ISDS Case Map
corporate interests
A new report by IATP shows that the US meat industry is licking its chops at the prospect of a Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement in order to ship more product overseas while US meat consumption declines.
The Brazil-US Business Council today signed a Cooperation Agreement with the Brazilian National Confederation of Industry (CNI) to conduct studies on a potential trade agreement and report back to both governments on their findings.
The European business lobby's "trade agenda" for new European Commission
The entire treaty making-process of the TTIP smashes the fundamental principles of the Rule of Law (ie, citizens’ procedural safeguards such as transparency, separation of powers, parliamentary debates…).
Agricultural talks must be concluded on Friday to ensure the Australia-China Free Trade Agreement can be signed when Chinese President Xi Jinping visits Australia for the G20 next week.
“If TTIP is passed along the lines that have been released so far, the EU's endocrine disrupting chemicals regulations would be postponed even further or completely derailed,” says David Azoulay, an attorney at the Centre for International Environmental Law.
EU apparel industry wants a provision forbidding the US Department of Defense from buying products not 100% 'made in the US' to be repealed by TTIP -- but its US counterpart is fighting back.
It's US firms that would stand to gain more under a treaty, US-China Business Council President John Frisbie has said.
In line with the recently concluded EU-Singapore free trade agreement and reflecting the growing importance of Asean as an economic entity, the EU-Asean Business Council (EU-ABC) today formally announced its constitution as an independent body.
Australian Trade Minister Andrew Robb lashed out at consumer groups and the Greens for spreading misinformation about the Trans-Pacific Partnership, before walking into a meeting with 11 trade counterparts in Sydney on Saturday to finalise the "basic elements" of the deal.
