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Secret free trade talks concern business
Free trade deals need to be better analysed and assessed before Australia agrees to them, the nation's largest business group has told a parliamentary inquiry.
Chinese beef acquisitions in Uruguay as Beijing dangles free trade deal
The purchase of a Uruguayan beef processor by a giant Chinese industrial conglomerate looks well-timed as China dangles the prospect of a free trade deal before the Latin American nation.
Emergency services turn life-threatening under US private equity owners -- and a global Trade in Services Agreement would globalize the damage
Vital public services like firefighting and ambulances are being handed over to a small number of transnational companies worldwide, a trend that will be hugely boosted by TPP, TTIP, CETA and TiSA.
'Indonesia-Australia pact can make us partners in prosperity'
Statement from Australian Chamber of Commerce on potential Australia-Indonesia trade agreement
UK-China free trade agreement of ‘great interest’ to meat sector
A China bilateral trade deal offers "great opportunities" to the UK meat industry, according to The International Meat Trade Association (IMTA).
Selling off the farm: corporate meat's takeover through TTIP
New report from IATP shows how TTIP will accelerate corporate concentration and expand industrial meat production or “factory farming” by increasing the power of meat-producing transnational corporations.
This is how Big Business negotiated the TTIP
A report ‘A Dangerous Regulatory Duet’ explains how lobby groups of major multinationals, influenced the negotiations of the trade treaty between the European Union and the United States.
As Pacific trade deal is signed pharma holds key to US ratification
One immediate obstacle to getting the Trans-Pacific Partnership through US Congress lives in Jan Kemper’s laboratory an hour’s drive from the White House.
Haiti’s fraudulent presidential frontrunner seizes land for his own banana republic
Farmers remain homeless and out of work while the land grabbed by the company Jovenel Moïse founded, Agritrans, now hosts a private banana plantation. Moïse is the only man running in Haiti's fraudulent runoff presidential elections this Sunday, and is connected to the land grab responsible for the expulsion of as many as 800 peasants.
French firm attacks Ugandan tax using ISDS
The heavily criticized legal mechanism, known as ISDS, is an important tool for European companies to pressurize developing countries. This year Uganda joins the rank of developing nations asking themselves: “Why have we ever signed this?”