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19-Sep-2018 Ministry of Commerce, China
China-Korea FTA
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19-Sep-2018 The Guardian
Rightwing thinktanks unveil radical plan for US-UK Brexit trade deal
Groups linked to Trump and Fox want foreign competition in NHS and regulations bonfire. -
19-Sep-2018 La Via Campesina South Asia
Indian farmers reject RCEP trade agreement, plan major national level agitations
Two major farmers protests are planned in New Delhi on 2 October and 30 November and RCEP will be high on the agenda. -
19-Sep-2018 The Hill
US business groups lay out priorities to ensure their support for NAFTA
Leaders of three of the nation’s most powerful business groups detailed six priorities they say need to be fulfilled to earn their support for an update of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to get through Congress. -
19-Sep-2018 Herbert Smith Freehills
Tribunal awards India first BIT case win, dismissing claims of French investor
An UNCITRAL arbitral tribunal has reportedly dismissed a US$36 million claim by a French investor, Louis Dreyfus Armateurs SAS (“LDA“), against India under the 1997 France-India bilateral investment treaty. -
19-Sep-2018 CCSI
Rethinking international investment governance: Principles for the 21st century
The Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment is hosting a two-day conference on rethinking international investment governance, which seeks to elaborate principles for a progressive investment agenda. -
19-Sep-2018 Ammon
Jordan, Turkey mull new free trade pact
Jordan and Turkey on Tuesday discussed prospects for sealing a new free trade agreement (FTA) following the Kingdom’s suspension of the previous agreement. -
18-Sep-2018 CBC
Canada-EU trade, one year on: Canada’s imports are rising faster than exports
The fastest-growing exports include inorganic chemicals, mineral fuels and oil (including crude oil) and pharmaceuticals. -
18-Sep-2018 The East African
Tanzania cites bias as it changes laws governing arbitration
Tanzania has moved to ensure that investor disputes are resolved locally after Attorney General Adelardus Kilangi pushed through parliament the Public Private Partnership (Amendment) Bill, 2018. -
18-Sep-2018 People’s World
Why Canada should get out of NAFTA – while it still can
Instead of NAFTA, we need a trade policy that is multi-lateral and mutually-beneficial with countries around the world. -
18-Sep-2018 Radio Pakistan
Pakistan, Turkey agreed to revive dialogue on Free Trade Agreement: FM Qureshi
Pakistan and Turkey have agreed to further bolster their trade, economic, investment and defense relations. -
17-Sep-2018 Bloomberg
It’s crunch week (again) for Nafta with US and Canada at odds
Deal likely needed Thursday for Sept. 30 trilateral deadline. Dispute panels, culture and dairy said to be sticking points. -
17-Sep-2018 EU Observer
Time for EU to stop being bystander in Western Sahara
The EU has sadly afforded preferential treatment to Morocco’s illegal occupation of Western Sahara including by knowingly excluding from the trade talks the thousands of Saharawis forced to live in exile in refugee camps as a result of the occupation. -
17-Sep-2018 BusinessLine
India in a catch-22 situation on free trade pact with the US
While many officials are against a pact as they believe it will hurt domestic industry and agriculture, there is a small but influential group in the government that favours an FTA. -
14-Sep-2018 EJIL: Talk!
From the indigenous peoples’ environmental catastrophe in the Amazon to the investors’ dispute on denial of justice: the Chevron v. Ecuador August 2018 PCA arbitral award and the dearth of international environmental remedies for private victims
The task no longer lies with interpreting investment treaties alone and trying to reform investment arbitration in general – but designing an entirely cohesive system for international environmental justice that is open to the actual victims of environmental disasters and not just the States that often fail to genuinely represent them. -
14-Sep-2018 Financial Post
New boots-on-the-ground trade association to boost ties between Canada, EU
The Canada EU Trade Investment Association is a cross-sector industry group out to promote dealmaking. -
14-Sep-2018 iPolitics
Mexico prepared to do a trade deal without Canada, official tweets
Mexico is prepared to move ahead with an updated version of the North American Free Trade Agreement that does not include Canada if Ottawa and Washington cannot resolve their differences. -
14-Sep-2018 BNE Intellinews
Kyiv court rules to seize shares of Russia’s state-owned banks in Ukraine
The move followed a ruling of the Permanent Court of Arbitration that the Russian government must compensate almost two dozen Ukrainian companies for their losses incurred from the illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014. -
13-Sep-2018 Reuters
Japan’s Motegi, USTR Lighthizer likely to hold trade talks on September 21: source
Japanese Economy Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer will likely hold a second round of trade talks. -
13-Sep-2018 Public Citizen
More than 300 Republican and Democratic state legislators from all 50 states urge end of investor-state dispute settlement system in NAFTA
In letter to US Trade Representative, lawmakers say ISDS undermines state sovereignty and lawmaking.