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China-Korea FTA
19-Sep-2018 Ministry of Commerce, China
As released by the Ministry of Commerce, China
Rightwing thinktanks unveil radical plan for US-UK Brexit trade deal
19-Sep-2018 The Guardian
Groups linked to Trump and Fox want foreign competition in NHS and regulations bonfire.
Indian farmers reject RCEP trade agreement, plan major national level agitations
19-Sep-2018 La Via Campesina South Asia
Two major farmers protests are planned in New Delhi on 2 October and 30 November and RCEP will be high on the agenda.
US business groups lay out priorities to ensure their support for NAFTA
19-Sep-2018 The Hill
Leaders of three of the nation’s most powerful business groups detailed six priorities they say need to be fulfilled to earn their support for an update of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to get through Congress.
Tribunal awards India first BIT case win, dismissing claims of French investor
19-Sep-2018 Herbert Smith Freehills
An UNCITRAL arbitral tribunal has reportedly dismissed a US$36 million claim by a French investor, Louis Dreyfus Armateurs SAS (“LDA“), against India under the 1997 France-India bilateral investment treaty.
Rethinking international investment governance: Principles for the 21st century
19-Sep-2018 CCSI
The Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment is hosting a two-day conference on rethinking international investment governance, which seeks to elaborate principles for a progressive investment agenda.
Jordan, Turkey mull new free trade pact
19-Sep-2018 Ammon
Jordan and Turkey on Tuesday discussed prospects for sealing a new free trade agreement (FTA) following the Kingdom’s suspension of the previous agreement.
Canada-EU trade, one year on: Canada’s imports are rising faster than exports
18-Sep-2018 CBC
The fastest-growing exports include inorganic chemicals, mineral fuels and oil (including crude oil) and pharmaceuticals.
Tanzania cites bias as it changes laws governing arbitration
18-Sep-2018 The East African
Tanzania has moved to ensure that investor disputes are resolved locally after Attorney General Adelardus Kilangi pushed through parliament the Public Private Partnership (Amendment) Bill, 2018.
Why Canada should get out of NAFTA – while it still can
18-Sep-2018 People’s World
Instead of NAFTA, we need a trade policy that is multi-lateral and mutually-beneficial with countries around the world.
Pakistan, Turkey agreed to revive dialogue on Free Trade Agreement: FM Qureshi
18-Sep-2018 Radio Pakistan
Pakistan and Turkey have agreed to further bolster their trade, economic, investment and defense relations.
It’s crunch week (again) for Nafta with US and Canada at odds
17-Sep-2018 Bloomberg
Deal likely needed Thursday for Sept. 30 trilateral deadline. Dispute panels, culture and dairy said to be sticking points.
Time for EU to stop being bystander in Western Sahara
17-Sep-2018 EU Observer
The EU has sadly afforded preferential treatment to Morocco’s illegal occupation of Western Sahara including by knowingly excluding from the trade talks the thousands of Saharawis forced to live in exile in refugee camps as a result of the occupation.
India in a catch-22 situation on free trade pact with the US
17-Sep-2018 BusinessLine
While many officials are against a pact as they believe it will hurt domestic industry and agriculture, there is a small but influential group in the government that favours an FTA.
From the indigenous peoples’ environmental catastrophe in the Amazon to the investors’ dispute on denial of justice: the Chevron v. Ecuador August 2018 PCA arbitral award and the dearth of international environmental remedies for private victims
14-Sep-2018 EJIL: Talk!
The task no longer lies with interpreting investment treaties alone and trying to reform investment arbitration in general – but designing an entirely cohesive system for international environmental justice that is open to the actual victims of environmental disasters and not just the States that often fail to genuinely represent them.
New boots-on-the-ground trade association to boost ties between Canada, EU
14-Sep-2018 Financial Post
The Canada EU Trade Investment Association is a cross-sector industry group out to promote dealmaking.
Mexico prepared to do a trade deal without Canada, official tweets
14-Sep-2018 iPolitics
Mexico is prepared to move ahead with an updated version of the North American Free Trade Agreement that does not include Canada if Ottawa and Washington cannot resolve their differences.
Kyiv court rules to seize shares of Russia’s state-owned banks in Ukraine
14-Sep-2018 BNE Intellinews
The move followed a ruling of the Permanent Court of Arbitration that the Russian government must compensate almost two dozen Ukrainian companies for their losses incurred from the illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014.
Japan’s Motegi, USTR Lighthizer likely to hold trade talks on September 21: source
13-Sep-2018 Reuters
Japanese Economy Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer will likely hold a second round of trade talks.
More than 300 Republican and Democratic state legislators from all 50 states urge end of investor-state dispute settlement system in NAFTA
13-Sep-2018 Public Citizen
In letter to US Trade Representative, lawmakers say ISDS undermines state sovereignty and lawmaking.