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RCEP & investment

Multinationals launch 50 lawsuits worth $31b against Asian nations
8-Dec-2016 ABC News
A new report finds that corporations have launched 50 lawsuits, worth at least $US31 billion, using secret international arbitration tribunals against 11 countries in the Asian region.
Where is the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership headed?
9-Sep-2016 Spicy IP
The latest round of RCEP talks paints a worrisome picture for the global south, given that it will bring 3.5 billion people and 12% of world trade into its fold.
NGOs warn against dispute mechanism in Asian free-trade pact
30-Aug-2016 The Nation
Activists of various NGOs have urged Asean governments to eliminate investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) from the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) draft.
RCEP - draft investment text: India (based on negotiating draft of Oct 2015)
16-Aug-2016
RCEP - draft investment text: Korea (based on negotiating draft of Oct 2015)
16-Aug-2016 RCEP Legal
RCEP - draft investment text: China (based on negotiating draft of Oct 2015)
16-Aug-2016 RCEP Legal
RCEP - Investment chapter - Indonesia proposal on Prudential Measures (Aug 2015)
11-Aug-2016
Briefer on the RCEP – Robbing communities to extract profit
5-Aug-2016 APWLD
Similar to the TPP, this trade agreement will institutionalise inequalities;it will severely curtail peoples’ rights and freedoms and cement corporate rights over national public interest law and the right of governments to govern in the interests of their constituents.
Civil society groups say No to investors suing States in RCEP
3-Aug-2016
95 civil society organisations strongly and publicly urge countries negotiating the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership to reject ISDS in the agreement.
RCEP meet: focus on investor-state dispute
3-Aug-2016 Deccan Herald
RCEP trade ministers will meet in Laos on August 5 to try and resolve issues that are stuck in negotiations.
China-led trade agreement shrouded in deeper secrecy
13-Jun-2016 NZ Herald
Secretive negotiations for the China-led Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP began in November 2012. The 13th round is being held at SkyCity in Auckland.
Signing away sovereignty
24-May-2016 TNI
The Philippines has a web of investment treaties which severely constrain the government’s ability to regulate or close polluting mines, a legal straitjacket that will become even tighter if the EU–Philippines Free Trade Agreement and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) proceed
RCEP - draft investment chapter (October 2015)
22-Apr-2016 KEI
As leaked by KEI
RCEP draft text for investment chapter, October 16, 2015 version
22-Apr-2016 KEI
Overall, the investment chapter is designed to give private parties the right to extract costly damages from governments that implement policies that harm profits.
With RCEP commitment, India marks big shift in trade policy
23-Mar-2016 Live Mint
New Delhi’s higher level of commitment on investment, services may become template for bilateral treaties
RCEP threatens tax policies in India and other 15 countries
1-Mar-2016 Public Services International
New report shows that trade and investment deals like RCEP will further adversely affect the ability of the government of India to tax corporations effectively and fairly.
RCEP to seek tariff pact by year-end
2-Feb-2016 The Nation
Officials from 16 countries will try to wrap up negotiations by the end of 2016 on integration in trade, services and investment under the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).
RCEP: India to propose mechanism to resolve non-tariff measures
6-Jan-2016 Financial Express
India is set to propose a non-legal and non-adversarial mechanism to resolve trade-impeding non-tariff measures among the 16 Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) countries.
RCEP - draft chapter on investment (Oct 2015)
17-Oct-2015 RCEP Legal
As leaked on RCEP Legal
Update on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement – NGO briefing
14-Sep-2015 AFTINET
While RCEP was initially framed as an agreement that would be more flexible for low and middle income countries, there is evidence that some governments from industrialised countries are seeking to pursue aspects which would be very damaging for developing countries.