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Replacing NAFTA: Eight essential changes to an environmentally destructive deal
20-Aug-2017 Sierra Club
To transform NAFTA from a polluter-friendly deal into one that supports environmental protection, any renegotiation must include, at a minimum, these eight changes.
Legitimate expectations in the absence of specific commitments according to the findings in Blusun v. Italy
19-Aug-2017 Kluwer Arbitration Blog
Is there inconsistency among the tribunals in the solar energy cases?
NAFTA negotiators hone in on origin rules, dispute settlement
19-Aug-2017 Reuters
U.S., Canadian and Mexican negotiators began digging into some of the thorniest issues in modernizing NAFTA, including rules of origin for goods produced in the region, services trade and a controversial dispute settlement system.
Gambia to sign free trade deal with EU
19-Aug-2017 The Point
The Gambia government and European Union have restarted the process of signing a free trade deal, dubbed Economic Partnership Agreement – EU’s flagship trade agreement.
USTR raises concerns about Japan’s safeguard tariffs on US beef
19-Aug-2017 Japan Times
U.S. Trade Representative Lighthizer and Japanese Foreign Minister Kono agreed to accelerate bilateral discussions as a way of strengthening free and “fair” trade
NAFTA could replay TPP biologics debate
19-Aug-2017 Politico
A battle over the length of data protection for biologic medicine appears to be shaping up in the NAFTA negotiations in a replay of an issue that helped block the Trans-Pacific Partnership from becoming law.
Thousands of Mexicans march to scrap NAFTA, as government fights to save it
18-Aug-2017 Reuters
While Mexican government negotiators fought tooth and nail to save the North American Free Trade Agreement during talks in Washington, thousands of Mexican farmers and workers took to the streets demanding the deal be scrapped.
RCEP meeting in September likely to discuss India’s proposal on services pact
18-Aug-2017 Livemint
India has made a counter-proposal to make the bilateral services agreement between Australia and New Zealand the basis of the services agreement under RCEP
Turkey ratifies free trade agreement with Singapore
18-Aug-2017 Daily Sabah
The trade agreement has been described as the most expansive and comprehensive free trade agreement Turkey has signed.
Govt optimistic that TPP minus the US will get green light in November
18-Aug-2017 NZ Herald
The New Zealand Cabinet has formally approved a negotiating mandate for the TPP 11 - the Trans Pacific Partnership without the United States - but one that would involve minimal renegotiation.
US, South Korea to start talks Tuesday in Seoul on trade pact
18-Aug-2017 Reuters
The United States plans to start negotiations with South Korea in Seoul on amending a five-year-old free trade agreement, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said.
NAFTA negotiations: energy clause unites Canadian critics across the political spectrum
17-Aug-2017 Global News
As NAFTA 2.0 negotiations begin, an old trade issue with a strange name has emerged to create unlikely allies across the political spectrum and staunch defenders in the oilpatch.
NAFTA renegotiation talks arrive amid diverging interests, neoliberal goals
16-Aug-2017 Tele Sur
As Mexico, Canada and the U.S. head into potentially thorny talks, critics say that banks and multinationals will be first to reap the benefits.
New developments in the dispute between Pey Casado and Chile
16-Aug-2017 Lexology
In the last few months, the long-lasting dispute between Mr Pey Casado and the Foundation Presidente Allende and the Republic of Chile has seen numerous developments.
What to do about corrupt arbitral tribunals?
16-Aug-2017 The Global Anticorruption Blog
That concern is a real and serious one, but there is also a more direct and crude problem: parties (or their lawyers) bribing, or making backdoor deals with, the arbitrators to secure a favorable outcome.
US to keep negotiating texts ‘classified’
16-Aug-2017 Politico
The first USTR official said the negotiating texts will not be released to the public because they are “classified” documents. That’s consistent with past negotiations, but will give critics ammunition to complain the deal is being negotiated in secret.
RCEP trade ministers to meet next month in Philippines
16-Aug-2017 DNA
Trade ministers of 16 RCEP countries, including India and China, will meet next month in Philippines
Duterte’s RCEP push at ASEAN, implications on Philippines economy & development
16-Aug-2017 IBON
The more far-reaching implication of RCEP is for Philippines’s sovereignty in regulating foreign investments
Rising demands for data localization a response to weak data protection mechanisms
15-Aug-2017 Electronic Frontier Foundation
Don’t trust data localization exceptions in trade agreements to guarantee protection of personal data.
Crystallex moves to seize Petroleos de Venezuela Holding & Citgo
15-Aug-2017 Latin America Herald Tribune
Crystallex — owed $1.4 billion for the expropriation of its Venezuela mining subsidiary — has moved U.S. Federal Court in Delaware to seize Petroleos de Venezuela Holding, the parent company of PDVSA’s American unit Citgo Holding.