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China, EU aim to conclude comprehensive investment agreement in 2020
11-Apr-2019 Xinhua Net
China and the European Union (EU) aim to conclude a comprehensive bilateral investment agreement in 2020.
Quantifying the policy space for regulating capital flows in trade and investment treaties
10-Apr-2019 The Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four
The international trade and investment treaty regime is increasingly restricting the policy space for regulating cross-border financial flows, study finds.
A confident opinion, a looming decision
10-Apr-2019 CCPA
Many countries have become wary of the system and are restructuring or terminating their investment agreements. This is the ambience in which the Court of Justice will decide whether the CETA is compatible with EU law.
Trump promised a new trade policy. But his new NAFTA might be worse than the old one
10-Apr-2019 Washington Post
The intensifying debate over the renegotiated NAFTA that President Trump is seeking to rebrand as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) suggests that the president’s trade policy is not so different from those of his predecessors.
US wants more from Japan than under TPP
10-Apr-2019 NHK World Japan
US wants bigger compromise from Japan on tariffs for American farm goods than the two countries had agreed on for the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Maldives ruling party pledges probe into Chinese deals after landslide win
10-Apr-2019 South China Morning Post
Maldives former president Mohamed Nasheed, whose party won a landslide in the archipelago’s parliamentary election, on Tuesday pledged to conduct a thorough probe into deals with China.
Indonesia, Malaysia send letter protesting EU palm oil curbs
10-Apr-2019 Reuters
The leaders of Indonesia and Malaysia sent a letter of objection to the European Union criticizing its decision to no longer consider palm oil as a green fuel and threatening the bloc’s ties with the countries.
Two-day parleys on CPFTA-II begin today
10-Apr-2019 Business Recorder
Pakistan and China are holding a two-day (April 9-10, 2019) parleys in Beijing to finalise second phase of China Pakistan Free Trade Agreement (CPFTA), which is expected to attract criticism from domestic industry.
EU warns of initiating expert panel if S. Korea fails to resolve ILO ratification
9-Apr-2019 Yonhap
The European Commission warned that it will seek to launch an expert panel to review South Korea’s compliance with the free trade pact it signed with the European Union if it fails to ratify key international labor conventions.
We the people reject ISDS. So why are our governments trying to expand it?
9-Apr-2019 Stop ISDS
A permanent Multilateral Investment Court pushed by the European Union could make ISDS worse by scaling it up.
The new NAFTA deal is ’in trouble’ amid looming elections, fights over tariffs
9-Apr-2019 Finance Post
More than six months after the United States, Mexico and Canada agreed a new deal, the chances of the countries ratifying the pact in 2019 are receding.
Corbella: Notley’s ’beating down’ of the oil patch should cost her the election
9-Apr-2019 Calgary Herald
The Czech-based company Petrolama Namur Oil Sands Exploration filed a notice of dispute against Canada on March 29 over the delay in completing the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline.
The right course for a better US-Japan alliance
9-Apr-2019 Nikkei Asian Review
Tokyo has argued for a more limited "trade agreement on goods," while the Trump administration says it ultimately wants a comprehensive free trade agreement.
Japan, China, S.Korea FTA talks under way
9-Apr-2019 NHK
High on the agenda are rules for protecting intellectual-property rights.
Second phase of Sino-Pakistan FTA to be signed in next month
9-Apr-2019 Urdupoint
The second phase of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Pakistan and China is likely to be signed in next month.
As the world meets to discuss ISDS, many fear meaningless reforms
8-Apr-2019 TNI
ISDS lawyers appear to hold administrative positions within the working group and are represented in large numbers in the advisory bodies that have been established for the working group.
Sharpening clash as UN body reviews investor rights to sue governments (ISDS)
8-Apr-2019 AFTINET
Advocates of ISDS (industrialised countries and lawyers from the ‘arbitration industry’) dominate the running of the Working Group and its advisory bodies. Civil society is underrepresented.
Will Africa’s historic free trade agreement succeed?
8-Apr-2019 Al Jazeera
The African Union agreed last year to create a free trade zone on the continent but Africa’s largest economy, Nigeria, isn’t on board with the agreement.
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8-Apr-2019
RCEP trade pact likely to be concluded in November: ASEAN chief Lim Jock Hoi
8-Apr-2019 The Japan Times
An Asiawide free trade deal involving 16 countries will likely be concluded in November at a summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to be held in Thailand.