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Move to ease German, EU doubts over investor risk in SA
30-Aug-2013 Business Day
SOUTH Africa is scrambling to convince Germany and its other European trade partners that its unilateral scrapping of bilateral investment treaties is not a risk to their investments in South Africa.
Colombia sends military to cities after police fail to maintain protests peaceful
30-Aug-2013 Colombia Reports
Colombia’s defense minister announced he’ll be sending the military to cities where police failed to maintain the peace at anti-government protests Thursday during which at least a hundred protesters were injured and dozens were arrested.
Violence in Bogota amid farm sector crisis
30-Aug-2013 Associated Press
About 30,000 people marched peacefully in Colombia’s capital Thursday in support of a 10-day protest by small farmers against free trade agreements until pandemonium broke out.
Proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP): In Brief
29-Aug-2013 CRS
Report from the US Congressional Research Service on the proposed TTIP between the EU and the US
Japanese farmers’ opposition to TPP waning, Malaysian minister says
29-Aug-2013 Global Post
Malaysia’s International Trade and Industry Minister Mustapa Mohamad told Kyodo News, "The Japanese shared with us some issues they have in agriculture, but they told me that opposition is slowly dying down. It wasn’t as serious as it was six months ago. In their view, it’s manageable."
China’s investment in Africa increases 20.5 pct annually
29-Aug-2013 Xinhua
China’s direct investment in Africa increased from $1.44 billion to $2.52 billion, with an annual growth of 20.5 percent from 2009 to 2012, says a new white paper from the Chinese government
Colombians continue protesting despite dialogue in Boyaca
29-Aug-2013 Prensa Latina
Tension in Colombia will increase with another great mobilization scheduled for [today] which is expected to be massive due to the guilds that will join, including the Sudent Wide National Bureau and Workers’ Trade Union of Petroleum Industry (USO).
Colombia farmers’ strikes spread to cities
29-Aug-2013 3 News
Nationwide agricultural strikes are continuing in Colombia after more than a week of ongoing roadblocks, marches and clashes with the police.
TPP sides set to keep food safety regimes
28-Aug-2013 Japan Times
The 12 countries involved in the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations are unlikely to ease their individual food safety standards as the subject is not being discussed in the free-trade talks, negotiation sources said Wednesday.
Minimal progress made at 19th round of TPP negotiations
28-Aug-2013
Minimal progress has been achieved on most outstanding areas in the 19th round of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations taking place in Brunei since Aug 22.
No deal on Colombia farmers’ strike after night of talks
28-Aug-2013 BBC
Representatives of Colombian farmers’ groups and government ministers say they have not yet been able to reach a deal to end a 10-day strike.
First Nations loses bid to block Canada-China FIPA treaty
28-Aug-2013 The Canadian Press
Canada’s Federal Court has dismissed an application by an aboriginal band in British Columbia to stay the Canada-China investment treaty until First Nations have been consulted.
Fast-track: Enabler of the “free trade” agenda
28-Aug-2013 New American
“I have heard the argument that transparency would undermine the administration’s policy to complete the trade agreement because public opposition would be significant,” a US senator wrote. “This argument is exactly backwards. If transparency would lead to widespread opposition to a trade agreement, then that trade agreement should not be the policy of the United States.”
US economic hegemony: Consolidation and deepening of the Pacific Alliance trade bloc
28-Aug-2013 Be Your Own Leader
In many ways, the Pacific Alliance represents a resurgence of the failed U.S. initiated FTAA which was part of an agenda to consolidate corporate control.
Colombian government to negotiate with striking farmers
27-Aug-2013 BBC
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos says his government will enter into negotiations with agricultural workers as their strike enters its ninth day.
Building momentum: The anti-free trade strike in Colombia
27-Aug-2013 Counterpunch
As Colombian peasants ended their eighth day of an anti-free trade agreement strike last night by forcing President Juan Manuel Santos to the negotiating table, thousands of protesters banging pots and pans filled the main plaza of the capital Bogota in solidarity.
Pakistan: Bilateral investment treaty model
27-Aug-2013 Dawn
Keen to attract direct foreign capital, the government of Pakistan has evolved a ‘model template’ that would serve as the basis for negotiations for future bilateral investment treaties.
South Africa terminates its bilateral investment treaty with Spain
27-Aug-2013 Lexology
This is the second BIT terminated as part of South Africa’s planned review of its investment treaties
Growth in global disputes brings big paychecks for law firms
27-Aug-2013 NY Times
Debt woes, broken contracts and soured business deals may cost global investors billions in losses and create seemingly never-ending headaches for policy makers. But there is a set of specialists profiting from such geopolitical problems: arbitration lawyers.
Malaysia should abandon TPP talks, ex-PM Mahathir says
27-Aug-2013 Kyodo
The Malaysian government should pull out from the trans-Pacific free trade talks, former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Monday, calling the proposed trade pact a US tool to extend its hegemony.