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Indonesia to start trade talks to boost exports
5-Jan-2018     Jakarta Post
Indonesia seeks to initiate negotiations on trade agreements under both bilateral and regional schemes this year to help jack up the country’s exports.
Free trade or women's rights?
5-Jan-2018     Strategic Review
After 30 years of neoliberal globalization, it has been increasingly acknowledged that austerity, privatization, deregulation of finance, markets and corporations, and trade and investment liberalization have had a devastating and discriminatory impact on women.
UK leaving single market for TPP could hit workers' rights, union warns
5-Jan-2018     The Guardian
TUC delivers stark warning about labour abuses after trade secretary Liam Fox refuses to rule out membership of TPP.
A declaration from North Africa: food sovereignty is a right
5-Jan-2018     CADTM
We stand against the plunder of peoples’ resources by multinationals and financial capital and against all forms of discrimination and racism.
TPP sows fear in Japan's agriculture industry
5-Jan-2018     The Diplomat
As the resurrected TPP moves forward, Japanese consumer groups and farmers fear the effects.Many argue that seeds are likely to become more expensive by the proposed abolishment of the Seed Law.
Big Asean presence on R-Day will have ripple effect on mega trade pact talks
5-Jan-2018     The Hindu BusinessLine
It is highly probable that the Asean countries will use the official visit to gain some political mileage and push India towards steeper commitments on dismantling tariffs and improve market access commitments to RCEP members.
Liam Fox’s Pacific plan is toxic. Post-Brexit trade policies need proper scrutiny
4-Jan-2018     The Guardian
Joining the dysfunctional Trans-Pacific Partnership would help only big business. There must be transparency and accountability over trade.
China announces it will begin “a greater push” to conquer trade in the hemisphere
4-Jan-2018     MercoPress
Chinese Ambassador to Argentina Yang Wanming urged Latin American nations to increase trade ties to China, promoting Beijing’s “One Belt One Road” project and warning Beijing will begin a “greater push” to conquer trade in the hemisphere.
Japan wheat market to tighten
4-Jan-2018     The Progressive Farmer
US wheat growers are likely to lose some market share in Japan in the coming years because of a free trade agreement between Japan and the European Union, and the newly constituted Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership, a new USDA report warns.
SL-Singapore FTA first draft forwarded for Cabinet approval
4-Jan-2018     Daily Mirror
Unlike trade negotiations with behemoths such as India and China, politically-backed protests have not taken place against the Sri Lanka-Singapore FTA negotiations.