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Bye-bye BITs? Poland reviews its investment policy

31-Jan-2017 Kluwer Arbitration Blog

Poland is clearly sceptical regarding investment protection granted by BITs containing an ISDS system in a current form.

Churchill mulls response over tribunal costs

31-Jan-2017 Stock Market Wire

Churchill Mining continues to see whether there are grounds to seek a revision of annulment of costs awarded against the company.

Austria: Anti CETA, TTIP petition signed by 562,000

31-Jan-2017 Newsmax

An Austrian petition against EU free trade agreements with the United States and Canada has been signed by 562,000 people.

Trade pact: India, Sri Lanka to iron out differences in services, rules of origin

31-Jan-2017 The Hindu

With China too eyeing a similar agreement with Colombo, New Delhi aims to sign expanded FTA this year.

Global trade, China, RCEP took centre stage in Davos

31-Jan-2017 Lanka Business Online

Global trade took centre stage at the World Economic Forum meetings in Davos recently with signs of a new leader in town, despite U.S. assurances they wanted trade and not a trade war.

Is chlorinated chicken about to hit our shelves after new US trade deal?

31-Jan-2017 The Guardian

Consumers could be exposed to American farming practices banned by the EU.

Theresa May’s Brexit plan will leave Britain subject to secret global trade courts

31-Jan-2017 Buzzfeed

Experts say that to agree trade deals outside the EU, the UK will have to sign up to an “unaccountable” legal system that can force states to overturn laws corporations don’t like.

Unifor president: NAFTA, other free trade deals need renegotiating

31-Jan-2017 RCI

NAFTA and other free trade deals including CETA have been badly negotiated by Canada, and have hurt the economy.

International arbitration news round-up

31-Jan-2017 Lexology

Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Venezuela

UK agrees ‘immediate’ post-Brexit talks with US, leaving EU high and dry

31-Jan-2017 EurActiv

US President Donald Trump has agreed to start immediate trade talks with Britain. Switzerland took a similar course of action.

Why President Trump is wrong about Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement

31-Jan-2017 Patent Docs

The TPP was generally favorable to American interests because its provisions favored American innovators, specifically biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies.

Trump’s decision to leave the TPP was to protect one faction of the super rich

31-Jan-2017 Alternet

If workers benefit, so be it, goes the thinking in Trumpland.

Brazil’s bilateral investment treaties: More than a new investment treaty model?

30-Jan-2017 Columbia FDI Perspectives

Brazil has finally become a player in the international investment regime, but it represents a peculiar case in foreign investment relations.

On partnership anniversary, India-ASEAN vow to strengthen cooperation

30-Jan-2017 PTI

On the occasion of 25th anniversary of country’s relationship with 10-nation ASEAN grouping, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has strongly pitched for Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), saying it will further strengthen cooperation and economic integration in the region.