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China-backed coal projects raise heat in Pakistan
13-Feb-2019 Nikkei Asian Review
China-backed coal plants are raising environmental concerns locally.
Parliament gives green light to EU-Singapore trade and investment protection deals
13-Feb-2019 European Parliament News
European Parliament endorsed the free trade and investment protection deals between EU and Singapore, serving as blueprint for further cooperation with Southeast Asia.
Zim not yet ready for full AfCFTA
13-Feb-2019 The Herald
Zimbabwe should ramp up value addition and beneficiation of its products beforehand, says official.
Israel and Iran both set to join Russia-led free trade zone
13-Feb-2019 Times of Israel
After two rounds of negotiations, Jerusalem close to agreement with Eurasian Economic Union; separately, Tehran also set to sign deal ‘in the near future’.
Asean credibility at stake if RCEP not concluded this year, forum hears
13-Feb-2019 The Nation
Concluding the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) will be the biggest challenge during Thailand’s Asean chairmanship this year.
Corporate sector in China’s Belt & Road: Impact on people’s access to land and water
12-Feb-2019 People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty
China has been receiving flak for its conditional investments and loans that are resulting in land and resource grabbing in Asia and Africa.
Investor-state dispute settlement in Tanzania
12-Feb-2019 The Citizen
Tanzania has embarked on process of regulation of its foreign investment regime by enacting legislation, which exclude international arbitration.
Latin America dispute resolution update – the latest developments in cross-border disputes involving the US and Latin America (February 2019)
12-Feb-2019 JDSupra
New claims against Latin American countries. Ecuador, Argentina and Uruguay pass new investment and arbitration laws.
UK signs post-Brexit trade deal with Switzerland
12-Feb-2019 BBC
The "continuity agreement" - based on the EU’s existing free trade deal with Switzerland - was agreed in December but ratified on Monday.
US glass firm sues Venezuela to collect $500 million expropriation award
12-Feb-2019 Reuters
US glass container maker Owens-Illinois Inc has sued Venezuela and state-owned companies as it seeks to collect a $500 million arbitration award over the 2010 nationalization of two plants.
EU begins process to hit Cambodia with trade sanctions
12-Feb-2019 Reuters
The European Union started an 18-month process that could lead to the suspension of Cambodia’s duty-free trade access over its record on human rights and democracy.
Bangladesh, Indonesia set to start PTA negotiation
12-Feb-2019 New Age Business
Bangladesh and Indonesia are set to start a negotiation this month for signing a preferential trade agreement to boost bilateral trade
EU-New Zealand FTA: NZ proposals (November 2018)
11-Feb-2019
As released by the Government of New Zealand
The EU-Singapore investment protection agreement
11-Feb-2019 SOMO
An analysis of its impact on managing government bonds and capital flows.
MEPs take note: EU-Singapore deal could hinder fight against fraud and corruption.
11-Feb-2019 Stop ISDS
The most worrying thing about the EU-Singapore deal is not the risk that Singapore firms themselves pose, but the fact that the agreement looks set to be used as a model for reinvigorating ISDS.
Here’s what US lobbyists want Donald Trump to get from a post-Brexit trade deal
11-Feb-2019 Huffington Post
Big firms want Donald Trump to play hard ball over the NHS, food quality and consumer rights.
UK eyes free trade agreement with GCC countries in future, UK Minister tells WAM
11-Feb-2019 MENAFN
UK Secretary of State for International Trade, has said that the UK enjoys strong trading relations with GCC countries and is looking forward to have a free trade agreement with the bloc in the right time.
Tanzania allowed 4 months to resolve EPA impasse
11-Feb-2019 The East African
The discussion on the EPA took place during the East Africa Community summit, with Tanzania insisting that it must be allowed more time to send experts to EU headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, to present its grievances.
US investors demand $96m for loss of Rwanda contracts
11-Feb-2019 The East African
A group of US investors have taken Rwanda to an international court, seeking compensation of $95 million after the government seized their mining concessions, effectively denying them operating licences.
Somkid presses Commerce Ministry on CPTPP
11-Feb-2019 Bangkok Post
Thai Deputy Prime ordered the Commerce Ministry to submit a request to become a CPTPP member while the government remains in power.