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PHL not in a hurry to ink FTA with US
26-Apr-2017     Business Mirror
"We’re comfortable and happy with the generalized system of preferences. If ever there are initiatives to work on an FTA, we’ll be open to that, but we won’t be bringing it up," says Philippines Trade Secretary.
The political motivations of the United States’ bilateral investment treaty program
26-Apr-2017     SSRN
The United States has largely used BITs as a foreign policy tool to improve relationships with strategically important countries in the developing world.
Working on a bilateral trade agreement between Indonesia-USA
26-Apr-2017     Indonesia Investments
The Indonesian government is currently studying the opportunities and challenges with regard to the making of a new bilateral trade deal with the USA.
The expanding universe of IP
26-Apr-2017     The Hindu
Granting data exclusivity for clinical trials would undermine access to medicines.
India, Sri Lanka slip on oil, trade deals
26-Apr-2017     The Hindu
Commerce Ministry officials continued their three-day talks on the ETCA to iron out differences on the upgraded Free Trade Agreement of 2000 to include services, investment and technological trade.
Deputy foreign minister named as Japan’s chief TPP negotiator
26-Apr-2017     Japan Times
The government announced that it has appointed a deputy foreign minister as chief negotiator for the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade pact, with an eye to bringing the deal into force without the United States.
RCEP is part of top agenda at the ASEAN Summit
25-Apr-2017     Business Mirror
Conclusion of the RCEP deal will be a priority at the ASEAN Summit in Manila
The huge dumping of extra-EU exports of dairy products and to the EPAs of West Africa, SADC, CEMAC and EAC in 2016
25-Apr-2017     SOL
The EU has been pressuring the ACP countries (Africa, Caribbean and Pacific) to sign and implement EPAs that would be destructive for these countries.
Dairy 101: The Canada-U.S. milk spat explained
25-Apr-2017     iPolitics
The Americans have made it very clear they want to secure more access to Canada’s dairy and poultry markets when NAFTA is renegotiated.
CETA bringing changes to pharma patents in Canada
25-Apr-2017     Canadian Lawyer
A certificate of supplemental protection provides up to two years of additional protection after expiry of a patent.