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21-Jan-2019 The Bullet
NAFTA 2.0: Nothing for workers
A failure to seriously resist NAFTA 2.0’s passage into law in Canada, the US and Mexico will amount to capitulation and the acceptance of an agreement that by design, like the original NAFTA, intrinsically serves the interests of Capital. -
21-Jan-2019 Nikkei Asian Review
TPP-11 opens doors to new members
Japan eager to expand trade pact even though not all signatories have ratified. -
21-Jan-2019 France 24
EU sets out plans for ’limited’ US trade deal
Opposition by activists has already resurfaced with some warning that "there can be no trade-offs on food standards" in the deal. -
21-Jan-2019 European Commission
EU-US FTA: EU draft negotiating mandates (Jan 2019)
As released by the European Commission -
19-Jan-2019 South China Morning Post
Malaysia won’t be pressured into CPTPP: trade minister Darell Leiking
Malaysia will not be pressured into ratifying a 11-nation Asia-Pacific trade deal, as trade minister raised the prospect of holding out for bilateral tariff pacts instead. -
19-Jan-2019 Yonhap News
S. Korea to speed up FTA with Britain on looming no-deal Brexit
South Korea’s trade ministry said will speed up efforts to clinch FTA with Britain amid the no deal Brexit. -
18-Jan-2019 European Commission
The EU moves forward efforts at UN on multilateral reform of ISDS
The EU and its Member States submitted two papers to the UN Working Group under the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). -
18-Jan-2019 New Europe
Most EU countries to terminate intra-bloc bilateral investment treaties
22 of the 28 EU nations have committed to terminate their bilateral investment treaties and use their influence as home states and respondent-states to notify tribunals of the non-arbitrability of intra-EU bilateral investment treaties and Energy Charter Treaty claims. -
18-Jan-2019 Kazinform
EAEU, Egypt successfully complete 1st round of talks on FTA
The talks focused on the main provisions of the Agreement and set the schedule of the further work. -
17-Jan-2019 IISD
Corporate social responsibility clauses in investment treaties
Corporate social responsibility provisions do not change the corporate or ethical duties of companies into enforceable legal obligations in the context of dispute settlement proceedings but they could help significantly moralize the use of treaty-based arbitration. -
17-Jan-2019 IATP
Bold farm plans in Mexico offer a ray of hope in 2019
Mexican farmers are on the verge of bold, new plans to completely transform their food and farm system. Will NAFTA 2.0 challenge them? -
17-Jan-2019 Business Recorder
Karkey case posing ”attachment” threat to assets abroad: Cabinet meets today
The federal cabinet is expected to approve supplementary grant of $ 1.37 million on to contest cases filed by M/s Karkey in courts of different countries as Pakistan’s assets abroad are facing "attachment" threat. -
17-Jan-2019 Life Gate
Maude Barlow. Water isn’t a business, it’s a fundamental right we must protect
CETA and other trade treaties don’t consider water as a basic necessity, they consider it as an investment, as something that can be traded through private services. -
17-Jan-2019 CTech Calcalist
Israel and Japan in talks to enter a free trade agreement
Israel and Japan are in talks to enter a free trade agreement between the countries. -
17-Jan-2019 Australian Financial Review
Donald Trump reopens door to TPP participation, Asia reset
Donald Trump signed the so-called Asia Reassurance Initiative Act (ARIA) includes a call for the US to return to multilateral trade deals, countering the President’s own tendency to pursue agreements with individual countries such as Mexico, Canada and Japan. -
17-Jan-2019 The Strais Times
Singapore making good progress on concluding FTA with Eurasian Economic Union: Tharman
Singapore, Russia and their partners in the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) are making progress on concluding the EAEU-Singapore Free Trade -
17-Jan-2019 Indonesia for Global Justice
Statement of the Advocacy Team for Economic Justice in the Post-Court Verdict concerning the International Treaty Law
Indonesian Constitutional Court issued stated that parliament’s approval is needed for the signing of International Agreement which stipulated in the Constitution on the verdict. -
16-Jan-2019 EU Observer
EU parliament backs Morocco deal despite row
Efforts to debate the agreement at the plenary were blocked amid political infighting on whether to support the agricultural pact, which seeks to extend into the disputed territory of the Western Sahara. -
16-Jan-2019 TASS
EAEU, Serbia plan to sign free trade deal in 2019 — Putin
Another round of talks on the agreement was held in Belgrade early January 2019. -
16-Jan-2019 EU Observer
On Morocco, will the EU ignore its own court?
How can the EU claim it does not recognise Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara yet negotiated the terms of the deal and its implementation exclusively with Rabat?