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United States and Japan reach "agreement in principle," but questions and obstacles remain
6-Sep-2019 JDSupra
This report provides an overview of the announced agreement and the prospects and timing for its completion and entry into force.
AS Tallinna Vesi and United Utilities (Tallinn) B.V. v. Republic of Estonia
6-Sep-2019 Global Legal Chronicle
Squire Patton Boggs has successfully defended the Republic of Estonia against a US$100 million investment treaty claim brought by Estonian water provider AS Tallinna Vesi and its Dutch shareholder United Utilities.
ASEAN countries want free trade agreements to develop Russian trade
6-Sep-2019 ASEAN Briefing
Numerous ASEAN member states called for improvements in the region’s free trade status with Russia at this week’s Far East Economic Forum in Vladivostok.
AFTINET joins Unions to rally against ratification of Hong Kong agreement
6-Sep-2019 AFTINET
AFTINET has joined with the ACTU, APHEDA and other Union and community groups to stand in solidarity with workers and pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong.
Is Southeast Asia winning the US-China trade war? not so fast
6-Sep-2019 The Diplomat
If the U.S.-China trade war continues or worsens ASEAN countries will also experience a bumpy ride.
India readies list of products for sops as crucial RCEP meet nears
6-Sep-2019 The Economic Times
India has begun drawing up a list of products on which it can offer duty concessions to the 15 other Asia Pacific member countries, including China.
The other trade war—Japan vs South Korea
6-Sep-2019 Inquirer.Net
Japan imposed export restrictions on three key chemical materials upon which South Korea is highly dependent for the production of semiconductors. With other actions, that were viewed by South Korea as a “declaration of economic war”.
Ambassador: ‘We should be more creative’ in finalising Azerbaijan-EU trade deal
5-Sep-2019 Euractiv
It took 20 years for the EU and Mercosur to sign a trade agreement. “We don’t want to wait that much,” says the Ambassador of Azerbaijan to the EU, urging the European Commission to drop its “bureaucratic matrix” thinking.
Luxembourg leads EU push to climate-proof Energy Charter Treaty
4-Sep-2019 Euractiv
Critics say the Energy Charter provides excessive legal protection for oil and gas companies, which can claim uncapped reparations from governments who frustrate investments in fossil fuel projects.
Modernized free trade agreement lifts duties on Israeli imports of Canadian foodstuffs
4-Sep-2019 Fresh Plaza
The expanded Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement took effect, eliminating or reducing tariffs on the import into Israel of a wide range of foods from Canada.
’Key demand’: EU wants Australia to dump taxes on European cars
4-Sep-2019 Sydney Morning Herald
A key demand from the EU in the negotiation of a new free trade agreement will be that Australia ditches both its 5 per cent duty on imported European cars and the luxury car tax.
KPMG says Moldovan investor falsified financial statements to claim $500mn from Kazakhstan
4-Sep-2019 BNE Intellinews
The audit company claims its reports used in the lawsuits launched by companies controlled by Moldovan businessman Anatol Stati were based on “ knowingly false representations by Stati to KPMG”
US Democrats concerned about USMCA enforcement, Pelosi tells Canada’s Trudeau
4-Sep-2019 Reuters
Democrats’ key concerns are labor standards, prescription drug prices, environmental protections and concrete enforcement mechanisms.
Africa’s tripartite free trade area to be operational in early 2020: COMESA
4-Sep-2019 Xinhua
The TFTA will also be a building bloc for the African Continental Free Trade Area, COMESA official said.
USMCA pits rural people in each country against one another: Via Campesina North America
3-Sep-2019 La Via Campesina
We see the revision of NAFTA – rebranded as the USMCA (or T-MEC) – as another failure to respect the dignity of farmworkers, family farmers, Indigenous people, and the communities and territories in which we live.
EU to push Australia to clean up petrol standards as part of free trade deal
3-Sep-2019 The Guardian
The European Union wants Australia’s Paris climate commitments enshrined in new FTA.
Modernized Israel-Canada free trade agreement enters into force
3-Sep-2019 Jerusalem Post
A modernized and expanded Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement (CIFTA) entered into force following ratification by both governments, widening the sectors of trade cooperation between the countries.
La Via Campesina issues call to mobilise against WTO and Free Trade Agreements
3-Sep-2019 Via Campesina
La Via Campesina is calling upon its members and allies to not be misled by the smokescreen of a ‘weakening WTO’ and be aware of the new age mega and bilateral free trade agreements are equally if not more harmful.
Here’s how we need to protect our NHS from any future US/UK trade deal
3-Sep-2019 Open Democracy
Boris Johnson is promising new legislation to ’help the NHS’. But the danger is it will just gift wrap it for US corporations. Campaigners are uniting to say #HandsOffOurNHS and to call on MPs to really protect it.
World Bank tribunal lowers ConocoPhillips award for Venezuela expropriation -document
3-Sep-2019 Yahoo
A World Bank arbitration panel lowered an initial $8.7 billion award to US oil company ConocoPhillips as compensation for Venezuela’s 2007 expropriation of its assets to $8.5 billion.