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Libre-échange : des effets difficiles à mesurer sur l’emploi
7-Oct-2015     Le Monde
Les conséquences des accords multilatéraux sur le commerce mondial et l’économie sont loin de faire consensus.
Environmentalists: the trans-Pacific trade agreement is a disaster for climate change
7-Oct-2015     Think Progress
Opponents of the TPP say its a sweetheart deal for fossil fuel companies.
Japanese rice farmers upset over broad TPP agreement
7-Oct-2015     The Mainichi
Many farmers in Japan have started to feel increasingly insecure about their future as 12 Pacific Rim countries including Japan reached a broad agreement on the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade initiative.
Singapore concludes free trade negotiations with Turkey
7-Oct-2015     Asia One
Turkey and Singapore have concluded negotiations for the Turkey-Singapore Free Trade Agreement.
Taiwan to stand firm on US pork ractopamine ban: official
7-Oct-2015     Want China Times
Taiwan's Council of Agriculture said that it will insist that the country maintain a ban on pork imported from the United States containing traces of leanness-enhancing drug ractopamine
ECJ judgment in favour of data protection puts TTIP negotiations under pressure
7-Oct-2015     Euractiv
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) today declared the Safe Harbor agreement invalid. This subordinates the activities of Facebook & Co back to the control of national data protection authorities.
Will Congress approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership?
7-Oct-2015     Washington Post
The first steps are expected to begin later this week when the White House formally sends Congress a notice of intent to sign the agreement, which kicks off a 90-day waiting period.
ISDS: courting foreign investors
7-Oct-2015     S2B
Why the Commission’s proposal for an “Investment Court System” still fails to address the key problems of foreign investors’ privileges
EU ratification process of FTA with South Korea done and dusted
7-Oct-2015     Vieuws
The European Commission intends to announce in mid October its plans to revise the deal in order to add the missing investment protection chapter to it.
TPP deal includes tobacco carveout, teeing up fight with congress
7-Oct-2015     Global Trade Online
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) countries have agreed on language that will allow members to exclude tobacco control measures from the scope of investor-state dispute settlement.