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The EU claims that TTIP won’t reduce EU food safety standards – but is this true?
21-Apr-2015     ChemTrust
The EU commission has claimed that there will be no lowering of food safety standards in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) that is currently being negotiated with the United States. However, an examination of the EU’s negotiating position shows that they are already offering changes which could lead to increased amounts of pesticide residues in food in the EU in the future.
Parliament’s opposition to TTIP arbitration on the rise
21-Apr-2015     EurActiv
Half of the European Parliament's committees have rejected the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership's investor-state dispute settlement mechanism, casting doubt over the trade deal's prospects of to passing through Parliament.
China 'uncomfortable' with US negative list for investment treaty talks
21-Apr-2015     Xinhua
The US government has outlined key infrastructure, important technology and national security into its negative list where Chinese investment would not be not allowed under the proposed US-China Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT)
US-Japan fail to seal trade agreement before Abe US trip
21-Apr-2015     Bloomberg
US and Japanese officials failed to reach agreement in marathon trade talks in Tokyo, a setback for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s hopes of arriving for a summit in Washington next week with a pact in hand.
Canada’s most sacred cows under attack as TPP takes aim at agriculture
20-Apr-2015     iPolitics
The Americans have made it clear they have a deal-breaker with Canada — supply management in agriculture, notably dairy and poultry.
April 17: Lobby action tour on TTIP, impacts for food and farmers
20-Apr-2015     Corporate Europe Observatory
On 17 April, Via Campesina, the D190-20 Alliance and Corporate Europe Observatory held a lobby tour around the Brussels European quarter, highlighting the corporate lobbies who are pushing an aggressive agenda around TTIP (the EU-US trade deal currently being negotiated).
105 Colombian trade unionists killed in 4 years: NGO
20-Apr-2015     Telesur
Colombia's National Union School presented a report to the US Congress denouncing the killing of at least 105 trade unionists since the implementation of the US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement.
India-Canada treaty critics team up to fight
20-Apr-2015     The Tyee
As governments in Canada and India herald their progress on a free trade agreement, promising to have it worked out by September, opponents from both countries are preparing to unite in their efforts to stop the deal.
‘Stop TTIP’: Protests in Europe and beyond against US-EU trade pact
20-Apr-2015     EuroNews
Hundreds of demonstrations have taken place worldwide against a planned free trade agreement between the US and the EU – in one of the largest series of protests so far.
China, US to exchange negative lists of investment treaty talks
20-Apr-2015     Xinhua
China and the United States are expected to exchange negative lists of bilateral investment treaty (BIT) "this month or next month," which could pave the way for substantial achievement on the negotiations in this regard in September, China's Vice Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao said Friday.