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Analysis: We Must Mobilise Against A Miasma of Mini-MAIs
You’ve got to wonder at the nerve of New Zealand trade officials. During the furtive Multilateral Agreement on Investment negotiations and the subsequent international waves of opposition they were quietly hatching binding bilateral investment deals containing provisions resembling some of the most controversial elements of the MAI.
Analysis: Sleeping Beauty And Prince Charming: Bilateral Deals Are No Fairytale
The recent explosion of bilateral investment and trade agreements and investor-state disputes is of growing concern. Many mobilisations against the World Trade Organisation (WTO) aim to stop attempts by industrialised countries to kickstart talks on a multilateral investment agreement at September’s Cancun Ministerial meeting.
Analysis: U.S. Seizing Initiative in Pushing Trade Liberalization
Writing in the Financial Times (Sept. 22, 2003) after the collapse of the fifth WTO Ministerial Conference, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick lamented the “broader culture of protest” that characterized negotiations at Cancun, correctly (if sarcastically) noting that “countries that feel victimized are unlikely to agree to anything.”
FTA talks in cards with Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines - Japan
Japan will hold free-trade talks early next year with Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Thursday.
US-Latvia BIT (1996)
US-Moldova BIT (1994)
IIPA on US-Singapore FTA
Testimony of Eric H. Smith President International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA)