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22-Apr-2021 City AM
Liz Truss to turn up pressure on Australian government in bid to land trade deal
International trade secretary Liz Truss is preparing to pile pressure onto her Australian counterpart in a bid to land a free trade deal. -
21-Apr-2021 The Jakarta Post
Indonesia, Iran aim to finalize preferential trade agreement
Indonesia and Iran highlighted the need to finalize a trade agreement between the two countries during the visit of Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to Jakarta on Monday. -
21-Apr-2021 Friends of the Earth Europe
Stop the Energy Charter Treaty
This obscure treaty from the 1990s grants sweeping rights and protections to big energy investors – mainly fossil fuel companies.
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21-Apr-2021 Reuters
Alamos Gold’s units to file $1 bln investment treaty claim against Turkey
Miner Alamos Gold said its Netherlands units will file an investment treaty claim exceeding $1 billion against Turkey for "unfair and inequitable treatment" with its gold mining project. -
20-Apr-2021 International Arbitration
Draft convention on investments abroad (Abs-Shawcross draft convention)
One of the most significant early proposals for a multilateral agreement to protect private foreign investment was launched in 1957 by groups of European business people, and lawyers. -
20-Apr-2021 ILA Reporter
Interview with Nicolás M. Perrone: Investment treaties and the legal imagination
The unusual status of foreign investors in international law is no accident, but rather the result of a “world-making project realized by a coalition of business leaders, bankers, and their lawyers in the 1950s and 1960s”. -
20-Apr-2021 Foreign Affairs
Can trade work for workers?
Helping left-behind regions should be a core goal of Biden’s administration. The damage has been done, and free trade isn’t going anywhere. -
20-Apr-2021 The Jakarta Post
How Indonesia plans to benefit from EFTA trade deal
The House of Representatives has recently approved a draft trade deal with the four-member EFTA that is expected to facilitate foreign investment and liberalize trade in goods and services, particularly commodities such as palm oil and raw metals. -
20-Apr-2021 Global Times
RCEP faces challenges as comprehensive China-US competition takes shape: experts at Boao forum
Professor at the East Asian Institute of the National University of Singapore, cautioned that geopolitics now have "too much influence" on world trade, which could pose "great challenges" to the further implementation of the trade deal. -
19-Apr-2021 European Commission
EU-ACP "Post-Cotonou" agreement (inialled text, Apr. 2021)
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19-Apr-2021 Euractiv
Energy Charter Treaty strikes again as Uniper sues Netherlands over coal phase-out
German energy company Uniper has confirmed its intention to sue the Dutch government over the country’s planned coal phase-out. -
19-Apr-2021 The Guardian
Oil companies don’t deserve reparations for fossil fuel bans. They’ll still want them
Energy conglomerates have recourse to special courts and legal regimes that they helped design – and they won’t go down without a fight. -
19-Apr-2021 The Baltic Times
Arbitral Tribunal enforces EUR 3.4 million for Latvia from Ukrainian businessman Kazmin
The ICSID in the case Eugene Kazmin v. Latvia issued its Award discontinuing the arbitration and ordering the Claimant, Ukrainian citizen Kazmin, to bear the costs of the proceeding. -
19-Apr-2021 The Economic Times
India-EU Porto summit to see progress on FTA
The India-EU Summit in Porto early next month could see progress on a free trade agreement and treaties on investment protection and geographical indications. -
16-Apr-2021 iPolitics
NAFTA-investor lawsuits cost Canada at least $376 million: report
NAFTA-investor lawsuits have cost Canadian taxpayers more than $376 million over the last 25 years, and could cost even more in the years ahead. -
16-Apr-2021 The Western Producer
Bilateral trade with Southeast Asia explored
Canada continues to pursue a multi-lateral free trade agreement with Southeast Asian nations, and those involved with negotiations say bilateral deals in the region could lead to larger pacts. -
15-Apr-2021 Rabble.ca
Twenty years ago rabble.ca helped kill a free trade deal for the Americas
20,000 civil society activists, trade unionists and environmentalists from throughout the Americas descended on Quebec City, where an alternative peoples’ summit was held. -
15-Apr-2021 Dawn
Iran to ink free trade agreement with Pakistan: envoy
Efforts were initiated to sign a free trade agreement between Iran and Pakistan, Iranian Consul General in Peshawar Hamid Reza Ghomi said. -
15-Apr-2021 Newsroom
A tale of two free trade negotiations
Despite a significant head start, a conclusion to the EU trade talks with New Zealand seems some way off while the UK is trumpeting its own progress. -
15-Apr-2021 CCPA
The rise and demise of NAFTA Chapter 11
The removal of investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) from the renegotiated NAFTA was a critical victory but Canada, the US and Mexico continue to be enmeshed in an extensive web of bilateral and regional accords containing ISDS.