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Auto parts differences between Japan, U.S. and others seen clouding prospects for next TPP ministerial talks
14-Sep-2015     The Japan Times
The 12 countries taking part in Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade negotiations are likely to face difficulties in arranging a ministerial meeting as Japan, the United States and others were unable to narrow the gap over the automotive sector in recent working-level talks.
How many jobs? The China-Australia Free Trade Agreement will create hardly any
14-Sep-2015     The Age
The free trade deal is now about jobs, except the government has got the number all wrong.
Impacts of the Thai-EU Free Trade Agreement on plant varieties, biodiversity and food security
14-Sep-2015     Biothai
If Thailand accepts the intellectual property law in the course of the negotiations for the Free Trade Agreement of EU-Thai, this will have several impacts on farmers, biodiversity and food security.
Update on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement – NGO briefing
14-Sep-2015     AFTINET
While RCEP was initially framed as an agreement that would be more flexible for low and middle income countries, there is evidence that some governments from industrialised countries are seeking to pursue aspects which would be very damaging for developing countries.
Australia's treaty-making process is broken. The China free trade deal is a case in point
13-Sep-2015     The Guardian
By the time a free trade agreement like Chafta reaches parliament it has already been agreed to. Democracy demands more than a ‘take it or leave it’ approach
East Africa: region's exports to EU face tough conditions
13-Sep-2015     All Africa
Mistrust has emerged among the East African Community partner states over Tanzania's commitment to the Economic Partnership Agreement that would give the region's goods duty-free access to European markets.
Local councils tearing strips off TTIP
13-Sep-2015     New Internationalist
Politicians in both Brussels and Westminster have taken great pains to try and brush off people’s many concerns about the toxic trade deal being pushed through by the EU and the United States.
In snub to US push for new services pact, Uruguay pulls out of negotiations
13-Sep-2015     The Wire
Just a week before the deadline for submitting national offers on liberalisation of services sectors under the on-going “secret” talks for a Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA), Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez decided to abandon the plurilateral negotiations.
The TPP will finish what Chile’s dictatorship started
11-Sep-2015     The Nation
This September 11th will be the forty-second anniversary of the US-backed coup against the democratically-elected Chilean government. Salvador Allende warned against neoliberalism’s disastrous effects just before he was overthrown. He was right to be worried.
Resisting the ‘law of greed’
11-Sep-2015     Green Agenda
There has been an explosive increase of cases of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). Modern investor-state disputes often revolve around public policy measures and implicate sensitive issues such as health and environmental protection