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Canada - Africa: Aggressively negotiating treaties
10-Dec-2013     The Africa Report
Canada's Minister of international trade, Ed Fast explains the country's strategic shift to link development aid with private sector investments.
Webinar: The promises and perils of proposed US-EU trade deal for food and agriculture
9-Dec-2013     IATP
On the occasion the third round of negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the Heinrich Boell Foundation and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) invite you to join them for a webinar on the agreement’s potential impacts on agriculture in the US and EU.
2nd Wikileaks release: US refusing to budge on TPP issues
9-Dec-2013     IT News
A new set of leaked documents from the latest round of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations show large differences remain between the 12 nations trying to hammer out a trade agreement.
India-UAE to sign bilateral investment protection agreement
9-Dec-2013     ANI
India and the UAE will next week sign an agreement to promote and protect bilateral investments.
India-EU free trade pact not likely in 3-4 years: Think tank
9-Dec-2013     PTI
India and the European Union are unlikely to ink a free trade pact in the next three to four years, a Belgium-based independent think tank, the European Centre for International Political Economy, has said. Echoing similar views, an MEP said, "It all depends on whether the Indian Parliament gets to pass the Insurance Bill in the Winter Session."
EU brewers want 'unfair' beer tax removed through TTIP
9-Dec-2013     Euractiv
European brewers last week urged EU negotiators to put a removal of taxes on European brewers, from which their American competitors are exempt, on the table in the free-trade negotiations with the US.
Taipei-Manila ECA study almost complete: envoy
9-Dec-2013     China Post
A feasibility study on signing an Economic Cooperation Agreement (ECA) between Taiwan and the Philippines is nearing completion, the Philippines' top envoy to Taiwan said recently.
Joe Stiglitz writes open letter to TPP negotiators
8-Dec-2013     KEI
"At this point in time, we do not need a TRIPS plus trade agreement, we need a TRIPS minus agreement."
China-EU bilateral investment treaty: Can it be achieved? – analysis
6-Dec-2013     Eurasia Review
The BITs China signed with individual European countries in the 1980s and 1990s were mainly intended to attract FDI and are no longer suitable for the new economic realities facing China.
EU-Georgia Association Agreement made public
6-Dec-2013     The Messenger
The text of the Association Agreement initialed between the European Union and Georgia has been made public.