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S. Korea's membership in TPP only matter of time: trade minister
18-Aug-2015     Global Post
South Korea has no other choice but to join the U.S.-led regional free trade agreement, known as the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), the country's trade minister said.
Mali : commerce et industrie: les mesures de défenses commerciales au centre des débats
18-Aug-2015     Mali Actu
Un atelier de formation à Bamako pour combattre des politiques commerciales agressives des entreprises à la recherche de marchés d’exportation
ASEAN puts last touches to economic community
18-Aug-2015     Viet Nam News
With most of the high-priority measures in the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) blueprint already adopted, policymakers and businesses need to work closely on the remaining challenges to achieve benefits of full economic integration beyond 2015
Free-trade treaties are anti-free trade
18-Aug-2015     Toward Freedom
Free trade treaties are not really based on free trade but rather on protectionism.
Ex-minister seeks to outlaw TPP
18-Aug-2015     Agri HQ
Not content with suing the Japanese government, a lawyer and former Japanese agriculture minister has been leading a group who filed a lawsuit against the Japanese government
How Canada caved to US pressure at TPP talks in Hawaii
18-Aug-2015     The Tyee
Negotiators dropped patent and copyright demands but failed to garner agreement.
Don't believe the hype - TTIP is not for small companies
18-Aug-2015     CEO
Publicly, business lobby groups are heavily pushing the idea that TTIP will benefit small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). But behind closed doors they admit the reality: that small companies will “face increased competition” and that “benefits remain hypothetical”.
Pakistan’s FTAs have borne no fruit so far
18-Aug-2015    
Chicken war with US shows free trade threat to Vietnamese farmers
18-Aug-2015    
Hanoi chicken farmer Nguyen Huu Tuyen blames inexpensive poultry imported from the US for the loss of almost $14,000 this year.
RCEP seen as more important than TPP for now
18-Aug-2015    
Deputy Commerce Minister Apiradi Tantraporn has suggested that Thailand should eventually join the US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership, which will control about 40 per cent of global gross domestic product and one-third of world trade if approved. But until the TPP is finalised, Thailand should focus on the Asean-led Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), she said.