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Big oil and gas companies are winners in Trump’s new trade deal
4-Oct-2018 Washington Post
The oil business persuaded the White House to keep a number of features of the old NAFTA, including provisions that help protect US oil companies’ investments abroad and allow for tax-free transport of raw and refined products across borders.
How the USMCA falls short on digital trade, data protection and privacy
4-Oct-2018 Washington Post
The digital trade chapter restricts data localization policies and bans restrictions on data transfers across borders.
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia agree to negotiate FTA
4-Oct-2018 Express Tribune
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia agreed to negotiate a free trade agreement for trade liberalisation and increasing the volume between the two countries.
Petition against Singapore FTA postponed to next year
4-Oct-2018 Adaderana
The petition filed seeking a court order pronouncing that the Sri Lanka-Singapore Free Trade Agreement is against the Constitution, will be taken up for consideration on January 09, the Supreme Court has decided.
Trade pact clause seen deterring China trade deal with Canada, Mexico
3-Oct-2018 Reuters
China’s hopes of negotiating a free trade pact with Canada or Mexico were dealt a sharp setback by a provision deep in the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement that aims to forbid such deals with “non-market” countries.
’New NAFTA’ falls flat for farmers, food advocates
3-Oct-2018 IATP
The reworked agreement between the United States, Mexico and Canada neglects the demands of farm groups.
Converting resistance to TPPA into a new agenda for change
3-Oct-2018 Daily Blog
Our aim is to move beyond campaigns to stop these deals one by one, and create popular and political momentum for a genuinely alternative agenda.
’This is life or death for us’: Mexico’s farm movement rejects new NAFTA agreement
3-Oct-2018 Common Dreams
Leaders of Mexico’s farm movement strongly condemned the new NAFTA, calling on the new president they supported in recent elections to get involved and slow the race to the new agreement.
NZ, Australia face pressure to exit RCEP negotiations
3-Oct-2018 Scoop
There are some suggestion that New Zealand, and perhaps Australia, would be politely invited to exit the RCEP negotiations in the interests of concluding them.
US-Canada-Mexico trade agreement provisions on injunctions and damages
2-Oct-2018 Knowledge Ecology International
The damages provisions in the new trade agreement are dangerous, and create a norm that is in conflict with national laws.
Financial regulation challenged by European trade policy
2-Oct-2018 Financial Watch
Trade agreements currently being negotiated or already approved introduce numerous restrictions over the right of states to regulate, especially in the field of financial regulation, and limits their capacity to react to ensure financial stability.
What an alternative & progressive trade strategy should look like
2-Oct-2018 It’s Our Future
19 – 20 October 2018. Fale Pasifika, University Of Auckland.
Trump’s NAFTA deal threatens our air, water, and climate
1-Oct-2018 Sierra Club
More outsourcing of pollution and jobs, handouts to corporate polluters, and climate denial
CEPA with Bangladesh can be template for enhancing trade in South Asia: Suresh Prabhu
1-Oct-2018 Yahoo
India and Bangladesh have proposed early conclusion of a Compressive Economic Cooperation Agreement to boost bilateral trade and investment and set an example for giving a fillip to regional trade in South Asia.
Despite seed concerns, CPTPP study to proceed
1-Oct-2018 Bangkok Post
Thai farmers and civil society organisations vented their concerns about the impact of the new pact’s IP chapter that prevents them from saving and reusing seeds that contain patented plant material.
Canada, US have reached a NAFTA deal - now called the USMCA
1-Oct-2018 CBC
Canada and the U.S. have announced a tentative new trilateral trade deal with Mexico that includes some key concessions on issues of import to both countries — and also a reworked name: the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
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From Quito: Pablo Fajardo & Donald Moncayo
28-Sep-2018 TeleSur
Pablo Fajardo, the lead lawyer for the communities who have been fighting for 25 years for compensation for the severe pollution in the amazon region, and Donald Moncayo, one of the coordinators of the organization that has led this campaign talk about the Chevron case.
Lawyers sue EU Commission for information on legality of trade deal tribunals
28-Sep-2018 Client Earth
ClientEarth has challenged a judgment regarding the European Commission’s decision to keep secret information about controversial investment tribunals in EU international trade deals.
Trade ministers, chief negotiators to hold series of meetings on RCEP trade pact in Oct
28-Sep-2018 Business Standard
Trade ministers and senior officials of RCEP member countries, including India and China, will hold series of meetings in October to iron out issues hampering negotiations over the proposed mega trade deal.