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29-Mar-2017 Tax-news
Australian miners seeking new free trade deals
The Minerals Council of Australia has called on the Government to pursue further trade liberalization through bilateral and regional trading agreements. -
29-Mar-2017 Business Mirror
IBON tells DENR to be firm vs big miners
Mining firms should not resort to international arbitration in forcing the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to revoke its decision to suspend 28 mines and cancel 75 mineral-production sharing agreements. -
29-Mar-2017 The Australian
Cargill chief David MacLennan urges Australia to ‘fill TPP gap’
The chief executive of one of the world’s biggest agribusiness companies says Australia has a major opportunity to “step up and fill the gap’’ selling more food products to Asian markets. -
29-Mar-2017 Scroll.in
Proposed trade pact clause on intellectual property could endanger India’s TB programme
A draft of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement reveals three clauses that could potentially hurt production of important generic drugs -
28-Mar-2017 The Star
Mustapa: We are ready to resume FTA talks with European Union
Malaysia is ready to resume negotiations on a free trade agreement with the European Union following the withdrawal of the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership -
28-Mar-2017 Business Standard
Indo-British official group discussing free trade agreement
A joint working group of officials from both countries is working on an India-UK free trade agreement to be signed once Britain exits the EU in two years time. -
28-Mar-2017 NZ Herald
Jane Kelsey: Governments in denial of a world changing around them
As the Government seeks to renegotiate the China Free Trade Agreement, we need to reflect on the broader priorities and risks in that relationship for the future. -
28-Mar-2017 Tax-news
Food retailers seek UK-EU free trade agreement
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) and other food industry representative bodies have called on the UK Government to secure two-way tariff-free trade with the EU in Brexit discussions. -
28-Mar-2017 Los Angeles Times
A trade war is brewing inside the White House between rival camps
Soon after President Trump took office, an executive order was quietly drafted to suspend trade talks with China but the executive order never even got to the president’s desk. -
28-Mar-2017 Reuters
Gulf Arab states push for UK free trade deal after Brexit: officials
Gulf Arab states are pressing for an early deal on free trade with Britain to secure preferential arrangements after Brexit, and could have a draft agreement ready within months. -
28-Mar-2017 The Real News Network
How to understand globalization: not nations, but class
The question is often posed whether trade and investment is a zero sum game among nations. South Centre Chief Economist Yilmaz Akyuz says he does not think nations are the correct focus here.
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27-Mar-2017 Reuters
U.S. court upholds award to miner Crystallex in Venezuela dispute
A U.S. court has upheld an award by a World Bank Tribunal that orders Venezuela to pay more than $1 billion to Canadian mining company Crystallex, paving the way for the firm to seize assets for the 2008 expropriation of the Las Cristinas gold project. -
27-Mar-2017 European Commission
Joint EU-Mercosur communique following the XXVIIth round of negotiations
Significant progress was achieved regarding the negotiating text in the three parts of the future Association Agreement between both regions: Trade Part, Political Dialogue and Bi-Regional Cooperation. -
27-Mar-2017 Bloomberg
New Zealand and China plan to expand free-trade deal
New Zealand and China announced they would open talks soon to expand a successful free-trade deal in place for nearly a decade. -
27-Mar-2017 Nikkei
Nigeria pushes for investment treaty with Japan
Government eager for expertise and capital from electronics and machinery makers. -
27-Mar-2017 Lexology
Tribunal dismisses Eli Lilly’s NAFTA challenge on promise utility doctrine
The Tribunal found that Eli Lilly had failed to demonstrate that the promise doctrine constitutes a fundamental or dramatic change in the utility requirement under Canadian patent law or that the promise doctrine is arbitrary and/or discriminatory. -
27-Mar-2017 Press Trust of India
India offering ’far deeper’ proposals in RCEP: Commerce Secretary
Commerce Secretary Rita Teaotia also said India will give more concessions in RCEP than any other country will do. -
26-Mar-2017 IISD
Renco failed to comply with formal waiver requirement under US–Peru Trade Promotion Agreement
Renco alleged that Peru breached its TPA obligations to afford fair and equitable treatment and national treatment, as well as certain contractual obligations. -
25-Mar-2017 SOL
SOL comments to the EU delegation to SA’ press release of 16 March 2017
South African poultry producers are fully justified to accuse the EU of dumping. -
24-Mar-2017 Today Online
S’pore watching how TPP develops, will continue talks with other partners: PM Lee
Despite the uncertainty hanging over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) after the United States’ formal withdrawal, Singapore will continue its preparations to ratify the trade pact.