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Malaysian civil society & farmer groups’ memorandum on RCEP & plant variety protection
27-Feb-2019    
RCEP negotiations must not include obligation to join or implement UPOV systems and in anyway undermine farmers’ rights
French firm Suez explores selling off debt claim against Argentina
27-Feb-2019     Buenos Aires Times
French waste and water group Suez SA has contacted "specialised funds" about possibly selling its debt claims to Argentina, the group announced.
Chevron Vs Ecuador: international arbitration & impunity (ISDS case)
27-Feb-2019     Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity
In February of 2011 the Ecuadorian Courts delivered an historic verdict, sentencing the Big Oil Corporation Chevron to pay US$9,500 million dollars for its contamination of the Ecuadorian Amazon (1964-1992). However, Chevron hit back via the Investor-State Dispute Settlement system and sued Ecuador.
India seeks better trade, connectivity with ASEAN
27-Feb-2019     The ASEAN Post
India is hoping that better connectivity will help boost trade ties with ASEAN and decrease its trade deficit with the 10-member bloc
Japan, US likely to launch trade talks in April or May
26-Feb-2019     The Mainichi
Japan and the United States will likely launch trade talks in April or May, later than initially planned, as Washington needs to focus first on ongoing negotiations with Beijing to settle a tariff war.
Kyrgyzstan ratifies EAEU-China agreement on trade, economic cooperation
26-Feb-2019     AKI Press
Kyrgyzstan President has ratified the trade-economic cooperation between the Eurasian Economic Union member states from one side and China from the other.
New NAFTA faces ratification deadlock
26-Feb-2019     Rabble
Faced with real 21st century problems -- climate change and global inequality exacerbated by globalization and trade agreements -- we cannot accept this unambitious agreement which fails to live up to major existential challenges.
The post-TTIP transatlantic cooperation on trade: Stepping up conformity assessment
26-Feb-2019     EJIL: Talk!
Conformity assessment cooperation does not imply cooperation on the content of regulatory disciplines, making it a less ambitious mechanism than as had been initially intended under the TTIP.
Lessons from Aotearoa: The indigenous “exception” clause in free trade agreements
26-Feb-2019     Yellowhead Institute
Exception clauses amount to little more than tokenism, and short-change our full rights to determine trade relationships on our land and oceanic territories.
Canada ordered to pay US concrete company $7M in NAFTA case
26-Feb-2019     CBC
Long-running case began after New Jersey company's bid to open a quarry in Nova Scotia rejected in 2007