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Taiwan to suspend free trade agreement with El Salvador
12-May-2023 Focus Taiwan
Taiwan will suspend implementation of a free trade agreement with El Salvador from May 15, following the former Central American diplomatic ally’s decision to repeal the deal.
Coffee growers of El Salvador favor FTA with China
6-Apr-2023 Prensa Latina
The coffee sector in El Salvador has very favorable expectations about a Free Trade Agreement in denial with the People’s Republic of China, sources from the sector said.
China and El Salvador begin negotiations for a free trade agreement
10-Nov-2022 MSN
The Chinese and Salvadoran authorities announced that they have begun negotiations to achieve a Free Trade Agreement between the two countries "as soon as possible".
HSBC initiates legal proceedings against El Salvador claiming breach of treaty with UK
19-Aug-2021 Reuters
HSBC Holdings said the banking group has initiated legal proceedings against El Salvador for what the company called a breach of the nation’s investment treaty with the UK.
A new environmentalist playbook
24-Mar-2021 The American Prospect
An improbable victory in El Salvador offers lessons for grassroots activists worldwide.
S. Korea-Central America FTA set for full implementation in March
25-Feb-2021 Yonhap News Agency
South Korea said its free trade agreement (FTA) with a group of Central American nations will be fully implemented starting next month as Panama completed its domestic procedures.
El Salvador’s sugar producers want to keep Taiwan free trade pact
21-Aug-2019 Dialogo Chino
In August 2018, El Salvador followed the Dominican Republic and Panama in switching diplomatic allegiance from Taiwan to China. But in March 2019, president-elect, cast doubt over whether his government would maintain that status.
El Salvador top court suspends scrapping of Taiwan trade accord
14-Mar-2019 Reuters
El Salvador’s highest court temporarily suspended the cancellation of a free trade pact with Taiwan.
After NAFTA fight, Trump threatens another trade battle with Central America
9-Jan-2019 McClatchy
Now that the Trump administration has revamped the North American Free Trade Agreement, it is taking a look at kicking key countries out of its sister pact, the Central American Free Trade Agreement.
S. Korea, five central American countries to discuss cooperation
19-Feb-2018 Yonhap
The officials will likely discuss the impact that the trade agreement could have on their economic and business relations.
El Salvador freezes OceanaGold bank accounts, assets over $8 mln payment
19-Apr-2017 Reuters
El Salvador froze bank accounts and assets belonging to OceanaGold Corp after the mining company refused to pay the country $8 million as mandated by an international court.
S. Korea tentatively signs FTA with 5 Central American countries
13-Mar-2017 KBS
South Korea and a group of Central American countries have tentatively signed a free trade agreement.
Pressure grows on mining giant to pay $8 million to El Salvador
23-Feb-2017 Tele Sur
Over 280 organizations from around the world sent an open letter to Canadian-Australian mining giant OceanaGold demanding that the company adhere to an earlier ruling that ordered the company to pay the government of El Salvador US$8 million
El Salvador’s win against the US mining company Pacific Rim : a very nuanced victory
2-Dec-2016 Equal Times
The ICSID decided in favour of El Salvador in a case brought by the US mining company Pacific Rim Cayman regarding a dispute over the granting of a mining licence.
El Salvador lessons for the TPP fight
28-Oct-2016 Inequality
In a tale of people power over corporate power, a tribunal has ruled against a global company in a case over mining rights. Now we need to block trade deals that allow these “investor-state” lawsuits.
After seven years and millions of dollars, decision announced in Pac Rim mining company vs. El Salvador
16-Oct-2016 Institute for Policy Studies
Coalition of groups state “there are no winners," investor-state arbitration subverts democracy.
The court that rules the world
30-Aug-2016 BuzzFeed
A parallel legal universe, open only to corporations and largely invisible to everyone else, helps executives convicted of crimes escape punishment.
Water for gold
5-Aug-2016 Loading Docs
Water for Gold tells the alarming story of how international trade law is leading us to trade our most basic rights to clean, safe water for access to gold.
Migrants from the South, the contemporary faces of exclusion and marginalization
4-Mar-2016 Alai
Today’s migrations, as macro international displacements of hundreds of thousands of people with or without documents — in many cases in precarious conditions of transit — have been and are one of the social processes that characterize what is happening in different latitudes of the earth since in the new century, in the global context of neoliberal economic restructuring directed by transnational enterprises and the capitalist countries of the first world.
Corporate bias at the World Bank Group
30-Sep-2015 Bretton Woods Project
This briefing finds significant ICSID bias in favour of corporations and commercial interests by analysing ICSID overall and by looking at a specific case brought by a global mining corporation against El Salvador.