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Japan and the Islamic Republic of Iran sign a bilateral investment agreement
16-Feb-2016 Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
The Agreement stipulates rules for investment protection and the development of an investment environment.
TPP may bankrupt Indonesia, activists say
16-Feb-2016 The Jakarta Post
Indonesia could fall into bankruptcy if the biggest market in Southeast Asia join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which would allow investors to sue the government.
Thailand’s challenges on TPP framework
16-Feb-2016 The Nation
Thailand has decided to join the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). That will be the key message Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha will deliver to President Barack Obama at the special Asean-US meeting.
US-EU trade will undermine ’tax justice,’ says report
16-Feb-2016 Tele Sur
The secretive TTIP could make it easier than ever for big business to sue governments, according to new research.
India proposes informal forum to resolve RCEP issues
15-Feb-2016 The Economic Times
Keen on an expeditious conclusion of the biggest trade accord in Asia, India has proposed the creation of a forum for in formal resolution of prickly issues under the planned Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership.
Conciliation and arbitration law: Times of change in investment protection in Bolivia
15-Feb-2016 IISD
Bolivia’s experience has shown that attracting foreign investment does not by itself generate the expected development for host states and that, rather, it consists in a mechanism for financing and transferring resources from the South to the North.
Negotiations kick off on a binding treaty on business and human rights
15-Feb-2016 IISD
The UNGPs set out a three-pillar framework: the state duty to protect human rights, the corporate responsibility to respect human rights, and access to remedy for victims of business-related abuses.
Obama to push trade agenda at summit with Southeast Asian nations
15-Feb-2016 The Japan Times
A summit between Southeast Asian leaders and President Barack Obama is unlikely to deliver any big economic prizes, but will allow the American side to press the advantages of joining a Pacific trade pact that doesn’t include China.
EU-Moldova Association Agreement implementation delayed
15-Feb-2016 Sputnik
Prime Minister Pavel Filip said that the parliament of Moldova considered in 2015 only one-third of projects stipulated by the plan for the implementation of the EU-Moldova Association Agreement.
I am an artist and I want to stop TTIP
15-Feb-2016 Huffington Post
Artists Against TTIP wants to work with actors, writers and directors to make films that help more and more people understand what TTIP is - and how toxic it is to our health, our environment and our democracy.
Model clauses for the exclusion of public services from trade and investment agreements
14-Feb-2016 S2B
Study commissioned by the Chamber of Labour Vienna and the European Federation of Public Service Unions
Tenaris wins $173 million dispute in Venezuela
12-Feb-2016 SteelOrbis
Luxembourg-based pipe producer Tenaris announced it won a $172.8 million compensation for the expropriation by Venezuela of Tenaris’ and its subsidiary Talta’s interests.
India, RCEP members to discuss trade pact in Brunei starting February 15
12-Feb-2016 Business Standard
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership is a trade deal that aims to cover goods, services, investments, economic and technical cooperation, competition and intellectual property rights.
The TPPA and Waitangi Day
12-Feb-2016 The Gisborne Herald
Free trade cannot be at the expense of a government’s domestic obligations, for example, its obligation to fulfil Treaty rights of Maori.
Realities of PACER Plus
12-Feb-2016 Fiji Times
Since 1981 when Pacific states had a preferential trade agreement with Australia and NZ and the successor PACER in 2002, the old ways of doing business has changed.
ComAgri wants Commission olive oil plan changes
11-Feb-2016 EurActiv
The European Commission’s proposal to allow the sale of 35,000 tons of duty-free Tunisian olive oil in 2016 and 2017 has once again come under fire.
Namibia to finally sign EPA
11-Feb-2016 Star Africa
Namibia’s National Assembly Speaker Peter Katjavivi said the Southern Africa country is now set to sign the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union.
The whole BIT
11-Feb-2016 Business Today
The revised model text for bilateral investment treaties has addressed many concerns, but to avoid litigations, India must renegotiate existing treaties on the basis of the new norms.
US-Colombia trade down 19% since free trade deal
11-Feb-2016 Colombia Reports
Instead of increasing, trade between the United States and Colombia dropped 19% following the implementation of a controversial free trade agreement between the two countries.
Argentina and the TPP: Opening up to the World and Falling into an Abyss
10-Feb-2016 Notas
At the dawn of the Bicentenary of Independence, Argentina has a president whose ideological and political inclination stresses the country’s need to “open itself up to the world”, a euphemism that refers to strengthening trade and financial dependence on the international economic centres of the North: the United States and the European Union.