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8-Aug-2018 BNA
EU hopes to use prior trade negotiations in new talks with US
The EU’s reasoning is that it wouldn’t make sense to throw out all the previous work done on regulatory cooperation and start anew, EU sources said. -
8-Aug-2018 International Affairs
Trade negotiations: Geo-economics and geopolitics
Trade negotiations have been increasingly used as a political tool. -
8-Aug-2018 IISD
Conflicts between Latin American countries and transnational corporations: The challenges of the region in the face of asymmetrical investment treaties
Facing multimillion dollar claims, many Latin American states have become critical of investment arbitration. A group of researchers building a database of legal and policy tools aims to change this. -
8-Aug-2018 KBS
WSJ: Revised KORUS FTA jeopardized by auto tariff dispute
A revised free trade agreement between South Korea and the US is reportedly in jeopardy after President Donald Trump threatened to impose heavy tariffs on auto and auto parts imports. -
7-Aug-2018 Eurasian Economic Union
China-Eurasian Economic Union agreement text (2018)
China-Eurasian Economic Union agreement (2018) -
7-Aug-2018 Ministry of Commerce, China
China-Georgia FTA
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7-Aug-2018 ICSID
Mexico ratifies the ICSID Convention
The United Mexican States deposited its Instrument of Ratification of the Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States with the World Bank. -
7-Aug-2018 Reuters
Morocco agrees to accept US poultry: USTR, USDA
Morocco has agreed to accept imports of American poultry products for the first time, the US Trade Representative’s office and the US Department of Agriculture said, estimating initial annual shipments at about $10 million. -
7-Aug-2018 The Southern Times
EU-Eastern and Southern Africa EPA faces collapse
Although ESA says it is committed to the full EPA process with EU, the bloc accuses the EU of dragging its feet and rather preferring to enter into EPAs with individual African states outside the collective economic integration framework. -
6-Aug-2018 European Commission
EU-New Zealand FTA: EU proposals (July 2018)
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6-Aug-2018 European Commission
EU-Australia FTA: EU proposals (July 2018)
As released by the European Commission -
6-Aug-2018 European Commission
EU-Tunisia FTA: EU proposals (July 2018)
As released by the European Commission -
6-Aug-2018 IATP
Five red flags for food, farming and fair trade under the UK’s new Brexit plan
“Brexit” presents a number of significant risks to the future of sustainable food and agriculture in both the UK and the EU. -
6-Aug-2018 Reuters
Mexico touts progress in NAFTA talks with US, but toughest issues remain
Negotiators for Mexico and the United States have reached agreement on about 20 topics during talks to revamp NAFTA, Mexico’s economy minister said, although he conceded that some of the thorniest issues remained unresolved. -
6-Aug-2018 Scoop
“Trade For All” consultation lacks credibility
“Trade For All” consultation lacks credibility while negotiations on old model continue. -
6-Aug-2018 Samoa Observer
Samoa cautioned in critical trade decisions
PACER-Plus is a highly problematic FTA containing far too many concessions by Forum Island Countries to Australia and New Zealand, reshaping Pacific Island economies. -
4-Aug-2018 Africa is a country
Expropriation without compensation? Ask the British.
Zimbabwe is still seeking to have annulled two Awards issued by a tribunal of the ICSID. The disputes concern the government’s expropriation of timber plantations which were first established by Rhodes’ BSAC. -
4-Aug-2018 Expropriate
One hundred years of expropriation without compensation
On 29 July 1918, the British judiciary proffered the Empire’s most expressly and egregiously racist justification for the land dispossession of indigenous peoples. Today, an ICSID tribunal continues that mission. No matter which way Zimbabwean’s turn at the polls, they’re still paying for their invasion and occupation by Cecil Rhodes’ British South Africa company... -
3-Aug-2018 Newsfirst
“Malik does not know the basics of the Singapore FTA” – Association of IT Professionals
The Association of IT Professionals convened a press briefing in Colombo regarding the Sri Lanka-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in which they stated it appears Member of Parliament Malik Samarawikrama is not versed on the agreement and that they themselves showed the Minister the clause regarding manpower. -
3-Aug-2018 Newsclick
RCEP is intended to prevent government regulation and maximize private profit
Newsclick and Peoples Dispatch discuss the context in which the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership is being negotiated.