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Sustainable regulation and trade agreements for the EU-UK relationship
30-Apr-2020     Trade Justice Movement
The Trade Justice Movement has published model Sustainable Regulation and Trade Agreements for the EU-UK relationship, which have been developed in partnership with trade unions, environmental organisations and justice groups.
Indonesia’s response to coronavirus threatens to increase illegal logging
29-Apr-2020     Fern
It is critical that the EU, which is currently negotiating a free trade agreement with Indonesia, uses these negotiations to ask how Indonesia will protect forests, mitigate climate change and respect community tenure rights.
Stop all trade and investment treaty negotiations during COVID-19 crisis and focus on access to medical supplies and saving lives
22-Apr-2020     Friends of the Earth International
An open letter to Trade Ministries and the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
Pandemic profiteers: how foreign investors could make billions from crisis measures
20-Apr-2020     TNI
Governments' emergency actions in the wake of COVID-19 could prompt a wave of arbitration lawsuits for billions of dollars by multinational corporations and investment lawyers.
Crimes against Human Rights and the renegotiation of the free trade agreement Chile-EU
17-Apr-2020     Chile Mejor sin TLC
As is the case in all of the treaties, the parts that are not directly related to trade are non-binding, as the chapter on human rights is.
Silent expansion
15-Apr-2020     CEO
Many countries, particularly in the global south, are in the process of joining the Energy Charter Treaty despite the sweeping powers it grants to foreign investors.
Putting an end to the EU’s neo-colonial policies in the field of trade and investment
14-Apr-2020     CADTM
The destructive effects of these free trade agreements signed with the EU are already clearly visible in the majority of countries of the South.
The European Commission's manipulations of the interim Economic Partnership Agreements of Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana
3-Apr-2020     SOL
This analysis aims to uncover the many tricks used by the European Commission to impose the Interim Economic Partnership Agreements of Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana.
Will Canada’s grain farmers be collateral damage in the rush to pass Bill C-4?
26-Mar-2020     NFU
Bill C-4 - the legislation to implement the Canada-US-Mexico trade agreement - makes it so Canada must treat all American-grown grain as if it were Canadian-grown.
Intellectual property rights: Potential implications of the DCFTA for access to medicine
25-Mar-2020     Observatoire Tunisien de l'Economie
If the intellectual property provisions of the DCFTA are applied, this will have an impact on both the cost of patented medicines and undermine access to affordable medicines.