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Affordable medicines could be at risk as US seeks to firm up protections
23-Feb-2015     Sydney Morning Herald
Access to affordable medicines could be under threat in Australia if the United States gets its way in secretive negotiations over a massive trade deal involving 12 Pacific-region countries, academics have warned.
How Jack Straw lobbied Ukrainian PM and European Commission on behalf of sugar firm
23-Feb-2015     The Telegraph
According to The Telegraph, former UK foreign secretary Jack Straw lobbied the Ukrainian goverment - using the proposed EU FTA as a carrot - to get it to change a domestic law in favour of a UK company's interests.
TPP accord no longer expected before April
23-Feb-2015     Japan Times
Ongoing negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement are no longer expected to conclude before April.
S. Korea, China expected to initial free trade deal next week: official
22-Feb-2015     Arirang
A high-level trade ministry official in Seoul says the two sides have reached agreement on a number of previously unresolved technical issues during closed-door talks.
Obama begins sales pitch on trade to wary US public
22-Feb-2015     Reuters
President Barack Obama on Saturday began a broad sales pitch to the US public about the merits of free trade deals, an area in which he faces stiff resistance from many in his own Democratic party.
Latest round of RCEP negotiations end with no clear breakthrough
20-Feb-2015     Yonhap News
The latest round of talks for a broad regional free trade pact involving Asian and Pacific countries, known as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, ended with no clear sign of a major breakthrough.
How EU-US trade deal could thwart “boycott Israel” campaign
20-Feb-2015     Electronic Intifada
Two members of the US Congress have introduced a bill that would turn a giant trade deal between the EU and US into a devastating weapon against the people of Palestine and all those seeking justice alongside them.
EU-Ecuador FTA (2014): annotations and commitments
20-Feb-2015     European Commission
TPP chief negotiators to meet in mid-March in Hawaii
20-Feb-2015     Japan Times
The 12 countries involved in a proposed Pacific-Rim free trade initiative will convene a chief negotiators’ meeting in mid-March in Hawaii, sources close to the matter said on Friday, as they scramble to secure a deal by the end of this spring.
Free trade agreement between UAE and Switzerland this year
20-Feb-2015     Gulf News
Free Trade Agreement between Switzerland and the UAE has been signed and will be implemented from July this year, a dignitary from Switzerland said on Thursday.