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16-Aug-2018 IOL
Chicken woman has a lesson on fowl play for SA
The EU threatens now and again to force Cameroon to open its markets, given its status as a signatory to the Economic Partnership Agreement. -
16-Aug-2018 Reuters
Mexico unsure if it will finish NAFTA talks with US in August
Mexico’s economy minister said that Mexico and the United States may not meet an August goal to finish bilateral talks to revamp the NAFTA trade deal, which is beset by disagreements over automobile trade rules and other issues. -
16-Aug-2018 Reuters
Japan and Peru agree to seek early implementation of TPP
Japan has already completed its domestic procedures to ratify the pact and Peru is in the midst of its own ratification process. -
16-Aug-2018 Financial Post
Gold Reserve provides Venezuela update
Gold Reserve Inc. received Venezuelan government bonds with an estimated current market value of approximately US$88.5 million. -
15-Aug-2018 All Africa
Mauritius - China FTA - Third round of negotiations underway
The FTA is expected to be finalised by the end of August this year. It will be signed in Beijing in September 2018. -
14-Aug-2018 IISD
The case against third-party funding in investment arbitration
These claims come at a significant cost to target countries and their citizens, since these claims will ultimately be paid by a large underrepresented class of stakeholders: the public. -
14-Aug-2018 New Dehli Times
Mauritius and Africa must avoid Chinese debt-trap
Mauritius is the first African country that launched the FTA negotiations with China; MoU over the Belt and Road Initiatives is under negotiation. -
14-Aug-2018 Voxy
Select committee urged to stop the spread of ISDS under CPTPP
A range of labour, health and environmental organisations are calling for a clause to be inserted into the CPTPP Amendment Bill that would prevent future governments from extending investor-state dispute settlement to countries seeking to join the agreement. -
14-Aug-2018 Punch
Should Buhari sign the African Continental Free Trade deal?
Six analyses from economists and stakeholders. -
14-Aug-2018 BBVA
BBVA starts arbitrations procedures with the ICSID on the exit from its Bolivian Pension Fund Administrator
BBVA has requested arbitration under the investment agreement between Spain and Bolivia with respect to the transfer of BBVA Previsión AFP (Pension Fund Administrator) to the Government of Bolivia. -
13-Aug-2018 The Hindu
RCEP trade ministers to meet on Aug 30-31 in Singapore
The meeting is important as the 16-member bloc now needs specific political guidance to move the negotiations further. -
13-Aug-2018 Reuters
Japan, US to meet again on trade in September: Japan economy minister
Motegi and Lighthizer exchanged views on individual trade areas but nothing has been decided. -
13-Aug-2018 European Commission
The Gambia signs the region-to-region Economic Partnership Agreement between West Africa and the EU
The Gambia became the 14th West African country to have signed the region-to-region Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the EU. -
13-Aug-2018 The Star
Malaysia urged to withdraw gracefully from bad trade deal
With negligible real trade gains from the original TPP, the US withdrawal has made benefits from the regional agreement even more trivial. -
10-Aug-2018 IISD
Luxembourg fund awarded EUR 53.3 million for FET breach arising out of Spain’s curtailment of renewable energy incentive schemes
An arbitration tribunal found that Spain’s electricity reforms breached its obligation to accord to the investor fair and equitable treatment under the Energy Charter Treaty -
10-Aug-2018 The Mainichi
Japan sticks to TPP, US seeks bilateral deal in 1st trade talks
Motegi told Lighthizer that Japan believes the TPP — an 11-member regional trade pact from which the United States withdrew last year — is the best trade deal for the two countries. -
10-Aug-2018 CCSI
Costs and benefits of investment treaties
As states look back over decades of treaty practice, the expected benefits have not clearly materialized, whereas the costs have been unexpectedly high. -
10-Aug-2018
EU-Canada (CETA) - Revised draft decisions on the appellate tribunal, the code of conduct and the rules for mediation for the implementation of the Investment Court System (EU proposal, July 2018)
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9-Aug-2018 Deutsch Welle
EU-Africa free trade will create more imbalances, say critics
Germany’s development minister has sparked a debate by calling for EU tariffs to be waived on African goods. Critics question whether import duties are really the issue, or are there other barriers to trade? -
9-Aug-2018 CNBC
US and EU begin laying the groundwork for a trade agreement
The US State Department instructs EU embassies to source trade deliverables. The EU delegation is planning a late-August trip to Washington.