RCEP & investment
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19-Apr-2017 Economic Times
Treating intellectual property as an investment, and subjecting it to treaty arbitration, can have undesirable impact
Free trade agreements tend to treat intellectual property as an investment made by investor corporations, allowing private investment disputes to be raised against the host country. -
22-Mar-2017 KEI
RCEP - draft chapter on investment: temporary safeguard measures (Dec 2016)
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7-Mar-2017 People Over Profit
Stop RCEP. Trade for the People. Not for Corporate Elites
People Over Profit Statement on the 17th Round of Negotiations of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) in Kobe, Japan 27 Feb-3 March 2017 -
3-Mar-2017 MSF
RCEP investment chapter presents a grave threat to access to medicines
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) raises concerns over provisions under negotiation in the RCEP investment chapter that threaten to restrict access to affordable medicines for millions of people -
2-Mar-2017 People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty
RCEP, an attack on food sovereignty, must be junked – PCFS
RCEP will be harmful to developing countries’ struggle for industrialization, access to cheaper medicines, quality social services, and protection of the environment -
20-Feb-2017 Vietnamnet
Greater exposure
The RCEP will have the effect of locking in Vietnam - and all the other signatories - and prevent them from modifying or withdrawing investors’ rights they have granted, even if some years later they decide that granting those rights did not contribute to development in the country. -
3-Feb-2017 Focus
Time to terminate trade & investment agreements allowing corporations to sue government
The recent investment arbitral decision against the Philippines in favor of the Belgian corporation should be a wake up call on the dangers posed by free trade and investment agreements. -
12-Jan-2017 Third World Resurgence
Will the RCEP morph into another TPP?
In highlighting that the drafts of many of its key chapters are substantially similar to those of the TPP, Sanya Reid Smith warns that the RCEP may end up as a replica of the former. -
16-Dec-2016 Friends of the Earth International
The hidden costs of RCEP and corporate trade deals in Asia
RCEP also includes the controversial Investor-State Dispute Settlement mechanism (ISDS), which is facing increasing public criticism and scrutiny worldwide. -
8-Dec-2016 ABC News
Multinationals launch 50 lawsuits worth $31b against Asian nations
A new report finds that corporations have launched 50 lawsuits, worth at least $US31 billion, using secret international arbitration tribunals against 11 countries in the Asian region. -
9-Sep-2016 Spicy IP
Where is the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership headed?
The latest round of RCEP talks paints a worrisome picture for the global south, given that it will bring 3.5 billion people and 12% of world trade into its fold. -
30-Aug-2016 The Nation
NGOs warn against dispute mechanism in Asian free-trade pact
Activists of various NGOs have urged Asean governments to eliminate investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) from the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) draft. -
16-Aug-2016
RCEP - draft investment text: India (based on negotiating draft of Oct 2015)
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16-Aug-2016 RCEP Legal
RCEP - draft investment text: Korea (based on negotiating draft of Oct 2015)
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16-Aug-2016 RCEP Legal
RCEP - draft investment text: China (based on negotiating draft of Oct 2015)
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11-Aug-2016
RCEP - Investment chapter - Indonesia proposal on Prudential Measures (Aug 2015)
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5-Aug-2016 APWLD
Briefer on the RCEP – Robbing communities to extract profit
Similar to the TPP, this trade agreement will institutionalise inequalities;it will severely curtail peoples’ rights and freedoms and cement corporate rights over national public interest law and the right of governments to govern in the interests of their constituents. -
3-Aug-2016
Civil society groups say No to investors suing States in RCEP
95 civil society organisations strongly and publicly urge countries negotiating the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership to reject ISDS in the agreement. -
3-Aug-2016 Deccan Herald
RCEP meet: focus on investor-state dispute
RCEP trade ministers will meet in Laos on August 5 to try and resolve issues that are stuck in negotiations. -
13-Jun-2016 NZ Herald
China-led trade agreement shrouded in deeper secrecy
Secretive negotiations for the China-led Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP began in November 2012. The 13th round is being held at SkyCity in Auckland.
RCEP resistance
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13-Oct-2019 Madhyam
India and Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership: key issues and implications
RCEP militates against several of India’s critical interests. At least two countries from among the participating countries could seriously challenge India’s rural economy since they are seeking to enter the markets for wheat, sugar and dairy products. -
12-Oct-2019 Outlook India
SJM to hold nationwide protests from Oct 10-20 against RCEP
The RSS-affiliated Swadeshi Jagaran Manch on Thursday announced that it would hold a nationwide protest against the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). -
10-Oct-2019 Forum For Trade Justice
India-China bilateral summit: Civil society expresses concern over Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership
People’s movements note with deep concern the developments with respect to India’s position on the proposed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) -
1-Oct-2019 AFTINET
ISDS victory: RCEP won’t allow corporations to sue governments
After seven years of tireless campaigning in Australia and across the region, the Malaysian Trade Minister announced that foreign investor rights to sue governments (ISDS) has been dropped from the RCEP agreement negotiations. -
1-Oct-2019 Forum for Trade Justice
Don’t trade our lives away in free trade negotiations
To sign the RCEP and start negotiations on a FTA with the US when the Indian economy is on the brink of economic downturn and needs strong domestic policies is a decision that is not in national or public interest. -
26-Sep-2019 Down To Earth
RCEP deal to make investors stronger, people weaker, says trade group
The deal will affect access to medicines and seeds by raising the standards of intellectual property rights, claims Forum of Trade Justice. -
23-Sep-2019 ASEAN Civil Society Conference/ASEAN People’s Forum 2019
People’s resistance to RCEP intensifies, amplifying #NotoRCEP call!
As governments scramble to save RCEP, peoples from Southeast Asia have consolidated their strong opposition to this ambitious and unjust trade and investment agreement. -
18-Sep-2019 Free Malaysia Today
Why race against clock on trade pact ‘shrouded with secrecy’, asks NGO group
A coalition of 61 NGOs has asked the government the reason for racing against the clock in concluding the world’s largest trade pact — the RCEP — with details “shrouded in secrecy”.
