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CPTPP nothing but a rebranding exercise
17-Aug-2018 Free Malaysia Today
There is nothing progressive about the CPTPP except its name.
Beef industry wants trade agreements like TPP, not tariffs, as meat sits in storage
17-Aug-2018 Parker City News
National Cattlemen’s Beef Association would much prefer the use of trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership and benefit from having rules-based, science-based trade from those free trade agreements.
The 2018 draft Dutch model BIT: A critical assessment
17-Aug-2018 IISD
The revised Dutch model BIT seems a missed opportunity to achieve a better balance between the rights and obligations of foreign investors.
Japan asks Colombia to join TPP
17-Aug-2018 NHK
Japan’s foreign minister has met his new Colombian counterpart and asked the South American country to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement.
Making the right to regulate in investment law and policy work for development: Reflections from the South African and Brazilian experiences
16-Aug-2018 IISD
Despite challenges, the experiences of South Africa and Brazil demonstrate that there is room for genuine reimagination of the investment regime, where the interests of investors are matched with the development concerns of host countries.
Losing the Pacific: The futility of re-joining TPP
16-Aug-2018 Diplomatic Courier
Amid rising tensions in the US-China bilateral relationship and increasing fears of a now-realized trade war, President Donald Trump announced that he would consider rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
Oil firms use secretive court hearing in bid to stop Vietnam taxing their profits
16-Aug-2018 The Guardian
ConocoPhillips and Perenco try to stop £140m levy from sale of oilfields in key case for tax avoidance by multinationals.
Chicken woman has a lesson on fowl play for SA
16-Aug-2018 IOL
The EU threatens now and again to force Cameroon to open its markets, given its status as a signatory to the Economic Partnership Agreement.
Mexico unsure if it will finish NAFTA talks with US in August
16-Aug-2018 Reuters
Mexico’s economy minister said that Mexico and the United States may not meet an August goal to finish bilateral talks to revamp the NAFTA trade deal, which is beset by disagreements over automobile trade rules and other issues.
Japan and Peru agree to seek early implementation of TPP
16-Aug-2018 Reuters
Japan has already completed its domestic procedures to ratify the pact and Peru is in the midst of its own ratification process.
Gold Reserve provides Venezuela update
16-Aug-2018 Financial Post
Gold Reserve Inc. received Venezuelan government bonds with an estimated current market value of approximately US$88.5 million.
Mauritius - China FTA - Third round of negotiations underway
15-Aug-2018 All Africa
The FTA is expected to be finalised by the end of August this year. It will be signed in Beijing in September 2018.
The case against third-party funding in investment arbitration
14-Aug-2018 IISD
These claims come at a significant cost to target countries and their citizens, since these claims will ultimately be paid by a large underrepresented class of stakeholders: the public.
Mauritius and Africa must avoid Chinese debt-trap
14-Aug-2018 New Dehli Times
Mauritius is the first African country that launched the FTA negotiations with China; MoU over the Belt and Road Initiatives is under negotiation.
Select committee urged to stop the spread of ISDS under CPTPP
14-Aug-2018 Voxy
A range of labour, health and environmental organisations are calling for a clause to be inserted into the CPTPP Amendment Bill that would prevent future governments from extending investor-state dispute settlement to countries seeking to join the agreement.
Should Buhari sign the African Continental Free Trade deal?
14-Aug-2018 Punch
Six analyses from economists and stakeholders.
BBVA starts arbitrations procedures with the ICSID on the exit from its Bolivian Pension Fund Administrator
14-Aug-2018 BBVA
BBVA has requested arbitration under the investment agreement between Spain and Bolivia with respect to the transfer of BBVA Previsión AFP (Pension Fund Administrator) to the Government of Bolivia.
RCEP trade ministers to meet on Aug 30-31 in Singapore
13-Aug-2018 The Hindu
The meeting is important as the 16-member bloc now needs specific political guidance to move the negotiations further.
Japan, US to meet again on trade in September: Japan economy minister
13-Aug-2018 Reuters
Motegi and Lighthizer exchanged views on individual trade areas but nothing has been decided.
The Gambia signs the region-to-region Economic Partnership Agreement between West Africa and the EU
13-Aug-2018 European Commission
The Gambia became the 14th West African country to have signed the region-to-region Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the EU.