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India to defer finalizing trade pact with Australia
5-Feb-2016     Live Mint
Govt thinks it may lose leveraging power by sealing a deal ahead of the RCEP pact, of which Australia is a part.
Argentina agrees to pay Italian bond holders including “a reasonable interest”
5-Feb-2016     Merco Press
Argentina announced that it reached a $900 million preliminary accord to settle its pending debt with 50,000 Italian holders of defaulted Argentine government bonds. The Italian bondholders had sought about $2.5 billion at the ICSID.
President Buhari calls for mutually-beneficial economic relations with Europe
5-Feb-2016     NTA
Considering the mismatch of the two regions (Europe-ECOWAS) the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria and Associated Trade Unions raised concerns over the negative impact of the agreement on Nigeria’s industrialisation programme.
MSF open letter to ASEAN governments: Don’t trade away health
5-Feb-2016     MSF
MSF urges all ASEAN member states to lead an effort to reject the ratification and implementation of the TPP and the expansion of its negative consequences for public health in the whole region.
Food is not a commodity
5-Feb-2016     ISC
Kim-Hwang Kyeongsan, General Secretary of the Korean Woman Peasants’ Association, explains the government’s recent rice policy that hurts rice farmers and impacts Korea’s food sovereignty and how FTAs make it worse.
As Pacific trade deal is signed pharma holds key to US ratification
5-Feb-2016     FT
One immediate obstacle to getting the Trans-Pacific Partnership through US Congress lives in Jan Kemper’s laboratory an hour’s drive from the White House.
Trade officials sign the TPP but it's still up to lawmakers to reject it
4-Feb-2016     Electronic Frontier Foundation
While trade leaders tout the signature of the agreement today, the TPP continues to attract international criticism.
Controversial TPP pact signed amid New Zealand protests
4-Feb-2016     Al Jazeera
One of the biggest and most controversial trade deals in history was signed on Thursday by ministers from the Asia-Pacific region and the Americas, as hundreds of protesters hit the streets of Auckland to denounce it.
Opinion on the establishment of an investment tribunal in TTIP
3-Feb-2016     DRB
The German Magistrates Association rejects the proposal of the European Commission to establish an investment court within the framework of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
The planned regulatory cooperation between the European Union and Canada and the USA according to the CETA and TTIP drafts
3-Feb-2016     AK
This legal opinion focuses on the institutionalized regulatory cooperation envisaged in CETA and TTIP.