Showing posts with label fta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fta. Show all posts
26 July 2014

Does The Fast Track Authority Bill Guarantee That Corporate Sovereignty Will Be One-Sided And Unfair?

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Yesterday, Mike reported on the introduction of the "fast track authority" bill in the Senate, and pointed out some of its most...
24 November 2013

US Free Trade Agreements Are Bad Not Just For The Economy, But For The Environment, Too

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A couple of months ago, we reported on some interesting research into the reality of US trade agreements, in contrast to the rosy pictu...
23 November 2013

TTIP Update II

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As I noted in my first TTIP Update about the current negotiations between the EU and US over a massive trade agreement that is far fro...
18 September 2013

EU Commission Sued For Refusing To Reveal Trade Agreement Documents They Shared With Lobbyists

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A recurrent theme here on Techdirt is the lack of transparency when international agreements and treaties are being drawn up. That'...

How Investor-State Dispute Resolution Threatens Access To Medicines, And Much Else

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A couple of weeks ago, we wrote about the growing importance of investor-state dispute resolution in so-called free trade agreements (F...
21 July 2013

Why has Monsanto "Quit" Europe? The Answer is ISDS in TAFTA/TTIP

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The battle to bring GM food to Europe has been fiercely fought for years.  Most assumed it would be continue to rage for many more. Which m...
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20 July 2013

What New-Style Trade Agreements Are Really About (Hint: It's Not Trade)

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Given the massive impact that new-style trade agreements like TPP and TAFTA/TTIP are likely to have on the lives of hundreds of millio...

EU Free Trade Agreements With India And Canada Grind To A Halt

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Techdirt has been covering the free trade agreement being negotiated between India and the EU for a while now -- that is, as well as any...
31 March 2013

South Korea Considers Dumping Draconian Copyright Law Forced On It By The US

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As Mike noted a couple of days ago, international trade agreements often have the effect of constraining the power of national legislat...

Now US Wants Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement With European Union To Include Turkey: Who's Next?

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Last week we wrote about the important news that Mexico is asking to join what began as a bilateral trade agreement between the US and ...

Why TAFTA Matters, and What We Should Do About It

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Back in January, I wrote about what I called the "Trans-Atlantic Partnership Agreement", by analogy with the Trans-Pacific Part...

Mexico Will Ask To Join US-EU Transatlantic Trade Agreement

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Things are moving fast with the proposed US-EU transatlantic free trade agreement (TAFTA). It was only a few weeks ago that the formal ...

Public Well-Being Must Be 'Primary Measurement' Of US-EU Trade Agreement

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Now that the US and EU have officially announced the start of talks on a new bilateral free trade agreement -- sorry, a "trade an...
06 January 2013

Treaty Shopping: How Companies Tilt The Legal Playing Field For Investor-State Arbitration

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Alongside globe-spanning treaties like ACTA and TPP, there are more subtle efforts to limit the power of national governments, through th...
28 May 2007

The Intellectual Monopoly Ratchet

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One of the most frightening aspects of the intellectual monopoly game is the ratchet effect. A country typically increases intellectual mon...