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24-Jan-2014
Auto industry fights Canada-Korea free-trade deal
A Canada-Korea trade deal looks like a winner for Canadian agribusiness, but the auto industry is making a last-ditch push to head off the agreement. -
24-Jan-2014 TDM
Reform of investor-state dispute settlement: In search of a roadmap
Transnational Dispute Management examines various proposals for the reform of ISDS. -
24-Jan-2014 Reuters
US sees hurdles in China joining pacific trade pact
Washington wants progress on an investment treaty with Beijing before it considers expanding an eventual Pacific-region trade pact to include China, a top US official said on Thursday. -
23-Jan-2014 Testbiotech
Free trade for ’high-risk biotech’?
New report from Testbiotech on the potential influence of the planned Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) on the authorisation of new genetically engineered organisms for use in agriculture and food production. -
23-Jan-2014 Premium Times
ECOWAS, EU to resume negotiations on economic partnership agreement
The EU wants the West African region to open up 80 per cent of its market -
23-Jan-2014 EFE
Ecuador: International support crucial in battle with Chevron
Ecuador’s hopes of winning a legal struggle against US oil supermajor Chevron Corp. pertaining to a multi-billion-dollar pollution judgment rest on the degree of "global solidarity" with the Andean nation, Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño said Wednesday. -
23-Jan-2014 Reuters
Pacific trade partners in end-game of trade talks: US official
Pacific Rim trading partners are working to resolve the last thorny issues in sealing an ambitious free trade pact and are likely to have further high-level talks next month, a senior US trade official said on Wednesday. -
22-Jan-2014 Indian Express
A BIT of a secret
India’s bilateral investment treaty arbitration must be made more transparent. -
22-Jan-2014 Prensa Latina
Correa: Ecuador will not sign a FTA with the EU
We have resumed the negotiations, but we will not sign an FTA with the EU, but a trade agreement, Correa stressed Tuesday during a press conference in the south-western port city of Guayaquil. -
22-Jan-2014 FT
Brussels seeks to curb investor litigation under trade deals
EU trade commissioner Karel de Gucht pledged to release a proposed negotiating text of the investment chapter of any deal in March. -
21-Jan-2014 International Business Times
The TTIP: How a new secret ’trade’ treaty could put the world’s biggest firms beyond government control
The US/EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is intended to set global trade rules, bypassing the World Trade Organisation which has up to now allowed developing countries to resist such an agreement. -
21-Jan-2014
FTA with China next boost for Lankan apparel sector: JAAF
Efforts to drive the Sri Lankan apparel sector into a new growth phase may hinge on the success of the potential free trade agreement (FTA) in the offing with China, according to Joint Apparel Association Forum (JAAF) Secretary General Tuli Cooray. -
21-Jan-2014 Reuters
UE suspende parcialmente negociaciones de libre comercio con EEUU
La Comisión Europea suspendió hoy en parte las negociaciones de libre comercio con Estados Unidos, según anunció el comisario de Comercio, Karel de Gucht, que explicó que en los próximos tres meses habrá que realizar una consulta sobre unas polémicas cláusulas para proteger las inversiones de las empresas. -
21-Jan-2014 ITN
Proposed changes to the investment dispute-resolution system: A South American perspective
Perhaps because so many countries in the region have faced multiple international investment arbitrations based on multi-million dollar claims for compensations, a number of alternatives to the current system of investment dispute resolution have been drawn up. -
21-Jan-2014 CILJ
Smart move: Argentina to leave the ICSID
Given the substantial problems with the current ICSID framework and the large number of cases currently pending against Argentina, denouncing the SID Convention and leaving the ICSID is the best course for the country. -
21-Jan-2014 BFOG
The transatlantic colossus
‘The transatlantic colossus: Global contributions to broaden the debate on the EU-US free trade agreement’ (2014), a publication from the Berlin Forum on Global Politics in collaboration with the Internet & Society Collaboratory and FutureChallenges.org of the Bertelsmann Stiftung, is now available online. -
21-Jan-2014 S2B
S2B analysis on ISDS and CETA
Seattle to Brussels Network analysis of the European Commission’s note on “Investment Provisions in the EU-Canada free trade agreement” -
21-Jan-2014
Harper, Netanyahu sign broad agreement in Jerusalem meeting
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed a wide-ranging set of bilateral goals Tuesday and agreed to expand a free trade pact during their meeting in Jerusalem. -
21-Jan-2014 The Independent
Sovereignty fears lead to EU-US trade rethink
The European Commission is to rethink its approach to a controversial US trade deal which campaign groups in the UK have warned would fundamentally erode Britain’s sovereignty. -
20-Jan-2014 20Minutes
Un accord de libre-échange est-il éthique?
Le Gouvernement suisse planche sur un projet d’alliance économique avec la Russie. Mais celle-ci s’appliquerait aux pays signataires de l’union douanière avec Moscou, dont la controversée Biélorussie.