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Infographie : Tafta ou territoire d’alternatives
4-Jan-2016 AITEC
Cette infographie anticipe les conséquences du Tafta sur une commune ordinaire et expose un visage alternatif de cette même ville, transformée par ses politiques pionnières de transition sociale et écologique.
EAC set for major trade boost in new cargo system
2-Jan-2016
Trade within East Africa Trade will receive a boost this year with the implementation of the cargo pre-clearance system at the port of Mombasa by the Kenya Revenue Authority.
COMESA appreciates Tripartite FTA progress
2-Jan-2016
The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Council of Ministers has appreciated the progress made so far in the negotiating process that include finalising the outstanding work in Phase 1 of the Tripartite Free Trade Area Agreement (TFTA).
Kenyan Sugar Gets Extra 1 Year Comesa Safeguard
2-Jan-2016
Kenya has been granted a one-year extension of sugar import limits from the regional trade bloc Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) to revamp its ailing sugar industry.
COMESA tackles maize trade
2-Jan-2016
The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) has launched a roadmap that will address differences in standards and regulations that hinder regional trade in maize.
RCEP: India offers no duty cuts on steel to China, Aus, NZ
31-Dec-2015 Business Standard
India has not offered any duty cut on steel to China, Australia and New Zealand as part of the ongoing negotiations for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement.
Resolute Forest Products sues for $70M over Port Hawkesbury aid
31-Dec-2015 CBC
NAFTA action comes after closure of Laurentide mill blamed on Nova Scotian mill.
Foreign Direct Investment: myths and realities
30-Dec-2015 IPS
There is no clear evidence that bilateral investment treaties have a strong impact on the direction of FDI inflows.
American mining giant escaped Indonesian law with ISDS
30-Dec-2015 IPS
American mining corporation Newmont escaped the domestic processing requirement from Indonesia’s 2009 Mining Law. It achieved this by using a clause in a Dutch investment treaty.
EU Agriculture would be gross losers in TTIP Agreement - Anderson MEP
30-Dec-2015 Farming Life
A study carried out on behalf of the US Department of Agriculture shows that EU Agriculture would be the gross loser in any of the three scenarios considered.
TPP - what is the cost for Vietnam?
30-Dec-2015 Vietnamnet Bridge
"How much did Vietnam have to trade off to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Vietnam-EU Free Trade Area (FTA)? Surely, we will have to pay dearly for them when the tax rate falls to zero percent," said Prof. Nguyen Mai.
Singapore minister calls for resumption of EU-ASEAN free trade talks - report
29-Dec-2015
Singapore’s trade and industry minister has called for a resumption of free trade talks between the European Union and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations now that problems over Myanmar have been removed, a German newspaper said.
Kyiv receives Moscow’s notification on suspension of free trade area with Ukraine - Yatseniuk
29-Dec-2015
The Russian side has formally notified Ukraine on its decision to suspend the agreement on the free trade area that was in effect between the two countries.
French firm attacks Ugandan tax using ISDS
29-Dec-2015 Inter-Press Service
The heavily criticized legal mechanism, known as ISDS, is an important tool for European companies to pressurize developing countries. This year Uganda joins the rank of developing nations asking themselves: “Why have we ever signed this?”
American mining giant escaped Indonesian law with ISDS
29-Dec-2015 http://www.ipsnews.net/2015/12/amer...
American mining corporation Newmont escaped the domestic processing requirement from Indonesia’s 2009 Mining Law. It achieved this by using a clause in a Dutch investment treaty.
Exports to Australia up 7.5% on FTA
29-Dec-2015
Korea’s exports to Australia rose 7.5 percent in the January-November period, in sharp contrast to the country’s overall exports which fell 7.4 percent in the same period due to sluggish global demand, the Korea Customs Service (KCS) said Tuesday.
China to have talks with Sri Lanka on FTA
29-Dec-2015
The Chinese Government says it will have talks with Sri Lanka next year on the proposed Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
Modi’s Pak stopover ignites hope for trade talks
28-Dec-2015
Trade dialogue between India and Pakistan — officially in the cold storage for almost three years — is set to be revived, now that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has broken the political ice with Islamabad with his Christmas visit to Lahore.
Unresolved trade pact: India to meet EU in Jan
27-Dec-2015
Months after it called off talks between chief negotiators of the two sides on free trade agreement (FTA) to protest against the ban on sale of around 700 pharma products of a domestic company, India will meet officials from the European Union (EU) later next month to “take stock of the negotiations” on the long-pending FTA.
Abertis hauls Argentina’s new government before the World Bank on account of two motorways
22-Dec-2015 El Diario
Abertis has hauled Argentina’s Attorney General’s Treasury Office before the World Bank’s Arbitration Dispute Settlement body (known as ICSID) for freezing tariffs applied to two concessions for motorways controlled by the Spanish company in Argentina.