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Malaysia won’t be pressured into CPTPP: trade minister Darell Leiking
19-Jan-2019 South China Morning Post
Malaysia will not be pressured into ratifying a 11-nation Asia-Pacific trade deal, as trade minister raised the prospect of holding out for bilateral tariff pacts instead.
S. Korea to speed up FTA with Britain on looming no-deal Brexit
19-Jan-2019 Yonhap News
South Korea’s trade ministry said will speed up efforts to clinch FTA with Britain amid the no deal Brexit.
Most EU countries to terminate intra-bloc bilateral investment treaties
18-Jan-2019 New Europe
22 of the 28 EU nations have committed to terminate their bilateral investment treaties and use their influence as home states and respondent-states to notify tribunals of the non-arbitrability of intra-EU bilateral investment treaties and Energy Charter Treaty claims.
EAEU, Egypt successfully complete 1st round of talks on FTA
18-Jan-2019 Kazinform
The talks focused on the main provisions of the Agreement and set the schedule of the further work.
Corporate social responsibility clauses in investment treaties
17-Jan-2019 IISD
Corporate social responsibility provisions do not change the corporate or ethical duties of companies into enforceable legal obligations in the context of dispute settlement proceedings but they could help significantly moralize the use of treaty-based arbitration.
Bold farm plans in Mexico offer a ray of hope in 2019
17-Jan-2019 IATP
Mexican farmers are on the verge of bold, new plans to completely transform their food and farm system. Will NAFTA 2.0 challenge them?
Maude Barlow. Water isn’t a business, it’s a fundamental right we must protect
17-Jan-2019 Life Gate
CETA and other trade treaties don’t consider water as a basic necessity, they consider it as an investment, as something that can be traded through private services.
Israel and Japan in talks to enter a free trade agreement
17-Jan-2019 CTech Calcalist
Israel and Japan are in talks to enter a free trade agreement between the countries.
Donald Trump reopens door to TPP participation, Asia reset
17-Jan-2019 Australian Financial Review
Donald Trump signed the so-called Asia Reassurance Initiative Act (ARIA) includes a call for the US to return to multilateral trade deals, countering the President’s own tendency to pursue agreements with individual countries such as Mexico, Canada and Japan.
Singapore making good progress on concluding FTA with Eurasian Economic Union: Tharman
17-Jan-2019 The Strais Times
Singapore, Russia and their partners in the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) are making progress on concluding the EAEU-Singapore Free Trade
Statement of the Advocacy Team for Economic Justice in the Post-Court Verdict concerning the International Treaty Law
17-Jan-2019 Indonesia for Global Justice
Indonesian Constitutional Court issued stated that parliament’s approval is needed for the signing of International Agreement which stipulated in the Constitution on the verdict.
EU parliament backs Morocco deal despite row
16-Jan-2019 EU Observer
Efforts to debate the agreement at the plenary were blocked amid political infighting on whether to support the agricultural pact, which seeks to extend into the disputed territory of the Western Sahara.
EAEU, Serbia plan to sign free trade deal in 2019 — Putin
16-Jan-2019 TASS
Another round of talks on the agreement was held in Belgrade early January 2019.
On Morocco, will the EU ignore its own court?
16-Jan-2019 EU Observer
How can the EU claim it does not recognise Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara yet negotiated the terms of the deal and its implementation exclusively with Rabat?
S. Korea, Britain to hold working-level talks next week following Brexit vote
15-Jan-2019 Korea Bizwire
Negotiating a South Korea-Britain FTA is the most important thing, says official at Seoul’s foreign ministry.
Argentina and Chile agree to free trade agreement
15-Jan-2019 Panam Post
With the decline of Mercosur, Argentina is looking westward towards its Pacific allies, as it signs a landmark free trade agreement with Chile.
Szijjártó meets with Belarusian counterpart in Minsk
15-Jan-2019 Budapest Business Journal
Hungary and Belarus signed an investment protection agreement.
Our changing food trade landscape
14-Jan-2019 Food Secure Canada
How do new technologies and renegotiated supply management rules affect our food system? And, how do we move past the black/white, good/bad binaries that so often frame debates about trade-related issues?
EU-US FTA: Summary of specific negotiating objectives (US, Jan 2019)
14-Jan-2019 Office of the US Trade Representative
As released by the Office of the US Trade Representative
“Free trade” is today’s imperialism by the 1 percent
14-Jan-2019 Truth Out
Opposition to “free” trade is clearly growing. Less clear are the alternatives to free trade that might emerge.