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4-Mar-2017 The Hindu
Let’s talk investment treaty before free trade pact, Canada tells India
Canada is throwing its weight behind an early “progressive” bilateral investment treaty with India before it concludes a bilateral free trade agreement to ensure a stable and predictable environment for its investors. -
4-Mar-2017 Business Standard
Taiwan seeks FTA-like bilateral agreement with India
Taiwan is seeking a Free Trade Agreement (FTA)-like bilateral agreement with India to boost trade and investments even as its companies are looking to relocate some of their manufacturing facilities from mainland China to India and Southeast Asia. -
4-Mar-2017 Yonhap
S. Korea, MERCOSUR to launch trade talks in first half
South Korea and the South American trade block MERCOSUR will launch their official negotiations on a trade pact before the first half of 2017. -
4-Mar-2017 SEATINI
The EAC-EU EPA: Tanzania is raising pertinent issues
Tanzania is reluctant to sign and ratify the EPA raising a number of issues including the implications of the EPA on EAC’s development in general and industrialisation in particular. -
4-Mar-2017 SAT PR
The African Union Commission is hosting the 5th meeting of the Continental Free Trade Area Negotiating Forum (CFTA-NF)
The meeting will be adopting the modalities that will guide the negotiations in Tariff liberalization and Trade in Services liberalization -
4-Mar-2017 Global Trade
Canada’s free trade agreements strategy
With EU FTA completed, a pivot to Asia -
3-Mar-2017 Open Canada
A new NAFTA, but not necessarily a better one
NAFTA has its fair share of critics who want to see it updated. But if Trump has his way, a re-negotiated agreement may prove disappointing. -
3-Mar-2017 MSF
RCEP investment chapter presents a grave threat to access to medicines
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) raises concerns over provisions under negotiation in the RCEP investment chapter that threaten to restrict access to affordable medicines for millions of people -
2-Mar-2017 Financial Express
India refuses to accede to European Union requests; post-March, investors to have no legal cover
Fresh investments by European companies in India and vice versa after April 1 won’t enjoy legal protection under any bilateral arrangement, as India has decided not to accede to requests by the European Union. -
2-Mar-2017 Japan Times
U.S. to negotiate ‘new, better’ trade deals with key economies: report
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump will negotiate “new and better trade deals” with “countries in key markets” to provide a freer and fairer deal for American workers and businesses. -
2-Mar-2017 Business Standard
Canada Trade Min to fast-track FTA talks during India visit
Canada’s Minister of International Trade Francois-Philippe Champagne is expected to accelerate the negotiation process of the proposed free trade pact with India. -
2-Mar-2017 The Nation
Pakistan, Turkey free trade pact in May
The long-awaited Free Trade Agreement will pave way for the South Asian nation to enter Turkey’s agriculture and pharmaceutical market. -
2-Mar-2017 People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty
RCEP, an attack on food sovereignty, must be junked – PCFS
RCEP will be harmful to developing countries’ struggle for industrialization, access to cheaper medicines, quality social services, and protection of the environment -
2-Mar-2017 Rosa Luxembourg
Unpacking trade and investment
Series of 11 fact booklets about global trade policies. -
2-Mar-2017
EU-Japan FTA - draft investment chapter (February 2017)
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2-Mar-2017
EU-Mexico FTA - draft investment chapter, investment court system section (EU text proposal, February 2017)
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2-Mar-2017 SSRN
The past, present and future of international investment arbitration in Thailand
This paper offers the first detailed English-language analysis of international investment arbitration law and practice in Thailand. -
2-Mar-2017 The Australian
Govt costs for tobacco case still secret
Taxpayers are still in the dark about how much of their money has been spent on fighting tobacco giant Philip Morris over plain packaging laws. -
1-Mar-2017 Politico
Chemical industry outlines priorities for new NAFTA
Any renegotiation of NAFTA should include streamlined customs procedures and greater regulatory cooperation among other priorities, say the leading chemical industry associations. -
1-Mar-2017 VOA
EU presses Vietnam to improve human rights ahead of trade deal
Vietnam is coming under pressure from lawmakers in Europe to improve its human rights record before ratification of an EU free trade deal.