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Two thirds of European oil refineries ready for tar sands imports
26-Nov-2015     EurActiv
More than two thirds of European oil refineries are now equipped to process tar sands, research has found, raising fears the EU is ready to welcome a flood of imports of one of the most environmentally devastating fuels in production.
EU-Guyana trade deal must protect land rights, activists say
26-Nov-2015     EurActiv
A potential trade pact between the European Union and Guyana must contain land rights protections for local residents in order to avert the possible displacement of indigenous people.
RI-EU CEPA paves way for TPP
26-Nov-2015     The Jakarta Post
The Indonesia-EU Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), which is expected to come into effect within the next two years, is likely to ready Indonesia to join the US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
Panama and Israel sign free trade agreement
26-Nov-2015     The Times of Israel
Latin American nation’s first FTA with a Middle Eastern nation focuses on innovation and technology transfer
The new gold standard? Empirically situating the TPP in the investment treaty universe
25-Nov-2015     Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
The TPP investment chapter offers few truly novel features and is instead heavily influenced by prior American treaty practice.
State’s leadership on healthy food and farming at risk under proposed trade deals
25-Nov-2015     IATP
U.S. negotiators are looking to wrap up two new massive trade agreements that could threaten the continued viability of labeling laws to educate and protect consumers and support local food systems.
EU tables official TTIP investment text, with changes on parallel claims
25-Nov-2015     World Trade Online
The new European Union proposal for an investment chapter in the TTIP is mostly identical to the draft chapter Brussels released but makes what could be significant changes to how parallel claims are handled and tightens rules on arbitrator conduct.
A user-focused commentary on the TPP ISP Safe Harbors
25-Nov-2015     Intellectual Property Watch
This post offers a comparison of TPP’s IP chapter and the DMCA with a focus on the rights of users and the status of user expression in the TPP’s intermediary safe harbor provisions.
Does the EU’s “Investment Court System” put an end to ISDS?
24-Nov-2015     TNI
Professor Gus Van Harten, Osgoode Hall Law School, and Rupert Schlegelmilch, European Commission, Directorate General for Trade discuss the European Commission's proposed “Investment Court System”.
Why is Philip Morris International Inc. suing these countries?
24-Nov-2015     Fool
Philip Morris is dragging countries with tight tobacco regulations into costly legal battles.