25-Oct-2018
Global Meat News
The New Zealand red meat sector is urging other member countries of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership to complete their ratifications so the treaty can come into force.
25-Oct-2018
War on Want et al
New briefing from War on Want, Global Justice Now and Trade Justice Movement UK
25-Oct-2018
Free Malaysia Today
An MP has dismissed a trade advocacy group’s claim that Malaysia will lose out to Vietnam if it does not ratify the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).
24-Oct-2018
Economic Times
Lack of reciprocity in India’s existing free trade agreements (FTA), inverted duty structure, hidden subsidies in Asean economies like cheap electricity provision and non-tariff barriers in developed countries have hit India’s exports of refined copper, a study has said.
24-Oct-2018
Natural Gas World
South Korean utility Korea Western Power Company (Kowepo) has begun arbitration proceedings against India for not honoring a fuel supply commitment to a gas-based power plant that it part-owns in western India
23-Oct-2018
Citizen Digital
A case filed by Cortec Mining Ltd and two others against the Republic of Kenya under the Kenya-UK BIT amounting to Ksh.200billion has been dismissed.
23-Oct-2018
Project Syndicate
If the EU is to seize the economic opportunities that Africa offers, it will need to work with the continent’s leaders to forge a new kind of partnership that treats African countries as equals. Simply put, the new EU-Africa relationship must be based on trade, not aid.
22-Oct-2018
Press Information Bureau Government of India
Press information bureau from Ministry of Commerce and Industry India issued statement on the situation of RCEP negotiation prior to the upcoming 24th negotiation round in Auckland, New Zealand
21-Oct-2018
Huffington Post
Investor-state dispute settlement was tempered in the USMCA, but the government needs to justify why it persists asking for it in other agreements.