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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.

RCEP threatens tax policies in India and other 15 countries

1-Mar-2016 Public Services International

New report shows that trade and investment deals like RCEP will further adversely affect the ability of the government of India to tax corporations effectively and fairly.

New ISDS platform launched

1-Mar-2016

New ISDS platform launched

1-Mar-2016

A new website to help groups monitor, understand and work to defeat investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanisms in trade and investment agreements has been launched: http://isds.bilaterals.org.

The seven sins of the EU investment court

1-Mar-2016 EU Observer

Despite all the talk of reform from commissioner Malmstroem, the threat to democratic decision-making is as alive and dangerous as ever.

The rise of investor-state dispute settlement in the extractive sectors: challenges and considerations for African countries

1-Mar-2016 South Centre

In African countries, the expansion of international investment agreements could carry significant risks to policy space and policy tools necessary for industrialization and development.

Diplomats want treaties: diplomatic agendas and perks in the investment regime

1-Mar-2016 SSRN

Strategic foreign policy considerations have driven some investment treaty negotiations. Secondly, some diplomats have been successful in promoting investment treaties to further their own individual interests.

Peru’s police violently clashes with Anti-TPP protesters

1-Mar-2016 Tele Sur

This is the fifth time Peruvians have demonstrated against the free-trade agreement since the beginning of the secret negotiations. Police violently clashed with protesters.