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3-Sep-2019 Open Democracy
Here’s how we need to protect our NHS from any future US/UK trade deal
Boris Johnson is promising new legislation to ’help the NHS’. But the danger is it will just gift wrap it for US corporations. Campaigners are uniting to say #HandsOffOurNHS and to call on MPs to really protect it. -
3-Sep-2019 Yahoo
World Bank tribunal lowers ConocoPhillips award for Venezuela expropriation -document
A World Bank arbitration panel lowered an initial $8.7 billion award to US oil company ConocoPhillips as compensation for Venezuela’s 2007 expropriation of its assets to $8.5 billion. -
3-Sep-2019 CTV
Quebec dairy farmers struggling with new open markets
Quebec dairy farmers continue to struggle as international trade agreements have hit their bottom line hard. -
3-Sep-2019 The Economic Times
Rajnath Singh to urge Seoul to stay away from CPEC
For defence minister Rajnath Singh, the immediate tasks at hand include blocking Korean funds from flowing into Pakistan. -
3-Sep-2019 Korea Herald
S. Korea, Malaysia to hold 3rd round of FTA talks this week
South Korea will hold a third round of free trade talks with Malaysia this week with the aim of striking a trade deal before November, Seoul’s trade ministry said Tuesday. -
3-Sep-2019 The Strais Times
RCEP negotiations in ’final stages’, should be completed by 2019 or early 2020: Chan Chun Sing
Trade and Industry Minister Chan Chun Sing said that at this point, the RCEP has gone beyond an economic agreement and is a strategic signal to the world’s economy on what countries in this part of the world believe in. -
2-Sep-2019 Korea Joongang Daily
FTA with Britain is being pushed by ministry
The free trade agreement with Britain should be completed before the country’s scheduled exit from the European Union, said Korean Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy. -
30-Aug-2019 South Centre
Intellectual property under the scrutiny of investor-state tribunals
The fact that private arbitral tribunals are increasingly interpreting intellectual property provisionsraises complex issues. -
30-Aug-2019 Mehr
EAEU-Iran trade deal to take effect on October 27: report
Officials from both parties exchanged messages about completing the necessary procedures to enforce an interim agreement leading to the formation of the free trade area. -
30-Aug-2019 Euronews
EU warns Serbia to cancel free trade pact with Russia if it wants to join bloc
Brussels has warned Serbia it must dissolve a proposed new free-trade deal with Russia if it wants to join the European Union. -
29-Aug-2019 CEO
Trading away protection
Emerging threats from the EU-US trade talks on confomity assessments and regulatory cooperation. -
29-Aug-2019 South Centre
‘Phase 1B’ of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) negotiations
This policy brief focuses on the expected economic impacts of tariff liberalization under the AfCFTA. -
29-Aug-2019 Xinhua
Russia, India ready to negotiate FTA agreement
Russia is ready to start negotiating with India to set up a Free Trade Area with the Eurasian Economic Union. -
29-Aug-2019 Reuters
EU-Mercosur trade deal could be ready by late 2020 in best case: EU official
The European Union should be able to conclude a free-trade agreement with the Mercosur bloc of South American countries by late 2020 in an optimistic scenario, a senior EU trade official said. -
29-Aug-2019 MercoPress
Canada will continue trade negotiations with Mercosur, despite the current Amazon policy of Brazil
Canada will continue its trade negotiations with Mercosur, the South American trading bloc that includes Brazil, despite demands to call a halt to the talks until more action is taken to protect the Amazon rainforest. -
29-Aug-2019 The Slovak Spectator
Slovakia reportedly ready to block the deal between the EU and Latin America
Agriculture Minister Gabriela Matečná said Brazil’s approach to the Amazon fires is unacceptable. -
29-Aug-2019 QHA
Ukrainian energy company Ukrenergo filed lawsuit against Russia due to lost assets in occupied Crimea
The energy company Ukrenergo submitted claims in a dispute with Russia to the arbitration court regarding the illegal seizure of the company’s infrastructure in the annexed Crimea. -
28-Aug-2019 Indonesia for Global Justice
Seed patent protection in FTA castrated the farmers’ rights
The government of Indonesian is aggressively increasing the negotiation of international trade agreements governing seed patents for corporations. -
28-Aug-2019 The Irrawaddy
W. Myanmar locals worried BRI projects threaten their livelihoods
If China wants to fish in Myanmar’s troubled waters, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)-linked Kyaukphyu Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Rakhine State is a good place to cast a line. -
28-Aug-2019 The Guardian
Australia should delay free trade deal with Hong Kong, ACTU says
Canberra must tread cautiously amid the political instability, the peak union body tells a parliamentary committee.