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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? -
15-Jan-2019 European Papers
The Achmea case between international law and European Union law
If the European Court of Justice applied in Opinion 1/17 the same test it used in Achmea, it would probably conclude that the CETA tribunal is not compatible with EU law. -
15-Jan-2019 IISD
Multilateral ISDS reform is desirable: What happened at the UNCITRAL meeting in Vienna and how to prepare for April 2019 in New York
UNCITRAL Working Group III met in Vienna from October 29 to November 2, 2018 and decided that multilateral reform is desirable to address various concerns regarding ISDS. -
15-Jan-2019 Korea Bizwire
S. Korea, Britain to hold working-level talks next week following Brexit vote
Negotiating a South Korea-Britain FTA is the most important thing, says official at Seoul’s foreign ministry. -
15-Jan-2019 Daily Star
ICSID: How impartial is the main BIT arbitration forum of Bangladesh?
The very operational narratives of ICSID arbitrators inculcate an inherent bias towards foreign investors, who are overwhelmingly from European and North America. -
15-Jan-2019 Panam Post
Argentina and Chile agree to free trade agreement
With the decline of Mercosur, Argentina is looking westward towards its Pacific allies, as it signs a landmark free trade agreement with Chile. -
15-Jan-2019 Budapest Business Journal
Szijjártó meets with Belarusian counterpart in Minsk
Hungary and Belarus signed an investment protection agreement. -
14-Jan-2019 Food Secure Canada
Our changing food trade landscape
How do new technologies and renegotiated supply management rules affect our food system? And, how do we move past the black/white, good/bad binaries that so often frame debates about trade-related issues? -
14-Jan-2019 Office of the US Trade Representative
EU-US FTA: Summary of specific negotiating objectives (US, Jan 2019)
As released by the Office of the US Trade Representative -
14-Jan-2019 Truth Out
“Free trade” is today’s imperialism by the 1 percent
Opposition to “free” trade is clearly growing. Less clear are the alternatives to free trade that might emerge. -
14-Jan-2019 Serbian Monitor
Turkey ratifies free trade agreement with Serbia
The Turkish Parliament has ratified the new Free Trade Agreement with Serbia which creates prerequisites for more Serbian goods to be included in the duty-free regime in trade between the two countries. -
14-Jan-2019 Chicago Tribune
We can’t afford to let the new NAFTA drive up drug prices
NAFTA 2.0 would effectively tie the US Congress’ hands in the struggle against rising drug prices. -
14-Jan-2019 Reuters
US to seek comprehensive agriculture access in EU trade talks
The United States signalled it would not bow to the European Union’s request to keep agriculture out of planned US-EU trade talks. -
11-Jan-2019 CCSI
Inconsistency’s many forms in investor-state dispute settlement and implications for reform
New briefing explores potential sources of inconsistency in ISDS, from divergent interpretations of provisions to decisions inconsistent with societal objectives, and the way forward.