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Will European requirements for labeling GMO foods survive new trade negotiations?
4-Jul-2013     Huffington Post
Will US trade negotiators seek the elimination of GMO restrictions in Europe through the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership?
EU envoy prods Canada to finalize free trade deal
4-Jul-2013     Canadian Press
European access for Canadian beef still a sticking point
Fading trade timelines
4-Jul-2013     Business Standard
The timelines for a possible India-Europe bilateral trade and investment agreement are getting tight with both sides supposedly failing to close the deal on some critical issues.
Freeing trade between South Africa and Nigeria
4-Jul-2013     IPS
If a Free Trade Area were negotiated between Africa's two largest economies, South Africa and Nigeria, it would have a powerful effect across the sub-continent. However, there are concerns that such an FTA would give one-sided benefits to the South Africans.
Next round of EU-Malaysia FTA talks to resume in Q4, says envoy
4-Jul-2013     Bernama
The next round of negotiations on the EU-Malaysia Free Trade Agreement is expected to resume in the fourth quarter, says Ambassador & Head of Delegation of the European Union to Malaysia, Luc Vandebon.
US pork industry counting on bilateral FTAs
4-Jul-2013     Whotv.com
The US pork industry has been restricted from exporting pork to the EU, the seocnd largest consumer group after China, through various tariff and non-tariff trade barriers that it wants to see eliminated
Trade secrets – Draft EU documents reveal trade agenda with US
3-Jul-2013     IATP
The only way civil society groups find out about trade negotiations are through one-way conversations or leaked negotiating documents. One such text came our way over the weekend, a set of position papers summarizing some of the EU’s initial goals on regulatory harmonization, writes IATP.
EU-US FTA (TTIP) - EU initial position papers (June 2013)
3-Jul-2013     IATP
Initial position papers from the Commission dated 20 June 2013 and leaked by IATP
Obama's Africa trip bolsters US interests
3-Jul-2013     Al Jazeera
One major US-Africa issue was unresolved as Air Force One left Tanzania's tarmac: the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), a tariff-free trade deal that was devised during Clinton's administration and expires in 2015, writes James Reinl for Al Jazeera.
Philip Morris International welcomes decision by World Bank tribunal to hear treaty challenge to Uruguay’s excessive tobacco measures
3-Jul-2013     National Post
Philip Morris International (PMI) welcomed the decision by a World Bank arbitration tribunal to hear a claim that Uruguay violated multiple provisions of its Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) with Switzerland.