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28-Apr-2017 Nikkei Asian Review
Think the RCEP is about free trade? Think again
RCEP is aimed at saving China’s own economy via the Belt and Road -
27-Apr-2017 Ejinsight
Why Singapore doesn’t want to see a HK-ASEAN free-trade deal
Once the ASEAN opens its service sector to Hong Kong companies, Singapore could be the hardest hit, and hence its staunch opposition to it. -
27-Apr-2017 EU Observer
EU to exclude financial services from post-Brexit deal
The EU intends to exclude the financial services sector from a trade deal with the UK after Brexit, according to the latest tweaks in the EU’s draft negotiating guidelines. -
27-Apr-2017 The News
Iran agrees to make existing trade deal with Pakistan functional
Both sides have decided that there will be no fresh Free Trade Agreement (FTA), rather both sides will later on turn the current Preferential Trade Agreement into FTA. -
27-Apr-2017 Forum against FTAs
Employment crisis and free trade agreements( FTAs) : Why workers should reject RCEP
Trade unions, farmers groups, health activists, and other people’s movements are planning to organise a series of events to put pressure on the Government of India to withdraw from RCEP negotiations. -
27-Apr-2017 BBC
Trump won’t scrap Nafta trade deal ’at this time’
US President Donald Trump has told Mexico and Canada he wants to renegotiate - not scrap - the North American Free Trade Agreement. -
27-Apr-2017 The Hindu
FinMin to look into changes sought by Canada in draft bilateral treaty
Enormous political pressure to get the bilateral, economic treaties off the ground, say officials. -
27-Apr-2017 Live Mint
Cairn arbitration: International panel rejects India’s demand for stay
An international arbitration panel has rejected India’s demand for a stay on an arbitration initiated by Cairn Energy against Rs10,247 crore retrospective tax notice. -
27-Apr-2017 Radio NZ
Fiji wants to renegotiate PACER Plus
Fiji’s trade minister Faiyaz Koya says Fiji will approach Australia after missing out on the conclusion of the PACER Plus talks. -
26-Apr-2017 BusinessWorld
Fine tuning RCEP could take till 2019: Ramon Lopez
DTI Secretary Ramon Lopez said that an agreement on the RCEP has not yet happened as member countries need to fine-tune details of the pact -
26-Apr-2017 SSRN
Politics of investment treaty arbitration
The paper outlines and contextualises the past and current political drivers and effects of investment treaty arbitration. -
26-Apr-2017 Business Mirror
PHL not in a hurry to ink FTA with US
"We’re comfortable and happy with the generalized system of preferences. If ever there are initiatives to work on an FTA, we’ll be open to that, but we won’t be bringing it up," says Philippines Trade Secretary. -
26-Apr-2017 SSRN
The political motivations of the United States’ bilateral investment treaty program
The United States has largely used BITs as a foreign policy tool to improve relationships with strategically important countries in the developing world. -
26-Apr-2017 Indonesia Investments
Working on a bilateral trade agreement between Indonesia-USA
The Indonesian government is currently studying the opportunities and challenges with regard to the making of a new bilateral trade deal with the USA. -
26-Apr-2017 The Hindu
The expanding universe of IP
Granting data exclusivity for clinical trials would undermine access to medicines. -
26-Apr-2017 The Hindu
India, Sri Lanka slip on oil, trade deals
Commerce Ministry officials continued their three-day talks on the ETCA to iron out differences on the upgraded Free Trade Agreement of 2000 to include services, investment and technological trade. -
26-Apr-2017 Japan Times
Deputy foreign minister named as Japan’s chief TPP negotiator
The government announced that it has appointed a deputy foreign minister as chief negotiator for the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade pact, with an eye to bringing the deal into force without the United States. -
25-Apr-2017 Business Mirror
RCEP is part of top agenda at the ASEAN Summit
Conclusion of the RCEP deal will be a priority at the ASEAN Summit in Manila -
25-Apr-2017 SOL
The huge dumping of extra-EU exports of dairy products and to the EPAs of West Africa, SADC, CEMAC and EAC in 2016
The EU has been pressuring the ACP countries (Africa, Caribbean and Pacific) to sign and implement EPAs that would be destructive for these countries. -
25-Apr-2017 iPolitics
Dairy 101: The Canada-U.S. milk spat explained
The Americans have made it very clear they want to secure more access to Canada’s dairy and poultry markets when NAFTA is renegotiated.