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7-Aug-2017 Bangkok Post
PM urges India to join regional trade pact
Thailand urges India to join RCEP -
4-Aug-2017 SSRN
The Bilcon NAFTA tribunal: a clash of investor protection and sustainability-based environmental assessments
The Bilcon tribunal ruling raises a number of concerns about the ability of investor protection tribunals to properly assess whether a foreign investor has been treated fairly under a domestic environmental assessment process. -
4-Aug-2017 Electronic Frontier Foundation
E-commerce RCEP chapter: Have big tech’s demands fizzled?
The latest information is that the e-commerce chapter of RCEP will be far less ambitious, dealing mostly with familiar and uncontentious issues such as standards for electronic payments and signatures. -
4-Aug-2017 National Post
NAFTA schedule: A cabinet dinner to launch seven rounds of trade talks
A high-level dinner of cabinet members from Canada, the U.S. and Mexico will mark the start of NAFTA negotiations, followed by a seven-course diet of negotiating rounds crammed in rapid succession. -
4-Aug-2017 The News
Pak-Turkey’s 7th FTA talks by August end
The seventh round of negotiations on free trade agreement (FTA) between Pakistan and Turkey would be held in Turkey to finalise the agreement -
4-Aug-2017 The Hindu
India may deviate from model BIT to meet Canada’s demands
As talks with Canada began before model text was approved by Cabinet, deviations may be allowed. -
4-Aug-2017 bilaterals.org
Interview with Loon Gangte
Loon Gangte is an Indian activist living with HIV and hepatitis C, founder of the Delhi Network of Positive People.
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4-Aug-2017 Business Standard
RCEP talks: India stands firm on market access in govt contracts, rejects binding commitments
India managed to restrict the scope of talks on government procurement to exchange of information and transparency amongst members during the 19th round of RCEP talks -
4-Aug-2017 The Hindu
Trading away our digital rights
India must first secure its digital sovereignty before it can begin global trade talks. -
3-Aug-2017 Lauge Poulsen
The political economy of the investment treaty regime
This book synthesises and advances the growing stock of literature on the investment treaty regime by integrating legal, economic, and political perspectives. -
3-Aug-2017 American Petroleum Institute
North American oil & natural gas industry positions on NAFTA
NAFTA: Positions of the American Petroleum Institute, Asociación Méxicana de Empresas de Hidrocarburos, and Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers -
3-Aug-2017 TNI
Kyrgyz Republic’s experience with investment treaties and arbitration cases
The Kyrgyz Republic currently faces investment claims in the proximity of 1 billion USD, arising out of investment dispute settlement cases. -
3-Aug-2017 CKOM
Canadians’ personal data on the table in NAFTA negotiations
The personal information of Canadians will be on the negotiating table when North American free trade talks. -
3-Aug-2017 ICTSD
NAFTA parties prepare for August negotiations launch in Washington
Canada, Mexico, and the United States are preparing for the formal launch of negotiations to upgrade the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). -
3-Aug-2017 Jakarta Post
RCEP misses deadline, again
The world’s biggest economic pact, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), will not make its deadline this year as a result of unsettled disagreements on various topics involving 16 countries with different economic levels. -
3-Aug-2017 Business Monkey
Spain uses the ICSID award by trimming renewable
The Government of Spain has submitted to international arbitration tribunal ICSID appeal against the ruling which condemned him to pay 128 million euros plus interest to the British firm Eiser Infrastructure. -
3-Aug-2017 CMS
Poland plans to terminate its Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) with Portugal
On 18 July 2017 the Polish Council of Ministers submitted to the Parliament a draft proposal allowing the President to unilaterally terminate the Poland-Portugal BIT -
3-Aug-2017 Agri Pulse
US dairy ramps up fight against EU food name protection
The U.S. dairy sector is fighting harder than ever on several fronts to halt the European Union’s global efforts to block cheese producers in other countries from using names like Roquefort, Asiago and Gorgonzola on the products they export. -
2-Aug-2017 New Kerala
Boosting trade ties with Africa
Various steps have been taken by the Indian Government to enhance trade and commercial relations with African countries. -
2-Aug-2017 Tax-news
Mexico talks trade deals with Japan
Officials from Mexico and Japan have met to discuss deepening trade ties between the two countries.