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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.
ICSID: How impartial is the main BIT arbitration forum of Bangladesh?
15-Jan-2019 Daily Star
The very operational narratives of ICSID arbitrators inculcate an inherent bias towards foreign investors, who are overwhelmingly from European and North America.
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.
Turkey ratifies free trade agreement with Serbia
14-Jan-2019 Serbian Monitor
The Turkish Parliament has ratified the new Free Trade Agreement with Serbia which creates prerequisites for more Serbian goods to be included in the duty-free regime in trade between the two countries.
We can’t afford to let the new NAFTA drive up drug prices
14-Jan-2019 Chicago Tribune
NAFTA 2.0 would effectively tie the US Congress’ hands in the struggle against rising drug prices.
US to seek comprehensive agriculture access in EU trade talks
14-Jan-2019 Reuters
The United States signalled it would not bow to the European Union’s request to keep agriculture out of planned US-EU trade talks.
Inconsistency’s many forms in investor-state dispute settlement and implications for reform
11-Jan-2019 CCSI
New briefing explores potential sources of inconsistency in ISDS, from divergent interpretations of provisions to decisions inconsistent with societal objectives, and the way forward.
MEP seeks signatures against Morocco-EU agriculture agreement
11-Jan-2019 Morocco World News
As the European Parliament prepares to deliver its final vote on the EU-Morocco agriculture agreement, some pro-Polisario forces from within the European body are again challenging the validity of the agreement.
France to keep European audiovisual sector out of post-Brexit UK-EU free trade agreement
11-Jan-2019 Screen Daily
French president Emmanuel Macron has confirmed France will ensure the European audiovisual sector is excluded from any all-encompassing UK-EU free trade agreement (FTA) post Brexit.
The IP implications of the USMCA: Who needs to do what
11-Jan-2019 Lexology
The USMCA most closely reflects US IP laws, subjecting the US to almost no revisions of its current domestic intellectual property laws.
EU: Postpone vote on Vietnam free trade agreement
10-Jan-2019 Human Rights Watch
The European Parliament and the European Council should postpone the ratification of the proposed EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement until the Vietnamese government takes concrete steps to improve its increasingly abusive human rights record.
An historic opportunity to transform trade when we stop NAFTA II
10-Jan-2019 Nation of Change
We can stop NAFTA II and replace corporate trade with a new model that raises working conditions and protects the environment.
EU trade chief says US talks will not include agriculture
10-Jan-2019 Reuters
The European Commission is preparing two mandates: one to cover removal of tariffs on industrial goods and another on areas of possible regulatory cooperation in areas such as pharmaceuticals, medical devices and cyber security.
A no-go for the US: What is the Trans-Pacific Partnership and why did it fail?
9-Jan-2019 IQS Directory
With the US as the centerpiece, the TPP would have given the country a more significant stake in Asia and the Pacific in much the same way as NAFTA did in America.
Ukraine: Enforceability of emergency arbitral awards (JKX Oil & Gas PLC v. Ukraine)
9-Jan-2019 Lexology
The Ukrainian Supreme Court refused recognition and enforcement of the emergency award in Ukraine, based on the grounds that enforcement of the emergency award would be contrary to the public policy of Ukraine
After NAFTA fight, Trump threatens another trade battle with Central America
9-Jan-2019 McClatchy
Now that the Trump administration has revamped the North American Free Trade Agreement, it is taking a look at kicking key countries out of its sister pact, the Central American Free Trade Agreement.