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RCEP - Matrix of submission of elements for the RCEP Trade in Services text (2015)
11-Aug-2016
RCEP - Brief snapshots of countries’ initial offers (2015)
11-Aug-2016
RCEP - Investment chapter - Indonesia proposal on Prudential Measures (Aug 2015)
11-Aug-2016
RCEP - Telecommunications services - Korea proposal (Aug 2015)
11-Aug-2016
RCEP - Financial services - Submission by AU, JP and KO (Aug 2015)
11-Aug-2016
RCEP - Services - NZ initial sectoral request lists (Oct 2015)
11-Aug-2016
Requests to Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines and Viet Nam, dated October 2015
Pacific Alliance members invite Uruguay to sign free trade agreements
11-Aug-2016 MercoPress
Uruguay, which will soon sign a free trade deal with Chile and upgrade its agreement with Mexico, has been invited by Colombia and Peru to turn its current agreements with them into an FTA as well
See how the controversial plantations boomed in the desert
11-Aug-2016 Western Sahara Resource Watch
The large increase of plantation infrastructure in occupied Western Sahara at the time when Morocco and the EU were negotiating a trade agreement suggests that the Moroccan government and the Moroccan/French companies involved had expected the trade agreement to go through.
India writes to Singapore, Japan and South Korea to recast investment deals
11-Aug-2016 Economic Times
India has turned its attention to comprehensive economic partnership agreements with Singapore, Japan and South Korea after having fixed the loopholes in the much-abused investment treaties with Mauritius and Cyprus.
RCEP services chapter: Risks for developing countries’ and LDCs’ policy space and regulatory sovereignty
11-Aug-2016 RCEP Legal
The leaked RCEP services chapter from August 2015 shows the non-ASEAN countries, especially Australia, New Zealand, South Korea and Japan, have been very aggressive in their demands and insisted on new ways to bind the hands of governments in the future.
Mexico expects FTA with Argentina within two years
11-Aug-2016 Post Online
Mexico would like to reach a free trade agreement with Argentina to rapidly increase the bilateral trade worth $2.5 billion annually, Mexico’s Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo said.
Ghana’s thoughtless ratification of the interim EPA, based on false data
11-Aug-2016 SOL
In ratifying the EU-Ghana interim EPA on 3 August 2016, the Ghanean Parliament has shot itself in the foot. Analysis by Jacques Berthelot.
Handelsblatt exclusive: No TTIP deal this year
11-Aug-2016 Handelsblatt
Negotiators in Brussels and Washington haven’t finalized a single chapter of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP, according to an internal ministry report obtained by Handelsblatt.
Collapse of EU trade deal: Kenya finds itself isolated for a third time in four months
11-Aug-2016 Standard
Kenya finds itself isolated after its peers in East Africa develop cold feet on a trade deal with the European Union.
The British service sector: potential UK-China free trade agreement
11-Aug-2016 Global Intelligence Trust
On August 2, the Chinese ministry of commerce expressed willingness to jointly conduct a feasibility study for a UK-China FTA
India and Sri Lanka begin talks on ETCA agreement
10-Aug-2016 Colombo Gazette
While India is looking at the Economic and Technical Cooperation Agreement as a mechanism to increase Indian investment in Sri Lanka, the Sri Lankan government is wanting to use ETCA to become part of the Indian supply chain
Trade data shows fallacy in Trump’s claims about Korea-US FTA
10-Aug-2016 Yonhap
Korea’s government-affiliated news agency, Yonhap, engages US presidential candidate Donald Trump on who has benefitted most from the US-Korea FTA.
Free people from ‘dictatorship’ of 0.01%
10-Aug-2016 Deccan Chronicle
Through RCEP, Asian countries may be dragged into the TPP under pressure of harmonisation, especially on issues related to seed, warns Vandana Shiva
RCEP: Transparency in trade talks sought
10-Aug-2016 The Hindu
With India set to become a signatory to the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, a new trade pact with 15 countries including China, experts and civil society organisations in Kerala have stepped up the demand for transparency in trade and tariff negotiations.
US court rules for Chevron in Ecuador rainforest-damage case
10-Aug-2016 LA Times
Ecuadorean plaintiffs cannot collect a $9-billion judgment in the US against Chevron Corp. for rainforest damage, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.