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Canada scores ISDS victory over Eli Lilly

20-Mar-2017 Politico

Canada has prevailed over pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly in a long-running investor-state dispute the drug company filed under NAFTA’s investment chapter.

Spain confirms: EU-Morocco trade deal not for Western Sahara goods

20-Mar-2017 Western Sahara Resource Watch

The Spanish government in a statement confirmed the EU court’s judgement that Western Sahara goods are not covered by the EU-Morocco trade deal.

China cites Philippines’ key role in China-led RCEP

20-Mar-2017 ABS-CBN News

China says the Philippines will play a key role in a proposed regional free trade agreement led by China.

Opinion: The UK will get a bad trade deal from the US

18-Mar-2017 Borderlex

There is little reason to doubt that the United Kingdom will sign a free trade agreement with the United States once outside the EU. But there is not going to be that much into it for British businesses. This is because the UK will be the weaker party in the talks.

Reply to the European Commission’s Public consultation on a multilateral reform of investment dispute resolution

18-Mar-2017 IISD

The consultation was a missed opportunity for the Commission to obtain valuable inputs toward multilateral reform of investment dispute resolution in the best interest of Europeans and the international community.

Trade Minister in push for Pacific Alliance trade deal to replace TPP

18-Mar-2017 The Australian

Australia is pushing for a new multi-billion dollar free trade deal with Pacific Alliance countries — Mexico, Chile, Colombia and Peru — following the collapse of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Pakistan, Turkey to hold 6th round of FTA talks

17-Mar-2017 Pakistan Herald

Paksitan and Turkey will hold sixth round of negotiations on Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in April (2017).

Mixed messages to investors as India quietly terminates bilateral investment treaties with 58 countries

17-Mar-2017 Lexology

The Government of India says it has sent notices to terminate bilateral investment treaties (BITs) with 58 countries, including 22 EU countries. It has been reported that many of these BITs will cease to apply to new investments from as early as April 2017.

Exxon Mobil lawyers ask court to enforce $188M Venezuela award

17-Mar-2017 Daily Business Review

Lawyers for Exxon Mobil have asked a federal judge to order Venezuela to pay the company more than $188.3 million—the amount Exxon Mobil says it is still owed as repayment for the 2007 expropriation of its oil assets.

Chinese government wins ICSID tribunal against South Korea’s Ansung, MOFCOM welcomes decision

17-Mar-2017 Yicai Global

The Ansung case is the first international investment dispute to enter the arbitration stage where the Chinese government is a party.

RCEP to give Philippines better market access than existing trade deals

17-Mar-2017 Business Mirror

ADB advisor Ganeshan Wignaraja said the Philippines must implement domestic reforms to make it more competitive should the RCEP be signed.

China lays foundations for Eurasian free trade after TPP failure

16-Mar-2017 China Briefing

The demise of the TPP and the recent politicizing of trade have made China rethink what it really wants from free trade agreements (FTAs).

Getting back to basics in Vina Del Mar

16-Mar-2017 IATP

Countries should look to Fair Trade for guidance, and even further to their own domestic policies, for a sustainable way to build the global economy.

India, Russia to discuss free trade agreement, ways to bolster bilateral trade

15-Mar-2017 Live Mint

Nirmala Sitharaman and Russia’s Denis Manturov will discuss possibility of a free trade agreement, or FTA, between India and Eurasian Economic Union.

Trump’s USTR nominee pledges tough enforcement of U.S. trade laws

15-Mar-2017 Reuters

Lighthizer pledged to fight for strong protections for intellectual property rights and for digital trade access.

Anti-TPP protesters clash with riot police in Chile

15-Mar-2017 Tele Sur

Riot police clashed with protesters in Viña Del Mar, where representatives of the 11 remaining member states of the Trans Pacific Partnership together with China, Colombia and South Korea met.

Mustapa: RCEP is next best option to junked TPPA

15-Mar-2017 The Star

International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed said Malaysia is not keen to salvage the TPPA with the other 10 nations after the United States pulled out of the trade pact.

As ministers meet on scrapped Pacific trade deal, decisions elusive

15-Mar-2017 Reuters

Ministers and officials representing the 12 countries of the failed Trans-Pacific Partnership, plus China and South Korea, began talks in Chile, but any concrete decision on how a new trade pact might look seemed far off.