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TPP - US TBT proposal (2011)
24-Oct-2011     CTC
Citizen Trade Campaign has released this proposed text from the US on technical barriers to trade relating to medical devices and pharmaceuticals under the Trans Pacific Partnership
TPP - US IPR proposal (Sep 2011)
24-Oct-2011     CTC
Citizen Trade Campaign has released this September 2011 proposal from the US on IPR under the Trans Pacific Partnership
Leaked Trans-Pacific FTA texts reveal US undermining access to medicine
23-Oct-2011     CTC
Leaks of US proposals for the Trans-Pacific free trade agreement reveal that the Obama administration has reversed reforms designed to enhance access to affordable medicines made during the George W Bush administration and is instead demanding new rights for pharmaceutical firms to challenge pricing and other drug formulary policies used by many developed countries to keep down prices,
TPPA 'threatens national sovereignty'
21-Oct-2011     IT Wire
Despite the secrecy, there are some intrepid souls who are mounting opposition to the Trans Pacific Partnership. Interview with one of them, Jane Kelsey, a professor of law at the University of Auckland and long-term academic activist in the area of free trade and investment agreements.
Govt likely to expand compensation for farmers
21-Oct-2011     Yomiuri Shimbun
With participation in Trans-Pacific Partnership comprehensive trade talks and resumption of an economic partnership agreement with Australia on the horizon, the Japanese government is likely to increase its direct payments to farmers by several hundred billion yen, it has been learned.
Free trade agreements kill people!
20-Oct-2011     Via Campesina
"In light of threats from FTAs and TPP, we call on our governments to completely reject the attempts to conclude the upcoming agreements and to stop the implentation of the previous FTAs."
Civil society platform on IP in the Trans Pacific Partnership
20-Oct-2011     Infojustice
Eight civil society groups have released a platform on the intellectual property and health content of the Trans Pacific Partnership. The platform calls ex-officio border measures “inappropriate,” rejects a “one size fits all” regime for patent validity, and warns against using the suggested retail price or rightholder-submitted measurements of value in the determination of damages for IP infringement.
EU urges China to open public-contract market
20-Oct-2011     European Voice
The European Union is hoping to use next week's summit with China (25 October) to press the Chinese authorities on obstacles facing European investors and to discuss access for European bidders to China's public-procurement market.
Noda, Lee push trade talks / Leaders agree to step up efforts to negotiate bilateral pact
20-Oct-2011     Yomiuri Shimbun
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and South Korean President Lee Myung Bak agreed Wednesday to speed up working-level talks to resume bilateral free trade negotiations.
SA and the EU trade negotiations - A step closer
20-Oct-2011     FM
In negotiations to forge an economic partnership agreement (EPA), the EU has agreed to improve market access for about 80% of the agricultural products South Africa has asked to be accepted. However, the EU has yet to budge on wine, sugar and starch.