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Chafing at the BIT
29-Aug-2015     Financial Express
The government is looking to replace the Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreements (BIPPA) with a Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT),
TISA and tech's double standards on secret government Internet deals
29-Aug-2015     Electronic Frontier Fondation
The stash of previously-secret correspondence about the Trade In Services Agreement (TISA) speaks volumes about the extent to which technology companies into the dangerous idea that trade agreements should be used to govern the Internet.
Will China’s currency devaluation complicate the Trans-Pacific Partnership?
28-Aug-2015     The National Law Review
China’s recent currency devaluation has sparked a debate over the inclusion of currency manipulation controls in global trade agreements.
Australian food labelling laws: changes and complexities for foreign trade
28-Aug-2015     Holding Redlich
Changes to Australian food labelling laws provide consumers with an increased understanding of the origin of their food. The challenge Australia faces is to ensure compliance with foreign investment trade agreements.
A Libreville, les Africains dressent un bilan mitigé de l’accord de libre-échange avec les Etats-Unis
28-Aug-2015     Le Monde
L’ouverture du marché américain qu’a permis la loi AGOA est une ouverture en trompe-l’œil. Les produits pétroliers et le textile ont été privilégiés, mais ceux-ci ne constituent pas l’essentiel du potentiel de l’ensemble des pays africains.
Tafta, Pac, crise de l’élevage : « Les revendications de la Fnsea ne sont pas tenables »
28-Aug-2015     Terre-net
Laurent Pinatel, le porte-parole de la Confédération paysanne, défend ses revendications pour sortir les éleveurs de la crise, évidemment différentes de celles du syndicalisme majoritaire
Susan George : « Il est encore possible d’empêcher le Tafta »
28-Aug-2015     La Marseillaise
L’essayiste altermondialiste et présidente d’honneur d’Attac intervenait mercredi dans un forum sur le thème « Combattre le libre-échange ».
RCEP seals modalities for tariff liberalization
28-Aug-2015     Live Mint
China agreed to accept India’s initial market access offer in the recently concluded RCEP ministerial in Kuala Lumpur.
The regulatory cooperation chapter of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: institutional structures and democratic consequences
27-Aug-2015     SSRN
This article focuses on the structure, scope, discipline, institutional design, enforcement and implementation of the envisaged horizontal chapter, often defined regulatory cooperation chapter.
President Sisi to discuss free trade, industrial zone, nuclear energy with Putin in Russia visit
27-Aug-2015     Nile International
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi in Russia to discuss a number of economic projects as well as strategic issues with Russian President Vladimir Putin