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Angry protesters disrupt public hearing on KORUS FTA
10-Nov-2017 Yonhap
South Korea held a public hearing on the free trade agreement with the United States to collect opinions from different circles, but it was disrupted by angry farmers and livestock breeders who claimed massive damage from the market opening.
No deal: How the TPP talks collapsed
10-Nov-2017 NZ Herald
The future of TPP has been thrown into doubt after Canada’s sudden refusal to attend the final leaders’ meeting in Danang, Vietnam, which was then cancelled.
11 nations agree in principle on TPP Pacific trade deal
9-Nov-2017 Nikkei
After months of negotiation, the remaining 11 members of the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal have reached agreement on the trade pact in principle on the ministerial level.
India, EU to hold free trade talks next week
9-Nov-2017 Live Mint
India, EU chief trade negotiators will meet next week in New Delhi to hammer out a way forward for the long-pending free trade agreement negotiations between the two sides.
Stans Energy awarded USD$ 222,241 and additional costs by London court
9-Nov-2017 Digital Journal
To date, the Republic has not complied with the order and the Company is considering various options for enforcement of the award.
ASEAN economic integration by whom? for whom?
9-Nov-2017 APRN
ASEAN member states must end policies, laws and institutional practices, including free trade and investment agreements that violate the people’s rights.
When climate leaders protect dirty investments
9-Nov-2017 Project Syndicate
Much of the problem can be traced to bilateral investment treaties and investment rules embedded within broader trade pacts.
Time for costly medicine monopolies to go from TPP trade talks
9-Nov-2017 The Conversation
The latest plan to get the controversial trade deal up and running involves freezing some of its controversial rules, including rules for biologic drugs, an expensive class of medicines often used to treat conditions such as cancer and rheumatoid arthritis.
Unkillable corporate rights trade clause needs a bullet in the head
8-Nov-2017 Crikey
In a co-ordinated push with The Australian, the government has embarked on an attempt to revive the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement and burnish its free-trade credentials.
Suspending parts of TPP may save pact without renegotiation: Malaysia
8-Nov-2017 Japan Times
A blockbuster Pacific trade pact thrown into doubt by Donald Trump could be salvaged by suspending parts of the deal in order to get the 11 remaining nations to sign on.
Australia-Indonesia free trade talks enter tough final stage
8-Nov-2017 Sydney Morning Herald
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is expected to meet Indonesian President Joko Widodo in coming days as the two countries hammer out the final details of the free trade deal.
Quick signoff on TPP trade deal far from sure at Asia-Pacific meeting
8-Nov-2017 Reuters
Continuing disagreements over the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal mean 11 remaining members may not be ready to give it a wholehearted go-ahead at a summit this week, officials said.
Peru, Australia to sign declaration of intent on bilateral FTA
8-Nov-2017 Andina
Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will sign a declaration of intent so that both economies embark on a free trade agreement.
AEC 2025: Will the ASEAN Economic Community finally be realised?
8-Nov-2017 AEC News
The grouping fell short of its target of realising the Asean Economic Community (AEC) by the end of 2015, deferring 105 of its 506 measures.
Japan rejects idea of US free-trade deal to fix imbalance
8-Nov-2017 Nikkei
Finance minister Taro Aso seems receptive to buying more US military hardware.
Spotlight: FTAAP, post-2020 vision to top APEC summit agenda
8-Nov-2017 Xinhua
Experts believed an envisaged Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific, which includes all 21 APEC economies, is an effective way to reduce the "spaghetti bowl effect" of overlapping regional trade agreements and fragmentation risk in the Asia-Pacific.
S. Korea, US to speed up FTA renegotiations
8-Nov-2017 Yonhap
South Korea and the United States are expected to speed up the process to amend their free trade pact as US President Donald Trump called for fair deal that can correct the imbalance in the movement of goods between the two countries.
Asean, Hong Kong to ink free trade agreement this Saturday
8-Nov-2017 The Edge Markets
The 10 member states of Asean and China’s Hong Kong Special Administrative Region will sign the Asean-Hong Kong Free Trade Agreement and Investment Agreement on in Vietnam.
Trump adviser Ross says UK-US trade deal will mean scrapping EU rules
8-Nov-2017 The Guardian
Commerce secretary’s comments suggest Britain will have to accept chlorinated chicken in post-Brexit agreement.
Will 2018 mark a tipping point for binding investor-state arbitration?
7-Nov-2017 Kluwer Arbitration Blog
2018 seems a crucial year for both opponents and proponents of investor-state arbitration to make their respective cases to maintain, reform, or abandon today’s ISDS system.