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India seeks UK's support to fast-track FTA with EU
20-Feb-2013    
India Tuesday sought Britain's support for early conclusion of its much-discussed free trade deal with the European Union.
EPA talks at critical stage
20-Feb-2013     The Jet
The European Union has acknowledged the seriousness by both Fiji and her Pacific neighbors who are part of the African Caribbean and Pacific group to conclude negotiations into the Economic Partnership Agreement.
Investors running wild on land: the threats posed by international investment agreements
20-Feb-2013     Traidcraft
A recent briefing note by Traidcraft discusses the threats posed by current regulation of foreign investment in land highlighting that food security and other human rights concerns often come at the cost of excessive protection of foreign investors’ rights.
Plain packaging for cigarettes a legal minefield
18-Feb-2013    
Lawsuits are seen as the inevitable next step if plain packaging of cigarettes is brought in. The government will announce a decision on the matter in the next few days.
The EU's free trade agreements – where are we?
18-Feb-2013     EU
Memo from the European Commission
EU Parliamentarians push RP FTA
18-Feb-2013     Manila Bulletin
Visiting EU Parliamentarians expect the bilateral free trade agreement between the Philippines and EU will be completed in one and a half years as the legislators urged for further opening of the domestic economy to shore up the country’s foreign direct investments and more trade.
Germany calls for sweeping EU-US free trade deal
18-Feb-2013     Reuters
German Economy Minister Philipp Roesler told Der Spiegel magazine on Sunday he and the German government want a sweeping free trade deal, while France and southern EU nations, by contrast, want to protect their agriculture industry with regulations and also keep out genetically modified US foodstuffs, the magazine said.
EU-US free trade deal will dismantle EU public health protections on GM foods
18-Feb-2013     Earth Open Source
An EU-US free trade deal would obliterate EU safeguards for health and the environment with regard to genetically modified (GM) crops and foods, warns Earth Open Source.
New law to deal with compensating foreign investors for expropriation
18-Feb-2013     Business Day
One of the most contentious issues dealt with in a draft new Foreign Investment Bill, which the South African Department of Trade and Industry will present to an interministerial committee in the next few months, will deal with how the South African government will compensate foreign investors in the event of expropriation, deputy director-general of international trade Xavier Carim said on Friday.
CETA Investor-State Dispute Settlement process “anti-democratic, unnecessary and unfair,” says NFU
16-Feb-2013     National Farmers Union
The National Farmers Union is among the labour, environmental, Indigenous, women’s, academic, health sector and fair trade organizations representing over 65 million people from both sides of the Atlantic that have signed a joint statement demanding that Canada and the EU stop negotiating an excessive and controversial investor rights chapter in the proposed Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).