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Is US ’chlorinated chicken’ and ‘GM food’ heading to EU?
15-May-2014     France24
French political parties attack the threats to food safety from the proposed EU-US trade agreement.
Mexico is waging war against American apples
15-May-2014     PRI
Mexico's apple industry is the latest victim of NAFTA -- and trying to fight back.
EU-US trade deal sails into new round, despite rough waters
15-May-2014     dpa
EU and US negotiators are to meet for a fifth time starting Monday in Washington in their efforts to create the world's largest free trade area, but questions from civil society and even some European governments about the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) have slowed things down.
EU publishes negotiating positions in five more areas
15-May-2014     DG Trade
The European Commission has published negotiating positions in five more topics of its current talks with the US on a future trade and investment deal, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
Center for Food Safety report warns TTIP could undermine critical food safety and environmental regulations
14-May-2014     CFS
The US-based Center for Food Safety today released a report examining the potential food and farming impacts of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), a week before EU trade negotiators arrive in Arlington, Virginia, for the fifth round of TTIP talks.
Brazil says Mercosur/EU to meet in Brussels at the end of May for trade talks
14-May-2014    
At the end of May Mercosur will be ready to exchange tariff-reduction proposals with the European Union, announced Brazilian Industry minister Mauro Borges who also anticipated the trade block would be holding a preparatory meeting next week in Caracas, Venezuela.
India-Israel FTA talks likely to be completed next year
14-May-2014    
Negotiations between India and Israel to forge a free trade agreement (FTA), under way for three years now, are likely to be completed by next year, Ambassador of Israel to India Alon Ushpiz has said.
Populist gains to complicate Europe's free trade ambitions
14-May-2014     Reuters
Growing support for far-right parties has dominated the run-up to next week's European Parliament elections but a lesser noticed theme is lurking: that protest parties on both right and left will try to scupper EU free trade talks.
Investor-state arbitration system needs ‘complete overhaul'
14-May-2014     TWN
A prominent international lawyer has launched a scathing critique of the international arbitration system that deals with investor-state disputes, describing the investment treaties that give rise to this system as "weapons of legal destruction"
Doctors warn TPPA takes away our climate protection tools
13-May-2014     Voxy
The New Zealand Climate and Health Council warns that negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) threaten New Zealand’s ability to protect our climate and health.
PHL weighs impact of possible free-trade agreement with EFTA
13-May-2014     Business Mirror
The Philippines is set to undertake a study on the impact of a free-trade agreement with a European economic bloc as the country is scheduled to sign a declaration of economic cooperation with the European Free-Trade Association ministers this June.
Turkey demands free trade agreement with EU and US
13-May-2014     World Bulletin
Turkey has to be party to a proposed Free Trade Agreement between the EU and the US, Turkey’s Economic Ministry declared on Monday, stressing that otherwise Turkey should consider renouncing their custom union agreement with the EU.
Stephen Harper’s free trade deals not living up to the political hype
13-May-2014     National Post
Canada's Prime Minister may announce the conclusion of marathon trade negotiations with the European Union in Brussels on June 4-5, when he’s in town for a previously scheduled G7 leaders meeting. Then again, he may not.
India: Nokia mulls invoking bilateral investment treaty
13-May-2014     Indian Express
Entangled in a protracted tax mess in the country, Nokia has said that it would like to address the issue under the bilateral investment treaty between Finland and India, sources told The Indian Express.
Free trade agreement with the US threatening fruit and vegetable diversity
13-May-2014     DWN
The seed industry is planning to take advantage of the free trade agreement between the US and the EU (TTIP) to implement its patents in the European market.