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Tokyo approves bill in next step toward enactment of new Trans-Pacific Partnership
13-Jun-2018 The Japan Times
Japan’s bicameral legislature, The Diet has approved a bill on to ratify the 11-country Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership.
New impetus for Belt and Road from Shanghai Cooperation Organization
13-Jun-2018 The Asset
The 18th Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit provided an opportunity for China to re-affirm its strong relationship with the core countries along the land route to Europe.
Indonesia making preparations to join TPP
13-Jun-2018 Nikkei Asian Review
Indonesia is studying the revised Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement reached by 11 nations after the US exited, with a view to joining the trade pact, Jusuf Kalla, the country’s vice president, said on Tuesday.
CPTPP jeopardises the future of open source software: OSIA
13-Jun-2018 Spatial Source
Open Source Industry Australia (OSIA) is calling upon the federal government to scrap the CPTPP over provisions that could decimate the Australian open source community.
This is how the Commission proposes to deal with Western Sahara trade
12-Jun-2018 WSRW
The EU Commission has today presented its suggested trade arrangement for occupied Western Sahara, which still requires the approval of the EU Member States and the EU Parliament.
Economist warns free trade agreements can be “job killers”
12-Jun-2018 Scoop
Free trade agreements can be “job killing” in the poorer countries who sign up to such agreements, and exert a downward pressure on wages even in advanced countries, warns Nobel Prize winning economist.
Mexico turns trade attention to Japan with Nafta talks at risk
12-Jun-2018 Bloomberg
Economy minister in Tokyo this week for conferences, meetings. Nafta uncertainty rising after Trump, Trudeau clashed.
Canada wants Pacific trade pact ratified fast amid Trump spat: minister
12-Jun-2018 Viet Nam News
Canada wants to speed up the ratification of the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade pact to offset the adverse effects of the trade spat erupting with the United States.
Malaysia should ’make best use’ of Belt and Road, Mahathir says
12-Jun-2018 Nikkei Asian Review
The new government of Malaysia will continue its "friendly" relationship with China and "make best use" of its initiative to create a 21st-century Silk Road to connect East Asia with Europe, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Monday.
Belt and Road provides landlocked Mongolia with chance to grow
12-Jun-2018 Nikkei Asian Review
China’s Belt and Road initiative could play an important role in accelerating Mongolia’s economic growth by improving regional infrastructure, trade and investment, former Prime Minister Sukhbaatar Batbold said in an interview on Monday.
FTA, investments to figure in Suresh Prabhu’s visit to Australia
12-Jun-2018 The Economic Times
The talks on free trade agreement with Australia likely to be on the agenda of India’s Commerce and Industry Minister Suresh Prabhu to Canberra on June 26.
China- Sri Lanka FTA talks not stalled: Secretary
12-Jun-2018 Sunday Observer
Secretary to the Ministry of Development Strategies and International Trade, Chandani Wijewardana last week refuted reports that discussions between Sri Lanka and China on the proposed Free Trade Agreement (FTA) had come to a standstill.
Malaysia’s PM Mahathir urges TPP ‘renegotiation’ during trip to Tokyo
12-Jun-2018 South China Morning Post
Leader’s visit to Japan seen as a sign of Malaysia’s move away from China, which pumped billions of dollars into the previous administration.
India refuses to endorse China’s Belt and Road Initiative
11-Jun-2018 The Hindu
In his address at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said any mega connectivity project must respect sovereignty and territorial integrity.
The big trade war distraction
11-Jun-2018 Greenpeace
The “trade war” points our leaders away from what they should be focused on — climate change and peace — and it distracts everyone from the larger overall problems with this global trade regime.
Georgia and Hong Kong to sign free trade deal in June
11-Jun-2018 Agenda.ge
So far Georgia has free trade deals with China, Turkey, European Union (EU), European Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries and with the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Chile, Brazil wrap up first round of “second generation” FTA talks
11-Jun-2018 Santiago Times
Brazil and Chile launched the first round of negotiations for a “second generation” free trade agreement, since they already have 100% of their trade released for more than 20 years.
Swedish court overturns claims of Yukos’ shareholders against Russia - lawyer
11-Jun-2018 Sputnik
A Swedish appeals court reversed the ruling of the Stockholm arbitration tribunal in the legal action filed by Spanish shareholders of Russian oil and gas company Yukos against Moscow.
The case against third-party funding in ISDS
8-Jun-2018 Boston College Law School
The high costs and potentially high damages characteristic of ISDS cases have made it a new and highly attractive market for third-party funding.
Korea suffers first defeat in ISD case
8-Jun-2018 Business Korea
The Korean government was ordered to pay about 73 billion won to an Iranian investor who filed an investor-state lawsuit, claiming that he suffered losses in the process of participating in an auction for Daewoo Electronics in 2010.