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22-Jan-2019 Sahara Press Service
Morocco-EU Agreement: Polisario Front to again refer to European court
The Polisario Front has decided to again take the controversial EU-Morocco trade agreement including the Sahrawi territories before the European Court of Justice (ECJ). -
22-Jan-2019 Belarus Digest
Belarus faces its first investment claims
In late 2017 and 2018, Belarus faced a record-breaking three investment arbitration claims. -
22-Jan-2019 Sydney Morning Herald
New Zealand signs post-Brexit recognition agreement with UK
New Zealand has joined Australia in signing up to a deal with Britain aimed at softening the impact of Brexit on trade. -
22-Jan-2019 TNI
Stop ISDS! Rights for people, rules for corporations
Join the movement to end corporate privilege, sign the petition! -
22-Jan-2019 The Siasat Daily
Maldives’s debt to China creates difficulties for Solih
The Maldives incurred huge debts and the amount owed to China is still being assessed given that the pitfalls of China’s influence over the Maldivian economy. -
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.