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20-Mar-2017 News.com.au
Free trade deal with Singapore updated
Australian universities, lawyers and financial firms will be among the biggest winners from an updated free trade deal with Singapore. -
20-Mar-2017 EurActiv
Brazil’s rotten meat scandal strikes ahead of fresh EU trade talks
The European Union has insisted Brazilian representatives attend an emergency meeting to explain themselves regarding a scandal involving rotten meat and the country’s two largest exporters. -
20-Mar-2017 Politico
Canada scores ISDS victory over Eli Lilly
Canada has prevailed over pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly in a long-running investor-state dispute the drug company filed under NAFTA’s investment chapter. -
20-Mar-2017 Western Sahara Resource Watch
Spain confirms: EU-Morocco trade deal not for Western Sahara goods
The Spanish government in a statement confirmed the EU court’s judgement that Western Sahara goods are not covered by the EU-Morocco trade deal. -
20-Mar-2017 ABS-CBN News
China cites Philippines’ key role in China-led RCEP
China says the Philippines will play a key role in a proposed regional free trade agreement led by China. -
18-Mar-2017 Borderlex
Opinion: The UK will get a bad trade deal from the US
There is little reason to doubt that the United Kingdom will sign a free trade agreement with the United States once outside the EU. But there is not going to be that much into it for British businesses. This is because the UK will be the weaker party in the talks. -
18-Mar-2017 IISD
Reply to the European Commission’s Public consultation on a multilateral reform of investment dispute resolution
The consultation was a missed opportunity for the Commission to obtain valuable inputs toward multilateral reform of investment dispute resolution in the best interest of Europeans and the international community. -
18-Mar-2017 The Australian
Trade Minister in push for Pacific Alliance trade deal to replace TPP
Australia is pushing for a new multi-billion dollar free trade deal with Pacific Alliance countries — Mexico, Chile, Colombia and Peru — following the collapse of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. -
17-Mar-2017 Pakistan Herald
Pakistan, Turkey to hold 6th round of FTA talks
Paksitan and Turkey will hold sixth round of negotiations on Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in April (2017). -
17-Mar-2017 Lexology
Mixed messages to investors as India quietly terminates bilateral investment treaties with 58 countries
The Government of India says it has sent notices to terminate bilateral investment treaties (BITs) with 58 countries, including 22 EU countries. It has been reported that many of these BITs will cease to apply to new investments from as early as April 2017. -
17-Mar-2017 Daily Business Review
Exxon Mobil lawyers ask court to enforce $188M Venezuela award
Lawyers for Exxon Mobil have asked a federal judge to order Venezuela to pay the company more than $188.3 million—the amount Exxon Mobil says it is still owed as repayment for the 2007 expropriation of its oil assets. -
17-Mar-2017 Yicai Global
Chinese government wins ICSID tribunal against South Korea’s Ansung, MOFCOM welcomes decision
The Ansung case is the first international investment dispute to enter the arbitration stage where the Chinese government is a party. -
17-Mar-2017 Business Mirror
RCEP to give Philippines better market access than existing trade deals
ADB advisor Ganeshan Wignaraja said the Philippines must implement domestic reforms to make it more competitive should the RCEP be signed. -
16-Mar-2017 China Briefing
China lays foundations for Eurasian free trade after TPP failure
The demise of the TPP and the recent politicizing of trade have made China rethink what it really wants from free trade agreements (FTAs). -
16-Mar-2017 IATP
Getting back to basics in Vina Del Mar
Countries should look to Fair Trade for guidance, and even further to their own domestic policies, for a sustainable way to build the global economy. -
15-Mar-2017 Live Mint
India, Russia to discuss free trade agreement, ways to bolster bilateral trade
Nirmala Sitharaman and Russia’s Denis Manturov will discuss possibility of a free trade agreement, or FTA, between India and Eurasian Economic Union. -
15-Mar-2017 Reuters
Trump’s USTR nominee pledges tough enforcement of U.S. trade laws
Lighthizer pledged to fight for strong protections for intellectual property rights and for digital trade access. -
15-Mar-2017 Tele Sur
Anti-TPP protesters clash with riot police in Chile
Riot police clashed with protesters in Viña Del Mar, where representatives of the 11 remaining member states of the Trans Pacific Partnership together with China, Colombia and South Korea met. -
15-Mar-2017 The Star
Mustapa: RCEP is next best option to junked TPPA
International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed said Malaysia is not keen to salvage the TPPA with the other 10 nations after the United States pulled out of the trade pact. -
15-Mar-2017 Reuters
As ministers meet on scrapped Pacific trade deal, decisions elusive
Ministers and officials representing the 12 countries of the failed Trans-Pacific Partnership, plus China and South Korea, began talks in Chile, but any concrete decision on how a new trade pact might look seemed far off.