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15-Mar-2018 Reuters
Revive trade deal talks to avoid trade war, EU urges Trump
The European Union urged the United States to revive trade talks rather than escalate a dispute over tariffs on metals and cars. -
15-Mar-2018 UNCTAD
Trade deals must work for rural women say participants at key UN session
Trade agreements must take into account the concerns of the millions of women who earn their living off the land in developing countries, participants said at a meeting held during the 62nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations in New York organized by UNCTAD and the Asia Pacific Forum on Women Law and Development (APWLD). -
15-Mar-2018 KBS World Radio
South Korea-China FTA follow-up talks to open next week
South Korea and China will hold the first round of follow-up negotiations to their free trade agreement(FTA) next week to have the deal include the service and investment sectors. -
15-Mar-2018 Hankyoreh
Trump’s imposition of trade barriers rendering the KORUS FTA obsolete
“Trump’s unilateral imposition of import restrictions on South Korean products is revealing the vulnerabilities of the KORUS-FTA, which has accomplished absolutely nothing. At the time of the negotiations in 2007, the agreement to open markets to a great extent to the US’s massive economic bloc was both advantageous to South Korean exports because of the size of the American market but also made it possible for the US to push us around because of its asymmetric strength. Trump’s actions are showing the limitations of that, says expert. -
14-Mar-2018 Indonesia- Investments
Stakeholders in Indonesia’s textile industry long for EU-Indonesia FTA
Indonesian exports of textile and textile products could soar threefold if the government of Indonesia finally manages to sign a free trade deal with the European Union (EU). Achmad Sigit Dwiwahjono, Director General for Chemicals, Textiles and Miscellaneous industry at the Industry Ministry, said a major obstacle for Indonesian textile exports at the moment is the weak competitiveness of Indonesian textile companies as compared to their Vietnamese counterparts. -
14-Mar-2018 Financial Express
Xi Jinping’s pet Belt and Road Initiative could be sticking point in India-China ties, say experts
Xi Jinping’s pet Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) can pose a "major challenge" in resetting China’s ties with India, says analysts, days after the Chinese parliament backed his plan to rule indefinitely amid Sino-India rapprochement following the Dokalam standoff. -
14-Mar-2018 Vanguard
MAN cautions FG on free trade agreements
The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria urges the Nigerian government not succumb to the pressure by the European Union to sign the EU-ECOWAS Economic Partnership Agreement as well as the African Continental Free Trade Area. -
14-Mar-2018 Live Mint
Final hearing in Cairn Energy tax issue in August
Under international arbitration proceedings the final hearing of Cairn’s claim under the UK-India Bilateral Investment Treaty is scheduled for August 2018 in The Hague. -
14-Mar-2018 Yonhap News Agency
South Korea, US to hold third round of FTA talks this week
South Korea and the United States will hold the third round of talks on amending the free trade agreement (FTA) between the two nations in Washington this week, Seoul’s trade ministry said on Wednesday. -
14-Mar-2018 Global Times
US-China ties wobble as trade war escalates
Since China began its reform and opening-up in late 1970s, growing trade and investment ties have been a key pillar of Sino-US relations. But US President Donald Trump’s recently imposed 25 percent steel tariffs and 10 percent aluminum tariffs on China and others exporting those goods to the US is just the start of nationalist economic policies that not only strain US-China ties, but put the entire global trade regime at risk. -
14-Mar-2018 Narendra Modi may decide on course of RCEP trade talks
Narendra Modi may decide on course of RCEP trade talks
The development comes after a meeting convened by the prime minister’s office saw growing opposition to RCEP FTA from the secretaries of various government departments -
14-Mar-2018
EU-Mexico FTA: Draft investment chapter (Feb 2018)
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13-Mar-2018 CEO
Renaud Beauchard on ISDS - arbitration tribunals from an investor against a State
Renaud Beauchard, law professor, explains the arbitration tribunals of CETA and TTIP which enable multinationals to sue States.
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13-Mar-2018 UNIAN
Naftogaz expects to recover from Russia $8 bln over assets seized in Crimea
According to the holding’s chief commercial officer, once Ukraine wins in court, the question will arise of physically taking this money from Russia. -
13-Mar-2018 EU Law Analysis
The CJEU ruling in Achmea: death sentence for autonomous investment protection tribunals
My prediction for CETA and TTIP is that an opinion would be a death sentence for the investment protection provisions, since they are capable of being applied to various aspects of EU law. -
13-Mar-2018 Freedom Newspaper
Letter: Gambia is about to pay half a million dollars at the International Settlement Investment Dispute Court
Shocking information from insiders tells us that the authorities are about to make a payment to the International Settlement of Investment Disputes of nearly US dollars 500,000 as a prepay for the three litigations. -
13-Mar-2018 Jordan Times
Gov’t suspends FTA with Turkey
The FTA with Turkey has not yielded the expected fruits, but has rather further tilted the trade balance in favour of the Turkish side, says Governement. -
13-Mar-2018 Kluwer Arbitration Blog
The CJEU in Slovakia v Achmea or is justice best served cold?
CJEU’s decision in Slovakia v Achmea finally bringing justice to the most recent members of the EU. -
13-Mar-2018 Euractiv
Court in confusion – the EU and Western Sahara
Representatives of the Polisario Front, the independence movement which claims to represent the people of Western Sahara, say that talks should now start on a separate EU-Western Sahara agreement. -
13-Mar-2018 Ahval
Belgium firm to sue Turkey over Gülen-linked assets
The claim alleges that Cascade’s investment’s in a media services company were unlawfully expropriated by the Turkish state in the crackdown that followed the coup attempt of July 2016.