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1-Sep-2022
Lexology
In recent years, in certain investment arbitration proceedings, States have brought counterclaims alleging that foreign investors had failed to comply with corporate social responsibility principles. In all but two cases, these counterclaims have been unsuccessful.
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1-Sep-2022
Indonesia for Global Justice
The Civil Society Coalition for Economic Justice condemned the plenary session of the Indonesian House of Representatives which ratified the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership and the Indonesia-Korea CEPA agreement.
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1-Sep-2022
Tehran Times
Vietnam’s and Iran’s top officials stress the need to begin official negotiations for signing a preferential trade agreement between the two countries.
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1-Sep-2022
Korea Herald
South Korea plans to seek annulment of an international tribunal’s verdict to compensate Lone Star Funds in a decade long investor-to-state dispute arbitration.
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31-Aug-2022
The West Australian
Under the free trade agreement, the two nations have pledged to work together in developing and accelerating cost-effective low and zero emissions technologies as well as supporting clean and renewable energy sources and infrastructure.
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31-Aug-2022
Yonhap
An international tribunal ordered South Korea to pay the US private equity firm Lone Star Funds US$216.5 million, bringing an end to a decade long legal battle surrounding its sell-off of a local bank.
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30-Aug-2022
The Globe and Mail
International Trade Minister Mary Ng says Canada is formally initiating a challenge against “unwarranted and unfair” U.S. duties on Canadian softwood lumber.
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30-Aug-2022
The Investor
South Korean Minister of Trade Industry and Energy said the US Inflation Reduction Act that bans tax benefits for electric vehicles built outside of North America is highly likely to breach the US-Korea FTA and WTO rules.
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30-Aug-2022
Euronews
Indonesia’s parliament passed a law cementing the country’s membership of the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), making it the latest Southeast Asian nation to join the world’s biggest trade bloc.
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29-Aug-2022
Asia One
This action would allow for Ecuadorean accounts in these jurisdictions to be frozen and trading payments and receivables to be seized, in order to satisfy the outstanding award debt.
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29-Aug-2022
Reuters
The European Union should sign off on its updated trade agreement with Mexico later this year, Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said.
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29-Aug-2022
RNZ
"It is by no means a done deal ... there’s going to be a huge diplomatic effort to push this across the line," - NZ’s chief EU trade negotiator Vangelis Vitalis.
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29-Aug-2022
The Print
Reaffirming its commitment to an interim trade pact with India, Canada said that the next round of negotiations will be held in September.
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26-Aug-2022
Medium
The multinational pork giant Smithfield, now owned by a Chinese firm, took advantage of trade, investment, labor, environmental, and immigration policies, after NAFTA, to expand its low-wage factory farming model on both sides of the US-Mexico border.
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26-Aug-2022
Punch
Three years after signing the African Continental Free Trade Area, Nigeria appears unprepared to compete in the trade regime...
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26-Aug-2022
BelTA
The next round of talks on a full-fledged free trade agreement between the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and Iran will take place in Moscow at the end of September.
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26-Aug-2022
Korea Herald
The Korean public has been in outrage over the matter for more than a decade, claiming that the case was an international “fraud” committed by an overseas private equity firm.
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25-Aug-2022
Yahoo
Increased collaboration between countries like India, Australia, Japan and the US reflect their growing anxiety over China’s control over supply chains and its ability to disrupt them.
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25-Aug-2022
Punch
An African supply chain that makes it difficult to move goods by water from Cameroon to Nigeria but easy to move goods from Cameroon to China and other countries is a threat to the regional integration plan.
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25-Aug-2022
The Guardian
Italian government ordered to compensate UK firm after exploration forbidden within 12 miles of coast.
