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13-Jun-2017 Reuters
China, Singapore seek to expedite RCEP trade talks
China and Singapore will do their best to expedite talks on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership -
13-Jun-2017 Nikkei
Japan weighs lower tariff on EU pork for trade deal
Move would cut levy to same level agreed on in TPP. -
13-Jun-2017 Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFF to USTR: IP doesn’t belong in NAFTA. For the rest, talk to us.
The United States Trade Representative has opened a window for the TPP’s proponents to try to use NAFTA to establish at least some of the dangerous TPP’s so-called intellectual property (IP) rules. -
13-Jun-2017 Council of Canadians
European free trade deal talks paused over Trudeau’s insistence on investor-state provision
The Norwegian government has put a pause on ’free trade’ talks given the Trudeau government’s demand for an investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) provision in the Canada-European Free Trade Association (EFTA) agreement. -
13-Jun-2017 Farmers Weekly
Brazilian meat industry corruption raises Mercosur concerns
A two-year investigation found evidence some meat-processing plants in Brazil had been selling rotten beef and poultry on to the export market by bribing health inspectors and politicians to get the necessary paperwork. -
13-Jun-2017 Asia Pacific Report
Joey Tau: Can the MSG bloc walk out on the PACER-Plus trade deal?
PACER-Plus will have a serious impact on the ability for Solomon Islanders to determine for themselves their own development future. -
13-Jun-2017 Radio NZ
Tonga’s PSA keen to delay signing Pacer Plus deal
The Tonga Public Service Association has called for a delay in the signing of the PACER Plus trade and development deal until the Pacific Islands Forum leaders’ summit in September. -
13-Jun-2017 EJIL: Talk!
Foreign control and ICSID jurisdiction on Energy Charter Treaty claims of local companies: The Eskosol case
The ICSID tribunal in Eskosol in liquidazione v. Italy rejected Italy’s Rule 41.5 application to have the claim thrown out for being “manifestly without legal merit.” I offer a summary and some reflections on two interesting aspects on the tribunal’s jurisdiction. -
12-Jun-2017 Matangi Tonga
PACER-Plus: Disappointment and lost opportunity
The PACER-Plus model of development is based on an increasingly questionable form of economics which naively imagines that national economies will adapt automatically to enhanced price signals from liberalised international markets from which ’distortions’ are removed. -
12-Jun-2017 Greenpeace
Ten principles for trade
The current global trade and investment regime imposes high social and environmental costs on people and planet. -
12-Jun-2017 Interaksyon
Swiss envoy urges PH to ratify free trade deal with EFTA
Swiss Ambassador Andrea Reichlin has urged the Philippines to ratify the free trade agreement (FTA) with European Free Trade Association (EFTA) in order for the deal to become enforceable. -
12-Jun-2017 EurActiv
EU-Japan trade deal learns nothing from ‘TTIP mistakes’
The European Commission is negotiating a free trade deal with Japan behind closed doors. Critics complain that Brussels has learned nothing from the controversy surrounding CETA and TTIP. -
12-Jun-2017 TASS
Belgian court orders to release Russia’s assets seized under Yukos claim
Yukos will hardly appeal against the Belgian court’s ruling, the lawyer of the Russian Federation Niuscha Bassiri said. -
12-Jun-2017 Sunday Times
Sri Lanka, China conclude 6th round negotiations
Sri Lanka is closing in on a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with China after ending the sixth round of negotiations on trade in services with senior officials hopeful that the deal could be concluded soon. -
12-Jun-2017 Fiji Times
Vanuatu sets PACER-Plus benchmark
The decision by Vanuatu not to sign PACER-Plus sets the benchmark for a how to progress on PACER-Plus ahead of the signing -
10-Jun-2017 All Africa
Nigeria: Trade negotiation office to advise govt on how to resolve EPA challenge
"We have looked at the agreement and we believe that the agreements are situated in the 19th century and we are now in the 21st century," Nigerian govt claims -
9-Jun-2017 Politico
U.S., Mexico clear way for NAFTA with new deal on sugar trade
The deal in principle could clear away at least one contentious issue between the two governments standing in the way of upcoming NAFTA talks. -
9-Jun-2017 AKI
Mongolia eyes free trade agreement with Eurasian Economic Union
Mongolian Prime Minister J.Erdenebat has proposed to sign a free trade agreement with the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). -
9-Jun-2017 Nikkei
Japan, EU make final push for trade pact
Agricultural tariffs crucial as parties seek quick action on megadeal. -
9-Jun-2017 Xinhua
Chinese mainland, Macao to comprehensively upgrade CEPA: senior official
The Chinese mainland and Macao were negotiating on comprehensively upgrading Closer Economic Partnership Arrangements (CEPA), which is expected to complete at the end of this year.