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BIT template given final touches by BoI
7-Sep-2015 Business Recorder
The Board of Investment (BoI) has given final touches to a Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) template, which will replace the existing treaties with different countries. Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) mediation would be made compulsory.
RCEP pact: Commerce Ministry to hold consultations with industry on goods
7-Sep-2015 The Economic Times
With negotiations on the mega trade deal RCEP at an advance stage, the Commerce Ministry will hold stakeholders’ consultation with industry.
Uruguay: governing coalition rejects TISA’s negotiations
7-Sep-2015 Tele Sur
The ruling progressivist coalition Broad Front overwhelmingly decided to withdraw Uruguay from the negotiations on the supra-national trade-deal TISA (Trade in Services Agreement).
COMESA prepares for regional trade facilitation
4-Sep-2015
The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) has conducted training workshops for stakeholders in transit trade in preparation for the implementation of regional trade facilitation instruments.
COMESA courts Australia on mineral policy
4-Sep-2015
The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) is working with the government of Western Australia to develop a harmonised regional mineral policy focusing on the legal and regulatory framework.
Trade barriers in India delaying India-SACU PTA: South African official
4-Sep-2015
Delays in finalising a Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) between India and the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) have been largely caused by different processes in Indian states and resistance to New Delhi’s wide-ranging goods list, a senior official said here.
Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership an environmental pollution pass for corporations?
4-Sep-2015 Huffington Post
Critics of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement are skeptical saying the agreement will be harmful to the environment and economically benefits large corporations.
European Commission admits defeat in trying to improve corporate sovereignty chapter in CETA
4-Sep-2015 Tech Dirt
The excitement over the mad dash to finish TPP — and the failure to do so — has rather obscured the other so-called trade deals currently being negotiated, such as TAFTA/TTIP and the one between the EU and Canada, CETA.
TiSA and the new development bank: two antagonistic proposals
4-Sep-2015 El Destape Web
The central banks of BRICS bloc bet on the New Development Bank, while the central countries put their money on TiSA: free trade in services.
Ecuadorians can sue Chevron in Canada, Supreme Court rules
4-Sep-2015 The Globe and Mail
Ecuadorian villagers can sue Chevron and its Canadian subsidiary in an Ontario court to enforce a $9.5-billion (U.S.) judgment from Ecuador.
Free trade treaties and the health system
4-Sep-2015 Diario Información
While mass media are almost entirely absorbed with cases of corruption, trade and investment agreements slip by, almost unnoticed. TTIP, CETA and TiSA are being negotiated throughout the world, in complete opacity and in the absence of democratic checks.
Hockey urges business to speak for FTAs
4-Sep-2015
Treasurer Joe Hockey has used a global forum to take aim at "detractors" of free trade agreements.
S. Korea, China ink MOU to tackle non-tariff barriers
3-Sep-2015 Yonhap
South Korea and China have agreed to tackle the issue of non-tariff barriers following their signing of a free trade agreement (FTA)
Trade agreements: EU grows bilateral and regional FTAs
3-Sep-2015 Just Style
Free trade agreements (FTAs) between the European Union (EU) and its trading partners worldwide have mushroomed in recent years and more are in the pipeline.
India, UAE agree to enhance cooperation, increase trade by 60%
3-Sep-2015 Net Indian
India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) today agreed to enhance their cooperation in all areas of bilateral relations and to increase their trade by 60 per cent over the next five years.
Losing access to generic drugs may be a bitter pill to swallow
3-Sep-2015 New Straits Times
The pharmaceutical industry, with worldwide sales of more than US$980 billion in 2013, stood to be one of the biggest winners under TPP. The developing countries would lose out. The United States and Canada looked set to win big.
For the love of water: El Salvador’s mining ban
3-Sep-2015 Counter Punch
Over 90 percent of El Salvador’s surface water is contaminated with industrial chemicals, making it unsuitable to drink even if the water is boiled, chlorinated or filtered beforehand. A new action plan for passing a nationwide ban has begun to unfold, as Salvadorans await the outcome of the Pacific Rime ICSID case.
Warning: TTIP could be hazardous to your health
3-Sep-2015 Journal of Public Health
In the case of TTIP, the Faculty of Public Health has identified numerous risks to public health and potential conflicts with the policies called for in its recent manifesto.
The Trans­Pacific Partnership: a neoliberal escalation
2-Sep-2015 Flush the TPP
The outcome of such a process, based on what we know so far, is what one might reasonably expect: “a wishlist of the 1%–a worldwide corporate power”.
Private sectors of Sri Lanka, Pakistan urged to forge deeper links to boost trade
2-Sep-2015 Colombo Page
Pakistan and Sri Lanka are important partners not only in promoting bilateral trade and economic interactions but also enhancing regional economic integration through SAARC and SAFTA.