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10-May-2017 Xinhua
Mexico, EU to wrap up new free trade negotiations by end of 2017
Mexico and the European Union (EU) are expected to wrap up by the end of this year negotiations for a new free trade agreement to replace the one signed over 17 years ago. -
9-May-2017 All Africa
Africa eyes its prized continental free trade area
The 2017 deadline has arrived and the Continental Free Trade Area, formally adopted in 2012, is not yet a reality. But it’s not that far off either. -
9-May-2017 Korea Times
Georgia to start FTA talks with Korea
Working on a free trade agreement with Korea is the No.1 task for Georgia’s newly appointed top envoy Otar Berdzenishvili. -
9-May-2017 Financial Times
ISDS is unsuited to meet today’s global challenges
The growing number of investor claims against sovereign host states has fuelled a backlash against bilateral investment treaties and free-trade agreements across the world. -
9-May-2017 Lexology
ICSID committee annuls nearly 90% of award against Venezuela
An International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) Committee has annulled nearly 90% of the US$1.6 billion Award which had been won by ExxonMobil affiliates in their ICSID arbitration against Venezuela. -
9-May-2017 Sidney Morning Herald
Tariffs on paper from Indonesia ’potentially lethal’ for free trade deal
Australia’s decision to impose tariffs on cheap paper imported from Indonesia could be "potentially lethal" for free trade negotiations. -
9-May-2017 El País
Spain loses first arbitration claim over cuts to renewable energy subsidies
Spain has lost its first international arbitration process over cuts to renewable energy subsidies -
9-May-2017 Sunday Guardian Live
Aus, NZ trying to corner India in Oceania
One of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s most insightful, if low key, foreign policy initiatives was to work to deepen relations with more than a dozen island nations of Oceania. -
9-May-2017 Business Mirror
Asean Minus X formula to fast-track RCEP–PHL
Philippines has asked fellow RCEP negotiating countries to consider the use of “opt out and reciprocity” flexibilities to speed up the negotiations -
9-May-2017 Down to Earth
RCEP will hurt local industry and allow workers’ exploitation, says civil society
RCEP is being negotiated in secrecy, but it is likely to favour big companies and threaten India’s agriculture, industry and e-commerce sectors -
9-May-2017 Focus on the Global South
Labor groups raise grave concerns over RCEP
Representatives from major trade unions in both the public and private sectors have raised serious concerns on the possible impacts of the Regional Economic Comprehensive Partnership Agreement (RCEP) which is currently being negotiated in Manila. -
8-May-2017 MSF
MSF response on RCEP negotiations in the Philippines
Negotiators must protect public health safeguards that enable developing countries like India to keep supplying life-saving affordable medicines for millions of people worldwide. -
8-May-2017 Forum on FTAs
Stop trading workers’ rights over profits
RCEP magnifies existing inequalities and discriminates against women, indigenous peoples, people living with HIV or other illnesses, people with disabilities,rural communities, farmers and workers -
5-May-2017 The Hill
Australia-US free trade agreement leaves US companies in the lurch
The lack of a defined procedure under the AUSFTA is extremely prejudicial to U.S. companies and banks: chairman of APR Energy -
5-May-2017 Reuters
U.S. farm groups pile on Canada as Trump eyes trade fairness
U.S. poultry exporters, who include Tyson Foods Inc and Pilgrims Pride Corp, as well as egg sellers, are expected to seek greater access to Canada’s tightly controlled market in renegotiations of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). -
5-May-2017 Al Awsat
UAE, China agree to complete “free trade” with Gulf states
China and the United Arab Emirates said they would expand cooperation and work toward a free trade agreement between China and the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. -
5-May-2017 Vietnam+
Vietnam to work with TPP members on future orientations
Vietnam will work with the member states of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement to reach a consensus on future orientations for the deal. -
5-May-2017 Mondaq
District court confirms arbitral award against Venezuela in dispute over gold deposits contract
A federal district court in Washington, D.C. recently confirmed a $1.2 billion arbitral award in favor of Crystallex International Corp -
5-May-2017 Nikkei
New Pacific trade pact goes against the protectionist tide
But 14-nation deal may be largely symbolic without Fiji and Papua New Guinea. -
5-May-2017 People Over Profit
Beyond investment protection: group warns of intensified corporate attacks vs people’s rights as ASEAN leaders meet in PH
The People Over Profit network together with local civil society organizations in the Philippines warn of intensifying corporate attacks on people’s rights and join calls for an independent, sovereign and peaceful Southeast Asian region.