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15-Dec-2017 Crime Moldova
Moldova wins the case initiated by two Russian investors of Agroindbank
The Republic of Moldova has won the case in the international process initiated by the Russian companies Evrobalt and Kompozit in May and June of 2016, after the NBM suspended their rights and forced them to sell their shares at Moldova Agroindbank. -
15-Dec-2017 Dynamic Export
More tariff cuts under Korea-Australia FTA
This will be the fifth round of KAFTA tariff cuts since the agreement entered into force on December 12, 2014. -
15-Dec-2017 Indian Express
Why is the FTA between China and Maldives important to India?
Now that the agreement has been signed between China and Maldives, India has said it expected the Indian Ocean archipelago nation to be sensitive to New Delhi’s concerns. -
14-Dec-2017 TNI
ISDS in numbers
Impacts of investment arbitration against Latin America and the Carribbean. -
14-Dec-2017 Nikkei
Taiwan eyes ’important role’ in alternative Asian sphere of influence
Mainland affairs minister intrigued by Trump references to ’Indo-Pacific’. -
14-Dec-2017 Reuters
Mexico sees possible EU trade deal as NAFTA talks drag on
Mexico and the EU have reached agreements on areas like e-commerce, but agricultural market access and product origin labeling remain significant sticking points. -
14-Dec-2017 BuzzFeed
Data is the new oil, so big tech is pushing for a digital free trade deal
Decades ago it was pharmaceuticals, oil and food. Now tech giants want data to be the next frontier in the free trade agenda. -
14-Dec-2017 Financial Tribune
Iran-EEU trade deal to come into effect on January 21
The preferential trade agreement between Iran and Eurasian Economic Union will be in effect for three years. -
14-Dec-2017 Reuters
India’s top court allows Vodafone to initiate second arbitration over $2 bln tax demand
India’s top court allowed Britain’s Vodafone to initiate a second arbitration process under an India-UK investment pact . -
13-Dec-2017 Reuters
EU’s Barnier rules out full EU-UK trade pact in time for Brexit
There is “no possibility” that Britain and the European Union can conclude a free trade agreement by the time Britain leaves in March 2019, EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barner said. -
13-Dec-2017 Euractiv
MEPs overwhelmingly ratify EU-Kazakhstan landmark partnership agreement
MEPs approved a landmark partnership deal with Kazakhstan, the EU’s first Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement with a Central Asian country. -
13-Dec-2017 Public Knowledge
What the European-Union Mercosur trade agreement means for copyright
Many of the intellectual property provisions raised by the European Union in this agreement are bad for internet users. -
13-Dec-2017 Reuters
EU stalls on new Mercosur trade offers, delaying deal: source
Trade talks between the European Union and South America’s Mercosur bloc will likely extend into next year after European negotiators said they needed more time to respond to improved offers. -
13-Dec-2017 IISD
Investment laws of ASEAN countries: A comparative review
No ASEAN country grants general consent to investor–state arbitration in its investment law. -
13-Dec-2017 GRAIN
Trade agreements that impact seed laws in Africa
Free trade agreements represent a powerful source of pressure to privatise seeds and people’s knowledge connected to seeds. -
13-Dec-2017 Alternet
Trump and GOP tax cut is handing corporations like Ford a giant incentive to move offshore
Giant corporations got what they wanted out of Republicans on taxes, now they’re lobbying the Trump administration hard to retain their NAFTA privileges. -
13-Dec-2017 The Guardian
Globalisation: time to look at historic mistakes to plot the future
Trade deals were hammered out in secret by multinationals at the expense of workers and citizens. Benefits must be shared if the global economy is to work. -
12-Dec-2017 IATP
New report shows that trade tribunals are threatening the right to water
A new report finds that the Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) process, included in NAFTA and other trade and investment agreements, is threatening the right to water around the world. -
12-Dec-2017 EJIL: Talk!
UNCITRAL and ISDS reform: Pluralism and the plurilateral investment court
The investment treaty system is likely to be marked by the co-existence of investor-state arbitration and an international investment court, leading to pluralism rather than a dichotomous either/or choice or a clear before-and-after moment. -
12-Dec-2017 EJIL: Talk!
UNCITRAL and ISDS reform: Not business as usual
This Working Group was not “business as usual” because it was much more government-led than is typical of UNCITRAL Working Groups and it started out with a vote instead of conforming to UNCITRAL’s typical approach of working by consensus.