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The FIPA with China restricts Canada's options on climate change
For years, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government told Canadians that it could not act on climate change until China joined in. Yet, in 2014, the government quietly finalized a 31-year investment treaty that, in essence, gives Chinese oil companies an advance bailout against a range of steps that Canada may need to take on climate change.
Leaked: What's in Obama's trade deal
A recent draft of the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade deal would give US pharmaceutical firms unprecedented protections against competition from cheaper generic drugs, possibly transcending the patent protections in US law.
TiSA - draft annex on government procurement (April 2015)
Leaked by Wikileaks
TiSA - draft annex on movement of natural persons (April 2015)
Leaked by Wikileaks
TiSA - draft annex on domestic regulation (April 2015)
Leaked by Wikileaks
TiSA - draft annex on transparency negotiating (April 2015)
Leaked by Wikileaks
TiSA - draft provisions (April 2015)
Leaked by Wikileaks
US-Europe trade pact adds to Switzerland's pain
"TTIP is going to affect Switzerland very much. There is a fear we're going to be locked out and some of our companies discriminated," a government official told the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday
The Philippines, Thailand, South Korea and Taiwan: Joining TPP?
More countries in Asia appear ready to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, most likely as members of the second round of nations joining the deal.
TTIP: Why we are asking for an immediate suspension? With a sense of urgency !
Human rights organizations have joined the broad Belgian coalition of the trade union confederations, mutuality’s, consumer organizations and environmental and development umbrella NGOs and are asking for an immediate suspension of the TTIP negotiations.