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21-Aug-2017 Global Legal Post
Can foreign investors sue the UK over Brexit?
Foreign investors may have a case against the UK government if profits suffer post-Brexit, says Bryan Cave’s Maria Gritsenko. -
21-Aug-2017 EurActiv
EU prepares for busy trade talks agenda
TTIP is on ice, CETA will be provisionally applied from September and talks with Japan are nearly completed. But EU trade policy is far from done yet and a busy negotiating schedule lies ahead. EURACTIV Germany reports. -
21-Aug-2017 News Hub
NZ: National’s TPPA11 leaves key questions unanswered
A prominent law professor has called on the New Zealand Government to release its modelling on trade deal TPP11 to allow the public and opposition parties to make informed decisions in the lead-up to the election. -
21-Aug-2017 Hankyoreh
Trump’s penchant for deal-making evident in push to renegotiate KORUS
The Moon administration needs to stand up to Trump with the confidence of a party ready to accept termination of the agreement, writes The Hankyoreh -
21-Aug-2017 Independent
Singapore may renegotiate EU trade deal after Brexit removes British markets
Singapore has raised the prospect of renegotiating terms on a long-awaited free trade deal with the European Union due to the impact of Brexit -
20-Aug-2017 Sierra Club
Replacing NAFTA: Eight essential changes to an environmentally destructive deal
To transform NAFTA from a polluter-friendly deal into one that supports environmental protection, any renegotiation must include, at a minimum, these eight changes. -
19-Aug-2017 Kluwer Arbitration Blog
Legitimate expectations in the absence of specific commitments according to the findings in Blusun v. Italy
Is there inconsistency among the tribunals in the solar energy cases? -
19-Aug-2017 Reuters
NAFTA negotiators hone in on origin rules, dispute settlement
U.S., Canadian and Mexican negotiators began digging into some of the thorniest issues in modernizing NAFTA, including rules of origin for goods produced in the region, services trade and a controversial dispute settlement system. -
19-Aug-2017 The Point
Gambia to sign free trade deal with EU
The Gambia government and European Union have restarted the process of signing a free trade deal, dubbed Economic Partnership Agreement – EU’s flagship trade agreement. -
19-Aug-2017 Japan Times
USTR raises concerns about Japan’s safeguard tariffs on US beef
U.S. Trade Representative Lighthizer and Japanese Foreign Minister Kono agreed to accelerate bilateral discussions as a way of strengthening free and “fair” trade -
19-Aug-2017 Politico
NAFTA could replay TPP biologics debate
A battle over the length of data protection for biologic medicine appears to be shaping up in the NAFTA negotiations in a replay of an issue that helped block the Trans-Pacific Partnership from becoming law. -
18-Aug-2017 Reuters
Thousands of Mexicans march to scrap NAFTA, as government fights to save it
While Mexican government negotiators fought tooth and nail to save the North American Free Trade Agreement during talks in Washington, thousands of Mexican farmers and workers took to the streets demanding the deal be scrapped. -
18-Aug-2017 Livemint
RCEP meeting in September likely to discuss India’s proposal on services pact
India has made a counter-proposal to make the bilateral services agreement between Australia and New Zealand the basis of the services agreement under RCEP -
18-Aug-2017 Daily Sabah
Turkey ratifies free trade agreement with Singapore
The trade agreement has been described as the most expansive and comprehensive free trade agreement Turkey has signed. -
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.