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Romania loses major arbitration case
19-Dec-2013 Global Legal Post
In a victory which may have major ramifications for international law, US law firm King & Spalding has won a $250 million arbitration case for Romanian company Micula against the Republic of Romania.
Half million Germans refuse to sign FTA with USA
19-Dec-2013 Prensa Latina
In just five days, 500,000 Germans signed a petition addressed to the European Commissioner for Trade Karel De Gucht and to President of the European Parliament, Martin Schultz to halt the negotiations that began in Washington.
Debate over proposed global trade agreements
19-Dec-2013 Diane Rehm Show
The pros and cons of two trade agreements in the works, TPP and TTIP, from a US perspective.
’Free trade’ and the death of democracy
18-Dec-2013 Al Jazeera
If these deals come into effect, multinational corporations will be empowered to regulate democratic states, rather than the other way around.
Early ratification of EU-S’pore FTA may not be possible, say analysts
18-Dec-2013 CNA
Singapore has been pushing for the ratification of the European Union-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (FTA) as early as possible — but observers say that as it is a complex process involving all the different members of the EU, the goal will be a difficult one.
US mulls wider trade pact with Latin America
18-Dec-2013 Info Sur Hoy
The United States is exploring the idea of setting up a wider regional trade pact with Latin America, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Dec. 15.
India-UAE BIPPA: Government builds safeguards to protect itself
18-Dec-2013 Economic Times
India has introduced provisions in the just-concluded bilateral investment protection and promotion agreement (BIPPA) with the United Arab Emirates to ensure that only executive decisions can be challenged and that too within a stipulated period.
Ethiopia–Sudan bilateral relations: A model for regional integration
18-Dec-2013 Ventures
Ethiopia and Sudan recently concluded their third Joint Commission Meeting, signing 13 agreements including a Framework Agreement for Trade and Economic cooperation
EU-US trade talks could become ’another Acta’
18-Dec-2013 EU Observer
EU-US free trade talks risk following the same path as Acta, the controversial anti-counterfeit treaty which collapsed in 2012, warns BEUC, a pan-EU organisation representing consumer groups
Why South Africa has ripped up foreign investment deals
17-Dec-2013 The Conversation
As the nation looks to move on from the loss of Nelson Mandela, these moves to regain control over foreign investment will prove valuable.
20 years after NAFTA, many worlds are possible
17-Dec-2013 Creative Time Reports
Caleb Duarte and Mia Eve Rollow from EDELO (En Donde Era La UNO/Where the United Nations Used to Be) explore the effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement in Chiapas, Mexico’s poorest state and the site of the Zapatista revolution.
No free trade until cheese deal, Marois says
17-Dec-2013 Canadian Press
Premier Pauline Marois says the Quebec legislature will not endorse the Canada-Europe free-trade agreement until Ottawa explains how it will compensate the province’s cheese producers.
Advancing regulatory cooperation in the Transatlantic trade and investment partnership
17-Dec-2013 Business Europe
Position paper from Business Europe
EU negotiators to press US to include energy exports in trade talks
17-Dec-2013 Reuters
European negotiators, hoping to cut fuel bills, will press their US counterparts in Washington this week on including energy exports in a transatlantic trade pact that aims to integrate two markets accounting for half the world’s economy.
EU-US FTA (TTIP) - Regulatory coherence chapter (draft EC proposal, Dec 2013)
16-Dec-2013 CEO
Leaked proposal for EU-US trade deal increases business power in decision-making
16-Dec-2013 CEO
A leaked EU negotiation proposal for the EU-US trade agreement reveals the European Commission’s plans to fundamentally change the way regulations will be adopted in the future, says the activist group CEO
Canadians balk at longer brand-name drug patents
16-Dec-2013 CMAJ
Nearly two-thirds of Canadians oppose longer patents for brand-name drugs under a proposed trade deal with the European Union, according to a poll commissioned by the Council of Canadians.
M’sia said to have backed down on TPP stance
16-Dec-2013 The Malaysian Reserve
The Bantah TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) agreement organisation expressed disappointment vis-à-vis the Malaysian negotiators, saying they are cowing to the Americans in the last rounds of the highly secretive trade talks.
Ag the lynchpin for TPP
16-Dec-2013 Stock Journal
"We are in a position to hold up the whole TPP to advance agriculture," says Alan Oxley, Australian APEC Study Centre chairman.
Taiwan beefs up regional defences with 2nd phase of free trade zone
16-Dec-2013 Reuters
Taiwan is building up a free trade zone to counter the threat of being marginalised in the wake of trade deals being negotiated by major economies and regional Asian neighbours (TPP and RCEP).