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Wildlife protection: Leveraging the EU-Japan trade deal
1-Feb-2017 EurActiv
The EU-Japan trade deal is an opportunity to encourage Japan to stop flouting multilateral environmental agreements.
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
1-Feb-2017 OHCHR
The report provides an analysis of the impacts of international investment agreements on the rights of indigenous peoples.
"In Chinese investment treaties, questions arise on who qualifies for protection"
1-Feb-2017 Lexology
Despite recent criticism from some quarters concerning the use of investment treaties and free trade agreements, the Chinese investment treaty system remains firmly in place.
New Melanesian FTA to demolish economic walls
1-Feb-2017 Indian Newslink
Fiji has signed a new version of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with its member countries
US’ withdrawal no cause for celebration with Malaysia’s anti-TPPA groups
31-Jan-2017 Malay Mail
Local critics are not rejoicing over the United States’ withdrawal from the TPP deal, cautioning instead that the trade pact may be revived or survive in other forms.
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.
Amidst political uncertainty, new updated secret documents on the “Trade in Services Agreement (TISA)” are leaked
30-Jan-2017 Our World Is Not For Sale
The documents include the core text and annexes