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29-Dec-2015 Inter-Press Service
French firm attacks Ugandan tax using ISDS
The heavily criticized legal mechanism, known as ISDS, is an important tool for European companies to pressurize developing countries. This year Uganda joins the rank of developing nations asking themselves: “Why have we ever signed this?” -
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American mining giant escaped Indonesian law with ISDS
American mining corporation Newmont escaped the domestic processing requirement from Indonesia’s 2009 Mining Law. It achieved this by using a clause in a Dutch investment treaty. -
29-Dec-2015
Exports to Australia up 7.5% on FTA
Korea’s exports to Australia rose 7.5 percent in the January-November period, in sharp contrast to the country’s overall exports which fell 7.4 percent in the same period due to sluggish global demand, the Korea Customs Service (KCS) said Tuesday. -
29-Dec-2015
China to have talks with Sri Lanka on FTA
The Chinese Government says it will have talks with Sri Lanka next year on the proposed Free Trade Agreement (FTA). -
28-Dec-2015
Modi’s Pak stopover ignites hope for trade talks
Trade dialogue between India and Pakistan — officially in the cold storage for almost three years — is set to be revived, now that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has broken the political ice with Islamabad with his Christmas visit to Lahore. -
27-Dec-2015
Unresolved trade pact: India to meet EU in Jan
Months after it called off talks between chief negotiators of the two sides on free trade agreement (FTA) to protest against the ban on sale of around 700 pharma products of a domestic company, India will meet officials from the European Union (EU) later next month to “take stock of the negotiations” on the long-pending FTA. -
22-Dec-2015 El Diario
Abertis hauls Argentina’s new government before the World Bank on account of two motorways
Abertis has hauled Argentina’s Attorney General’s Treasury Office before the World Bank’s Arbitration Dispute Settlement body (known as ICSID) for freezing tariffs applied to two concessions for motorways controlled by the Spanish company in Argentina. -
22-Dec-2015 Aliran
TWN: Common claims about TPPA investment chapter, ISDS – a rebuttal
Claims of the much-touted supposed ‘benefits’ of the investor-state dispute settlement mechanism are not really what they seem. -
22-Dec-2015 Economy Next
Sri Lanka studies feasibility of joining TPP
Sri Lanka’s Institute of Policy Studies has started to study the feasibility of joining the Trans Pacific Partnership. -
22-Dec-2015 The Tyee
Big Pharma rewarded as drug prices keep soaring
The escalation in patent protections is set to occur just as drug prices hit all-time highs in Canada and pharmaceutical investment in research and development sinks to decade-long lows. -
22-Dec-2015 Fiji Times
The free trade theory versus the ...
PACER-Plus is shaping up as an agreement that won’t fit into the Pacific reality, will have weak protections for Pacific businesses and undermines the ability of governments to enact policies to support and nurture vital Pacific industries. -
22-Dec-2015 New Europe
EU and the Philippines launch negotiations for a free trade agreement
EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström and Philippine Secretary of Trade and Industry Gregory Domingo agreed to start negotiations for an EU-Philippines free trade agreement (FTA). -
21-Dec-2015
Maldives begins free trade pact discussion with China
The two-day discussion on establishing the Maldives-China free trade pact began early Monday in Bandos Island Resort. -
21-Dec-2015
Korea FTA to boost NZ’s farming, dairy firms
The most significant characteristic of the Korea-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement, which came into force on Sunday, is that it was a "catch-up deal" rather than a new one, says New Zealand Ambassador to Korea Clare Fearnley. -
21-Dec-2015
Govt sets up working group to examine impact of FTAs
The government has constituted an independent working group under the Chief Economic Advisor to examine the impact of free trade agreements (FTAs) signed by India, the Parliament was informed today. -
21-Dec-2015 Viet Nam News
Pact on free trade between Viet Nam, S Korea takes effect
The RoK projects are mainly poured into industrial processing and manufacturing, real estate, retail and wholesale, and construction, with total investment exceeding $5 billion. -
21-Dec-2015 Vietnam+
L’accord de libre-échange Vietnam-R. de Corée entre en vigueur
Les investissements de la Corée concernent principalement la transformation et la fabrication industrielle, l’immobilier, la vente au détail et en gros, et la construction, avec une somme totale de plus de 5 milliards de dollars. -
21-Dec-2015 The Age
The dismissal of a case against plain cigarette packaging is good news for taxpayers
I only wish to caution that we should be wary of anyone who suggests that the decision demonstrates that ISDS isn’t problematic. -
19-Dec-2015 ALAI
Approaches for an alternative strategy to the FTA
The major challenge consists in rescuing the sovereignty of our States, that has been chipped away in recent times by untrammelled US power and its giant corporations and by the subjugation (“by free determination”) of regimes such as those in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. -
18-Dec-2015 IIED
Land deals and investment treaties
The vast majority of the land deals from the recent wave of agribusiness investments in low and middle-income countries are protected by at least one investment treaty.