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8-Jan-2018 Euractiv
EU trade in 2018: A preview
The year 2018 will offer a very narrow window of opportunity to bring key EU trade policy files forward. -
8-Jan-2018 Maersk
Europe reaps Canada’s wheat belt
A new trade agreement between the EU and Canada is expected to increase bilateral trade by USD 14 billion. -
8-Jan-2018 European Law Blog
AG Wathelet in C-284/16 Achmea: Saving ISDS?
The Opinion misses the much needed opportunity for a thorough and balanced reflection on the many challenges that ISDS, and investment disputes in general, pose to the EU legal and judicial system. -
8-Jan-2018 IELP Blog
Spain meets the ICSID grand inquisitor: the Eiser case
The recent Eiser v. Spain ICSID award is yet another example of a state being condemned to pay a large monetary sum merely because an investor has been economically disadvantaged by a reasonable and necessary regulatory change. -
5-Jan-2018 RQIC
People and the planet before profit!
Montréal rally on NAFTA on January 27, 2018 at 12pm. -
5-Jan-2018 Allen & Overy
Investment Treaty Arbitration: cost, duration and size of claims all show steady increase
Update to Allen & Overy 2012 study shows increases on all metrics but, importantly, tribunals taking more nuanced and rigorous approach to parties’ costs -
5-Jan-2018 CNBC
South Korea on alert for ’US bullying’ during trade talks
Seoul, wary of giving into US demands, will seek to limit the number of overall concessions. -
5-Jan-2018 Bloomberg
US urges UK to cut EU rules after Brexit to boost trade
US trade official says it is ‘difficult’ to do business with EU and Brexit offers chance to press the ‘reset button’. -
5-Jan-2018 MENAFN
FTA with Turkey is Ukraine’s key priority for 2018: Ambassador
Ukraine’s Ambassador to Turkey Andrii Sybiha considers the conclusion of the agreement on a free trade area (FTA) with Turkey as one of the key priorities of 2018. -
5-Jan-2018 Jakarta Post
Indonesia to start trade talks to boost exports
Indonesia seeks to initiate negotiations on trade agreements under both bilateral and regional schemes this year to help jack up the country’s exports. -
5-Jan-2018 Strategic Review
Free trade or women’s rights?
After 30 years of neoliberal globalization, it has been increasingly acknowledged that austerity, privatization, deregulation of finance, markets and corporations, and trade and investment liberalization have had a devastating and discriminatory impact on women. -
5-Jan-2018 The Guardian
UK leaving single market for TPP could hit workers’ rights, union warns
TUC delivers stark warning about labour abuses after trade secretary Liam Fox refuses to rule out membership of TPP. -
5-Jan-2018 CADTM
A declaration from North Africa: food sovereignty is a right
We stand against the plunder of peoples’ resources by multinationals and financial capital and against all forms of discrimination and racism. -
5-Jan-2018 The Diplomat
TPP sows fear in Japan’s agriculture industry
As the resurrected TPP moves forward, Japanese consumer groups and farmers fear the effects.Many argue that seeds are likely to become more expensive by the proposed abolishment of the Seed Law. -
5-Jan-2018 The Hindu BusinessLine
Big Asean presence on R-Day will have ripple effect on mega trade pact talks
It is highly probable that the Asean countries will use the official visit to gain some political mileage and push India towards steeper commitments on dismantling tariffs and improve market access commitments to RCEP members. -
4-Jan-2018 The Guardian
Liam Fox’s Pacific plan is toxic. Post-Brexit trade policies need proper scrutiny
Joining the dysfunctional Trans-Pacific Partnership would help only big business. There must be transparency and accountability over trade. -
4-Jan-2018 MercoPress
China announces it will begin “a greater push” to conquer trade in the hemisphere
Chinese Ambassador to Argentina Yang Wanming urged Latin American nations to increase trade ties to China, promoting Beijing’s “One Belt One Road” project and warning Beijing will begin a “greater push” to conquer trade in the hemisphere. -
4-Jan-2018 The Progressive Farmer
Japan wheat market to tighten
US wheat growers are likely to lose some market share in Japan in the coming years because of a free trade agreement between Japan and the European Union, and the newly constituted Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership, a new USDA report warns. -
4-Jan-2018 Daily Mirror
SL-Singapore FTA first draft forwarded for Cabinet approval
Unlike trade negotiations with behemoths such as India and China, politically-backed protests have not taken place against the Sri Lanka-Singapore FTA negotiations. -
4-Jan-2018 Yonhap News Agency
S. Korea to hold hearing on follow-up FTA talks with China
In December 2017, the trade and industry ministers of South Korea agreed to expedite negotiations to expand the two countries’ two-year-old free trade agreement to include the service and investment sectors.