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Taipei, Washington to hold latest round of TIFA meetings
3-Oct-2016 Taipei Times
The discussions are to focus on areas including medical devices, pharmaceuticals, intellectual property rights and technical trade barriers
TECO subsidiary awarded $21 million
2-Oct-2016 Business Observer
A TECO Energy subsidiary has won a $21.1 million award in a business claim against the government of Guatemala.
The rising interest in the mediation of investment treaty disputes
30-Sep-2016 Kluwer Arbitration Blog
Recent developments indicate there may be increasing interest in the creation of alternative forms of dispute resolution for investor-State disputes. One potential alternative is mediation.
EU proposes more aid, trade pact to support Tunisia
30-Sep-2016 Reuters
The European Commission proposed to increase aid to Tunisia and complete a deeper trade pact within three years.
Gabriel Resources - Romania reverses prior VAT assessment / arbitration progress
30-Sep-2016 Junior Mining
Gabriel Resources announces an update in relation to its ongoing bilateral investment treaty arbitration against Romania proceeding under the auspices of the World Bank’s ICSID.
German farmers divided over EU-Canada trade deal
30-Sep-2016 EurActiv
The German agricultural sector is divided in its opinion of the deal: large farms relish the advantages and small enterprises fear the competition.
“If beef is not included”, there won’t be no Mercosur-EU trade agreement, warns Uruguay
30-Sep-2016 Merco Press
European Union and Mercosur coordinators to exchange the list of goods and services in mid October, the first formal meeting of its kind in fourteen years.
Brazil wants free trade within MERCOSUR
30-Sep-2016 Mexico Star
The Brazilian government has discussed measures to eliminate internal obstacles and make free trade possible between member countries of the Southern Common Market.
Commission boosts infringement procedures against five countries
30-Sep-2016 Politico
The European Commission today ramped up infringement procedures against Austria, the Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia and Sweden to push them toward scraping their bilateral investment treaties with other EU nations.
Vattenfall AB and others v. Federal Republic of Germany - Public hearing
30-Sep-2016 ICSID
The hearing on jurisdiction, merits and quantum in Vattenfall AB and others v. Federal Republic of Germany is scheduled to take place before a three-member arbitral tribunal from Monday, October 10, 2016 through Friday, October 21, 2016.
Canada’s civil society calls for Chevron’s assets to be frozen so Ecuador judgment can be paid
30-Sep-2016 Friends of the Earth Canada
Some of Canada’s largest environmental, labor and civil society organizations have now joined the growing international community demanding that Chevron clean up its toxic waste in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
NFU President meets with EU farm leaders in Brussels, talks dairy crisis and CETA
29-Sep-2016 National Farmers Union
NFU President encouraged Europe to solve its ongoing dairy crisis by adopting a Canadian-style supply management system instead of attempting to use the CETA trade agreement to increase dairy exports to Canada.
Good news for Canada’s environmental assessment law: no cash advance for Bilcon
29-Sep-2016 Ecelaw
Federal Court of Canada rejects Bilcon’s application to stay proceedings, denying the Delaware company an early pay day.
Case between Ecuadoreans, Chevron heading to Ontario court
29-Sep-2016 The Globe and Mail
The latest salvo in a marathon multibillion-dollar legal battle between global energy giant Chevron Corp. and a group of Ecuadorean residents over environmental damage has begun in a Toronto court.
Morocco ratifies 3 bilateral investment treaties
29-Sep-2016 I-ARB Africa
This surge in the ratification of “Intra-African” BITs is part of the Moroccan “South-South Partnership” strategy
EU wants swifter progress on economic partnership with Japan
29-Sep-2016 The Japan Times
Trade minister Hiroshige Seko has received a letter from a senior European Commission official urging prompt conclusion of an economic partnership agreement.
Kenya finally deposits EU trade pact ahead of Saturday deadline
29-Sep-2016 The Star
Just a week after the National Assembly unanimously endorsed the Economic Partnership Agreement, the government deposited the same instruments with the EU.
New Zealand, Gulf states renew efforts to seal free trade pact
29-Sep-2016 Reuters
New Zealand and the Gulf Cooperation Council will work to get a stalled free trade pact back on track after trade ministers from the Pacific nation and Saudi Arabia agreed to deepen trade ties.
Big Pharma lobbying in TTIP: Bad news for patients
28-Sep-2016 Corporate Europe Observatory
Big Pharma is everything but shy when it comes to lobbying EU policy-makers. But what exactly are these groups lobbying for in TTIP?
EU wins the battle for reciprocal trade access in Africa
28-Sep-2016 EurActiv
The six African countries threatened with losing access to the European single market have finally agreed to sign the EU’s Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs). But the continent’s regional integration may suffer as a result. EurActiv France reports.