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Costa Rica rounds out free trade agreements with Europe
27-Mar-2014     Tico Times
The Legislative Assembly has approved a bill sealing a free trade agreement with EFTA, a group of non-EU countries including Lichtenstein, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland.
EU accelerates FTA negotiations with Vietnam
27-Mar-2014     VOV
The European Union is speeding up negotiations of a free trade agreement with Vietnam due to be signed in late 2014.
Taiwan's students head to the streets with sunflowers to protest closer ties with China
27-Mar-2014     Public Radio International
The students call their protest against the China-Taiwan trade agreement "the sunflower revolution" as the flower is a symbol of hope. Some professors have moved classes to the demonstrations sites themselves.
Trans-Atlantic labor union calls for higher labor standards in US-European Union trade agreement
27-Mar-2014     Workers Uniting
"We view TTIP as a threat to the rights of workers in Europe," said Len McCluskey, General Secretary of UNITE the Union in the UK and Ireland. "We can't afford to import America's low labor rights standards."
Le gaz de schiste au cœur du sommet UE-USA
27-Mar-2014     Euractiv
L’approvisionnement de l'Europe en gaz de schiste dans le cadre du TTIP s’est invité à la table des discussions lors de la visite de Barack Obama à Bruxelles.
NZ actors to rally against secretive TPPA
27-Mar-2014     It's Our Future
Equity New Zealand will join unions, community organisations, academics, creatives and students in co-sponsoring the national Day of Action to stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement this Saturday, 29 March.
Out of TPPA frying pan, into EU-FTA fire? - Kelsey
27-Mar-2014     Voxy
The New Zealand government is striking a brick wall in getting concessions on dairy from the US and Japan in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, and will have an equal or greater battle in its plans for a free trade agreement with the European Union, said Professor Jane Kelsey from the University of Auckland.
TRADE PACT SIEGE: Survey shows public favors students’ demands
26-Mar-2014     Taipei Times
About 80 percent of Taiwnese people polled this week express support for the demands made by students protesting against the controversial cross-strait services trade agreement.
Japan and Australia fail to agree on tariffs in FTA talks
26-Mar-2014     Kyodo
Japan and Australia failed to reach an agreement over cutting tariffs on farm products during ministerial talks Wednesday in Tokyo and could only confirm they will continue the negotiations.
Groups decry 'meaningless' consultation in Canada-Colombia FTA human rights impact assessment process
26-Mar-2014     rabble.ca
This is the third time the Conservative government has attempted to produce an impact assessment of its 2011 FTA with Colombia, as required by law, and each time the final report has been completely inadequate.