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NGO’s send letter to Minister Kaag to call for termination of BIT with Burkina Faso
20-Jun-2018 Both Ends
Both ENDS sent a letter, signed by various civil society organisations, to the Dutch Minister of Aid & Trade to urge her to terminate the Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) that exists between the Netherlands and Burkina Faso.
It’s time to stop giving more rights to global corporations
20-Jun-2018 Sydney Morning Herald
Despite this growing rejection of ISDS, the Australian government claims that ambiguous general “safeguards” in the TPP-11 will protect public interest laws.
The myth behind health and trade agreements – Q&A with Othoman Mellouk
20-Jun-2018 IP Watch
Dr Othoman Mellouk is a Moroccan treatment advocate who has been working on intellectual property and access to medicines for more than a decade.
Argentina’s Macri wants Mercosur to pursue global trade deals
20-Jun-2018 Latin America Herald Tribune
Argentine President Mauricio Macri and Uruguayan counterpart Tabare Vazquez agreed that the Mercosur bloc should pursue trade accords with Asian countries and Canada.
China Belt and Road scheme brings warnings from scientists and environmentalists
20-Jun-2018 Radio Free Asia
Scientists and environmentalists are warning that China’s vast “Silk Road” global infrastructure initiative could cause permanent environmental damage unless it’s carefully handled.
Tough talk over medicine and cheese as Australia and Europe seek a $37b trade deal
19-Jun-2018 Sydney Morning Herald
Trade Minister Steven Ciobo has promised to take a hard line with Europe on the question of cheap medicines and his counterpart Cecilia Malmström foresees “difficult” negotiations over Australian producers using European names such as "parmesan".
Sushma Swaraj discusses steps to revitalise bilateral ties with Italy
19-Jun-2018 DNA
India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj held bilateral talks with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte to discuss forging bilateral cooperation across sectors and steps to revitalise the bilateral relationship.
Vietnam, Israel hold fifth round of negotiations on FTA
19-Jun-2018 Vietnam Plus
During the fifth round of negotiations between the two nations in Jerusalem, trade in goods, rules of origin, customs, technical barriers to trade, services, investment and other legal and institutional issues were tabled.
American Chamber of Commerce in Singapore urges US to rejoin Trans-Pacific trade pact
19-Jun-2018 The Business Times
The American Chamber of Commerce in Singapore (AmCham Singapore) has called on the US to join the trade pact which replaced the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), from which the US withdrew in January 2017.
Uruguay calls on Mercosur to renew trade talks with China
19-Jun-2018 Xinhua
Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez called on member countries of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) to renew trade talks with China.
Red meat quotas a likely sticking point when NZ-EU FTA talks get underway
19-Jun-2018 Stuff
Agricultural exports into Europe look set to be a hurdle facing New Zealand diplomats when negotiations for free trade agreements with the European Union and Great Britain get started.
Humanitarian crisis scenarios, Central American migrants in Mexico
19-Jun-2018 Alainet
The current dimension of international migration is related to the global dynamics of neoliberal capitalism and its effects.
EU-Morocco fishing agreement’s renegotiation: Polisario Front brings action for annulment
18-Jun-2018 Sahara Press Service
The Polisario Front brought an action for annulment of the Council of the European Union’s decision, which allows the European Commission to open negotiations with Rabat to extend EU-Morocco fishing agreement to Western Sahara.
AfCFTA: Stakeholders seek safeguards against imports, dumping surge
18-Jun-2018 Punch
Stakeholders in the Organised Private Sector have called for safeguards against a sudden surge in imports that may follow Nigeria’s eventual signing of the African Continental Free Trade Area agreement.
Colombia has made request to join Pacific trade pact: Mexico
18-Jun-2018 Reuters
Colombia has formally requested permission to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), Mexico’s Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo said.
Australia opens free trade talks with EU as Trump tariffs rock global commerce
18-Jun-2018 Australian Financial Review
Australia and the European Union will strike a blow for free trade, formally opening negotiations on a pact in Canberra.
Singapore deepens ties with Kenya, Rwanda
18-Jun-2018 The Straits Times
Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam meets their govt leaders, discusses ways to boost cooperation in various areas.
After India, Malaysia apprehensive about China’s One Belt One Road Initiative
18-Jun-2018 The EurAsian Times
The newly formed government in Malaysia is apprehensive of China’s One Belt One Road Initiative (OBOR). The Mahathir Mohamad government is not very keen to participate in China’s One Belt One Road Project.
Sri Lanka-Singapore FTA challenged in Supreme Court
18-Jun-2018 Daily Mirror
President’s Counsel Sanjeeva Jayawardane impugned before the Supreme Court that the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) Sri Lanka has entered into with Singapore is inimical to the interests of Sri Lanka.
Liberals’ corporate-friendly TPP trade deal will kill Canadian jobs, increase inequality
15-Jun-2018 Newswire
The TPP is first and foremost a corporate-rights deal for multinationals. It will worsen inequality, further erode Canada’s manufacturing and industrial base.