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9-Aug-2021
East Asia Forum
Human rights experts are particularly concerned about the asymmetric nature of the system and a lack of investors’ human rights obligations. Together with high ISDS costs and arbitral awards, they undermine states’ ability to realise economic, social, cultural and environmental rights.
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9-Aug-2021
Illinois News Today
Thailand and the European Union (EU) have agreed to resume negotiations on a free trade agreement (FTA) seven years after the collapse of negotiations in 2014 after a military coup in Thailand.
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7-Aug-2021
Public Citizen
TC Energy expects to get 15 times more money, coming from taxpayers’ pockets, than the asset losses it experienced from the revocation of a permit, that was already denied twice.
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6-Aug-2021
The Globe and Mail
New evidence from a UN report and a high-profile investor arbitration case is casting a spotlight on Rwanda’s role in sophisticated smuggling networks that extract gold and coltan from Congolese conflict zones and funnel the strategically important minerals illicitly into global supply chains.
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6-Aug-2021
SSRN
The paper suggests ten principles that fair trade movements could use when they think about their approach to international trade and investments.
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6-Aug-2021
Market Research Telecast
Ecuador is waiting for a response from Mexico to return to the negotiating table for a free trade agreement between the two that opens the long-awaited path to the Pacific Alliance.
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6-Aug-2021
The Week
An arbitration tribunal in 2020 awarded Devas more than $111 million plus interest in retro tax case.
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6-Aug-2021
The Print
Australia is keen to deepen our trade and investment links with India, and take the economic relationship to the next level.
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6-Aug-2021
Swiss Info
Switzerland and Thailand have expressed interest in starting negotiations for a free trade deal, according to his office, with technical talks underway at the level of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA).
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6-Aug-2021
Reuters
India proposed scrapping a controversial law that taxed companies retrospectively, a move that could potentially settle its multi-billion-dollar tax cases with Cairn Energy and Vodafone.
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6-Aug-2021
Bangkok Post
Thailand and Australia have agreed to pursue a strategic economic partnership to boost bilateral trade and investment, with the deal expected to be signed next year.
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5-Aug-2021
Gabriel Resources
The UNESCO application and inscription are fundamentally at odds with Romania’s obligations under its investment treaties in relation to Gabriel’s gold and silver project.
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5-Aug-2021
Ukrinform
Ukraine and Canada are in the final stages of negotiations to expand the Free Trade Agreement to cover services and investment.
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5-Aug-2021
The Express Tribune
Decision aimed at avoiding international arbitration with foreign firms .
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4-Aug-2021
Global Cement
France-based Vicat raised a case against the Egyptian government with the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes in late June 2021. It concerns its cement production business.
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3-Aug-2021
The Guardian
Ahead of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) implementation in Nigeria, the Nigerian Institute of Chartered Arbitrators and other stakeholders are seeking dispute resolution mechanisms that will address concerns of non-state entities.
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3-Aug-2021
The National
A CAMPAIGN group backing independence in Western Sahara is to take the UK Government to court over a post-Brexit trade agreement with Morocco.
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3-Aug-2021
Voa
The administration of US President Joe Biden has kicked off the Prosper Africa Build Together initiative by requesting $80 million from Congress to build trade and investment between the US and Africa.
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3-Aug-2021
Dairy News
What happens in the next six weeks will be critical for New Zealand to secure a free trade agreement with the UK, according to the executive director of the Dairy Companies Association.
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3-Aug-2021
Al Jazeera
Corporate courts were invented to protect the West’s control of the world against decolonisation. They are now undermining attempts to halt climate change.
