The resource contains visual summaries to help break down the controversial Investor–State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanism built into many trade and investment agreements.

As the UN climate conference began in Belem, Brazil last week, an official UN report explicitly called out Investor-State Dispute Settlement in trade agreements as a systemic barrier to financing climate action in developing countries.

COP30 showed once again that climate policy cannot succeed while outdated investment treaties give corporations the power to punish ambition.

The YPF case exposes the inconsistencies of the international investment protection system, which enables large corporations to engage in predatory practices, creating severe macroeconomic problems for Argentina.

European farmers will mobilise on 24 November in Strasbourg from 11am in support of an MEP initiative to request a CJEU opinion on the EU-Mercosur FTA.

Civil society groups are calling on the Government to leave the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) and reject ISDS, as a new threat emerges over the government’s refusal to grant an exploration licence to an oil and gas company.

The 4th Round of India-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations in Auckland from 3rd to 7th November focused on key areas, including Trade in Goods, Trade in Services, and Rules of Origin.

Thailand’s Commerce Minister Suphajee Suthumpun has formally called on India to restart negotiations for a comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (FTA), aiming to strengthen economic ties and unlock new trade opportunities between the two nations.

Indonesia has been officially recognized by Australia as a country ready to start the accession process for the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), a major regional trade bloc. Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto confirmed this development, highlighting that Indonesia’s strong existing policy framework aligns well with CPTPP requirements.

The next full round of negotiations for a free trade agreement (FTA) between the Philippines and the European Union (EU) is expected to take place in the first quarter of next year.

India will launch formal negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement with the Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union starting today, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal announced at a press conference in the capital.

Copa and Cogeca are calling for a pan-European day of protest, just hours before President von der Leyen departs for Brazil to sign the Mercosur deal.

A month-long wave of farmer protests has begun in Poland and is set to culminate with a major international demonstration in Brussels on December 18.

The centre-right European People’s Party (EPP) beat a hasty retreat from its own gamble to ram through safeguard clauses of the EU-Mercosur deal.

Sri Lanka is accelerating its efforts to join the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, the world’s largest free trade agreement, as the Cabinet of Ministers has approved a proposal to complete and submit the initial questionnaire required for accession.

The European Commission registered a European Citizens’ Initiative, demanding that the Commission fully suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement over Israeli violations of international law.

The Philippines and Canada are aiming to launch negotiations for a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) in the first quarter of 2026, with plans to complete the talks by the end of that year.

India and the European Union have pushed their long-running free trade talks back to the centre of their partnership, reaffirming a shared goal to conclude negotiations on the FTA by the end of this year. The joint statement reaffirmed ambitions to finalize the FTA, accelerate negotiations on an Investment Protection Agreement, and conclude a Geographical Indications agreement.

The justice ministry has sent a letter to Lone Star requesting the private equity fund to reimburse legal costs incurred during an investor-state dispute settlement over the 2012 sale of a local bank.

The United States demanded that the European Union make its regulation of the tech sector more "balanced" in exchange for a reduction of US tariffs on steel and aluminium imports from the bloc.

Activists staged a dramatic protest outside the European Commission in Brussels on Monday (24 November), targeting the controversial European Union-Mercosur trade deal.

Indonesia is set to finalize a preferential trade agreement (PTA) with Tunisia in January 2026, negotiated since 2018, will see Tunisia reduce tariffs on these products, while Indonesia will lower or eliminate duties on Tunisian goods including crustaceans, dates, and other agricultural products.

Pakistan’s ambassador to Iran said Tehran and Islamabad are accelerating implementation of their planned free trade agreement, adding that a barter mechanism between the two neighbors will become operational soon.

A close reading of the India-EFTA trade deal’s investment chapter shows that the $100 billion investment commitment is largely symbolic, a political gesture designed to justify the market-access concessions India granted to EFTA’s exporters.

India and Israel have agreed to pursue their Free Trade Agreement in two phases, prioritizing "low-hanging fruit" to ensure early benefits for their business communities, according to Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal.

Australian Trade Minister announced "substantial progress" on Costa Rica’s membership application and that negotiations on Uruguay’s accession would commence.

Canada and India have agreed to restart stalled talks for a new trade deal, the Indian government said, after discussions between the two countries paused following a diplomatic spat two years ago.

US-Thai trade negotiations have stalled after the US linked the deal to a geopolitical dispute involving the Thai-Cambodia Peace Declaration.

Thailand is fast-tracking FTAs with EFTA, the EU and South Korea to reduce dependence on US exports after tariff hikes, aiming to expand new markets and boost GDP

Google and theAfCFTA Secretariat have launched the AfCFTA Digital Inclusion & Entrepreneurship Programme that will train thousands of SMEs across Nigeria and the African continent on critical AI and digital skills to expand their businesses and trade continent-wide.

Prime Minister Mark Carney heads to Johannesburg for the G20 summit, Canada and South Africa are talking about a deal to boost bilateral trade and investment that could see more South African wine on Canadian shelves in exchange for gas exports.

The European Parliament’s Agriculture and Rural Development Committee has reignited debate over the labeling of agricultural products from Western Sahara, a contentious issue in the recent Morocco-EU agricultural agreement.

The EU and South Africa signed the first-ever Clean Trade and Investment Partnership (CTIP), building on the EU-South Africa Strategic Partnership and the Economic Partnership Agreement.

The European Union is weighing new ways to invest directly in Australia’s critical resources sector, with Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič saying Brussels is exploring options ranging from equity stakes to long-term offtake agreements and joint investments.

In his ongoing three-day visit to Israel, Goyal will meet leaders from major Israeli companies in agriculture, desalination and waste water treatment, cyber security, smart mobility, and infrastructure among others, and interact with prominent Israeli investors.

Pakistan and Australia agreed to continue talks to finalise a new bilateral investment treaty to foster and expand opportunities in key sectors including energy, mining, technology, agriculture and industrial development.

EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič launched, together with his twelve counterparts, the first EU-CPTPP Trade and Investment Dialogue.

Lone Star said it does not accept this week’s annulment ruling by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, signaling that it could pursue a new round of arbitration against the Korean government.

Bangladesh begins a critical gap analysis of its economic strengths for aligning its trade policies with protocols of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) for joining the world’s largest trade bloc.

UAE advances CEPA talks with the EU, Japan, Nigeria and Mercosur as non-oil trade reaches $727bn in first nine months of 2025.

Carney announced the investment pact following a meeting with UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The two also launched talks for a full trade deal, aimed at an eventual comprehensive economic partnership agreement.

Miami-based investors are suing Honduras after their own false promises left families picking up the pieces.

Funds used fossil-fuel friendly tool to fight back when countries pulled renewable energy incentives, hurting their green investments.

European farmers will mobilise on 24 November in Strasbourg from 11am in support of an MEP initiative to request a CJEU opinion on the EU-Mercosur FTA.

Conversatorio | El falso dilema entre proteccionismo y libre comercio

La Comisión de Comercio de la Cámara de Diputados de Argentina, presidida por Tomás Ledesma, reunió a legisladores, especialistas y representantes de sectores productivos para analizar el acuerdo comercial con Estados Unidos.

El lunes 24 de noviembre de 2025 entró en vigor internacional el Acuerdo de Asociación Económica Integral (CEPA) entre Chile y los Emiratos Árabes Unidos (EAU), el cual fue suscrito el 29 de julio de 2024 en Abu Dhabi, en el marco de la visita que realizó el Presidente Gabriel Boric a ese país.

La Comisión Europea admitió a trámite una iniciativa ciudadana europea (ICE) que exige «la suspensión total» del acuerdo de asociación entre la Unión Europea (UE) e Israel «en vista de las violaciones de los derechos humanos» por parte de ese país.

Organizaciones europeas que representan a productores de frutas y hortalizas han alertado sobre la propuesta de la Comisión Europea para revisar el Acuerdo de Asociación UE-Marruecos, junto con un nuevo acto delegado sobre el etiquetado de origen.

El presidente de Brasil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, ha anunciado que el Tratado de Libre Comercio entre la UE y Mercosur se firmará el próximo 20 de diciembre, aún dentro de la presidencia de turno brasileña del bloque suramericano.

India quiere avanzar hacia un Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC) con México que permita reducir aranceles, facilitar inversiones y acelerar la integración en sectores estratégicos del llamado Plan México, afirmó su embajador en el país, Pankaj Sharma.

India y Canadá acordaron reanudar las negociaciones para un TLC con el objetivo de aumentar el comercio bidireccional a 50 mil millones de dólares para 2030, según el ministro de Comercio e Industria, Piyush Goyal, informó la agencia de noticias PTI.

En la próxima revisión del T-MEC, México debe tomar medidas que defiendan las fuentes de trabajo, principalmente en el sector automotriz, incluso, si es necesario con sanciones a las empresas que trasladen “injustificadamente” segmentos de su producción a los Estados Unidos, planteó el Centro de Investigación Laboral y Asesoría Sindical (Cilas).

El Líbano buscará establecer un tratado de libre comercio con México para detonar nuevas inversiones en el estado de Puebla, donde existe una fuerte presencia de la comunidad libanesa, informó George El Jallad, embajador de ese país en territorio mexicano.

Uruguay ha sido aceptado para incorporarse al Tratado Integral y Progresista de Asociación Transpacífico (CPTPP), según informó la Cancillería de Uruguay. El país recibió el visto bueno de Australia, Brunei, Canadá, Chile, Japón, Malasia, México, Nueva Zelanda, Perú, Singapur, Reino Unido y Vietnam.

El Consejo de la Unión Europea ha aprobado, sin introducir enmiendas, la propuesta de la Comisión Europea para establecer una cláusula de salvaguarda bilateral aplicable a los productos agrícolas incluidos en el acuerdo de asociación negociado entre la UE y Mercosur, así como en el futuro acuerdo comercial entre ambas partes.

El presidente Lee Jae Myung y el presidente egipcio Abdulfatah al-Sisi acordaron, el 20 de noviembre durante su cumbre bilateral, impulsar un Acuerdo de Asociación Económica Integral (CEPA, por sus siglas en inglés).

México obtuvo un triunfo en el arbitraje internacional iniciado por la firma estadounidense Access Business Group ante el CIADI. La empresa había presentado en 2023 una demanda bajo el marco del viejo TLCAN y del T-MEC, reclamando más de 2,700 millones de dólares por la supuesta expropiación de 280 hectáreas de terrenos de cultivos en Jalisco.

A la ecuación se suma el frente legal: Ganfeng Lithium, junto con Bacanora y Sonora Lithium, mantiene un arbitraje ante el CIADI (Banco Mundial), registrado como ICSID ARB/24/21, bajo el Tratado Bilateral de Inversiones China-México 2008 y de Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte-México 2006.

« L’accord de libre-échange UE-Mercosur, nous n’en voulons pas, clause de sauvegarde ou pas ». Le message est clair, simple et précis, lors du rassemblement organisé par la Confédération paysanne ce lundi 24 novembre à Strasbourg.

Le Copa et la Cogeca appellent à une journée de manifestation paneuropéenne à Bruxelles le 18 décembre, quelques heures avant le départ de la présidente Ursula von der Leyen pour le Brésil en vue de conclure l’accord avec le Mercosur.

La Commission européenne a enregistré une initiative citoyenne européenne demandant à la Commission de suspendre totalement l’accord d’association UE-Israël en raison des violations du droit international par Israël.

Washington pourrait desserrer l’étau de sa guerre commerciale avec le Vieux Continent si Bruxelles revoit sa politique de régulation du secteur de la tech, selon le secrétaire américain au Commerce.

Les trois dirigeants ont salué l’établissement du Dialogue sur le commerce et l’investissement CPTPP-UE dans un contexte mondial marqué par de profondes turbulences et de multiples défis.

Le premier ministre Mark Carney et son homologue indien Narendra Modi se sont entendus pour reprendre des discussions en vue de conclure un accord commercial global, ce que les deux pays avaient commencé à négocier en 2010.

Alors que le premier ministre Mark Carney va se rendre à Johannesburg pour le Sommet du G20, le Canada et l’Afrique du Sud discutent d’un accord visant à dynamiser leurs échanges commerciaux et leurs investissements bilatéraux.

La majorité des groupes au Parlement européen ont critiqué, ce jeudi, la formule retenue pour l’étiquetage des produits agricoles originaires du Sahara occidental. Face à la complexité juridique des questions soulevées par les eurodéputés, la Commission européenne s’est engagée à apporter une réponse écrite.

Le premier ministre Mark Carney a signé un accord de protection des investissements avec les Émirats arabes unis. Les deux pays ont aussi entrepris des discussions au sujet d’un accord commercial complet.