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NZ-Korea FTA Select Committee provides Kiwis chance to break silence on ISDS
30-Mar-2015     Scoop
The Foreign Affairs Defence and Trade committee is now accepting public submissions on the NZ-Korea Free Trade Agreement, providing Kiwis with a rare chance to break the silence on the controversial investor-state dispute settlement provisions in that agreement and in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, according to It’s Our Future NZ.
Narendra Modi goes to Europe
30-Mar-2015     Niti
Can an FTA with EU really help India counter the TPP and TTIP impact or would it – if not treated with caution – further trap India into strict IP regimes and undue market access wherein India is expected to completely open up while Europe continues with its protectionist measures?
EU pursues FTA talks with Philippines
30-Mar-2015     Philippine Star
The European Union is pursuing discussions with the Philippines within the year for a possible free trade agreement as the country’s ongoing economic reform process shows readiness to commit to an ambitious bilateral deal.
ANALYSIS: India invites comments on draft model investment treaty; text offers radical departure, and calls to mind Norway's past efforts at revision
30-Mar-2015     Investment Arbitration Reporter
One of the most striking features of the draft model is its jettisoning of the fair and equitable treatment standard in favor of a standard -- egregious or outrageous behaviour -- that hearkens back to legal touchstones of an earlier era.
LatAm states look to trade in bilateral deals for regional agreements
28-Mar-2015     Emerging Markets
Latin American countries are increasingly looking at the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) as forming the foundation of a broader free trade area of Asia Pacific linking the 21 economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum.
Chevron's "fight it out on the ice" strategy for Ecuador case is slipping, fast
28-Mar-2015     Huffington Post
In Chevron's massive international arbitration directly against the government of Ecuador, it has gotten everything it has asked for from the panel of arbitrators -- until last week.
Germany worries about TTIP’s impact on environmental standards
27-Mar-2015     Chemical Watch
The German Federal Environment Agency (UBA) is worried that the stated aim of the EU-US negotiations for a free trade agreement to bring regulations and standards as close together as possible, may lower environmental standards in the EU.
Leaked Pacific trade pact draft shows investment carve-outs sought
27-Mar-2015     Reuters
Australia's medicine subsidies, Canadian films and culture, and capital controls in Chile would be carved out from investment protection rules being negotiated in a Pacific trade pact, according to a draft text released by Wikileaks on Wednesday.
EU and Vietnam hold twelfth round of FTA talks
27-Mar-2015     EIN News
The talks focused on the outstanding areas of the proposed FTA such as goods (tariffs, rules of origin, non tariff barriers, export duties), services & investment, government procurement, state owned enterprises, IPR and geographical indications, and regulatory issues.
NAFTA increased mass migration to the United States
26-Mar-2015     Criterio
After Mexico, the United States and Canada signed the FTA, in the agricultural sector alone five million workers lost their jobs in Mexico and they were forced to migrate.