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10-Jun-2016 Xinhua
China-U.S. dialogue makes progress in BIT talks, overcapacity, RMB trading
China and the United States have made incremental progress in accelerating bilateral investment treaty talks -
10-Jun-2016 Ukraine Today
A NAFTA-like deal for Israel and Ukraine?
Free-trade agreement is a key part of NAFTA, and Tel-Aviv and Kyiv are well on their way towards the implementation of a similar deal. -
10-Jun-2016 The Farmer’s Exchange
TPP study gives one side of story
"These so-called studies are really more about trying to influence political votes for the commodity groups’ members than contributing to farmer and rancher welfare or congressional understanding" -
10-Jun-2016 SOL
The West Africa-EU Economic Partnership Agreement is absurd
This is a way of thinking as absurd as that consisting for a poultry producer to open the henhouse gate to allow the fox to test the poultry resistance capacity. -
10-Jun-2016 SOL
The EPA would liberalize the majority of EU agricultural exports to West Africa
This document is limited to assessing the importance of the liberalization of agricultural imports in the EU-West Africa (WA) Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) given the crucial nature of these products for WA. -
10-Jun-2016 SOL
Perpetuating the interim EPAs of Ivory Coast and Ghana would be meaningless
There is a rumour that, if Nigeria’s stance not to sign the regional EPA is definitive so that the EPA would be buried, DG trade is contemplating to perpetuate the interim EPAs of Ivory Coast and Ghana provided they would formally sign them. -
9-Jun-2016 SSRN
Americanization of the BIT universe
Friendship, Commerce and Navigation (FCN) treaties are more than a historical precursor to international investment agreements (IIA) and continue to influence and inspire modern investment treaty design. -
9-Jun-2016 MEDEL
Big transatlantic market: yield and bow down
MEDEL’s opinion on the construction of a international investment court for TTIP – proposal of the European Commission. -
9-Jun-2016 EU Observer
Dutch target June summit for talks on EU-Ukraine deal
The Dutch government wants to discuss its voters’ rejection of the EU-Ukraine association agreement at an EU summit in Brussels. -
9-Jun-2016 Ghana Web
AngloGold suit against gov’t unnecessary - Ayikoi Otoo
AngloGold Ashanti’s decision to sue government at the ICSID over security concerns at its Obuasi concession has been described as “surprising” by private legal practitioner and former Attorney General, Ayikoi Otoo. -
9-Jun-2016 TTIP Free Zones Europe
In Greece, standing against free trade agreements is standing for the planet
Aristoteli joined a growing movement of local authorities opposed to CETA and TTIP to deny the building of a polluter’s paradise -
8-Jun-2016 Yonhap
Over 40 pct of local cow farms closed since KORUS FTA: report
More than four out of 10 South Korean cow farms have shut down in the last four years since the implementation of the free trade deal between Seoul and Washington. -
8-Jun-2016 The Guardian
Coalition may add clause to Japan trade deal that lets foreign companies sue Australia
Provision allows firms to sue in international tribunal if laws introduced or changed that hurt their interests. -
8-Jun-2016 The Chronicle Herald
Eco-groups join in $ 101M Bilcon quarry fight
The environmental lobby is going to bat for the federal and provincial governments against international big business in a $101-million argument. -
8-Jun-2016 Vieuws
EU-Philippines: Commission to push for ambitious energy and raw materials chapter
The European Commission will push for robust provisions on trade and investment in energy and raw materials in a free trade agreement with the Philippines -
8-Jun-2016 Reuters
U.S. top court rejects Ecuador challenge to Chevron arbitration award
The U.S. Supreme Court let stand a $96 million international arbitration award issued in 2011 in favor of energy company Chevron in a dispute over the development of oil fields in Ecuador. -
8-Jun-2016 The TImes of India
EC raises concerns over talks of fresh BIT with India
European Commission (EC) has raised concerns over negotiations for a fresh bilateral investment treaty (BIT) with India saying that it may not be possible for individual member nations to sign new agreement. -
8-Jun-2016 Financial Post
Canadian junior miner, Colombia in trade dispute over rights at national park
A small Canadian mining company has found itself at the centre of a highly charged dispute over its rights to mine for gold in a Colombian nature reserve. -
8-Jun-2016 The Guardian
Labor pledges to review trade deals that let companies sue Australia
ALP says it will try to change three major agreements that allow corporations to sue if they think a government has damaged their interests -
7-Jun-2016 The Telegraph
Bargain chips few in trade talks
India, looking to wrap up free trade talks with the European Union and Australia, may now have to give more concessions.