Negotiations
‘Huge growth opportunities for agri-food exports’: How the EU-Japan trade deal will benefit EU food
18-Jul-2018Food Navigator The European Union and Japan signed a landmark agreement that is expected to boost trade in agri-food products.
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18-Jul-2018 The Asset
China boosts Belt and Road cooperation with Arab countries
China seeks deeper synergy between its Belt Road initiative and Saudi’s 2030 vision. -
18-Jul-2018 IT Espresso
Données personnelles : l’UE et le Japon ont leur Privacy Shield bilatéral
Sur le modèle du Privacy Shield signé avec les États-Unis, l’UE a entériné, avec le Japon, un accord bilatéral pour encadrer les transferts de données personnelles entre les deux blocs économiques. -
17-Jul-2018 Global Politics and Law
Acuerdo comercial Unión Europea-Japón: luces y sombras
En medio de la tormenta comercial que ha provocado Donald Trump entre EE.UU. y la Unión Europea (que aparentemente deja fuera de juego el TTIP, salvo que se vea como la fórmula para solucionar las desavenencias comerciales), la Unión Europea y Japón procederán hoy a la firma de su tratado comercial, llamado Economic Partnership Agreement, EPA. -
17-Jul-2018 Asuntos legales
Colombia: Negociaciones con Nueva Zelanda y Australia y las preocupaciones del sector lechero
A punto de culminar el mandato del presente Gobierno, existe incertidumbre sobre el futuro de los productores de leche colombianos. -
17-Jul-2018 Ecuador Inmediato
Congresista estadounidense, Raúl Grijalva, aconseja a Ecuador "alejarse" de Tratados de Comercio e Inversión
Asegura que pactos traen "perjuicios y ninguna evidencia convincente de beneficios" -
17-Jul-2018 Chile Mejor sin TLC
Chile Mejor sin TLC critica tardío interés del Congreso por escuchar posturas críticas a los tratados
Comisión de Hacienda de la Cámara de Diputados recibirá por primera vez a la Plataforma Chile Mejor sin TLC para escuchar sus planteamientos en torno a los tratados de libre comercio que se discuten en el Congreso. -
17-Jul-2018
Spotlight on negotiations of Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership in Bangkok
Civil society organisations from the RCEP negotiating countries will hold a press briefing at the FCCT on 20th July, Friday, 1.00 - 2.00 P.M. to highlight concerns regarding RCEP negotiations on human rights, intellectual property and investment rules. -
17-Jul-2018 APRN
Briefer: Mega-FTAs and its implications on Asian Workers
Cross-regional mega-FTAs are now being preferred over bilateral and plurilateral trade agreements as imperialist powers compete for cheap labor, sources of raw materials, and markets. -
17-Jul-2018 Reuters
Japan, EU sign free trade pact amid worries about Trump
The deal removes EU tariffs of 10 percent on Japanese cars and 3 percent on most car parts. It would also scrap Japanese duties of some 30 percent or more on EU cheese and 15 percent on wines, and secure access to large public tenders in Japan. -
17-Jul-2018 The Edge Markets
Chamber hopes for revival of EU-Malaysia free trade deal
The EU-Malaysia Chamber of Commerce and Industry is hopeful that the new government will resume talks on the EU-Malaysia free trade agreement.more
Key issues
US trade deals mean justice for some, not justice for all
18-Jul-2018 AFL-CIOThose with the means to become international wheeler-dealers can access ISDS. The rest of us have to rely on public courts—the same ones that investors say are “inadequate” to handle their needs. That’s not fair, and that’s not right.
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16-Jul-2018 The East African
Rwanda faces suit over cancelled mining concession
Rwanda faces an international arbitration suit filed by two American firms contesting the cancellation of their mining concession. -
12-Jul-2018 Alainet
The separation of migrant families: cruelty as a migration policy
In an accentuated anti-immigrant context of clear criminalization of Central Americans and Mexicans without migratory documents in their attempt to enter the US, measures on the separation of thousands of families (most of them from Central America) are the new face of the racist nationalism of the American government and its current president. -
4-Jul-2018 IISD
Matière à réflexion : peser la santé et l’investissement à l’ère de la nouvelle pandémie
Un affrontement potentiel entre les accords commerciaux et d’investissement et les mesures de santé publique pourrait impacter réglementations sur les produits alimentaires et les boissons néfastes. -
3-Jul-2018 IISD
Food for Thought: Weighing up health and investment in the age of the new pandemic
A potential collision course between trade and investment agreements and public health measures could impact countries’ regulations of unhealthy food and drinks. -
3-Jul-2018 Vaaju
Enagás demands an arbitration against Peru before ICSID
Enagás has requested a proceeding before the ICSID against the Peruvian state after negotiating for six months without success to reach a friendly agreement in relation to the company’s investment in the Peruvian South Gas Management Project. -
2-Jul-2018 The Guardian
Revealed: $39m cost of defending Australia’s tobacco plain packaging laws
Two years after an FOI claim was lodged, the price of the six-year fight with Philip Morris has been revealedmore
Texts of agreements
1-Jun-2018
| EU-ACP post-Cotonou agreement: Negotiating mandate (May 2018)
As released by the ACP Secretariat
28-May-2018
| Horizontal provisions for cross-border data flows and for personal data protection (in EU trade and investment agreements)
As released by the European Commission
22-May-2018
| EU-Australia FTA: Negotiating directives (May 2018)
As released by the European Council
22-May-2018
| EU-New Zealand FTA: Negotiating directives (May 2018)
As released by the European Council
Comments
15-Jul-2018 RCEP trade round: Singapore host privileges business over people’s rights
Ashwin Thapa: Strange ,its disgusting,in our issue and in our Deserving Rights,for what the Businessman making the Business,its quite clear of Businessman27-Jun-2018 The need to rethink free trade agreements
Karnan T S: This article is a bit heavy on rhetoric itself. In India, groups have been complaining about cheap imports of synthetic rubber from Sri Lanka /5-Jun-2018 Can RCEP negotiations be concluded by end-2018?
chin sokvin: i need of my academic research