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19-Jun-2017 Global Trade
US and Indonesia agree to step up work to expand trade
Officials from the United States and Indonesia met under their Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA), agreeing on next steps for expeditiously resolving bilateral issues and further building their trade relations. -
19-Jun-2017 Latin America Herald Tribune
Venezuela pays Gold Reserve $40 million on $800 million ICSID expropriation judgment
Gold Reserve Inc. reports that it has received a $40 million payment on its $800 million judgment that it won at the World Bank’s International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in 2014. -
19-Jun-2017 Daily Maverick
After AGOA: SA must prepare for two-way free trade agreements with US
The Trump Administration has signalled its impatience to replace the AGOA preferential trade deal with Africa with normal two-way free trade agreements. -
19-Jun-2017 Trend
Iran, EAEU finalize accord on free trade zone
Iran and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) have finalized an agreement to create a free trade zone. -
16-Jun-2017 bilaterals.org
Interview with Yvonne Takang
Yvonne Takang has been campaigning and lobbying against Economic Partnership Agreements in Cameroon at the Association Citoyenne de Défense des Intérêts Collectifs
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16-Jun-2017 Newsclick
RCEP: A disaster for India and its people
An eminent Indian trade economist speaks about the problems of RCEP
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16-Jun-2017 ABC
Indian farmers’ debt wipe demands show why free trade deal with Australia is unlikely
When Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull visited India two months ago, he made much of reviving stalled free trade talks — but developments in India this week show the prospects of eventual success are remote at best. -
16-Jun-2017 Hans India
FAFTA braces for battle against Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership
A coalition of farmers unions, trade unions and civil society fights against RCEP in India -
16-Jun-2017 IIED
Community perspectives in investor-state arbitration
This report examines whether and how investor-state arbitral tribunals consider community perspectives, interests and rights in their settlement of investment disputes. -
16-Jun-2017 Nikkei
EU leans toward big concession on autoparts trade with Japan
Brussels wants Japanese farm products on the chopping board in return. -
16-Jun-2017 Politico
Ross: African countries face ‘critical question’
US Commerce Secretary delivered a tough message to African countries, urging them to strike bilateral trade deals with the United States and warning that the Trump administration would closely monitor their compliance with eligibility rules under the African Growth and Opportunity Act -
15-Jun-2017 Mondaq
Canada may not celebrate CETA provisional implementation on July 1, 2017
Canada has passed a statute but still must implement the necessary regulations and establish governmental processes required to implement the Canada-EU CETA. -
15-Jun-2017 EJIL: Talk!
The shifting landscape of investor-state arbitration: loyalists, reformists, revolutionaries and undecideds
The investor-state arbitration landscape is shifting under our feet. The utility and legitimacy of traditional investor-state arbitration have come under fire, but states have not converged on a viable alternative. -
15-Jun-2017 Madhyam
The RCEP negotiations: From one round to another to another
Given the internal differences among participating countries, the RCEP certainly does not look anywhere near conclusion this year. -
15-Jun-2017 IATP
Trump’s agricultural trade policy with China: trade-offs or trade disputes?
Biotech companies will join Cargill and Tyson as the main beneficiaries of U.S.-China agricultural trade policy. -
15-Jun-2017 World Intellectual Property Preview
Chamber of Commerce calls for stronger IP under NAFTA
The US Chamber of Commerce, a federation representing more than three million businesses, has called for stronger IP provisions in the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. -
15-Jun-2017 Radio NZ
Vanuatu parliament unites in opposition to PACER Plus
The Vanuatu opposition has congratulated the government for its decision not to sign the PACER Plus trade agreement. -
15-Jun-2017 Fresh Plaza
New Zealand aims for high level free trade with Europe
The New Zealand Government has set a target of having 90 per cent of goods traded with the European Union covered by a free trade agreement by 2030. -
15-Jun-2017 Politico
NAFTA’S Chapter 19 a potential big issue
Canada and Mexico should push very hard to preserve Chapter 19 of the original NAFTA agreement, which created a mechanism to resolve disputes over anti-dumping and countervailing duty measures, a former Mexican official said. -
14-Jun-2017 S2B
ETUC resolution for an EU progressive trade and investment policy
The European Trade Union Confederation calls for a progressive European trade and investment policy with at its core the creation of decent jobs, the protection of fundamental rights and the interests of workers.