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13-Jun-2018 CEO
The fossil fuel industry’s secret weapon: the Energy Charter Treaty
New report exposes how the little-known Energy Charter Treaty gives corporations the power to halt the energy transition. And how it is being expanded, threatening to bind yet more countries to corporate-friendly energy policies.
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13-Jun-2018 Dawn
International arbitration treaty may be a trap for Pakistan
Pakistan may be at the risk of new investment arbitration lawsuits if it formally signs an international Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) under which powerful investors have already sued other states for $35 billion at various global tribunals. -
13-Jun-2018 The Guardian
Donald Trump was right. The rest of the G7 were wrong
In arguing for a sunset clause to the Nafta trade agreement, this odious man is exposing the corruption of liberal democracy. -
13-Jun-2018 The Straits Times
Singapore, Kenya ink two pacts to boost investment flows
Singapore and Kenya signed two agreements yesterday, a Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) and an Agreement for the Avoidance of Double Taxation (DTA), to promote greater investment flows. -
13-Jun-2018 Devdiscourse
Canada and Moldova sign agreement to promote foreign investment, trade
The two ministers discussed how the agreement will deepen economic ties and expand investment opportunities for businesses in Canada and Moldova. -
13-Jun-2018 The Japan Times
Tokyo approves bill in next step toward enactment of new Trans-Pacific Partnership
Japan’s bicameral legislature, The Diet has approved a bill on to ratify the 11-country Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership. -
13-Jun-2018 The Asset
New impetus for Belt and Road from Shanghai Cooperation Organization
The 18th Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit provided an opportunity for China to re-affirm its strong relationship with the core countries along the land route to Europe. -
13-Jun-2018 Nikkei Asian Review
Indonesia making preparations to join TPP
Indonesia is studying the revised Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement reached by 11 nations after the US exited, with a view to joining the trade pact, Jusuf Kalla, the country’s vice president, said on Tuesday. -
13-Jun-2018 Spatial Source
CPTPP jeopardises the future of open source software: OSIA
Open Source Industry Australia (OSIA) is calling upon the federal government to scrap the CPTPP over provisions that could decimate the Australian open source community. -
12-Jun-2018 WSRW
This is how the Commission proposes to deal with Western Sahara trade
The EU Commission has today presented its suggested trade arrangement for occupied Western Sahara, which still requires the approval of the EU Member States and the EU Parliament. -
12-Jun-2018 Scoop
Economist warns free trade agreements can be “job killers”
Free trade agreements can be “job killing” in the poorer countries who sign up to such agreements, and exert a downward pressure on wages even in advanced countries, warns Nobel Prize winning economist. -
12-Jun-2018 Bloomberg
Mexico turns trade attention to Japan with Nafta talks at risk
Economy minister in Tokyo this week for conferences, meetings. Nafta uncertainty rising after Trump, Trudeau clashed. -
12-Jun-2018 Viet Nam News
Canada wants Pacific trade pact ratified fast amid Trump spat: minister
Canada wants to speed up the ratification of the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade pact to offset the adverse effects of the trade spat erupting with the United States. -
12-Jun-2018 Nikkei Asian Review
Malaysia should ’make best use’ of Belt and Road, Mahathir says
The new government of Malaysia will continue its "friendly" relationship with China and "make best use" of its initiative to create a 21st-century Silk Road to connect East Asia with Europe, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Monday. -
12-Jun-2018 Nikkei Asian Review
Belt and Road provides landlocked Mongolia with chance to grow
China’s Belt and Road initiative could play an important role in accelerating Mongolia’s economic growth by improving regional infrastructure, trade and investment, former Prime Minister Sukhbaatar Batbold said in an interview on Monday. -
12-Jun-2018 The Economic Times
FTA, investments to figure in Suresh Prabhu’s visit to Australia
The talks on free trade agreement with Australia likely to be on the agenda of India’s Commerce and Industry Minister Suresh Prabhu to Canberra on June 26. -
12-Jun-2018 Sunday Observer
China- Sri Lanka FTA talks not stalled: Secretary
Secretary to the Ministry of Development Strategies and International Trade, Chandani Wijewardana last week refuted reports that discussions between Sri Lanka and China on the proposed Free Trade Agreement (FTA) had come to a standstill. -
12-Jun-2018 South China Morning Post
Malaysia’s PM Mahathir urges TPP ‘renegotiation’ during trip to Tokyo
Leader’s visit to Japan seen as a sign of Malaysia’s move away from China, which pumped billions of dollars into the previous administration. -
11-Jun-2018 The Hindu
India refuses to endorse China’s Belt and Road Initiative
In his address at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said any mega connectivity project must respect sovereignty and territorial integrity. -
11-Jun-2018 Greenpeace
The big trade war distraction
The “trade war” points our leaders away from what they should be focused on — climate change and peace — and it distracts everyone from the larger overall problems with this global trade regime.