Trade chief told oil giant in secret talks that free trade deal could address its concerns over regulations restricting activities in developing countries
The legal scrub of the Canada-European Union Comprehensive and Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) is “virtually complete” and the current timeline suggests the deal will be implemented in early 2017, Canada’s chief negotiator — Steve Verheul — told the House of Commons international trade committee Tuesday morning.
The Transatlantic Agreement on Trade and Services between the EU and the US, is one of the biggest challenges for our continent and civil society. Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership or TTIP as we use to call it, aims to create a free trade zone between the US and the EU, in which products and services will move freely without economic and/or regulatory restrictions.
Waiting in the wings, and still being negotiated largely in secret is the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The agreement, between the U.S. and the 28-nation European Union, has been formally discussed through 12 rounds of negotiations, with another round scheduled for some time this month. Both sides would like to conclude this treaty by the end of 2016.
New Docs reveal trade deal negotiations have gone 'very far from legitimate trade concerns into the territory of a sweeping deregulatory political agenda.'
New European Union proposals in trade talks with the U.S. are aimed at simplifying technical regulations in the cosmetics, medical devices, cars, chemicals and textiles sectors, the European Commission said.
PUBLIC-SECTOR unions urged MEPs yesterday to throw out the latest incarnation of anti-democratic corporate courts written into international trade deals.
In the past, it was easy to make the case for free trade. Free trade agreements seemed to create opportunities, help millions out of poverty, and generate growth. Today, a growing number of Europeans and Americans believe that the opposite is true. The article points out in how far TTIP should be rethought and redesigned to regain the public trust.
Friday's vote in Wallonia was only the latest sideways move as the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement lurches toward its intended signing date. As the EU's foreign and trade ministers prepare to decide its fate Tuesday, here's a guide to what remains unresolved.
Germany’s highest court dismissed complaints on Thursday from opponents of a trade deal between Canada and the European Union, a legal effort that had the potential not only to torpedo the pact but also to imperil for a proposed agreement between Europe and the United States.
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