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6-Aug-2015 CCPA
Canadian corporations abuse investment treaties, bully governments into environmental backtrack: study
Canadian investors have exploited a controversial mechanism in international investment treaties to challenge public interest regulations in 24 different countries -
6-Aug-2015 El Moudjahid
Forum Economique Arabo-Hongrois : l’Algérie sera au rendez-vous
Le forum économique arabo-hongrois examinera les moyens de dynamiser les échanges dans plusieurs segments d’activités et d’élever le niveau des flux commerciaux -
6-Aug-2015 Euractiv
Renzi hopes to push through EU-Japan trade deal this year
The Italian prime minister believes the EU and Japan could finalise a free trade deal by the end of the year -
6-Aug-2015 The Indian Express
India defers FTA talks with EU over ban of 700 drugs
Objecting to the ban of around 700 pharma products by the European Union, India said that it has called off a scheduled meeting of chief negotiators of the two sides on the proposed free trade agreement -
6-Aug-2015 Global Arbitration Review
Austria hit with first ICSID claim
The owner of a Vienna bank targeted by multiple fraud investigations has lodged what is thought to be the first-ever investment treaty claim against Austria -
5-Aug-2015 RCEP Legal
RCEP - draft chapter on trade in services (Aug 2015)
As leaked on RCEP Legal -
5-Aug-2015 CCPA
A losing proposition
The failure of Canadian ISDS policy at home and abroad. -
5-Aug-2015 Stuff
Law professor wants refusal to release TPP documents overturned
An application for an urgent review of a refusal to release documents relating to the Trans-Pacific partnership trade deal has been filed in the High Court in Wellington by law professor Jane Kelsey -
5-Aug-2015 The Globe and Mail
US excludes Canada, Mexico from TPP auto negotiations
Canada and Mexico are joining forces to try and break a major logjam over Japanese autos at the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks while the United States had already cut a deal with Japan -
5-Aug-2015 Economy Next
Sri Lanka could join TPP, think of trade and investment as one: Razeen Sally
Sri Lanka could apply to be part of an evolving Trans-Pacific Partnership while pursuing a free trade agreement with the US -
5-Aug-2015 War on Want
TTIP, CETA, TISA and public services
What is the threat from free trade agreements to public services?
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5-Aug-2015 Lexology
Poland risks Bilateral Investment Treaty claims in adopting new law
The Polish Parliament has just passed a new law restricting investment in certain strategic Polish companies, which raises the risk of potential Bilateral Investment Treaty claims -
5-Aug-2015 Le Courrier du Vietnam
L’Afrique du Sud souhaite renforcer son commerce avec le Vietnam
Durant son séjour en Afrique du Sud, le vice-Premier ministre vietnamien Hoàng Trung Haile et le vice-président sud-africain Cyril Ramaphosa ont discuté du renforcement de leur coopération dans l’économie, le commerce et l’investissement -
5-Aug-2015 KEI
TPP - draft IP chapter (May 2015)
As leaked by KEI on 4 August 2015 -
4-Aug-2015 Knowledge Ecology International
Knowledge Ecology International leaks TPP text on intellectual property
Knowledge Ecology International released text from three sections of the 95-page secret negotiating text on the Intellectual Property Chapter being used in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement trade negotiations -
4-Aug-2015 Bloomberg
TransCanada may recoup costs from US if Obama rejects Keystone
A provision in the North American Free Trade Agreement would let the Canadian company TransCanada Corp. recoup some of the $2.4 billion spent on its Keystone XL project -
4-Aug-2015 KEI
RCEP - draft IP text from ASEAN (Oct 2014)
As published by KEI -
4-Aug-2015 KEI
RCEP - draft IP text from India (Oct 2014)
As published by KEI -
4-Aug-2015 Want China Times
Taiwan, US aim for TIFA talks by year end: US official
Taiwan and the United States are working toward holding the next round of talks under the bilateral Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) -
4-Aug-2015 The Japan News
TPP failure could spell trouble for other trade talks
The failure to reach a broad agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership could harm Japan’s efforts to create a “mega trade zone” through other major accords