern in the interests of their constituents.
WikiLeaks reveals the TiSA agreement could cost Australian services
5-Aug-2016     The Conversation
A recent release of confidential documents from WikiLeaks has finally relieved the silence surrounding the negotiations of an important but fairly obscure multilateral trade agreement.
Philippines holds informal TPP membership talks with US
5-Aug-2016     Reuters
The Philippines is eager to join the 12-nation Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal and it has already held informal talks with the United States to do so.
RCEP Trade ministers to meet tmrw in Laos to review progress
5-Aug-2016     Business Standard
Trade ministers of 16 countries, including India, China and Japan will meet in Laos to review the progress and resolve issues holding back negotiations of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).
Cameroon starts implementing economic pact with European Union
4-Aug-2016     Bloomberg
Cameroon’s government said it has begun implementing an interim economic pact with the European Union that will lead to the reciprocal reduction of trade barriers.
Big Tobacco’s controversial, ailing crusade against plain packaging
4-Aug-2016     The Economist
Philip Morris International sent a letter to the government of Togo. It outlined how plain packaging would violate binding global and regional agreements. Togo was in no position to anger its international partners, it suggested.