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8-Mar-2021
The West Australian
The International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Dispute has advised Indiana Resources that the “Arbitral Panel” has now been formed with the first procedural hearing scheduled for the 22nd of April 2021.
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8-Mar-2021
Inspired Traveler
Austria reaffirmed its veto of the trade agreement between the European Union and Mercosur, and asked Portugal to avoid any “possible attempt” to the pact enters into force in its current form.
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8-Mar-2021
East Asia Forum
Having secured free trade agreements (FTAs) with almost all key trading partners, Australia is honing in on a long elusive but lucrative market — India. Tensions with China, the need to find new sources of economic growth and government policy to diversify trading partners are pushing Australia into India’s arms.
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8-Mar-2021
Xinhua Net
The Chinese government has officially ratified the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement, Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao said Monday.
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7-Mar-2021
swissinfo.ch
Voters in Switzerland have given the green light to a free trade deal with Indonesia with a small majority of 51.6%.
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6-Mar-2021
Reuters
Vattenfall will get 1.606 billion euros and agreed to end pursuing a separate damages claim in the World Bank’s ICSID arbitration tribunal.
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5-Mar-2021
CAN Europe
In his opinion on March 3, the Advocate General shed some light on this question by arguing that ISDS in intra-EU disputes is indeed not allowed under EU law.
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5-Mar-2021
Jacobin
Free-trade agreements enable companies to sue governments if they interfere with profit-making activities, no matter how destructive. These trade deals put us in an antidemocratic straitjacket — it’s time we got rid of them.
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5-Mar-2021
The Western Producer
The wheat sector is excited about the prospect of Canada entering into trade agreement negotiations with Indonesia.
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5-Mar-2021
Reuters
The European Parliament abandoned its plan to set a date for voting on the EU-UK trade deal, in protest at what the European Union sees as Britain’s unlawful changes to Northern Irish Brexit arrangements.
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5-Mar-2021
Al Jazeera
China stands ready to work with other countries to achieve mutual benefits on the basis of greater mutual opening,” Premier Li Keqiang said.
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5-Mar-2021
France 24
Switzerland votes Sunday on a free trade deal with Indonesia but the agreement, which opens up a vast potential market, could slip up over the issue of palm oil imports.
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4-Mar-2021
Swiss Coalition for the Right to Seed
EFTA’s response to the June 2020 open letter, supported by 250 organisations from around the world, is disappointing. EFTA maintains the UPOV 91 requirement in FTAs. The right to seeds therefore remains under pressure.
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4-Mar-2021
The Star
The US-Kenya free trade talks should not be used as a justification to undermine Kenya’s efforts to regulate the use of single-use plastics, says Greenpeace Africa.
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4-Mar-2021
Euractiv
Mere “political commitments” will not be enough to ratify the agreement between the European Union and Mercosur countries, a French cabinet minister said.
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4-Mar-2021
Reuters
The European Union promised legal action after the British government unilaterally extended a grace period for checks on food imports to Northern Ireland, a move Brussels said violated terms of Britain’s divorce deal.
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4-Mar-2021
The Irish Times
Ireland should do the right thing for both Irish and Canadians and reject this trade agreement.
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3-Mar-2021
Kenya Small Scale Farmers Forum & ECONEWS Africa
The case was filed this monday at the Constitutional and Human Rights Division, and seeks to compel the Government to ensure transparency and effective public participation before the agreement is made into law by the National Assembly.
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3-Mar-2021
UK Government
The deal supports a trading relationship worth £1.2bn and reinstates the terms of the economic partnership agreement between the two sides when the UK was part of the EU.
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3-Mar-2021
The Standard
In a statement released after the first telephone conversation with President Joe Biden on Thursday evening, the State House noted that Kenya being the fourth largest trading partner of the US in Africa, Biden had re-affirmed commitment to enhance trade relations.
