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Global dairy prices stem from bad trade agreements
17-Feb-2016     Scoop
New Zealand First is blasting the government for poor quality “free trade” agreements and exposing New Zealand farming to questionable Chinese investment.
Thai livestock industry opposes TPP agreement
17-Feb-2016     Thai PBS
The Swine Raisers Association of Thailand and other livestock groups yesterday protested against the country's move to enter the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement claiming that doing so would bring enormous damages to Thailand's livestock industry.
Parts of Canada-EU trade deal still being revised: chief negotiator
17-Feb-2016     CTV
Canada is working with the European Union to revise controversial investor protection provisions in their landmark free trade deal at the direction of the new Liberal government.
Canada re-opens investment talks with India
17-Feb-2016     Embassy
Canada’s government has officially re-opened negotiations with India over a bilateral investment treaty the two sides nearly agreed upon almost a decade ago.
Japan and the Islamic Republic of Iran sign a bilateral investment agreement
16-Feb-2016     Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
The Agreement stipulates rules for investment protection and the development of an investment environment.
TPP may bankrupt Indonesia, activists say
16-Feb-2016     The Jakarta Post
Indonesia could fall into bankruptcy if the biggest market in Southeast Asia join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which would allow investors to sue the government.
Thailand’s challenges on TPP framework
16-Feb-2016     The Nation
Thailand has decided to join the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). That will be the key message Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha will deliver to President Barack Obama at the special Asean-US meeting.
US-EU trade will undermine 'tax justice,' says report
16-Feb-2016     Tele Sur
The secretive TTIP could make it easier than ever for big business to sue governments, according to new research.
India proposes informal forum to resolve RCEP issues
15-Feb-2016     The Economic Times
Keen on an expeditious conclusion of the biggest trade accord in Asia, India has proposed the creation of a forum for in formal resolution of prickly issues under the planned Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership.
Conciliation and arbitration law: Times of change in investment protection in Bolivia
15-Feb-2016     IISD
Bolivia’s experience has shown that attracting foreign investment does not by itself generate the expected development for host states and that, rather, it consists in a mechanism for financing and transferring resources from the South to the North.