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Congressional Financial Services Committee leaders: Exclude ISDS from US-EU deal
4-Dec-2014 Public Citizen
US congressional leaders have just sent a letter to the Obama administration warning against TAFTA/TTIP provisions that could restrict Congress’ ability to prevent another financial crisis.
The increasing appeal and novel use of bilateral investment treaties
3-Dec-2014 Skadden
State measures that reduce or nullify existing creditor rights, such as the Argentine “Lock Law” or similar moratoria on repayment, may violate BIT rights and supply investors and creditors in other jurisdictions, particularly in the eurozone, with a basis for challenging similar measures.
Investor-state dispute settlement in Europe
3-Dec-2014 IR Blog
If it is left in TTIP, a great deal more of global FDI flows will suddenly be covered by ISDS.
People living with HIV rally in streets of Delhi as India hosts RCEP trade negotiations
3-Dec-2014 MSF
As the 6th round of negotiations on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade agreement take place in India, people living with HIV are rallying in the streets of New Delhi to warn that harmful intellectual property provisions - put forth by Japan - could severely restrict access to affordable medicines for people in developing countries.
TTIP talks: What’s cooking?
3-Dec-2014 Greens/EFA
A Greens-EFA Group in the European Parliament conference on 10 December 2014
TDM Call for papers: Dealing with Diversity in International Arbitration
3-Dec-2014 TDM
This Special Issue will analyse discrimination and diversity in international arbitration.
S. Korea must concentrate all energy on TPP: traders association head
3-Dec-2014 Yonhap
South Korea must concentrate all of its resources on taking part in the US-led Asia-Pacific mega free trade bloc, the head of the country’s biggest business lobby group says.
Turkey-Peru free trade talks end without deal
3-Dec-2014 World Bulletin
Talks will continue next year as areas of friction — textiles and agriculture — continue to cause disagreement.
CETA’s fate may hinge on outcome of EU-Singapore trade ratification
2-Dec-2014 Globe and Mail
The fate of Canada’s landmark trade agreement with the European Union, known as CETA, may hinge on an obscure case due to come before the European Court of Justice that relates to a similar deal the EU recently struck with Singapore.
Conference: For a citizen’s trade agenda: STOP TTIP, CETA, TISA
2-Dec-2014
9 December in the European Parliament in Brussels, organised by GUE/NL
European states, Malaysia seek free trade agreement
2-Dec-2014 Tax News
A third round of negotiations towards a broad-based free trade agreement between the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) states – Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Iceland, and Norway – and Malaysia took place in Geneva from November 25 to 28, 2014.
Protests by farmers and trade unions against the mega FTA RCEP
2-Dec-2014
As negotiators from 16 nations meet in New Delhi for 5 day consultations on the Regional Cooperation Economic Partnership (RCEP), farmers, trade unions, retailers groups, and civil society organisations protested outside the India Expo Mart in Greater Noida. RCEP is a complex North South Free Trade Agreement (FTA) that India is negotiating with the 10 member ASEAN block plus Japan, China, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand.
TFTA - COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite FTA
1-Dec-2014 tralac
As published by tralac
The poison in the EPA
1-Dec-2014 Business Day
Africa must seek other viable alternatives in its quest for economic development, argue the editors of Business Day in Nigeria.
Indian farmers, trade unions slam RCEP free trade talks
1-Dec-2014 Business World
Activists say the RCEP free trade pact will damage Indian manufacturing, dairy and agriculture sectors
Africa regional blocs eye joint pact
1-Dec-2014 New Vision
Most of the clauses in the agreement — to be signed this month in Cairo — have been finalised, apart from the preamble and the rules of origin.
Farmers, trade unions and CSOs call to halt RCEP negotiations
1-Dec-2014 ICCFM
In the backdrop of 6th Round of Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) negotiations scheduled to take place from 1-5 December 2014 in Greater Noida, India farmers’ organizations, trade unions and civil society organizations expressed serious concern over the very idea of free trade agreement (FTA), lack of transparency and the absence of socio economic impact assessments to asses the impact of the proposed FTA.
Sigmar Gabriel: ‘Germany will approve CETA’
28-Nov-2014 EurActiv
German Minister of Economic Affairs Sigmar Gabriel is clashing with his own party over the EU’s planned free trade agreement with Canada (CETA), calling on Bundestag members to approve the deal despite the controversial investor protection provision.
Self-driving cars sink the case for TTIP
28-Nov-2014 Huffington Post
The EU’s case for the Transatlantic trade and Investment Partnership is mostly about cars but fails to take into account what the industry will look like ten years from now.
ICSID annulment committees: the elephant in the room
28-Nov-2014 Derains & Gharavi
The title of this article refers to a looming issue that is not receiving the attention it deserves: the unbalanced and extraordinary power that the secretary-general of ICSID holds in practice in relation to annulment proceedings at the centre.