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5-Jul-2017 Reuters
Acacia seeks arbitration after Tanzania tears up mining contracts
Acacia Mining said it was seeking an adjudicator to resolve its dispute with the Tanzanian government, a day after the east-African country passed two laws to force companies to re-negotiate their contracts. -
5-Jul-2017 Automotive World
ACEA: Automobile industry calls for balanced outcome in EU-Japan FTA
Ahead of a possible bilateral EU-Japan summit to conclude negotiations on a free trade agreement, the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) calls on negotiators to ensure a balanced outcome for the European automobile sector. -
4-Jul-2017 SSRN
The revolving door in international investment arbitration
Double hatting is practiced consistently by a highly visible and powerful core of some of the most influential actors in the system. -
4-Jul-2017 The Progressive
Can NAFTA be improved? Some activists are hopeful about renegotiation
Regardless of the short-term outcome, the movement for a progressive new NAFTA will hand progressives a dynamic issue—and a mobilized base—in the 2018 and 2020 elections. The current renegotiation could set the stage for future battles, perhaps for deeper change. -
4-Jul-2017 The Southern Times
Few African countries ratify tripartite FTA
A paltry eight African have so far ratified the Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) more than two years after it was launched in Egypt, raising fears of a failed continental effort to create an expanded trade barrier free market. -
4-Jul-2017 Medpage Today
Did free trade with U.S. undermine Canada’s public health?
NAFTA blamed for tripling Canadians’ consumption of high-fructose sweeteners. -
4-Jul-2017 Reuters
Abe expected to agree EU-Japan trade deal on Thursday - EU
The European Union and Japan expect to commit to signing a free trade deal on the eve of a G20 summit in what both see as a push back against a feared U.S. turn toward protectionism under President Donald Trump. -
4-Jul-2017 Japan Times
Japan moots low-tariff import quota on cheese in EU free trade talks
Japan is proposing a low-tariff import quota on some categories of European cheese in negotiations for a free trade deal with the European Union, a source close to the talks said. -
4-Jul-2017 The Spinoff
NZ’s latest trade courtship is an insult to workers’ rights – and workers’ lives
By plunging into negotiations with Latin American countries in the Pacific Alliance, New Zealand maintains its shameful record of failing to hold partners to account on labour abuses. -
3-Jul-2017 Madhyam
Investing in alternative dispute settlement
Governments at the Centre and in the States must urgently invest in building their own capacity to handle the new generation of international investment arbitration. -
3-Jul-2017 People’s World
After nine years, arbitrators bounce AFL-CIO complaint on Guatemala labor conditions
“The panel’s decision flies in the face of common sense. Guatemala’s failure to protect its workers and enforce its own laws is apparent to nearly everyone except the arbitrators.” -
3-Jul-2017 Radio NZ
TPP reps meet in Japan ahead of APEC
Countries that signed up to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) are to send representatives to Japan to work on an agreement - without the United States. -
3-Jul-2017 Tele Sur
Reforms open Mexico’s oil and gas to investor rush… and here comes NAFTA
The rush on Mexico’s undeveloped oil and gas reserves comes just as Donald Trump has initiated a process to re-negotiate the North-American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). -
3-Jul-2017 DND
Pakistan rejects proposal to ink 2nd free trade agreement with China
In order to reduce the fast-growing trade deficit, Pakistan has rejected the proposal to sign second Free Trade Agreement with China and asked Beijing to give concessions which it gives to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). -
3-Jul-2017 Reuters
Australia, New Zealand launch trade negotiations with Pacific Alliance
Australia and New Zealand each announced the start of free trade agreement negotiations with the Pacific Alliance trade bloc. -
3-Jul-2017 Japan News
Japan-EU EPA to hinge on leaders’ talks
The ministerial negotiations for an economic partnership agreement between Japan and the European Union that were held in Tokyo for two days failed to reach an accord. -
3-Jul-2017 Alburnus Maior
Gabriel: you can always ask but it doesn’t mean we will let you get it!
With Gabriel Resources seeking US$4.4 billion in damages, Alburnus Maior, a prospective amicus curiae in the arbitration case, announces that it aims to file its brief to the ICSID Tribunal until September 2018 at the latest. -
30-Jun-2017 Reuters
Pacific Alliance to admit new associate members to expand trade reach
The alliance, which comprises Colombia, Chile, Mexico and Peru, will admit Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and Canada as associate members in a first step to broadening the reach of its trade flows and investments. -
30-Jun-2017 Nikkei
Japan could dump wine tariff to sweeten EU trade deal
Offering immediate removal aims for concessions as ministers meet. -
30-Jun-2017 Financial Post
NAFTA lawsuits target Canada most while U.S. hasn’t lost yet
When it comes to the North American Free Trade Agreement, Canada can safely claim the title of biggest loser in terms of lawsuits.