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29-Jun-2016 CBC
Life after Brexit: What happens to Canada’s trade deal with Europe?
Canada negotiated CETA with the European Union based on the U.K. being in, not out, so now what? -
28-Jun-2016 Domain-b
India’s narrow BIT norms holding up trade pact
The new model text on the basis of which India is negotiating its Bilateral Investment Treaties (BIT) is making it difficult for America to hold bilateral talks on the proposed India-US BIT -
28-Jun-2016 Vestnik Kavkaza
Georgia and EFTA sign Free Trade Agreement
The signing took place on the sideline of Georgian PM Giorgi Kvirikashvili’s two-day official visit to Switzerland and on the margins of EFTA ministerial meeting. -
28-Jun-2016 Inquirer
‘Brexit offers a vital lesson for Asean’
Brexit shows where the European Union has gone wrong: because it failed to improve economic benefits for all. -
28-Jun-2016 The Jakarta Post
Protecting the government in investor-state dispute
The Indonesian government is currently reviewing all its international investment treaties after previously having terminated 20 bilateral investment treaties (BIT). -
28-Jun-2016 The Nation
Asean to press RCEP to cut tariffs on 92% of goods
ASEAN countries will propose to the 16 member states of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) to eliminate tariffs on 92 per cent of trade in goods to promote economic integration of the grouping. -
28-Jun-2016 SME Times
S Korea to review free trade accord with EU
The South Korean government said that it will review the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) signed with the European Union (EU) following Britain’s exit from the bloc. -
27-Jun-2016 The Japan Times
Only quarter of Canadians believe NAFTA benefits them
Only one in four Canadians say the North American Free Trade Agreement is good for their country, and more than one-third want it renegotiated, according to a poll. -
27-Jun-2016 Kluwer Arbitration Blog
Forum shopping in the execution of ICSID awards: is it time to revive the UN convention on state immunity?
By virtue of the ICSID Convention awards are automatically enforceable. But enforcement of an award is only half of the equation; award holders must also navigate the separate, but equally important, task of executing the award. -
27-Jun-2016 Financial Post
TransCanada Corp moves forward with Keystone XL NAFTA challenge
TransCanada Corp. made good on its threat to challenge the rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline, filing a request for arbitration under NAFTA to recoup US$15 billion in damages from the U.S. government. -
27-Jun-2016 The Nation
Asean told to refocus on RCEP
Thailand and other Asean nations should review their stance on the Trans-Pacific Partnership and rather refocus on materialising the Regional Cooperation on Economic Partnership, said former WTO chief. -
27-Jun-2016 Sidney Morning Herald
Free trade agreements not the great deal we’ve been sold
Australian governments of late seem only to listen to the din of money as though that equates with national interest. -
27-Jun-2016 Alter Eco +
Tafta : la souveraineté kidnappée
Jusqu’où peut-on pousser la logique du libre-échange ? -
26-Jun-2016 CEPOB
Conditionality in context - scenarios for EU relations with the Eurasian Economic Union
The establishment of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) in January 2015 congealed EU-Russia relations in terms of geopolitics and trade policy. -
24-Jun-2016 Namibia Economist
Tension in SACU revealed by the SADC EPA
SACU has not lived up to the promises of the 2002 Agreement. The failure to fully implement that Agreement has resulted in a regional arrangement in limbo and policy paralysis. -
24-Jun-2016 ISDS Blog
Mesa Power Group LLC v. Canada
The claimant in this case was Mesa Power Group LLC, a U.S. corporation that oversees and develops renewable energy projects, notably in the wind sector. -
24-Jun-2016 Business Standard
China-backed Asean opposes India’s stand on RCEP
Beijing is demanding greater tariff reduction -
24-Jun-2016 ICTSD
RCEP countries conclude Auckland round, eye next steps
Negotiators meeting in Auckland, New Zealand, continued their efforts to finalise talks this year for a Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) -
24-Jun-2016 TASS
EAEU and China may establish free trade zone
Russian President said that the general development path in a global economy should involve a gradual removal of all barriers to open collaboration -
24-Jun-2016 Tax News
South Korea, India to enhance free trade deal
South Korea and India have agreed to enter into talks aimed at re-negotiating the terms of their existing bilateral Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, particularly to improve the list of traded goods subject to reduced tariffs.