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Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: an interview with Judit Rius, Médecins Sans Frontières
The TPP negotiators are making decisions that will affect at least 600 million people, and potentially hundreds of millions more, in complete secrecy, and this is unacceptable.
India: Insurance bill now holds the key to FTA with EU
The much-delayed free trade agreement between India and the European Union may finally get through if the government is able to amend the law to allow greater foreign investment in Indian insurance firms.
Farmers rally in Tokyo against Japan’s entry into TPP talks
Japan’s largest farm group rallied Tuesday in Tokyo to protest against the government’s entry into the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade talks.
Hokkaido farmers rally against Japan's entry to TPP talks
Some 1,500 farmers in the northernmost Japan prefecture of Hokkaido held a mass rally on Monday against the country joining Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade negotiations.
Call to speed up African Tripartite FTA negotiations
The Government of Zambia has called on the three African regional economic communities (RECs) -- the East African Community (EAC), the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) -- to speed up their free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations.
America will sign the TPP - John Key
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key is confident America will sign one of the world’s largest free trade deals, because its economic hands are tied. “How on earth, if you’re Obama, do you actually stimulate the economy and get jobs? The only way through it for him is basically through exporting, and the fastest way to do that in volume is in Asia. That’s why we think Americans will actually do the deal,” he says.
Businesses want TPP to be concluded
Business representatives from around the Asia-Pacific region, gathered for the current 16th round of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations in Singapore, urged negotiators to show flexibility and narrow the range of differences so that the talks can be brought to conclusion as soon as possible.
Indian negotiators under pressure to give in to European Commission demands
Civil society and PLHIV networks across the world need to support us in this unequal and conclusive battle against the unfair demands of the European Commission on IP enforcement and investment standards.
Ecuador plans legal challenge on foreign investment, oil
Ecuador's president on Saturday said he planned to challenge several bilateral investment treaties after the South American country was ordered to pay billions of dollars in damages by overseas courts.