Articles by language
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19-Aug-2015 The Economic Times
Government mulling strong model BIT to revise investment pacts
Indian government had decided to come out with a new framework after several multinational firms invoked bilateral investment protection agreements. -
19-Aug-2015 Daily Sabah
Zeybekci suggests renewal of FTA with Serbia, BiH
Turkey is ready to the fullest extent to expand the free trade agreements to the service, public, food, agriculture and e-commerce sectors -
19-Aug-2015 Le Défi Média
Relations Maurice/Singapour : vers un accord de partenariat économique
Les deux pays se dirigent vers un accord de partenariat économique afin d’établir un mécanisme collaboratif dans plusieurs domaines. -
19-Aug-2015 Campact.de
TTIP/TAFTA et ses investisseurs tout-puissants expliqués en moins de 4 minutes
L’ISDS permet aux entreprises de traîner les gouvernements devant des tribunaux secrets privés. La facture incombera au contribuable européen.
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19-Aug-2015 The News Review
FIPA license to treat Canadians
The Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA), ratified in 2014, is a license to be unfair to Canadians. -
18-Aug-2015 JD Supra
Why Argentina’s petition to vacate an wward in AWG Group Ltd v. Republic of Argentina matters for future arbitrations
Argentina filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia a petition to vacate an UNCITRAL arbitration award, which could have broader implications for determining partiality of arbitrators. -
18-Aug-2015 Global Post
S. Korea’s membership in TPP only matter of time: trade minister
South Korea has no other choice but to join the U.S.-led regional free trade agreement, known as the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), the country’s trade minister said. -
18-Aug-2015 Mali Actu
Mali : commerce et industrie: les mesures de défenses commerciales au centre des débats
Un atelier de formation à Bamako pour combattre des politiques commerciales agressives des entreprises à la recherche de marchés d’exportation -
18-Aug-2015 Viet Nam News
ASEAN puts last touches to economic community
With most of the high-priority measures in the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) blueprint already adopted, policymakers and businesses need to work closely on the remaining challenges to achieve benefits of full economic integration beyond 2015 -
18-Aug-2015 Toward Freedom
Free-trade treaties are anti-free trade
Free trade treaties are not really based on free trade but rather on protectionism. -
18-Aug-2015 Agri HQ
Ex-minister seeks to outlaw TPP
Not content with suing the Japanese government, a lawyer and former Japanese agriculture minister has been leading a group who filed a lawsuit against the Japanese government -
18-Aug-2015 The Tyee
How Canada caved to US pressure at TPP talks in Hawaii
Negotiators dropped patent and copyright demands but failed to garner agreement. -
18-Aug-2015 CEO
Don’t believe the hype - TTIP is not for small companies
Publicly, business lobby groups are heavily pushing the idea that TTIP will benefit small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). But behind closed doors they admit the reality: that small companies will “face increased competition” and that “benefits remain hypothetical”. -
18-Aug-2015
Pakistan’s FTAs have borne no fruit so far
Express Tribune, Pakistan Pakistan’s FTAs have borne no fruit so far By Kazim Alam 10 August 2015 Developing countries sign free trade agreements (FTAs) with trading partners mainly to increase exports and create better-paying jobs at home. In Pakistan’s case, however, tariff revisions under FTAs have clearly not worked in its favour, numbers show. Pakistan has signed trade agreements with five countries, namely China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Mauritius. “None of (...) -
18-Aug-2015
Chicken war with US shows free trade threat to Vietnamese farmers
Hanoi chicken farmer Nguyen Huu Tuyen blames inexpensive poultry imported from the US for the loss of almost $14,000 this year. -
18-Aug-2015
RCEP seen as more important than TPP for now
Deputy Commerce Minister Apiradi Tantraporn has suggested that Thailand should eventually join the US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership, which will control about 40 per cent of global gross domestic product and one-third of world trade if approved. But until the TPP is finalised, Thailand should focus on the Asean-led Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), she said. -
18-Aug-2015
Mexico car makers seek 50% regional content in TPP trade deal
A 12-nation Pacific trading bloc must guarantee that half the content of cars is locally made within the group, and be close to that for auto parts, according to top Mexican auto industry officials, as negotiators seek to bring the talks to a close. -
18-Aug-2015
Thailand, Pakistan bid to finalise FTA in 2017
Thailand and Pakistan are seeking to conclude a free-trade agreement by mid-2017 in a bid to reduce over-reliance on the traditional export markets of both nations. The FTA negotiations will begin late next month. -
17-Aug-2015 Vietnam+
Financial Times reports on Vietnam-EU free trade deal
EU negotiators fear China will use Vietnam as a backdoor for cheap textile imports into the EU -
17-Aug-2015 Euractiv
EU, India working to resolve trade row over generic drugs
The EU and India are taking steps to end a trade row sparked by an EU ban of 700 Indian pharmaceutical products after New Delhi cancelled talks on a free trade accord earlier this month.