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Adjudicator compensation systems and investor-state dispute settlement
28-Nov-2017 OECD
This paper examines compensation systems for adjudicators and dispute settlement administrators in investor-state dispute settlement.
TIFA talks unlikely this year: minister
28-Nov-2017 Taipei Times
Even if vacant posts in Washington are filled and quickly approved, it would take time to process the appointments, Minister Without Portfolio John Deng said.
S. Korea, Uruguay to push for trade agreement between Korea, Mercosur
28-Nov-2017 Yonhap
South Korea and Uruguay have agreed to jointly push for a trade agreement between South Korea and Mercosur.
Crystallex International, Venezuela settle US$1.2B mine dispute
28-Nov-2017 BNN
Crystallex International Corp. and Venezuela agreed to settle a US$1.2 billion dispute over the 2011 nationalization of a gold deposit in the South American nation.
Sudan is indispensable to China’s silk road vision for Africa
28-Nov-2017 Global Research
The news that China will build a railway from the Red Sea city of Port Sudan to the Chadian capital of N’Djamena proves just how serious Beijing is about pioneering a transcontinental Sahelian-Saharan Silk Road.
A Belt and Road for the Americas?
24-Nov-2017 Project Syndicate
As Canada, Mexico, and the United States focus on the next round of negotiations on NAFTA, governments in the rest of the Americas are grappling with a more fundamental question about trade. Who will be their dominant trade partner in the future: the US, Europe, or China?
Australia emphasises relationship with NZ in trade plans
24-Nov-2017 Scoop
Australia has reiterated the importance of New Zealand to its foreign policy direction with particular emphasis on the role it sees New Zealand playing in its economic engagement with Pacific island countries.
White paper not real on rules
24-Nov-2017 Policy Forum
The conflict between ‘rules-based’ and ‘US-centred’ in Australia’s new foreign policy road map
EU and Georgia adopt revised Association Agenda
24-Nov-2017 The Financial
The new document establishes a set of jointly agreed priorities towards further implementation of the Association Agreement, including the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area.
What to do about the EU’s new trade agenda in Latin America?
24-Nov-2017 Rosa Luxembourg Stiftung
About ten years ago, the European Union (EU) introduced Global Europe, its most ambitious trade policy strategy to date. It was intended to open up new markets worldwide through new bilateral trade and investment agreements.
Trump pushes to limit Facebook and Google’s liability in Nafta
23-Nov-2017 Bloomberg
The Trump administration is pushing to add legal protections in Nafta that would limit the liability of internet giants such as Google and Facebook, marking the latest in a tug-of-war as policy makers balance policing the web with protecting free speech.
MEPs amp up pressure on Commission over digital trade
23-Nov-2017 Euractiv
MEPs are exerting pressure on the European Commission to draw up rules on data flows in foreign trade agreements, an area where the EU executive has so far not pinned down any tangible policy.
Farmers call on Korea to push back on US FTA
23-Nov-2017 Korea Joongang
Korean farmers expressed concern about potential revisions to the Korea-US free trade agreement, arguing that opening up the market to American imports, especially beef and fruit, would harm the local industry.
Civil society commits to push back corporate power at 2017 ACSC/APF
23-Nov-2017 APRN
The call “Southeast Asia is not for sale. We are not for sale!” echoed as hundreds marched to the historic People Power Monument along the Epifanio Delos Santos Avenue in Manila, Philippines.
Trudeau replaces Trump as biggest obstacle to Pacific trade pact
22-Nov-2017 Bloomberg
While Japan in particular wants a quick deal on the pact that Trump abandoned earlier this year, Canada says more talks are needed on contentious points.
S. Korea turning to Russia for free trade deal amid pressure from US
22-Nov-2017 Yonhap
South Korea’s trade minister has met with Russian officials in Moscow, in a move to lay the groundwork for a free trade deal with a Russia-led union amid growing U.S. trade pressure.
Any Trump NAFTA withdrawal faces stiff court challenge: legal experts
22-Nov-2017 Reuters
The constitutional and statutory authority for who can terminate the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement - Trump or the US Congress - is deeply disputed.
EU-Africa strategy: An incentive for development?
22-Nov-2017 Euractiv
The focus of the new development strategy is on private investment. For this, African countries should create more attractive framework conditions to attract European donors and provide guarantees and risk protection to private companies.
What’s your beef? Mercosur trade talks falter
22-Nov-2017 Euractiv
A battle over beef between the European Union and Argentina and Brazil could push trade talks beyond a year-end deadline and lead to further years of delay.
NAFTA deadlock: Canada blames the US, the US blames Canada and Mexico
22-Nov-2017 Global News
Another round of NAFTA talks wrapped up with all key issues still deadlocked as negotiators prepared to leave Mexico City with a plethora of question marks lingering over the trade deal.