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Japan wheat market to tighten
4-Jan-2018 The Progressive Farmer
US wheat growers are likely to lose some market share in Japan in the coming years because of a free trade agreement between Japan and the European Union, and the newly constituted Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership, a new USDA report warns.
SL-Singapore FTA first draft forwarded for Cabinet approval
4-Jan-2018 Daily Mirror
Unlike trade negotiations with behemoths such as India and China, politically-backed protests have not taken place against the Sri Lanka-Singapore FTA negotiations.
S. Korea to hold hearing on follow-up FTA talks with China
4-Jan-2018 Yonhap News Agency
In December 2017, the trade and industry ministers of South Korea agreed to expedite negotiations to expand the two countries’ two-year-old free trade agreement to include the service and investment sectors.
India to oppose international jurisdiction in Tamil Nadu-Nissan row
3-Jan-2018 Economic Times
Since the auto major has approached the Madras High Court, remedy under a treaty would now be barred, the Government said.
US and Australia meet to review bilateral FTA
3-Jan-2018 Global Trade
Officials from the United States and Australia held a meeting of the US-Australia Free Trade Agreement Joint Committee to review the implementation of the FTA.
India-UK trade meet to focus on visa restrictions, trade barriers
3-Jan-2018 The Hindu
While the UK can engage in free trade agreement (FTA) talks with other countries including India only after the process of full disengagement from the EU is complete, talks are already happening unofficially on the potential of such a pact.
Britain exploring membership of the TPP to boost trade after Brexit
3-Jan-2018 The Guardian
Department for International Trade believed to be working on proposals to enter the troubled Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Leaked documents reveal how Shell blackmailed Nigeria in Malabu deal
2-Jan-2018 Petro Barometer
Shell used an arbitration case it filed with the International Centre for the Settlement of International Disputes to railroad the government into brokering truce between it and Malabu Oil and Gas Ltd, its estranged erstwhile partner and the original licensee.
Seoul, Washington to kick off FTA talks next week
2-Jan-2018 Korea Herald
South Korea and the United States are to start the first round of negotiations to amend their bilateral Free Trade Agreement on Jan. 5 in Washington.
Pakistan spends over Rs2b on legal expenses in Progas case
2-Jan-2018 Express Tribune
The government has spent over Rs2 billion to win a case in the international court over the acquisition of assets of Progas Pakistan Limited company – worth Rs2.3 billion.
China invites Pakistan for FTA-II talks in February
2-Jan-2018 The News
China wants no more damage to Pakistan in bilateral trade which is why the former has offered to re-initiate the stalled talks on Free Trade Agreement-II in February 2018.
China eyes Moldovan trade agreement
2-Jan-2018 Emerging Europe
China and Moldova have formally agreed to begin talks on the establishment of a free-trade deal.
China-Georgia FTA takes effect
2-Jan-2018 Ecns
The deal is the first FTA that China has signed with a country along the Silk Road Economic Belt.
PNG eyeing economic partnership with India
2-Jan-2018 Papua New Guinea Today
The Papua New Guinea government’s fact-finding mission to India has resulted in the drafting of a Papua New Guinea-India economic partnership agreement.
India, South Korea may hold joint IPRs through trade pact
2-Jan-2018 Economic Times
South Korean and India plan to jointly hold intellectual property rights (IPRs) in areas of manufacturing, energy and healthcare, as part of the negotiations for the bilateral trade agreement that the two countries recently reviewed
RCEP: India hardens stand ahead of summit with ASEAN
2-Jan-2018 The Hindu
The Indian Ministry of External Affairs has taken a strong stand that the country should restrain itself from concluding free trade agreement from which it would not gain in the medium term.
China makes strides in expanding FTA network
2-Jan-2018 Xinhua
In 2018, there will be negotiations on 10 new FTAs and a joint feasibility study of another 10 FTAs, says Chinese Ministry of Commerce official
Japan pushes for March signing of TPP 11
2-Jan-2018 Nikkei
Tokyo’s point man travelling to Vietnam, Mexico to seek consensus on outstanding issues.
UNCTAD’s 2017 high-level IIA conference: moving forward on addressing older-generation international investment agreements
22-Dec-2017 IISD
More than 300 experts, including high-level negotiators of international investment agreements and representatives from intergovernmental organizations, civil society, academia and the private sector convened in Geneva.
Kazakhstan held liable for expropriation of Hourani family’s investment on second round of ICSID arbitration
22-Dec-2017 IISD
A majority tribunal at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes awarded Caratube International Oil Company LLP USD 39.2 million plus interest for the unlawful expropriation of its oil contract rights by Kazakhstan.