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28-Nov-2017 European Commission
Commission publishes report following latest negotiating round with Mercosur
The round report includes details on all areas of the negotiations, including trade in goods, technical barriers to trade, services, intellectual property (including geographical indications), government procurement, SPS and trade and sustainable development. -
28-Nov-2017 Fietta
Contrasting awards around Venezuela’s ICSID denunciation
In a series of recent awards, ICSID tribunals have adopted contrasting (and apparently irreconcilable) approaches to Venezuela’s denunciation of the ICSID Convention. -
28-Nov-2017 Asian Trade Centre
TPP11 and RCEP compared: A side-by-side update
Chart reflects the TPP11 changes and the expansion of the agenda in RCEP. -
28-Nov-2017 Friends of the Earth Europe
The Multilateral Investment Court locking in ISDS
Ten reasons why the EU’s proposal for a Multilateral Investment Court doesn’t fix a fundamentally flawed system. -
28-Nov-2017 IISD
Is “moonlighting” a problem? The role of ICJ judges in ISDS
At least 7 current ICJ judges and 13 former ICJ judges have worked—or are currently working—as arbitrators (or annulment committee members) in investor–state dispute settlement cases during their ICJ terms. -
28-Nov-2017 OECD
Adjudicator compensation systems and investor-state dispute settlement
This paper examines compensation systems for adjudicators and dispute settlement administrators in investor-state dispute settlement. -
28-Nov-2017 Taipei Times
TIFA talks unlikely this year: minister
Even if vacant posts in Washington are filled and quickly approved, it would take time to process the appointments, Minister Without Portfolio John Deng said. -
28-Nov-2017 Yonhap
S. Korea, Uruguay to push for trade agreement between Korea, Mercosur
South Korea and Uruguay have agreed to jointly push for a trade agreement between South Korea and Mercosur. -
28-Nov-2017 BNN
Crystallex International, Venezuela settle US$1.2B mine dispute
Crystallex International Corp. and Venezuela agreed to settle a US$1.2 billion dispute over the 2011 nationalization of a gold deposit in the South American nation. -
28-Nov-2017 Global Research
Sudan is indispensable to China’s silk road vision for Africa
The news that China will build a railway from the Red Sea city of Port Sudan to the Chadian capital of N’Djamena proves just how serious Beijing is about pioneering a transcontinental Sahelian-Saharan Silk Road. -
24-Nov-2017 Project Syndicate
A Belt and Road for the Americas?
As Canada, Mexico, and the United States focus on the next round of negotiations on NAFTA, governments in the rest of the Americas are grappling with a more fundamental question about trade. Who will be their dominant trade partner in the future: the US, Europe, or China? -
24-Nov-2017 Scoop
Australia emphasises relationship with NZ in trade plans
Australia has reiterated the importance of New Zealand to its foreign policy direction with particular emphasis on the role it sees New Zealand playing in its economic engagement with Pacific island countries. -
24-Nov-2017 Policy Forum
White paper not real on rules
The conflict between ‘rules-based’ and ‘US-centred’ in Australia’s new foreign policy road map -
24-Nov-2017 The Financial
EU and Georgia adopt revised Association Agenda
The new document establishes a set of jointly agreed priorities towards further implementation of the Association Agreement, including the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area. -
24-Nov-2017 Rosa Luxembourg Stiftung
What to do about the EU’s new trade agenda in Latin America?
About ten years ago, the European Union (EU) introduced Global Europe, its most ambitious trade policy strategy to date. It was intended to open up new markets worldwide through new bilateral trade and investment agreements. -
23-Nov-2017 Bloomberg
Trump pushes to limit Facebook and Google’s liability in Nafta
The Trump administration is pushing to add legal protections in Nafta that would limit the liability of internet giants such as Google and Facebook, marking the latest in a tug-of-war as policy makers balance policing the web with protecting free speech. -
23-Nov-2017 Euractiv
MEPs amp up pressure on Commission over digital trade
MEPs are exerting pressure on the European Commission to draw up rules on data flows in foreign trade agreements, an area where the EU executive has so far not pinned down any tangible policy. -
23-Nov-2017 Korea Joongang
Farmers call on Korea to push back on US FTA
Korean farmers expressed concern about potential revisions to the Korea-US free trade agreement, arguing that opening up the market to American imports, especially beef and fruit, would harm the local industry. -
23-Nov-2017 APRN
Civil society commits to push back corporate power at 2017 ACSC/APF
The call “Southeast Asia is not for sale. We are not for sale!” echoed as hundreds marched to the historic People Power Monument along the Epifanio Delos Santos Avenue in Manila, Philippines. -
22-Nov-2017 Bloomberg
Trudeau replaces Trump as biggest obstacle to Pacific trade pact
While Japan in particular wants a quick deal on the pact that Trump abandoned earlier this year, Canada says more talks are needed on contentious points.