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Defending Pacific Ways of Life: A Social Impact Assessment of PACER-Plus
21-Jun-2016 PANG
Defending Pacific ways of life: A Peoples Social Impact Assessment of PACER-Plus, was commissioned by the Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG) to provide Pacific governments, negotiators, parliamentarians, civil society actors, customary landowners and the private sector with an alternative assessment to the impacts that PACER-Plus will have on the region.
EU woos Nigeria with N1.4tn EPA offer
20-Jun-2016 Nigeria Today
The European Union has asked Nigeria to sign the Economic Partnership Agreement with attractive offers including a €6.5bn (about N1.4tn) Development Programme.
Colombian campesinos: change the constitution, end ’free trade’
20-Jun-2016 Tele Sur
“We hold free trade agreements responsible for the bankruptcy of small producers, and we want them renegotiated”
Seoul prefers ISDS for its investment chapter but could consider ICS
20-Jun-2016 Vieuws
High-level South Korean diplomats have expressed their preference for the old investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) system over the Investment Court System (ICS) in the framework of a future investment chapter in the EU-South Korea FTA.
Mining company threatens Guatemala with lawsuit in USA
20-Jun-2016 Prensa Latina
The Guatemala Mining Explorations (Exmingua) threatens with filing a lawsuit against Guatemala after being forced to suspend operations by decree of the Constitutional Court .
TISA ’free trade’ deal to force draconian social, environmental, financial deregulation
20-Jun-2016 The Ecologist
A leaked text from the ’Trade In Services Agreement’ negotiations shows that TISA is set to unleash a massive wave of deregulation affecting social, environmental and financial standards.
Member states to give greenlight to opening FTA talks with Indonesia
17-Jun-2016 Vieuws
EU member states are expected to give their formal greenlight to the opening of negotiations on a free trade agreement (FTA) with Indonesia.
Do the CETA CHECK
17-Jun-2016 Stop TTIP
Ask Members of the European Parliament about the planned free trade agreement between the EU and Canada (CETA). Let’s remove the secrecy behind CETA and bring the discussion out into the open!
New rules to regulate Europe’s hormone-disrupting chemicals
17-Jun-2016 The Guardian
European commission launches world’s first system for classifying and banning endocrine disruptors against a barrage of criticism
Investment act may clash with SADC treaty
17-Jun-2016 Business Day
Legal practitioners have been saying for some time now that SA’s Protection of Investment Act is not in sync with the country’s commitments under the Southern African Development Community Protocol on Finance and Investment.
DOE seeks end to Shell arbitration case
17-Jun-2016 Inquirer
The Philippine government seeks to resolve the international arbitration case with operators of the Malampaya gas platform led by Royal Dutch Shell plc.
Korea-Colombia FTA to be effective July
16-Jun-2016 Korea Herald
Colombia informed South Korea earlier in the day that it has completed the ratification process of the deal clinched in 2013, adding that the deal will go into effect on July 15.
TTIP talks bogged down in food standards debate
16-Jun-2016 EurActiv
Seemingly insurmountable differences in food standards are threatening to sink trade negotiations between the United States and the European Union.
Argentina welcomed as Pacific Alliance observer
16-Jun-2016 ICTSD
Argentina is now an official observer to the Pacific Alliance, the South American bloc that includes Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru as full members.
ISDS - Corporate weapon against public policies worldwide
16-Jun-2016 PowerShift
The 16 clips of this playlist were produced by members of the S2B network as part of the project "Making EU investment policy work for development".
Arbitration on the rise in Asian trade
15-Jun-2016 Global Trade Review
There has been a rise in investment arbitrations arising out of investment agreements in Asia
Govt to review all preferential trade agreements
15-Jun-2016 Pakistan Herald
The government decided to review all existing preferential trade pacts through which Pakistan conducts its trade on preferable terms with other countries on bilateral basis.
RCEP ‘stakeholder’ process just ticks the box
15-Jun-2016 Scoop
A new era of openness? RCEP ‘stakeholder’ process just ticks the box
Foreign investor protections in the Trans-Pacific Partnership
15-Jun-2016 CCPA
This study examines the special privileges, enforced through investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), which would be given to foreign investors under the TPP.
An interview with Lauge Poulsen, author of Bounded Rationality and Economic Diplomacy
15-Jun-2016 IISD
Lauge Poulsen is a Lecturer in International Political Economy at University College London. His recent book explains why and how developing countries signed up to investment treaties.