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2-Mar-2015 Dawn
New bilateral investment treaty model
Pakistan’s Board of Investment is working on Pakistan’s own template of a bilateral investment treaty, which will replace previous treaties and serve as basis for new ones. -
2-Mar-2015 Business Korea
KITA pushes resumption of FTA negotiations with Gulf Cooperation Council
Korea’s premier corporate lobby group says that Korea should resume FTA negotiations, which have been stopped, with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) as soon as possible and target the markets in the Middle East. -
2-Mar-2015 PTI
Sri Lanka President says he dodged CEPA talks in Delhi
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has said that he deliberately avoided having Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) with India on the agenda during his recent visit to New Delhi. -
1-Mar-2015 Kluwer Arbitration Blog
The challenge of the Yukos award: an award written by someone else – a violation of the tribunal’s mandate?
The Russian Federation filed three writs that seek to annul the award, alleging that the arbitrators did not fulfil their mandate personally because the Tribunal’s assistant played a significant role in analyzing the evidence and legal arguments. -
27-Feb-2015 USTR
US-EAC Cooperation Agreement on SPS, TBT and Trade Facilitation (2015)
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27-Feb-2015 WSJ
US moves toward greater trade with Africa
Pact with Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda — to be expanded to other countries later on — seen as a stepping stone to full fledged FTA -
27-Feb-2015 RLS
UPDATE: The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP): A charter for deregulation, an attack on jobs, an end to democracy
Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung have today released an updated version of their publication on TTIP by John Hilary. -
27-Feb-2015 Borderlex
EU Vietnam FTA: rice carve-outs and ‘double transformation’ rule of origin in sight
So far, seven chapters out of fifteen of the EU-Vietnam FTA have been concluded -
27-Feb-2015 HUngary Today
Hungarian government, parties divided on EU-USA free trade talks
The outcome of EU-US free trade talks hangs in the balance and the government will only support an accord which serves Hungarian interests, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in a parliamentary debate initiated by the opposition about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) -
27-Feb-2015 EurActiv
France makes U-turn on TTIP arbitration
In a letter to French MEPs, seen by EurActiv France, the French Secretariat General for European Affairs (SGAE) appears to have made a U-turn on the position so far defended by Mathias Fekl, the Secretary of State for Foreign Trade. -
27-Feb-2015 EconoMonitor
Are mega-trade agreements a threat to Brazil?
Bilateral trade agendas with both US and EU may become a way for Brazil to mitigate the negative potential impacts of TTIP and TTP, argues a former World Bank official. -
27-Feb-2015 Reuters
White House sees China as trump card in trade debate
The Obama administration is confident lawmakers will warm up to a proposed Pacific free trade deal on the grounds it is a chance for the United States, rather than China, to dictate the rules of Asian trade, a top official said on Thursday. -
27-Feb-2015 Business Korea
Korean petrochemical industry to be most affected by Korea-China FTA
Those in the petrochemical industry are unhappy about the provisionally-signed Korea-China FTA, because the synthetic resin and rubber imported from China wil be subject to immediate tariff elimination -
26-Feb-2015 Washington Post
The Trans-Pacific Partnership clause everyone should oppose
"Agreeing to ISDS in this enormous new treaty would tilt the playing field in the United States further in favor of big multinational corporations. Worse, it would undermine U.S. sovereignty," writes Elizabeth Warren. -
26-Feb-2015 GBC
Experts concerned about impact of Economic Partnership Agreement on Ghana’s economy
The President of the Ghana Chamber of Commerce and Industry says it was not right for Ghana to have signed the agreement. -
26-Feb-2015 Baltic Course
Lithuania, Qatar continue negotiations on Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement
On February 25th, Lithuania and Qatar entered the second stage of negotiations on Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement. The two-day negotiations take place in Vilnius, reports LETA/ELTA. -
26-Feb-2015 Yonhap
S. Korea, Turkey ink FTA in services, investment
South Korea and Turkey on Thursday signed a free trade agreement (FTA) in the investment and service sectors that will complement their bilateral trade pact that went into effect nearly two years ago. -
26-Feb-2015 Times of India
India to soon start FTA feasibility process with Russia, Peru
India will soon initiate the feasibility process to launch negotiations for a free trade agreement with Russia and Peru, a move aimed at enhancing economic ties with these nations. -
26-Feb-2015 IGJ
Update on Indonesia BITs review
Indonesia for Global Justice together with Indonesian civil society networks met with the Director of Bilateral Cooperation of Investment Coordinating Board, Fritz Horas Silalahi, in Jakarta to discuss the review of Indonesia Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITS). -
26-Feb-2015 ViEUws
ISDS in EU-Singapore deal too favourable to corporations, should be modified according to lead MEP David Martin
David Martin MEP (S&D, UK), the European Parliament’s rapporteur on the EU-Singapore trade deal, criticises the infamous ISDS (investor-to-state dispute settlement) part of the agreement.