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Do the CETA CHECK
17-Jun-2016     Stop TTIP
Ask Members of the European Parliament about the planned free trade agreement between the EU and Canada (CETA). Let’s remove the secrecy behind CETA and bring the discussion out into the open!
New rules to regulate Europe's hormone-disrupting chemicals
17-Jun-2016     The Guardian
European commission launches world’s first system for classifying and banning endocrine disruptors against a barrage of criticism
Investment act may clash with SADC treaty
17-Jun-2016     Business Day
Legal practitioners have been saying for some time now that SA’s Protection of Investment Act is not in sync with the country’s commitments under the Southern African Development Community Protocol on Finance and Investment.
Korea-Colombia FTA to be effective July
16-Jun-2016     Korea Herald
Colombia informed South Korea earlier in the day that it has completed the ratification process of the deal clinched in 2013, adding that the deal will go into effect on July 15.
TTIP talks bogged down in food standards debate
16-Jun-2016     EurActiv
Seemingly insurmountable differences in food standards are threatening to sink trade negotiations between the United States and the European Union.
Argentina welcomed as Pacific Alliance observer
16-Jun-2016     ICTSD
Argentina is now an official observer to the Pacific Alliance, the South American bloc that includes Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru as full members.
Govt to review all preferential trade agreements
15-Jun-2016     Pakistan Herald
The government decided to review all existing preferential trade pacts through which Pakistan conducts its trade on preferable terms with other countries on bilateral basis.
RCEP ‘stakeholder’ process just ticks the box
15-Jun-2016     Scoop
A new era of openness? RCEP ‘stakeholder’ process just ticks the box
An interview with Lauge Poulsen, author of Bounded Rationality and Economic Diplomacy
15-Jun-2016     IISD
Lauge Poulsen is a Lecturer in International Political Economy at University College London. His recent book explains why and how developing countries signed up to investment treaties.
Green NGOs welcome the parliamentary resolution on the free trade agreements
15-Jun-2016     Friends of the Earth Hungary
Environmentalists urge the government to turn to the European Court of Justice on the issue of the planned Investment Court System.