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India’s next free trade partner: Peru?
5-Aug-2016 The Diplomat
India and Peru look to cement a rapidly growing trade relationship with a free trade agreement.
ASEAN, EAEU favor setting up free trade zone - minister
5-Aug-2016 Belta
Countries members of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and the Association of the South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) want to create a free trade zone.
NTBs progressively reduced in Asean : Mustapa
5-Aug-2016 New Straits Time
Non-tariff barriers – regarded as the main stumbling block in the shaping of the Asean Economic Community – have been progressively reduced.
International tribunal asks Agility to compensate Pakistan for legal costs
5-Aug-2016 The Express Tribune
An international tribunal announced that it holds Agility Public Warehousing Company of Kuwait liable to pay the entire costs incurred by Pakistan in defending a claim for more than $650 million filed against it by Agility.
Glencore begins arbitration over Bolivia assets expropriation
5-Aug-2016 BNamericas
Swiss trader Glencore filed for arbitration against the Bolivian government for the expropriation of its mining and smelting assets, adding to a series of lawsuits against the Andean country.
Water for gold
5-Aug-2016 Loading Docs
Water for Gold tells the alarming story of how international trade law is leading us to trade our most basic rights to clean, safe water for access to gold.
Briefer on the RCEP – Robbing communities to extract profit
5-Aug-2016 APWLD
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.
WikiLeaks reveals the TiSA agreement could cost Australian services
5-Aug-2016 The Conversation
A recent release of confidential documents from WikiLeaks has finally relieved the silence surrounding the negotiations of an important but fairly obscure multilateral trade agreement.
Philippines holds informal TPP membership talks with US
5-Aug-2016 Reuters
The Philippines is eager to join the 12-nation Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal and it has already held informal talks with the United States to do so.
RCEP Trade ministers to meet tmrw in Laos to review progress
5-Aug-2016 Business Standard
Trade ministers of 16 countries, including India, China and Japan will meet in Laos to review the progress and resolve issues holding back negotiations of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).
Rental power dispute: ICSID completes hearing
4-Aug-2016 Business Recorder
International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes has completed hearing on a dispute between Government of Pakistan and a Turkish firm M/s Karkey Karadeniz Elektrik Uretim A.S.
Cameroon starts implementing economic pact with European Union
4-Aug-2016 Bloomberg
Cameroon’s government said it has begun implementing an interim economic pact with the European Union that will lead to the reciprocal reduction of trade barriers.
Big Tobacco’s controversial, ailing crusade against plain packaging
4-Aug-2016 The Economist
Philip Morris International sent a letter to the government of Togo. It outlined how plain packaging would violate binding global and regional agreements. Togo was in no position to anger its international partners, it suggested.
UK-China free trade agreement of ‘great interest’ to meat sector
4-Aug-2016 GMN
A China bilateral trade deal offers "great opportunities" to the UK meat industry, according to The International Meat Trade Association (IMTA).
Bolivian president slams Pacific Alliance trade bloc
4-Aug-2016 Telesur
Evo Morales says the Pacific Alliance trade bloc is a neocolonial tool intended to cripple regional trade initiatives that exclude the US.
India to defend stand against zero-tariffs at RCEP trade ministers’ meet
4-Aug-2016 The Hindu
Offers made to India by other members in services still weak.
RI eyes to develop key sectors from Australian trade deal
4-Aug-2016 The Jakarta Post
Indonesia is hoping to develop a number of key sectors through an anticipated free-trade deal with Australia, which is aimed at boosting trade and investment between the neighboring countries.
Kerala will bleed if India negotiates trade deal in secrecy: Why can’t the Modi govt consult states?
4-Aug-2016 The News Minute
A letter written by Kerala’s Agriculture Minister VS Sunil Kumar shows that when it comes to trade negotiations, New Delhi prefers non-transparency to consultations.
Peter Allard vs. Barbados: Investor argues breach of environmental laws
4-Aug-2016 Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (ISDS Blog)
Peter Allard, a Canadian investor who owns a nature sanctuary in Barbados, has brought an ISDS claim against Barbados. He grounds his claim on the failure of the government to enforce its own environmental law.
Civil society groups say No to investors suing States in RCEP
3-Aug-2016
95 civil society organisations strongly and publicly urge countries negotiating the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership to reject ISDS in the agreement.