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RCEP: Impasse at Indonesia talks may put more pressure on India
15-Dec-2016 The Hindu Businessline
Round in Indonesia fails to generate breakthrough in final numbers
Report: Lobbyists heavily influencing TiSA negotiations
15-Dec-2016 EurActiv
Businesses are exerting massive pressure on the Trade in Services Agreement negotiations and the European Commission is all too willing to listen
EU pushes for Dutch deal on Ukraine to fend off Russia
15-Dec-2016 Reuters
European Union leaders expressed confidence that they would clinch an agreement that addresses Dutch concerns over a deal establishing closer ties with Ukraine, mindful that any failure to do so would hand a victory to Russia.
Winning arbitration case
15-Dec-2016 Jakarta Post
The Indonesian government should stick to its policy of removing the investor-state dispute-settlement (ISDS) mechanism from its bilateral investment or trade treaties.
Five ways the Trade in Services Agreement threatens public health and environment
15-Dec-2016 People’s World
TiSA is the brainchild of Wall Street banks that want to stop new financial regulations and begin rolling back the relatively mild safeguards adopted after the 2007 financial crisis.
Venezuela ordered to pay steelmaker Tenaris $162 million for takeover
15-Dec-2016 Reuters
A World Bank tribunal ordered Venezuela to pay steelmaker Tenaris SA $162 million for expropriating two investments in the country
EU, Canada to launch investor protection court proposal
15-Dec-2016 Bloomberg
The European Union and Canada will launch a proposal for a new global investment court system for settlements of disputes between states and foreign investors over discriminatory treatment.
FTA talks with EU expected in early 2017
15-Dec-2016 Business World
The Second round of talks for a free trade agreement between the European Union and the Philippines has been moved to early next year, delayed by “logistical” concerns.
Primer on EPAs
15-Dec-2016 People Over Profit
Under the EPAs, African, Caribbean, and Pacific countries will implement commitments way beyond what they already have agreed to in the WTO.
Donald Trump’s vow to end TPP affects India’s trade talks
14-Dec-2016 The Economic Times
The members common to two agreements (TPP and RCEP), especially developed countries such as Australia, Japan and New Zealand, want talks at the RCEP trade bloc to move ahead full steam
Don’t cry over dead trade agreements
14-Dec-2016 Live Mint
If we can manage our own economies well, new trade pacts will become largely redundant.
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, intellectual property protection and access to medicines
14-Dec-2016 SSRN
This paper identifies TRIPS-Plus provisions in leaked RCEP negotiating texts and examines their implications for low and middle-income countries.
Post-Brexit dreams of empire: arms, free trade and corporate conquest
14-Dec-2016 The Ecologist
A new era of corporate ’free trade’ colonialism looms, spearheaded by aid spending, with ramped-up arms exports to the world’s most corrupt and repressive regimes
China refuses to give Pakistan more concessions on FTA
14-Dec-2016 Daily Times
Official says Pakistan wanted deeper market access for 35 to 40 tariff lines.
India awaits mandate from EEU to launch talks on free trade deal – Ambassador
14-Dec-2016 Sputnik
According to the Indian ambassador to Russia, New Delhi was ready to start the negotiation process on a free trade agreement with the Eurasian Economic Union.
Longer monopolies and single legal proceedings vs. generics - the gift of CETA to Canadian drug patentees
13-Dec-2016 Lexology
Canadian pharmaceutical patent owners can expect two substantive changes in the next year following implementation of the Canada–European Union trade agreement
APC claims RCEP will intensify landgrabbing and militarization
13-Dec-2016 Asian Peasant Coalition
Groups vow not to pass RCEP
RCEP to consolidate Asian integration
13-Dec-2016 Jakarta Post
The RCEP is part of the efforts of Asian countries to explore avenues of collaborative regional governance. It should be seen as the extension of an integrated ASEAN community
Taiwan to seek US support for investment, trade agreements
13-Dec-2016 Economy Lead
Taiwan will seek the support of the United States for signing bilateral and multilateral investment and free trade agreements, the Taiwanese President has said.
Can Russia ride China’s trade lead in Southeast Asia?
13-Dec-2016 PortNews
Current political unity masks divergent economic interests as Russia attempts to shift its economic interests east to Eurasian and Asian markets.