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Trans-Pacific Partnership: Renegotiating NAFTA by the back door
23-Sep-2015     rabble.ca
For years, trade and justice activists have proposed renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to address some of the deal's most damaging features: for example, by removing the anti-democratic investor-state dispute settlement provisions of Chapter 11, linking trade benefits to genuine protections for human and labour rights (all the more important given the deteriorating democratic situation in Mexico), and establishing a continent-wide strategy for auto investment and production.
The role of Civil Society in the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME)
23-Sep-2015     http://www.stabroeknews.com/2015/features/in-the-diaspora/07/13/the-role-of-c...
Regional Integration is loosely defined as countries cooperating to achieve a common objective. The way in which countries choose to achieve these common objectives depends on the commitment and keenness of states or countries to share their sovereignty towards a common goal.
The case for free trade in the GCC
23-Sep-2015    
It has been 240 years since Scottish economist Adam Smith made the then-outrageous suggestion that nations could improve their wealth by removing tariffs on imported goods. At the time, 1776, not only did these taxes — invariably more than 40 percent on certain goods — inflate prices for consumers, they often accounted for the majority of government revenues.
TPPA could empower rejected foreign investors in legal challenges
23-Sep-2015    
Under a Trans Pacific Partnership deal, foreign investors in New Zealand could be able to take international legal action against a government decision such as that which rejected a Chinese company's bid for Lochinver Station, says an Auckland Law School senior lecturer.
U.S. dairy exporter pushes for TPP deal acceptable to Congress
23-Sep-2015    
Japan and other nations need to open their dairy markets further to hammer out a Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal that is acceptable to Congress, Tom Suber, president of the U.S. Dairy Export Council, suggested.
Investment accords - conceptual & procedural contentions
23-Sep-2015     SUNS
Particular issues and procedures in investment treaties have proved especially contentious at both conceptual and practical levels.
International trade, investment accords, increasing controversies
23-Sep-2015     SUNS
Two recent proposals on settling investment disputes have begun to attract attention and consideration in national and international circles.
PH climate change official tells APEC: No trade without addressing disaster risk issues
23-Sep-2015     InterAksyon.com
There can be no trade agreement without addressing disaster risk and climate change issues in the Asia-Pacific region, the Philippine government says.
TTIP poised to gut US states’ ability to protect on toxic chemicals
23-Sep-2015     CIEL
EU proposals for EU-US trade deal threaten democratic process for protecting people and the environment
Top US lawmakers on trade urge action on India’s treatment of IPRs
23-Sep-2015     Intellectual Property Watch
The top members of US Congress and the Senate responsible for international trade issues urged the Obama administration to push for changes to India’s handling of intellectual property rights and technology