Articles by language
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26-Apr-2017 SSRN
The political motivations of the United States’ bilateral investment treaty program
The United States has largely used BITs as a foreign policy tool to improve relationships with strategically important countries in the developing world. -
26-Apr-2017 Indonesia Investments
Working on a bilateral trade agreement between Indonesia-USA
The Indonesian government is currently studying the opportunities and challenges with regard to the making of a new bilateral trade deal with the USA. -
26-Apr-2017 The Hindu
The expanding universe of IP
Granting data exclusivity for clinical trials would undermine access to medicines. -
26-Apr-2017 The Hindu
India, Sri Lanka slip on oil, trade deals
Commerce Ministry officials continued their three-day talks on the ETCA to iron out differences on the upgraded Free Trade Agreement of 2000 to include services, investment and technological trade. -
26-Apr-2017 Japan Times
Deputy foreign minister named as Japan’s chief TPP negotiator
The government announced that it has appointed a deputy foreign minister as chief negotiator for the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade pact, with an eye to bringing the deal into force without the United States. -
25-Apr-2017 Business Mirror
RCEP is part of top agenda at the ASEAN Summit
Conclusion of the RCEP deal will be a priority at the ASEAN Summit in Manila -
25-Apr-2017 SOL
The huge dumping of extra-EU exports of dairy products and to the EPAs of West Africa, SADC, CEMAC and EAC in 2016
The EU has been pressuring the ACP countries (Africa, Caribbean and Pacific) to sign and implement EPAs that would be destructive for these countries. -
25-Apr-2017 iPolitics
Dairy 101: The Canada-U.S. milk spat explained
The Americans have made it very clear they want to secure more access to Canada’s dairy and poultry markets when NAFTA is renegotiated. -
25-Apr-2017 Canadian Lawyer
CETA bringing changes to pharma patents in Canada
A certificate of supplemental protection provides up to two years of additional protection after expiry of a patent. -
25-Apr-2017 TNI
TiSA and the threat to public banks
The Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) is an attack on the future publicness of public banking around the world. -
25-Apr-2017 Sud Quotidien
«L’Afrique doit compter d’abord sur son propre marché intérieur»
Une zone de libre échange ne peut être une politique qui favorise l’industrialisation de l’Afrique. Et, le vrai problème de l’Afrique, c’est le manque d’industrialisation, selon El Hadji Alioune Diouf, expert en commerce international. -
25-Apr-2017 Reuters
Ahead of NAFTA talks, U.S. sets 20 percent duties on Canadian softwood lumber
The United States will impose preliminary anti-subsidy duties averaging 20 percent on imports of Canadian softwood lumber, as NAFTA renegotiation talks are looming -
24-Apr-2017 The Straits Times
Will RCEP be a reality by the end of 2017?
Asean hopes to seal a landmark trade deal, but it may be hard to sew up negotiations this year -
24-Apr-2017 All Africa
East Africa: UN body warns region against signing trade deal with EU
The report says that if the EPA is signed, local industries will struggle to withstand competitive pressures from EU firms, while the region will be stuck in its position as a low value-added commodity exporter. -
24-Apr-2017 Asia Pacific Report
Barry Coates: PACER Plus – how the Pacific Way is being undermined
There were promises that the agreement would be for the benefit of the Pacific. But it has been shaped more by the advantages to Australia and New Zealand exporters than the aspirations of the Pacific’s people. -
24-Apr-2017 Pasifik
Fiji was excluded from PACER plus
Fiji did not pull out of the PACER Plus trade negotiations. It had been excluded. -
24-Apr-2017 Kluwer Arbitration Blog
Taming the “mercantile adventurers”: third party funding and investment arbitration – A report from the 14th annual ITA-ASIL conference
The role of third party funding in investment arbitration raises unique concerns for policy-makers because, ultimately, a State’s taxpayers will be liable for satisfaction of any award favoring the claimant. -
24-Apr-2017 Global Justice Now
Trading with Trump – What we can expect from a UK-US trade deal
A new briefing has outlined the likely elements of a UK-US trade deal and argues that it would contain more extreme forms of all the controversial elements of the deal that was being negotiated between the EU and the USA. -
24-Apr-2017 USW
USW, Unite march in solidarity with Mexican steelworkers
After three decades of NAFTA, Mexican workers are still denied basic rights. -
24-Apr-2017 Stuff
New Zealand enters Chinese "upgrade" talks with longer list than its counterpart
New Zealand hopes to bring forward the phasing out of restrictions on tariff-free dairy trade, industries from avocados and apricots to forestry and paper were wanting help to ease the path for exports into China.