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14-Jan-2020 Reuters
China to ramp up US car, aircraft, energy purchases in trade deal: source
China has pledged to buy almost $80 billion of additional manufactured goods from the United States over the next two years as part of a trade war truce. -
13-Jan-2020 IAReporter
Uber threatens Colombia with treaty-based arbitration after ban on use of its ride-sharing app
The US-based ridesharing services platform Uber Technologies and its Colombian subsidiary, Uber Colombia, have threatened to initiate arbitration proceedings against Colombia under the Colombia-US Trade Promotion Agreement. -
13-Jan-2020 CCFD-Terre Solidaire
“A la carte” justice for transnational corporations?
At a time when 3,400 trade and investment agreements protect the interests of transnational corporations, there is no international treaty requiring them to uphold human rights and environmental protection. -
13-Jan-2020 GlobeNewswire
Winshear delivers notice of intent to submit a claim to arbitration under Canada-Tanzania agreement for the promotion and reciprocal protection of investments
The dispute arises out of certain acts and omissions of the United Republic of Tanzania, relating to the SMP Gold Project, says the company. -
13-Jan-2020 US Department of State
KTurbo Inc. v. United States of America
KTurbo Inc. served a notice of intent to submit a claim to arbitration under Chapter 11 of the US-Korea Free Trade Agreement. -
13-Jan-2020 Irish Examiner
Irish focus as EU’s Hogan opens China investment talks
Later this week negotiations for a comprehensive agreement on investment between the EU and mainland China will be held in Brussels. -
13-Jan-2020 ASPI The Strategist
US–China rivalry and the future of interdependence
The clash between the US and China is arrestingly sharp and deep not only because the stakes are so high and the parties so profoundly different but also because it has been brewing over several decades of increasingly intimate and complex interaction. -
13-Jan-2020 Phnom Penh Post
Chinese textile companies bank on BRI for growth
As participating countries are expected to sign the RCEP this year, China’s textile industry must accelerate the adjustment of products, capacity and trade structure to better integrate regional development in the next stage. -
13-Jan-2020 The Interpreter
India has left RCEP behind, but not its ambition in Southeast Asia
India’s decision in the final months of last year to withdraw from negotiations for the mega-regional trade agreement known as the RCEP disappointed the countries of Southeast Asia, which are also members of the ASEAN. -
10-Jan-2020 Bloomberg
US, China dust off corporate deals before trade pact signing
China highlighted a pledge to fully open up its oil and gas exploration sector. Financial services deals long in the works may be tied to deal. -
10-Jan-2020 Bloomberg
UK tells Trump that American chicken is still off the menu
US chicken imports offend British sanitary sensibilities. Not just for the safety of people who ingest it, but mainly because the process compensates for less stringent health standards. -
10-Jan-2020 RNZ
New Caledonia and Vanuatu meet to finalise free trade agreement
The leaders of New Caledonia and Vanuatu have met to finalise the free trade agreement the countries signed in April. -
10-Jan-2020 Global Legal Chronicle
Gazprom v. Ukraine’s arbitration
Ukraine settled an investment-treaty arbitration with Russian gas company Gazprom. -
10-Jan-2020 Swiss Info
Swiss court orders Russia to pay damages to Ukrainian firms
The Swiss Federal Court has ordered Russia to pay CHF80 million ($82.1 million) in damages to 12 Ukrainian firms confiscated after the 2014 annexation of Crimea. -
10-Jan-2020 DAWN
Pakistan moves US court to stop over $6bn fine in Reko Diq case
Pakistan has asked a US federal court to pause an Australian copper company’s bid to enforce a $6 billion arbitral award while it looks to have the award nixed. -
10-Jan-2020 The Japan News
Japan, Australia reaffirm goal for RCEP deal
Japan and Australia reaffirmed their goal of concluding the envisioned RCEP free trade deal among 16 nations including India by the end of the year. -
10-Jan-2020 Outlook India
Protectionism is not best way to ensure prosperity of all: Singaporean minister
Protectionism and import substitutions are not the best ways to ensure the prosperity of all, especially the poorest of the poor, but keeping the economy open to the world is, senior Singaporean minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam has said. -
10-Jan-2020 Devdiscourse
Japan, Morocco sign agreement for promotion and protection of investment
This agreement aims at further protection and promotion of investment between the contracting parties. -
9-Jan-2020 CEO
How ISDS corporate privileges risk to undermine community struggles
Inspiring people fought toxic gold mines, dirty oil drilling and greedy luxury real estate projects. Now, costly investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) lawsuits risk to reverse their community victories.
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9-Jan-2020 Reuters
Norway hopes for China free-trade deal in 2020, industry minister says
Norway aims to reach a free-trade agreement with China by the end of 2020, more than a decade after initial negotiations began, the Norwegian industry minister said.