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28-Jun-2022
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28-Jun-2022
Hindustan Times
India and the UK will hold the fifth round of talks for a free trade agreement in New Delhi in July, with leaders of the two countries having already set a target for concluding the negotiations by October.
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28-Jun-2022
IISD
The new "agreement in principle" for a modernized Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) falls short of pledges to make the trade and investment deal better suited to achieving international climate goals, IISD experts say.
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28-Jun-2022
Outlook
India and the European Union resumed negotiations, after a gap of over eight years, for a comprehensive free trade agreement.
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27-Jun-2022
European Coordination Via Campesina
ECVC is heavily critical of the lack of ambition shown by the European Commission to tackle only future free trade agreements, meaning the pre-existing FTAs can continue their environmental and social devastation.
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27-Jun-2022
CMS Law-Now
In a award, made in Green Power Partners K/S and SCE Solar Don Benito APS v Spain, a tribunal unanimously denied its jurisdiction over an intra-EU investment dispute arising under the Energy Charter Treaty.
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27-Jun-2022
The Guardian
1994 agreement allows investors to sue governments for changes in energy policy that harm their profits.
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27-Jun-2022
Deccan Herald
India is inking a series of Free Trade Agreements but there is criticism from various quarters about it. All India Kisan Sabha Joint Secretary Vijoo Krishnan spoke about what is wrong with FTAs and where the government is erring.
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27-Jun-2022
Energy Charter
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27-Jun-2022
The Economic Times
While India and EU have set the ambition to conclude a comprehensive agreement, it must be acknowledged that there are fundamental differences in the design, or the template of the trade agreements signed by India and the EU so far.
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27-Jun-2022
The Jakarta Post
The Indonesia Trade Ministry expects the House of Representatives (DPR) to ratify the Indonesia-Korea Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (IK-CEPA) next month.
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27-Jun-2022
Sunday Observer
Negotiations on the Indonesia-Sri Lanka Preferential Trade Agreement (ISL-PTA) will begin soon as both countries see the enormous potential to boost bilateral trade, said Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia, Dewi Gustina Tobing.
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24-Jun-2022
DLA Piper
A tribunal found Nigeria in breach of its obligations under the China-Nigeria BIT and awarding Zhongshan compensation of around USD70 million.
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24-Jun-2022
bilaterals.org
This month’s episode analyses the impact of Trump’s return on the free trade regime.
[read the transcript >https://www.bilaterals.org/IMG/pdf/bp-03-25-transcript.pdf] (pdf)
Programme: bilaterals.org’s 20th anniversary The EU’s return to a wide-ranging free trade agenda (including deals with Mercosur, Mexico, Indonesia, Thailand, etc.) Colombia’s ISDS reform African countries’ ISDS cases against mining companies
[read the transcript (...)
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24-Jun-2022
The Print
An 11 June meeting called by USTR Katherine Tai discussed ’launching negotiations under trade pillar’, sparking fears among Indian officials that IPEF could end up as a trade agreement.
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24-Jun-2022
Financial Express
Union minister Piyush Goyal has expressed hope that the free trade agreement between India and the United Kingdom will be concluded by Diwali.
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24-Jun-2022
Yahoo Finance
China has proposed a free-trade bloc among the five BRICS countries in a bid to enhance economic ties within the decade-old grouping, as its geopolitical rivalry heats up with the United States.
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24-Jun-2022
Phnom Penh Post
Phnom Penh has asked Seoul to complete its internal procedures as soon as possible for the bilateral Cambodia-Korea Free Trade Agreement to enter into force, which will stimulate trade between the two countries to “another level”, according to a commerce ministry spokesman.
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24-Jun-2022
Social News
Turkey and Britain are working to upgrade their free trade agreement as a means to boost bilateral economic ties, said Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.
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24-Jun-2022
Zawya
The bilateral agreement aims to further protect and promote investment between the contracting parties.
