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US supports TPP bid
13-Jun-2016     Khmer Times
The United States threw its support behind Cambodia becoming a member of the US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership
Un traité transpacifique au seul profit des multinationales américaines
13-Jun-2016     La Tribune
Le traité transpacifique (TPP), entre les États-Unis et l'Asie, ne contribuerait en rien au développement du commerce. Il renforcerait simplement des droits de propriété intellectuelle, au profit des grandes entreprises américaines.
Civil society letter to countries negotiating Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)
13-Jun-2016     TWN
We call on countries negotiating the RCEP agreement and to protect the flexibilities available under the WTO TRIPS agreement for Least Developed Countries (LDCs).
Social impacts should derail trade talks: experts
13-Jun-2016     Pacific Islands News Association
Pacific island governments should retain their legal right to regulate to protect their national development interests, which include the ownership and control of land, natural resources and environment, as well as the social and economic rights of their people ahead of the empty development promises from Australia and New Zealand and walk away from the regional trade talks known as PACER-Plus, a new report released today recommends.
Brussels to end preferential trade access for uncooperative African countries
10-Jun-2016     EurActiv
The EU plans to raise the pressure on six African countries to implement controversial free trade agreements by putting an end to their preferential access to the EU market.
EU Member States to intervene against Western Sahara in EU Court
10-Jun-2016     WSRW
A handful of EU Member States will intervene in the European Court proceedings in favour of Morocco, asking the Court to reverse its decision to cancel the EU-Morocco trade deal in occupied Western Sahara.
China-U.S. dialogue makes progress in BIT talks, overcapacity, RMB trading
10-Jun-2016     Xinhua
China and the United States have made incremental progress in accelerating bilateral investment treaty talks
A NAFTA-like deal for Israel and Ukraine?
10-Jun-2016     Ukraine Today
Free-trade agreement is a key part of NAFTA, and Tel-Aviv and Kyiv are well on their way towards the implementation of a similar deal.
TPP study gives one side of story
10-Jun-2016     The Farmer's Exchange
"These so-called studies are really more about trying to influence political votes for the commodity groups' members than contributing to farmer and rancher welfare or congressional understanding"
The West Africa-EU Economic Partnership Agreement is absurd
10-Jun-2016     SOL
This is a way of thinking as absurd as that consisting for a poultry producer to open the henhouse gate to allow the fox to test the poultry resistance capacity.