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Putting a Spotlight on the Arbitration Industry
5-Dec-2012 Triple Crisis Blog
“There is little use in going to law with the devil while the court is held in hell.” These words from an unlikely source – Humphrey O’Sullivan, a 19th Century Irish schoolmaster – became a widely used argument by multinational companies in the last decade as they justified the construction of an international arbitration system to decide state-investor disputes.
Profiting from injustice
5-Dec-2012 Transnational Institute / Corporate Europe Observatory
A small club of international law firms, arbitrators and financial speculators are fuelling an investment arbitration boom that is costing taxpayers billions of dollars and preventing legislation in the public interest.
EU and Mercosur to resume free trade talks at two events next January
5-Dec-2012 MercoPress
The European Union and Mercosur will resume talks on a free trade agreement during a coming summit in Brazil and later at a meeting in Santiago de Chile, both in January,
EU-Canada FTA (CETA): landing zones (draft, Nov 2012)
4-Dec-2012 S2B Network
Activists stage TPP boxing match
4-Dec-2012 Dominion Post
Activist group Aotearoa is Not for Sale Wellington staged a symbolic boxing match protesting the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement today.
New statism: what replaces canned investment treaties?
4-Dec-2012 Business Day
What is remarkable about South Africa’s move against the EU is the lack of bilateral consultation before terminating its BITs as much as the proposal, almost novel in international investment law, that all future investment arbitration with SA should be domesticated.
India-New Zealand likely to ink FTA early next year
4-Dec-2012 Jagran
New Zealand in Friday said it expects to conclude the negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with India by next year and it would work passionately to address the issue of high duties levied on its products.
Group presses White House for consumer protections in trade negotiations
3-Dec-2012 Food Poisoning Bulletin
A bipartisan group has asked the Obama Administration to ensure public health is protected as the Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement is negotiated. Two countries involved in this agreement, Vietnam and Malaysia, are seafood exporters and have raised red flags.
Anniversary of the Seattle WTO protests
3-Dec-2012 Swans Commentary
Today I noticed an article about an "American" company that is suing Canada for an alleged World Trade Organization (WTO) violation.
Export firms eagerly await EPA talks / Deal could even playing field with S. Korean automakers in EU, offset surging yen
3-Dec-2012 Daily Yomiuri
News that Japan and the European Union have agreed to start negotiations for an economic partnership agreement was a breath of fresh air for Japanese export-related companies, as it is highly likely an EPA deal will give a boost to their businesses.
Trade war in the Pacific: ASEAN and the Trans-Pacific Partnership
3-Dec-2012 The Conversation
Australian politicians are keen to project our participation in two major international trade talks – the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) – as unproblematic.
Opponents rally against Pacific-wide free trade pact talks in New Zealand
3-Dec-2012 Global Times
An international network of critics was gearing up Monday for more than a week of events opposing the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade talks as delegates from the 11 participating nations began the 15th round of negotiations behind closed doors in New Zealand.
Treaty shopping: How Philip-Morris cherry-picked worst case BITs
3-Dec-2012 Infojustice.org
Australia’s new stance against investor-State arbitration may do nothing to prevent claims being brought in the future.
Auckland TPP trade talks spark protest
3-Dec-2012 TVNZ
Long running talks to hammer out a free trade agreement between 11 Asia Pacific countries have resumed in Auckland, sparking criticism and protest.
No time to lose on FTA with EU: Thai ministry
3-Dec-2012 ANN
Thailand’s Commerce Ministry is rushing to get Cabinet’s endorsement of the draft Thai-EU free-trade agreement on Tuesday in a bid to maintain the Kingdom’s attractiveness in terms of trade and investment, as well as to prepare for the end of European Union privileges under the Generalised System of Preferences.
One million to stop the corporate death star
3-Dec-2012 Avaaz
722,655 have signed this petition against the TPP. Help us get to 1,000,000.
Canada EPA could boost energy supply
29-Nov-2012
The government aims to secure a stable supply of resources such as natural gas and oil by entering negotiations Monday with Canada to conclude an economic partnership agreement. Whether Japan can overcome differences of opinion with Canada over liberalization of agricultural products will be a test for the government in promoting other trade negotiations, including those for the Trans-Pacific Partnership multilateral trade talks.
Argentina faces 65bn dollars in claims; plans to abandon international litigations court
29-Nov-2012
Argentina faces 42 claims at the World Bank’s ICSID in which the plaintiffs are demanding compensations for almost 65 billion dollars, revealed Eduardo Barcesat legal advisor to the Argentine Treasury and one of several lawyers who has defended the country in those litigations.
Senate passes Malaysia free trade deal
29-Nov-2012
Senators on Thursday approved legislation to implement the agreement, which will lead to almost all Australian goods being able to enter Malaysia free of import duties.
South Korea-Vietnam to sign free trade agreement
29-Nov-2012
On November 27, a conference relating to the ongoing Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations between Vietnam and the Republic of Korea was held in Ho Chi Minh City.