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18-Aug-2017 NZ Herald
Govt optimistic that TPP minus the US will get green light in November
The New Zealand Cabinet has formally approved a negotiating mandate for the TPP 11 - the Trans Pacific Partnership without the United States - but one that would involve minimal renegotiation. -
18-Aug-2017 Reuters
US, South Korea to start talks Tuesday in Seoul on trade pact
The United States plans to start negotiations with South Korea in Seoul on amending a five-year-old free trade agreement, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said. -
17-Aug-2017 Global News
NAFTA negotiations: energy clause unites Canadian critics across the political spectrum
As NAFTA 2.0 negotiations begin, an old trade issue with a strange name has emerged to create unlikely allies across the political spectrum and staunch defenders in the oilpatch. -
16-Aug-2017 Tele Sur
NAFTA renegotiation talks arrive amid diverging interests, neoliberal goals
As Mexico, Canada and the U.S. head into potentially thorny talks, critics say that banks and multinationals will be first to reap the benefits. -
16-Aug-2017 Lexology
New developments in the dispute between Pey Casado and Chile
In the last few months, the long-lasting dispute between Mr Pey Casado and the Foundation Presidente Allende and the Republic of Chile has seen numerous developments. -
16-Aug-2017 The Global Anticorruption Blog
What to do about corrupt arbitral tribunals?
That concern is a real and serious one, but there is also a more direct and crude problem: parties (or their lawyers) bribing, or making backdoor deals with, the arbitrators to secure a favorable outcome. -
16-Aug-2017 Politico
US to keep negotiating texts ‘classified’
The first USTR official said the negotiating texts will not be released to the public because they are “classified” documents. That’s consistent with past negotiations, but will give critics ammunition to complain the deal is being negotiated in secret. -
16-Aug-2017 DNA
RCEP trade ministers to meet next month in Philippines
Trade ministers of 16 RCEP countries, including India and China, will meet next month in Philippines -
16-Aug-2017 IBON
Duterte’s RCEP push at ASEAN, implications on Philippines economy & development
The more far-reaching implication of RCEP is for Philippines’s sovereignty in regulating foreign investments -
15-Aug-2017 Electronic Frontier Foundation
Rising demands for data localization a response to weak data protection mechanisms
Don’t trust data localization exceptions in trade agreements to guarantee protection of personal data. -
15-Aug-2017 Latin America Herald Tribune
Crystallex moves to seize Petroleos de Venezuela Holding & Citgo
Crystallex — owed $1.4 billion for the expropriation of its Venezuela mining subsidiary — has moved U.S. Federal Court in Delaware to seize Petroleos de Venezuela Holding, the parent company of PDVSA’s American unit Citgo Holding. -
15-Aug-2017 The Globe and Mail
NAFTA 2.0: Will our feminist government walk the equality talk?
Renegotiating the agreement is an opportunity for Canada’s self-proclaimed feminist government to put words into action by tackling gender inequality and the structural barriers that female workers and business owners face across all three countries. -
15-Aug-2017 IATP
Trump’s racist agenda is not fair trade
This system of dominance, already codified in NAFTA, is the system the Trump administration intends to preserve and strengthen in a new NAFTA. That new NAFTA will guarantee a strong foothold for structural racism. -
15-Aug-2017 Khmer Times
US examines food standards
The United States, one of the Cambodia’s key trading partners, is going to assess sanitary and phyto-sanitary standards in Cambodia, opening up the opportunity for Cambodian agricultural products to be exported to the US. -
15-Aug-2017 Businessline
India under pressure to ease protection of industry, agriculture at RCEP talks
India under pressure to raise its offer on eliminating tariffs on goods at the next RCEP round in Philippines -
15-Aug-2017 Reuters
Canada suggests it could quit NAFTA talks over dispute mechanism
Canada laid down a tough line ahead of talks on modernizing NAFTA, suggesting it could walk away if the United States pushed to remove a key dispute-settlement mechanism in the trade deal. -
15-Aug-2017 Live Mint
India to restart FTA talks with Mauritius
The decision to restart negotiations on India-Mauritius free trade agreement (FTA) follows a double taxation avoidance agreement (DTAA) signed last year. -
15-Aug-2017 Fiji Sun
Koya: Talks with PNG minister Pato fruitful
The Minister for Industry, Trade, Tourism, Lands and Mineral Resources said the meeting involved discussions on the ‘way forward’ with the Melanesian Spearhead Group Trade Agreement. -
15-Aug-2017 Economy Next
Sri Lankan industrialists worry over China trade deal, cess removal
Sri Lankan industrialists have voiced concern over a proposed free trade agreement with China and government plans to reduce import tariffs that protect them, saying they feared they might not be able to compete. -
14-Aug-2017 Ottawa Citizen
Freeland to press for new labour, environmental sections within NAFTA
Chrystia Freeland will push for additional labour and environmental sections when she shares broad strokes of Canada’s goals for the upcoming NAFTA talks.