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China to implement negative list for cross-border trade in services
24-Aug-2022 China Daily
China will implement a negative list for cross-border trade in services, expand opening-up in the services sector and bolster digital trade to shore up economic growth, said government officials.
ITACO launches multi-billion dollar arbitration against Vietnam
5-Jul-2022 Business Wire
Tan Tao Investment & Industry Corporation launched a billion-dollar arbitration proceeding against Vietnam under the agreement between the United States and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
ECOWAS regional experts meet on the draft Ecowas common schedule of specific commitments on trade in services for the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)
28-Jun-2022 Ecowas
To date, a total of forty-three (43) African countries are State Parties to the Agreement of the AfCFTA, including twelve (12) ECOWAS Member States.
Turkish firms move WB, seek $230m award against Pakistan
23-Jun-2022 The Express Tribune
Two Turkish waste management companies have filed a complaint in the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) seeking a $230 million award against Pakistan
Britain launches free trade deal talks with Mexico
23-May-2022 Reuters
Britain is launching talks over a free trade deal with Mexico, looking to add services to its current agreement as well as aiming to increase trade in the financial and digital sectors.
AfCFTA: Cross-border service integration will boost African oil and gas industry, says Briggs
11-May-2022 This Day
Chief Dumo Lulu Briggs, Chairman of Platform Petroleum Limited, has admonished that cross-border service integration through the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) will boost the African oil and gas industry.
ECOWAS experts meet to consider draft offer on trade in services for the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)
11-May-2022 African Business
The 7th Regional meeting reviewed the draft ECOWAS Offer for the AfCFTA Trade in Services negotiations and held bilateral sessions between ECOWAS Commission and Member States.
Policy brief on digital trade
15-Apr-2022 Seattle to Brussels Network
The “digital trade agenda” would see the ability of governments to regulate big tech in the public interest severely curtailed.
EAC eyes trade-in-services under AfCFTA Agreement
4-Mar-2022 The Citizen
The East African Community (EAC) is developing a strategy to boost trade-in-services, which will position the bloc better in the negotiations of service liberalisation at the continental level.
China to further open services sector
14-Feb-2022 China Daily
China’s commitments under RCEP will will usher in a new era of liberalization in the country’s services industry.
SADC operationalises protocol on trade in services
31-Jan-2022 Chronicle
The Southern African Development Community has operationalised the Protocol on Trade in Services after 11 countries of the 16-member bloc including Zimbabwe ratified the pact.
Tentative plans to sign CIS free trade in services agreement in May 2022
16-Nov-2021 Belta
The agreement on free trade in services in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) may be signed in May 2022, said CIS Executive Secretary Sergei Lebedev.
Ukraine, Israel to hold talks on free trade in services next year - Ambassador Brodsky
28-Oct-2021 Ukrinform
Ukraine and Israel will start negotiations next year on the signing of an agreement on free trade in services, Israeli Ambassador to Ukraine Michael Brodsky has said.
EU-ESA EPA: EU proposals (Jun 2021)
21-Oct-2021 European Commission
Another Turkish firm moves ICSID against Pakistan
18-Oct-2021 The Express Tribune
Turkish construction company Bayindir filed a claim under the 1995 Turkey-Pakistan bilateral investment treaty at the ICSID on October 12.
India, UK agree to be ambitious on services deal in FTA negotiations
3-Sep-2021 Business Standard
India and the United Kingdom expressed their commitment to working out a free trade agreement and said the two countries would be ambitious while negotiating on services in the deal.
Argentina sued before New York court for debts related to the expropriation of Aerolineas Argentinas
27-Aug-2021 MercoPress
The investment fund Titan Consortium has taken legal steps after the expropriation of Aerolineas Argentinas in 2008, which resulted in an arbitration award against Argentina.
Three ways that human rights impact assessment can improve consistency between economic law and human rights law
8-Jul-2021 Edinburgh University Press
A human rights-based approach to economic policy-making can result in outcomes from trade negotiations that are not only human rights-consistent but also more politically, socially and economically robust.
Services, investment key in UK trade pact
21-May-2021 Mandurah Mail
Services and investment are "huge" for Australia’s imminent trade pact with the United Kingdom, Trade Minister Dan Tehan said.
Turkmenistan wins $500 million claim brought before international arbitration tribunal by Turkish construction company
14-May-2021 AKIpress
The government of Turkmenistan has won $500 million claim brought before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes by a Turkish construction company.