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6-Sep-2019 Inquirer.Net
The other trade war—Japan vs South Korea
Japan imposed export restrictions on three key chemical materials upon which South Korea is highly dependent for the production of semiconductors. With other actions, that were viewed by South Korea as a “declaration of economic war”. -
5-Sep-2019 Euractiv
Ambassador: ‘We should be more creative’ in finalising Azerbaijan-EU trade deal
It took 20 years for the EU and Mercosur to sign a trade agreement. “We don’t want to wait that much,” says the Ambassador of Azerbaijan to the EU, urging the European Commission to drop its “bureaucratic matrix” thinking. -
4-Sep-2019 Euractiv
Luxembourg leads EU push to climate-proof Energy Charter Treaty
Critics say the Energy Charter provides excessive legal protection for oil and gas companies, which can claim uncapped reparations from governments who frustrate investments in fossil fuel projects. -
4-Sep-2019 Fresh Plaza
Modernized free trade agreement lifts duties on Israeli imports of Canadian foodstuffs
The expanded Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement took effect, eliminating or reducing tariffs on the import into Israel of a wide range of foods from Canada. -
4-Sep-2019 Sydney Morning Herald
’Key demand’: EU wants Australia to dump taxes on European cars
A key demand from the EU in the negotiation of a new free trade agreement will be that Australia ditches both its 5 per cent duty on imported European cars and the luxury car tax. -
4-Sep-2019 BNE Intellinews
KPMG says Moldovan investor falsified financial statements to claim $500mn from Kazakhstan
The audit company claims its reports used in the lawsuits launched by companies controlled by Moldovan businessman Anatol Stati were based on “ knowingly false representations by Stati to KPMG” -
4-Sep-2019 Reuters
US Democrats concerned about USMCA enforcement, Pelosi tells Canada’s Trudeau
Democrats’ key concerns are labor standards, prescription drug prices, environmental protections and concrete enforcement mechanisms. -
4-Sep-2019 Xinhua
Africa’s tripartite free trade area to be operational in early 2020: COMESA
The TFTA will also be a building bloc for the African Continental Free Trade Area, COMESA official said. -
3-Sep-2019 La Via Campesina
USMCA pits rural people in each country against one another: Via Campesina North America
We see the revision of NAFTA – rebranded as the USMCA (or T-MEC) – as another failure to respect the dignity of farmworkers, family farmers, Indigenous people, and the communities and territories in which we live. -
3-Sep-2019 The Guardian
EU to push Australia to clean up petrol standards as part of free trade deal
The European Union wants Australia’s Paris climate commitments enshrined in new FTA. -
3-Sep-2019 Jerusalem Post
Modernized Israel-Canada free trade agreement enters into force
A modernized and expanded Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement (CIFTA) entered into force following ratification by both governments, widening the sectors of trade cooperation between the countries. -
3-Sep-2019 Via Campesina
La Via Campesina issues call to mobilise against WTO and Free Trade Agreements
La Via Campesina is calling upon its members and allies to not be misled by the smokescreen of a ‘weakening WTO’ and be aware of the new age mega and bilateral free trade agreements are equally if not more harmful. -
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.