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21-Oct-2016 Hindu Business Line
India to US: Will not tighten IPR rules beyond TRIPS mandate
India and the US continued to differ on the issue of intellectual property rights (IPR) norms in their bilateral trade and investment policy discussions -
21-Oct-2016 TNI
Repercussions in Colombia of the free trade agreement with the European Union
Various points of interest emerged during the discussions around the negotiation and ratification of this Free Trade Agreement (FTA), and after three years of its provisional implementation, it is a good time to revisit these issues. -
21-Oct-2016 The Nation
Pak-China key trade talks next month
Pakistan and China will make another attempt next month (November) to strike an agreement over the second phase of duty reduction under the free trade agreement (FTA), which is under consideration since 2011. -
20-Oct-2016 Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity
Building a treaty on human rights and TNCs
Proposal from the global campaign to reclaim peoples power, dismantle corporate power and stop impunity. -
20-Oct-2016 TDM
TDM Special Issue on Int’l Arbitration involving Commercial and Investment Disputes in Africa
This Special Issue presents diverse views on a number of salient topics affecting international arbitration involving the African continent. -
20-Oct-2016 Nikkei
New feud may set back Japan’s TPP vote
Japan’s parliamentary debate on the Trans-Pacific Partnership turned into a shouting match after the agriculture minister suggested the ruling coalition force a vote on the US-led trade deal, with the rancor threatening the government’s timetable for ratification. -
20-Oct-2016 TRNN
TiSA agreement leaks show corporations pushing privatization of public services
The latest leaks of teh Trade in Services Agreement show prohibitions on requiring foreign companies to employ local workers, says Deborah James
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20-Oct-2016 Bangkok Post
Activists fret about RCEP impact
Access to affordable medicine and farmers’ control over seeds could be undermined by the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership being negotiated between Asean member countries and six other trade partners, says FTA Watch in Thailand -
20-Oct-2016 CEO
The great CETA swindle
A close look at the controversial EU-Canada trade deal shows that concerns blocking its ratification are well-founded. -
20-Oct-2016 VOA
Secret arbitration system affecting Romanian community
Protests against the Rosia Montana mine project continued for more than 15 years and resulted in the largest demonstrations in Romania since the late 1980’s. -
19-Oct-2016 Telesur
Ecuador’s Indigenous leader fighting Chevron visits Dakota camp
“We don’t want what happened to us to happen to the people in Dakota,” Piaguaje told teleSUR. -
19-Oct-2016 Reuters
Bulgaria demands visa-waiver guarantee to back EU-Canada trade deal
The Bulgarian government will not back the signing of a free trade agreement between the European Union and Canada until it receives irrevocable guarantees that all its citizens can travel to Canada without visas, it said on Wednesday. Romania is demanding the same. -
19-Oct-2016 AP
Ratifying Pacific trade pact not on Vietnam assembly agenda
Vietnam needs more time before it ratifies the Trans Pacific Partnership, an official said Tuesday, dealing a blow to the trade deal that includes the United States and Japan. -
19-Oct-2016 Tax News
EU, ASEAN decide to resume FTA talks
Representatives from the Association of South East Asian Nations and the European Union have confirmed their "commitment to intensify work towards the timely resumption of region-to-region free trade agreement negotiations." -
19-Oct-2016 Mehr
Vietnamese PM called for PTA, FTA with Iran
Iran President Rouhani met with Vietnam PM Nguyễn Xuân Phúc and discussed the ways to enact the bilateral agreements signed and to broaden the areas of cooperation. -
19-Oct-2016 Kluwer Arbitration Blog
Climate change in investor state arbitration: ideas on application ex officio and transnational public policy
Climate change is a serious threat to humankind and arbitration could play a key role in this era. -
19-Oct-2016 Politico
Defiant Wallonia rejects deadline to save EU-Canada deal
Wallonia’s Minister-President Paul Magnette has dealt a potentially fatal blow to EU trade policy by insisting that he will not support the EU’s landmark trade deal with Canada by a Friday deadline. -
18-Oct-2016 Dow Jones Business News
EU trade deal with Canada hits hurdle in Belgium
The European Union’s planned trade deal with Canada remained on shaky ground Tuesday, after a meeting of the bloc’s trade ministers failed to yield the support needed for both sides to sign the accord later this month. -
18-Oct-2016 PTI
Kerala govt opposes RCEP agreement
Kerala government has opposed Centre’s move to sign the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement, saying it would further worsen the crisis in the state’s cash crops sector. -
18-Oct-2016 Financial Vanguard
EU threatens to stop market access for Nigerian products over EPA
The European Union may terminate the Temporary Free Market Access it granted Nigeria to export products to the EU due to Nigeria’s failure to sign the ECOWAS-EU Economic Partnership Agreement, reports Financial Vanguard