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FTAs loaded against Third World, says researcher
23-Jul-2017
The Andhra Pradesh government will have to pay up $ 44.71 million in damages if it loses the case in the International Court of Arbitration (ICA) for cancellation of an agreement with UAE-based company Ras Al-Khaimah Investment Authority (RAKIA).
Digital trade games
22-Jul-2017 The Hindu
India must not succumb to global digital trade paradigms and rules that back predatory business.
EDA expresses CETA cheese concerns
21-Jul-2017 Dairy Reporter
With implementation of the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement looming, the European Dairy Association says it would limit access of EU cheeses to the Canadian market.
Madagascar signs tripartite free trade agreement
21-Jul-2017 tralac
The agreement brings together three regional economic communities – COMESA, EAC and SADC – into a single free trade area covering 57% of Africa’s population with a combined GDP of US$1.3 trillion as of 2015
The US can now ship rice to China for the first time
21-Jul-2017 Bloomberg
The rice deal comes just a month after China reopened its market to US beef imports for the first time in more than a decade and is the latest in a flurry of trade negotiations between the nations. China is also approving more biotech products and increasing US natural gas imports.
US, China fail to agree on trade issues, casting doubt on other issues
21-Jul-2017 Reuters
The United States and China failed on Wednesday to agree on major new steps to reduce the US trade deficit with China, casting doubt over President Trump’s economic and security relations with Beijing.
EU-Mexico FTA - EU text proposals (July 2017)
21-Jul-2017 European Commission
All texts as available as of 18 July 2017
Who benefits from RCEP - the world’s largest free trade agreement?
21-Jul-2017 Newsclick
This video highlights various critical aspects of RCEPs corporate agenda.
No more business as usual: Where to now for international trade?
21-Jul-2017 Policy Observatory
What is the future of international trade in a world of re-emergent national populism and voter scepticism of big trade deals? This new report brings together thirteen authors who have written thirteen very different essays on the future of trade.
E-com: RCEP nations start detailed talks
20-Jul-2017 The Hindu
Source code disclosure ‘curb,’ a worry.
Why India should rethink its approach to RCEP negotiations
20-Jul-2017 Madhyam
Before expanding global footprint through FTAs, India must put its own house in order by strengthening the domestic productive capacities and mobilizing resources to improve the physical and social infrastructure.
Commission publishes reports following negotiation rounds with Mexico and Mercosur
20-Jul-2017 European Commission
The Commission has just published reports summarising the progress made during the latest negotiating rounds for the EU-Mexico and EU-Mercosur trade agreements.
Trumping NAFTA: Free trade versus democratic planning
20-Jul-2017 Socialist Project
The struggle against NAFTA, and neoliberalism more broadly, must address struggles over the state.
Agriculture minister says no to FTA changes on rice imports
20-Jul-2017 Korea Herald
South Korea says it will not concede to any demand for an increase in rice imports from the US, and will try to reduce them, when talks begin regarding modifications to the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement.
Singapore and Sri Lanka committed to concluding FTA talks by end-2017
20-Jul-2017 Straits Times
Both Singapore and Sri Lanka are committed to concluding negotiations on a free trade agreement before the end of the year, Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said in Colombo.
Cold reception to RCEP as people’s resistance consolidates
19-Jul-2017
At a press conference held today in New Delhi, researchers and academics expressed concern about the likely impact of RCEP on areas like agriculture, services, access to medicines, investment and e-commerce, flagging the growing popular rejection of this mega-regional FTA
Moon promises to consult with Assembly on US FTA
19-Jul-2017 Korea Times
Korea’s President Moon Jae-in insists that Washington’s request should be understood as "revision or modification," not a "renegotiation" of the agreement
Show support for people’s protest at RCEP talks in India
19-Jul-2017 AFTINET
Support farmers, workers and communities protesting TPP-like proposals on seeds, medicines, services and corporate powers to sur governments in Hyderabad!
China-related investment arbitrations: three recent developments
18-Jul-2017 Lexology
Two recent and potentially inconsistent decisions in claims by PRC investors have raised questions as to the scope of protection under PRC bilateral investment treaties (BITs).
What’s at stake at China-US Comprehensive Economic Dialogue?
18-Jul-2017 Xinhua
Experts said the upcoming dialogue will be a good chance for negotiation on a Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT).