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Business and NGOs divided over TTIP regulatory cooperation
While EU and US negotiators are meeting this week in Washington, business groups and civil society organisations have released contradictory statements about regulatory cooperation in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
US dairy industry decries market barriers raised in EU-Canada trade deal
The US dairy industry says the agreement violates Canadian intellctual property laws and restricts US access to the Canadian cheese market
Bilateral Investment Treaties: What they are and why they matter
The US-China Business Council, a corporate lobby group, outlines what a US-China BIT might amount to.
Unions say planned international trade deal poses threat to NHS
Transatlantic trade and investment partnership may make the outsourcing of national health services in Britain permanent
Chemical industry using TTIP ‘to attack the precautionary principal’
The last 12 months have seen a surge of attacks against the EU’s precautionary principle, with some law firms considering it a potential obstacle to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
Registered lobbyists elbow their way back into TPP committees
New relaxed rules on lobbyists mean that Hollywood will now be able to exercise their influence on US trade policy more than ever.
FTAs key for Aus agribusiness: Rabo
A new report released by global agribusiness specialist Rabobank points to free trade agreements (FTAs) and building strategic government and business relationships as the keys to improving market access for Australian exporters.
China's surging investment in US heralds new multinational era
Chinese investments in the United States now exceed American investments in China in an historic shift that may see the emergence of joint Sino-US multinationals, but one that is also fraught with geopolitical risks, said analysts.
UPA may have left another can of worms in Anand Sharma’s free trade agreements
One of the most serious long-term damages done by any ministry under the UPA -- in India -- was commerce under Anand Sharma.
GIs becoming growing cheese trade barrier
The US National Milk Producers Federation and the US Dairy Export Council say that geographical indications established as a direct result of EU FTAs are a new and growing type of trade barrier restricting access to the Korean and other markets for key US cheeses.