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Trade activists encourage N.L. fight CETA - Board of Trade does not.
27-Jan-2015    
The St. John’s Board of Trade does not agree with the hard line the provincial government is taking on the Comprehensive European Trade Agreement (CETA) with the federal government and that it is refusing to take part in negotiations with them.
Israel interested in a free trade zone with Eurasian Economic Union
27-Jan-2015    
Israel is interested in creation of a free trade zone with the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.
Ukraine intends to sign FTA agreement with Canada, says economy minister
27-Jan-2015    
The signing of a free trade agreement (FTA) between Ukraine and Canada will promote an increase in goods turnover between the two countries and the inflow of Canadian investment to Ukraine, Ukrainian Economic Development and Trade Minister Aivaras Abromavicius has said.
New study on preferential agreements and TTIP
27-Jan-2015     Logistics Insight Asia
A new research study from AEB and DHBW shows that companies expect TTIP to have almost no positive effects on employment and financial development.
Concerns over backlash: Implementation of Korea-China FTA around the corner
27-Jan-2015     Business Korea
The Korean government is planning to provisionally sign the Korea-China FTA and make public the schedule of concessions this week.
Australia: Public health, union, and church groups slam TPP trade deal
27-Jan-2015     AFTINET
An unusually diverse mix of 47 Australian community groups including public health, environment, union, church, development aid and other groups have written an open letter to Trade Minister Robb citing mounting evidence that the TPP is not in the national interest, and demanding that the text be released for public scrutiny before it is signed.
Protests as Trans-Pacific Partnership talks resume in New York
27-Jan-2015     Our Future
Hundreds of trade, labor, environmental, health, communities of color, anti-GMO and food justice, anti-fracking, animal and other activists braved the big blizzard to protest the secret TPP trade agreement and "fast track" trade promotion authority (TPA).
Paris and Berlin call for review of EU-Canada trade deal
27-Jan-2015     EurActiv
Trade negotiations between the EU and Canada concluded in October 2013, but France and Germany now want to make changes to the CETA agreement’s investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) clause.
“Investment arbitration is now on Broadway, and the critics are not being kind”
26-Jan-2015     Mediate.com
There is a developing consensus among states that it is acceptable, and even virtuous, to challenge investor-state arbitration as an infringement on the rights of the public to pass laws through their democratically-elected representatives.
Human rights in investor-State arbitration: The human right to water and beyond
26-Jan-2015     SSRN
This article analyzes the restrictive approach adopted by investor-State arbitration tribunals to human rights arguments raised by host States, as exemplified in the case of the human right to water