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EU steps up PR campaign to overcome US trade deal hostility
27-Jul-2015     Reuters
European officials are ruing their failure to spot early signs of opposition to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
Cambodia may lose EU market share if EU-Vietnam bilateral FTA materializes, say exporters
27-Jul-2015     Oryza.com
If the EU-Vietnam trade deal goes through, Cambodia - which currently accounts for 22% of the EU's rice iumports - will certaily lose market share.
Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal threatened by dairy wrangle
27-Jul-2015     Financial Review
A complex stand-off over dairy exports could be the key determinant of whether trade ministers seal an agreement on the TPP this week.
Pacific trade negotiators face high-wire act in Hawaii
27-Jul-2015     Reuters
Pacific Rim officials meet in Hawaii this week for talks that could make or break an ambitious trade deal which aims to boost growth and set common standards across a dozen economies ranging from the United States to Brunei.
USTR proposal in TPP would undermine state sovereign immunity for patents, copyrights
27-Jul-2015     KEI
TPP would violate the right of US states to protection from suit for patent, trademark or copyright infringement
No FDI in multibrand retail under trade pact: India to EU
27-Jul-2015     Business Standard
The government of India has categorically informed the European Union that it will not allow European multibrand retail firms to set up shop here, even as both sides decided to resume negotiations towards concluding the long-pending Bilateral Trade and Investment Agreement.
Secrecy of TPP talks fuels concern about influence of corporate property lobby
27-Jul-2015     Japan Times
Higher costs for needed generic drugs. Longer copyright protections than the global standard. Foreign investors empowered to overrule governments. A more tightly-regulated Internet. Those are just some of the potential pitfalls from any deal that could emerge from the TPP this week.
APWLD: Stop TPP - campaign toolkit
27-Jul-2015     APWLD
Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development have prepared a toolkit for groups that want to join the struggle against the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
National MPs could block US trade deal, activists say
26-Jul-2015     EU Observer
A study by the Institute of Law at the University of Cologne finds that in all EU member states, except for Malta, a parliamentary approval process would be necessary to sign TTIP and the provisionally-agreed trade deal with Canada (CETA) into law.
Don’t trade away our lives, urge folk with HIV/Aids
25-Jul-2015     Malaysia Kini
As the negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) enter what could be its last round, we as people living with HIV/Aids (PLHIV), urge the Malaysian government not to trade away our lives.