As clock ticks toward Trans-Pacific trade pact deadline, US must end stall tactics on access to medicines | 5-March-2013
As closed-door talks for the
Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement resume in Singapore this week,
international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières
calls on the US government to end its stall tactics and revise its
proposals for what otherwise promises to be the most harmful trade deal
ever for access to medicines in developing countries.
Amid talk of a super,
transatlantic free trade zone, the eurozone now has a new potential
partner: Japan. But, in light of Tokyo’s slow progress on the
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), can the Abe government match competitor
South Korea in inking a trade pact with Brussels?
Colombia y Panamá retomarán, a
mediados de este mes, las negociaciones del Tratado de Libre Comercio
(TLC), congeladas desde octubre del 2010, cuando los dos países
acordaron abrir un paréntesis ante la imposibilidad de avanzar en el
proceso.
Indonesian firms cannot compete with lower prices offered by foreign rivals in their home market.
Thai civic groups warn against pact with EU
| 4-March-2013
About 1,500 members of the
groups under the umbrella network of FTA Watch gathered outside
Government House yesterday to voice their concerns.
European Commission president
José Manuel Barroso was in Rabat on Friday to launch talks for an
EU-Morocco free trade agreement. The decision may end up as a major
headache for Brussels, however, as the issue of relations with Morocco
is a highly sensitive one within some Member States and the European
Parliament itself, where the rights of the Saharawi people of the
Western Sahara are defended.
Some experts in Ottawa think that the launch of EU-US trade negotiations could derail the EU-Canada talks
Australian-US alliance a factor in Chinese investment decisions
| 1-March-2013
The growing size and value of
China’s investments in Australia makes the case for a bilateral
investment treaty increasingly urgent, according to a leading China
expert.
TLC con UE hace peligrar los genéricos contra el sida en Tailandia, según ONG
| 1-March-2013
Hoy entra en vigencia TLC entre Perú y la Unión Europea
| 1-March-2013
La fundación AIDS Access
afirmó hoy que el tratado de libre comercio (TLC) entre Tailandia y la
Unión Europea (UE) pondrá en peligro el acceso de los enfermos de sida a
los medicamentos genéricos en el país asiático.
En la víspera, el Ministerio
de Comercio Exterior y Turismo dispuso, mediante un decreto supremo, la
puesta en ejecución del acuerdo.
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