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’This is life or death for us’: Mexico’s farm movement rejects new NAFTA agreement
3-Oct-2018 Common Dreams
Leaders of Mexico’s farm movement strongly condemned the new NAFTA, calling on the new president they supported in recent elections to get involved and slow the race to the new agreement.
NZ, Australia face pressure to exit RCEP negotiations
3-Oct-2018 Scoop
There are some suggestion that New Zealand, and perhaps Australia, would be politely invited to exit the RCEP negotiations in the interests of concluding them.
US-Canada-Mexico trade agreement provisions on injunctions and damages
2-Oct-2018 Knowledge Ecology International
The damages provisions in the new trade agreement are dangerous, and create a norm that is in conflict with national laws.
Financial regulation challenged by European trade policy
2-Oct-2018 Financial Watch
Trade agreements currently being negotiated or already approved introduce numerous restrictions over the right of states to regulate, especially in the field of financial regulation, and limits their capacity to react to ensure financial stability.
What an alternative & progressive trade strategy should look like
2-Oct-2018 It’s Our Future
19 – 20 October 2018. Fale Pasifika, University Of Auckland.
Trump’s NAFTA deal threatens our air, water, and climate
1-Oct-2018 Sierra Club
More outsourcing of pollution and jobs, handouts to corporate polluters, and climate denial
CEPA with Bangladesh can be template for enhancing trade in South Asia: Suresh Prabhu
1-Oct-2018 Yahoo
India and Bangladesh have proposed early conclusion of a Compressive Economic Cooperation Agreement to boost bilateral trade and investment and set an example for giving a fillip to regional trade in South Asia.
Despite seed concerns, CPTPP study to proceed
1-Oct-2018 Bangkok Post
Thai farmers and civil society organisations vented their concerns about the impact of the new pact’s IP chapter that prevents them from saving and reusing seeds that contain patented plant material.
Canada, US have reached a NAFTA deal - now called the USMCA
1-Oct-2018 CBC
Canada and the U.S. have announced a tentative new trilateral trade deal with Mexico that includes some key concessions on issues of import to both countries — and also a reworked name: the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
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From Quito: Pablo Fajardo & Donald Moncayo
28-Sep-2018 TeleSur
Pablo Fajardo, the lead lawyer for the communities who have been fighting for 25 years for compensation for the severe pollution in the amazon region, and Donald Moncayo, one of the coordinators of the organization that has led this campaign talk about the Chevron case.
Lawyers sue EU Commission for information on legality of trade deal tribunals
28-Sep-2018 Client Earth
ClientEarth has challenged a judgment regarding the European Commission’s decision to keep secret information about controversial investment tribunals in EU international trade deals.
Trade ministers, chief negotiators to hold series of meetings on RCEP trade pact in Oct
28-Sep-2018 Business Standard
Trade ministers and senior officials of RCEP member countries, including India and China, will hold series of meetings in October to iron out issues hampering negotiations over the proposed mega trade deal.
Investor-state dispute settlement: An anachronism whose time has gone
27-Sep-2018 Council on Economic Policies
Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) is a postcolonial relic that should be abolished.
India proposes free trade agreement with Bangladesh
27-Sep-2018 Money Control
India has proposed Bangladesh to consider negotiating a comprehensive free trade agreement with a view to promote two-way commerce and investments.
How Trump split Mexico and Canada in NAFTA talks
27-Sep-2018 Reuters
The Mexican president-elect agreed to the US president’s request for a bilateral agreement while Canadian officials believe Mexico gave up too much in the deal.
Mexico ready to proceed with bilateral US-trade deal; Canada may join: negotiator
27-Sep-2018 France 24
Mexico is prepared to advance a bilateral trade agreement with the United States that Canada could join within the next few weeks, a top Mexican NAFTA negotiator said.
Review Tanzania, The Netherlands investment agreement, CSO says
27-Sep-2018 The Citizen
Tanzania is urged to review the 15 years Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) with the Kingdom of Netherlands expires in April 2019 before it reckons itself for another 10 years.
US, Japan agree to negotiate a free trade agreement
27-Sep-2018 AP
It’s a significant shift by Tokyo which has been a strong advocate of a multi-nation trans-Pacific trade pact that President Donald Trump withdrew from soon after taking office.
Moon’s ’anti-corruption’ move invites ISDS lawsuits
26-Sep-2018 Korea Times
The Moon Jae-in administration’s campaign to "root out archaic irregularities" appears to have backfired as global private equity funds are rushing to file investor-state dispute settlements.