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27-Sep-2017 IISD
A look into China’s slowly increasing appearance in ISDS cases
Recent decades have been marked by China’s economic, military and diplomatic rise, and its increasing integration into the international order. -
27-Sep-2017 IISD
Investment treaties and the internal vetting of regulatory proposals: A case study from Canada
Does the prospect of foreign investor claims against countries in investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) lead to regulatory chill? -
27-Sep-2017 The Hindu
India, S. Korea to upgrade FTA at ‘earliest’
New Delhi wants its English, yoga teachers to get opportunities to offer services. -
27-Sep-2017 National Observer
Canada pushes inclusion of strong, progressive labour standards in NAFTA
Canada is pushing for the inclusion of enforceable, progressive labour standards in a rewritten North American Free Trade Agreement. -
27-Sep-2017 Dalloz
La CJUE interrogée sur la validité de la clause d’arbitrage prévue par un TBI conclu entre États membres
L’avocat général, M. Wathelet, prend position sur la clause d’arbitrage du traité bilatéral conclu entre les Pays-Bas et la Slovaquie et estime que celle-ci est compatible avec le principe de non-discrimination, avec le mécanisme de renvoi préjudiciel et avec le principe d’autonomie du système juridique de l’Union européenne. -
26-Sep-2017 The Hindu
Free trade talks with EFTA grouping hit IPR, services wall
Switzerland insists on intellectual property commitments beyond TRIPS. -
26-Sep-2017 Electronic Frontier Foundation
Canada pushes back against US copyright demands in NAFTA
The United States is using the TPP as a template for the draft IP chapter that it is presenting to its negotiating partners in this round. Canada, however, isn’t down with that. -
26-Sep-2017 Q Costa Rica
Costa Rica looking to UAE investments for the logistics sector
Costa Rica is trying to sign a bilateral investment treaty with the UAE. -
26-Sep-2017 Greater Manchester Trade Action Network
It’s time for action
Who’s pulling the strings in our trade deals? Call to action at the Tory Party Conference in Manchester on October 1st. -
25-Sep-2017 Corporate Europe Observatory
Brexit bonanza: Lawyers encouraging corporations to sue UK & EU member states
Brexit could become a money-making machine for law firms that make millions when corporations sue nation states via trade and investment agreements. -
25-Sep-2017 Philstar
Philippines revives plan to join Trans-Pacific trade bloc
The Philippines is reviving its plan to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) even as the mega-trade deal pushes through without the US, the Department of Trade and Industry said. -
25-Sep-2017 PNG Industry News
Indonesia in sugar, pesticide deal
Indonesia will lower the tariff on our sugar exports. In exchange for the sugar deal Australia will eliminate import duties on Indonesian herbicides and pesticides. -
25-Sep-2017 Discover Humboldt
More producers and feedlot operators needed for CETA
The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association says they are looking for producers and feedlot operators to sign up for their beef to be eligible in the E.U. market. -
25-Sep-2017 Ouest France
Renégociation de l’Aléna: le lait canadien sous pression américaine
Le Canada subit les pressions des Etats-Unis pour accepter plus de produits laitiers sur son marché protégé dans le cadre de l’actuelle renégociation de l’Accord de libre-échange nord-américain (Aléna) entre ces deux pays et le Mexique. -
25-Sep-2017 Reuters
US to partially unveil key NAFTA proposal, talks seen dragging
US trade negotiators will only partially unveil new text on modifying a key chapter on investment under NAFTA, two well-placed sources said, underlying the cautious pace of talks that are supposed to wrap up by the end of the year. -
24-Sep-2017 People Over Profit
Philippine peoples’ movements reject RCEP
Various civil society groups and movements in the Philippines came together for a public forum to voice out their opposition to the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership -
23-Sep-2017 Creative Commons
EU-Mercosur trade agreement would harm user rights and the commons
The EU-Mercosur FTA is expansive, addressing trade in industrial and agricultural goods as well as intellectual property provisions such as copyrights and patents. -
23-Sep-2017 The Express Tribune
The disaster of international arbitration of RPPs
The arbitral tribunal of the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) has rendered an arbitral award of $700 million against Pakistan. -
23-Sep-2017 Reuters
Without US, 11 nations in TPP inch closer to a deal
Negotiators met for two days in the Japanese capital, Tokyo, to discuss what parts of the original deal they wished to shelve. -
22-Sep-2017 IISD
Farmland investments are finding their way to international arbitration
Swedish investor EcoDevelopment registered a claim at the ICSID against the Tanzanian government for revoking a land title amid concerns over the impact on local communities and a wildlife sanctuary.