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Free trade? CFIB finds it’s easier to import from the U.S. than to export to it if you are a small business
19-Jan-2016     Financial Post
Suzanne Paquin Leylekian regularly imports materials from Finland, China and other countries with which Canada has no free trade agreement.
Dangerous regulatory duet
19-Jan-2016     Corporate Europe Observatory
How transatlantic regulatory cooperation under TTIP will allow bureaucrats and big business to attack the public interest.
Interview: End of US crude oil export ban – consequences for TTIP and the climate
19-Jan-2016     Bordelex
The EU has been advocating an end of this ban as part of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations. The EU wants to be able to import US oil for energy security reasons and set global rules for energy markets.
TPPA briefing to NGOs by Ms. Sanya Reid Smith
19-Jan-2016     Empower
Ms. Reid Smith analyses the implications of trade agreements on economic and social sectors and various policies in developing countries.
PACER Plus flexibility on regulating 'misleading'
19-Jan-2016     Radio NZ
The Pacific Network on Globalisation, or PANG, says it begs to differ with comments by the Chief Trade Advisor for the Pacific Island countries that PACER Plus agreement will allow members countries to regulate.
FTA with Malaysia this year: Tofail
19-Jan-2016    
Bangladesh plans to sign a free trade agreement with Malaysia this year to boost bilateral trade, Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed said yesterday.
MSF warns on EU/India trade talks
19-Jan-2016     http://www.thepharmaletter.com/article/msf-warns-on-eu-india-trade-talks
As reported in Indian media, senior officials from the European Commission and India are expected to meet today in Brussels to hold talks on resuming negotiations on the proposed European Union-India free trade agreement.
Big business orders its pro-TTIP arguments from these think tanks
18-Jan-2016     The Correspondent
Think tanks present themselves as independent providers of arguments, facts, and figures in the ideologically charged debate on TTIP, the pending free trade agreement between the U.S. and the EU. But is that really the case?
The geopolitics of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), a US imperial strategy
18-Jan-2016     Global Research
It is a trade deal that seeks to buttress the dominant role of the United States in shaping the political and economic world order by fending off a formidable challenger like China. At its very core, TPPA is geopolitical.
PNG Trade Minister opposes PACER Plus
18-Jan-2016     Radio NZ
Papua New Guinea's government says it will not support the PACER Plus regional agreement on closer economic relations.