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8-Feb-2017 Friends of the Earth Australia
Senate Committee puts final nail in TPP coffin
The Senate Committee’s majority report highlights major concerns about the trade deal, including the lack of enforceable labour and environmental standards, the draconian intellectual property provisions and the risks associated with ISDS. -
8-Feb-2017 The Guardian.ng
Nigeria begins negotiations on CFTA adoption
Nigeria has commenced negotiations to facilitate the adoption of the Continental Free Trade Area after lagging behind among other trade blocs. -
8-Feb-2017 AFTINET
Australia: 53 health, church, union, environment and aid organisations call for Labor to reject failed TPP
Fifty-three organisations representing more than two million Australians have endorsed a letter calling on Labor to reject the failed Trans-Pacific Partnership and not vote on implementing legislation for it. -
8-Feb-2017 Baltic Course
Ukrainian owner of LVV Liepajas Metalurgs takes dispute with Latvia to international arbitration institution
Yevgeny Kazmin, a co-owner of Ukraine’s KVV Group, has filed a lawsuit against Latvia with the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes. -
8-Feb-2017 Business Wire
The Paris Court of Appeal decides in favor of Gold Reserve Inc.
The Paris Court of Appeal rejected all of Venezuela’s arguments and issued a judgment dismissing the annulment applications filed by Venezuela pending before the French courts in relation to the arbitral award rendered by the ICSID -
8-Feb-2017 The Star
Palm oil exports to Iran to grow by up to 40% next year
The Plantation Industries and Commodities Ministry is positive Malaysia’s total export of palm oil and palm oil products to Iran will grow by 30%-40% under a preferential or free trade agreement. -
8-Feb-2017 Pork Network
Trump urged to start trade talks with Japan
The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and the National Pork Producers Council urged President Trump to begin negotiations on a free trade agreement with Japan. -
8-Feb-2017 Ghana Web
Private sector will be the main focus of the CFTA – MoTI
The interest of the private sector will be at the forefront in negotiations of the Continental Free Trade Area Agreement. -
8-Feb-2017 Slate
Trump has one big idea to fix America’s trade deals. It’s not very good.
If governments turn out to be absolutely desperate to sign FTAs with the US they won’t have much choice but to deal with an administration whose motto is “America first”, which may mean learning to love all our genetically modified produce, among other concessions. -
8-Feb-2017 Reuters
EU to uphold Morocco farm accord despite Western Sahara ruling
The European Union promised to maintain a farm deal with Morocco, seeking to reassure Rabat that the accord was not endangered by an EU court ruling that the country’s trade accords do not apply to the disputed Western Sahara region. -
7-Feb-2017 Politico
EU makes big step toward setting investor court as global norm
Brussels has taken a decisive step toward establishing its contentious new investment court as a standard framework for appeals worldwide. -
7-Feb-2017 Todayonline
RCEP progress to take a bit longer: Lim Hng Kiang
Trade Minister Lim Hng Kiang says lack of free trade agreements among dialogue partners a challenge -
7-Feb-2017 London South East
International tribunal awards JKX Oil USD12.0 million in damages
JKX Oil said the tribunal found the government of Ukraine was in breach of elements of the bilateral investment treaty between the UK and Ukraine. -
7-Feb-2017 ISDS Blog
Case summary: Rusoro v. Venezuela
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez nationalized the Venezuelan gold sector through an official decree during the summer 2011. Rusoro claimed that the decree violated the bilateral investment treaty between Canada and Venezuela. -
7-Feb-2017 Daily Times
Free trade: a corporate scam
"Free trade" rules are written by corporations to enlarge their freedom to commodify and privatise the last inch of land, the last drop of water, the last seed, the last serving of food, the last byte of information, the last bit of data, knowledge and imagination. -
7-Feb-2017 South China Morning Post
How does China’s ‘One Belt, One Road’ match up against the TPP?
Here are a few key differences between Xi’s strategy and the Trans-Pacific Partnership. -
7-Feb-2017 The Daily Blog
One year on from TPPA mass protests – how we can shape trade for the 99% not the 1%
The governments and corporate lobbies that champion these deals are in a state of denial and desperately trying to rescue their bankrupt model. -
7-Feb-2017 Manila Bulletin
PH to explore FTA with US
The Philippines will explore a bilateral free trade agreement with the US even as it will prioritize completion and implementation of existing and ongoing trade deals. -
7-Feb-2017 20 minutes
Mexico et Ankara vers un accord de libre-échange
Face aux menaces protectionnistes américaines, le Mexique et la Turquie ont décidé d’accélérer leurs négociations. -
7-Feb-2017 Gulf Times
Qatar Chamber hopes to resume EU-GCC FTA talks
Private sector leader Qatar Chamber is hoping that talks on a free trade agreement (FTA) between the European Union and the Gulf Cooperation Council would resume.