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European Commission announces composition of TTIP expert group
1-Feb-2014     http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-79_en.htm
Last Monday the Commission launched a special Advisory Group of experts representing a broad range of interests, from environmental, health, consumer and workers' interests to different business sectors to provide EU trade negotiators with high quality advice in the areas being negotiated in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) talks.
Interview: Dutch expert says TTIP might be game changer for geopolitics
31-Jan-2014     Xinhua
Peter van Ham, senior research fellow at the Dutch Clingendael Institute, thinks that TTIP could have an overwhelming standard-setting power for other countries.
John Kinsman: Why we should oppose the Trans Pacific Partnership
31-Jan-2014     PR Watch
John Kinsman, the author of this op-ed first published in The Capital Times in 2012, passed away on January 20, 2014. He was a leader of the global food sovereignty movement who many of us knew.
Environmental scientists join anti-TTIP tirade
31-Jan-2014     Chemical Watch
The Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership could spell an increase in lawsuits against governments which would not only discourage enforcement of existing environmental regulations, but also diminish the role of environmental scientists, predicts an academic opinion piece.
NAFTA & environmental laws: Ethyl Corp. v. Government of Canada
30-Jan-2014     Global Policy Forum
Chemical firm uses trade pact to contest Environmental Law
Harry Reid deals body blow to Obama on trade
30-Jan-2014     WSJ
US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid broke publicly with the White House Wednesday on trade policy, instantly imperiling two major international trade deals and punching a hole in one piece of the economic agenda the president outlined in his State of the Union address a day earlier.
Protests across North America aim to block 'NAFTA on steroids'
30-Jan-2014     Labor Notes
PHL-EU free-trade pact ‘catastrophic’ for 1.8 million Filipino fishermen–group
30-Jan-2014     Business Mirror
The Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) on Wednesday warned the Aquino administration against entering into a bilateral free trade agreement with the European Union, saying the forging of such an agreement will lead to the flooding of imported fish from EU member-states.
Philippines launches last-minute bid to join new Asia-Pacific FTA
29-Jan-2014    
Officials of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) will hold talks with their US counterparts within the next two months in a last-minute bid to join discussions for a free-trade area (FTA) in the Asia-Pacific region.
Mantega insists that the Mercosur/EU trade agreement includes Argentina
28-Jan-2014    
Mercosur is preparing for trade negotiations with the European Union and they include Argentina, said on Friday Brazilian finance minister. The comment seems to contradict other recent statements which said the trade deal with the EU will go forward with or without a reluctant Argentina.