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Will Vietnamese garment contractors win in the TPP?
8-Mar-2016 Vietnamnet Bridge
Many contract manufacturers in Vietnam are likely to see little benefits if the TPP goes through.
RCEP talks to stretch longer on differences over services
8-Mar-2016 Financial Express
The negotiations for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) involving 16 countries could slow down in the coming months due to a lack of consensus over services.
PACER Plus trade deal suffers a blow after PNG objections
8-Mar-2016 Radio Australia
PNG’s concerns about the current text on PACER-Plus makes common sense. Adam Wolfenden is from the Pacific Network on Globalisation, a group which has been critical of the deal explains.
A CETA investment court is not the solution
7-Mar-2016 The Globe and Mail
This is one of the problems with this regime of investor rights. It confers enormous discretion on an elite corps of lawyers.
US dairy industry thanks government for Honduras cheese name work
7-Mar-2016 The Cattle Site
The dairy industry has thanked the US government for its extensive work aimed at securing clarifications regarding the right to use several generic cheese names in exports to Honduras.
How can governments deal with #ISDS claims?
7-Mar-2016 Todd N. Tucker
A research provides a set of pragmatic tools for governments on the receiving end of legal claims.
EU asks Indonesia to eliminate import duties
7-Mar-2016 Katadata
The EU’s request for an import duty reduction of 95 percent for all trade items is a particular obstacle because Indonesian industrial products cannot compete with European products.
ASEAN economic ministers committed to implementing matters agreed to in RCEP talks
7-Mar-2016 Nam News
Several countries have said they find it difficult to eliminate 65 per cent of the tariff lines upon signing of the RCEP, rising to 80 per cent in 10 years.
Migrants from the South, the contemporary faces of exclusion and marginalization
4-Mar-2016 Alai
Today’s migrations, as macro international displacements of hundreds of thousands of people with or without documents — in many cases in precarious conditions of transit — have been and are one of the social processes that characterize what is happening in different latitudes of the earth since in the new century, in the global context of neoliberal economic restructuring directed by transnational enterprises and the capitalist countries of the first world.
Japan-Iran BIT (2016)
4-Mar-2016 UNCTAD
S’pore, Iran ink bilateral treaty on investment
4-Mar-2016 Asia One
Singapore has moved quickly to sign an investment treaty with oil-rich Iran to support Singapore firms investing in an economy that is emerging after the recent lifting of global sanctions.
EU earns right to public contracts
4-Mar-2016 Vietnamnet Bridge
For the first time, as a result of EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement commitments, European investors will be able to offer tenders for various public infrastructure projects in Vietnam.
CETA announcement shows it’s possible to fix trade deals
4-Mar-2016 Huffington Post
Corporations can still sue governments over public policy decisions they don’t like but the real lesson from the ISDS reforms, in fact, is that public opposition and political mobilization can change things.
Trans Pacific Partnership could change the apparel indusry
4-Mar-2016 The Street
TPP could disrupt the fast fashion momentum and a fledgling made-in-America clothing rebound by renewing the attractiveness of offshore manufacturing via lower tariffs.
Harmonising IP laws across ASEAN: Is it possible?
4-Mar-2016 Today Online
The economic integration of the ASEAN Economic Community leads to many challenges in the harmonisation of trade-related laws across ASEAN’s 10 member nations.
Revisions needed in IP compliance
3-Mar-2016 Viet Nam News
Revision of the legal framework on intellectual property is recommended to ensure compliance with the EU – Viet Nam Free Trade Agreement.
The impact of CAFTA: drugs, gangs, and immigration
3-Mar-2016 Tele Sur
It’s clear that the free-trade panacea promised by policymakers, especially its most enthusiastic cheerleaders has not come to pass.
United States and Europe disagree on GM crops
3-Mar-2016 The Irish News
America, where GMOs have been in the human supply chain for more than two decades, want their currently banned crops to be imported into Europe.
European commission found guilty of maladministration for EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement
3-Mar-2016 FIDH
European Ombudsman concluded that the Commission’s refusal to carry out a human rights impact assessment constituted maladministration.
PNG attacks Australia at Pacific free trade talks
2-Mar-2016 SBS
The signing of a Pacific free trade deal in June has been thrown into doubt with the largest island nation Papua New Guinea saying it favours Australia and will damage local industries.