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No to FTAs!
8-Oct-2015     Ibon
TPP, like other Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), is fashioned by industrial countries and their transnational corporations to further intensify the concentration of resources, wealth, and power into their hands leaving developing countries.
TPP rule of origin is 45% for vehicles, with caveats; 35-45% for auto parts
8-Oct-2015     Global Trade Online
The final Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) contains rules of origin for the automotive sector that require 45 percent regional value content for finished vehicles under a complicated accounting method, along with a regional value content threshold between 35 and 45 percent for auto parts.
The US strategy to create a new global legal and economic system: TPP, TTIP, TISA
8-Oct-2015     TheWikiLeaksChannel
Wikileaks - The US strategy to create a new global legal and economic system
FTA moves to gain momentum
8-Oct-2015     ECNS
China will step up efforts to forge more bilateral and multilateral free trade agreements in the Asia-Pacific region to reduce the impact of the Trans-Pacific Partnership pact.
TISA: Government agrees on draft initial market access offers
8-Oct-2015     Govmu
The draft initial market access offers of Mauritius in the context of the negotiations on the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) has been agreed by Government.
Sober reflections on the TPPA deal – and why we need to keep fighting
8-Oct-2015     The Daily Blog
Who gave the Prime Minister and Trade Minister the right to sacrifice our rights to regulate foreign investment, to decide our own copyright laws, to set up new SOEs, and whatever else they have agreed to in this secret deal and present it to us as a fait accompli?
Why geopolitical arguments in favour of TTIP are also flawed
8-Oct-2015     Speri
The geopolitical ‘setting global standards’ argument that has become central to the advocates’ discourse on TTIP is seriously flawed. TTIP will only lead to high global standards under certain conditions and these conditions are unlikely to be met.
The meat industry is licking its chops over Obama's massive trade deal
7-Oct-2015     Mother Jones
The US meat industry scored a big victory when world leaders hammered out an agreement that would reduce trade barriers across the Pacific.
India-EU FTA: time for a fundamental rethink?
7-Oct-2015     Madhyam
India and EU would soon resume negotiations on the stalled India-EU free trade agreement.
Pumps should be exempted from RCEP with China
7-Oct-2015     The Hindu
Pump and Motor manufacturers here have said that these light items should not be included in the list of goods that can be imported duty free from China under the proposed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership.