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Stop ISDS! Rights for people, rules for corporations
22-Jan-2019     TNI
Join the movement to end corporate privilege, sign the petition!
Maldives’s debt to China creates difficulties for Solih
22-Jan-2019     The Siasat Daily
The Maldives incurred huge debts and the amount owed to China is still being assessed given that the pitfalls of China’s influence over the Maldivian economy.
NAFTA 2.0: Nothing for workers
21-Jan-2019     The Bullet
A failure to seriously resist NAFTA 2.0’s passage into law in Canada, the US and Mexico will amount to capitulation and the acceptance of an agreement that by design, like the original NAFTA, intrinsically serves the interests of Capital.
TPP-11 opens doors to new members
21-Jan-2019     Nikkei Asian Review
Japan eager to expand trade pact even though not all signatories have ratified.
EU sets out plans for 'limited' US trade deal
21-Jan-2019     France 24
Opposition by activists has already resurfaced with some warning that "there can be no trade-offs on food standards" in the deal.
EU-US FTA: EU draft negotiating mandates (Jan 2019)
21-Jan-2019     European Commission
As released by the European Commission
Malaysia won’t be pressured into CPTPP: trade minister Darell Leiking
19-Jan-2019     South China Morning Post
Malaysia will not be pressured into ratifying a 11-nation Asia-Pacific trade deal, as trade minister raised the prospect of holding out for bilateral tariff pacts instead.
S. Korea to speed up FTA with Britain on looming no-deal Brexit
19-Jan-2019     Yonhap News
South Korea’s trade ministry said will speed up efforts to clinch FTA with Britain amid the no deal Brexit.
Most EU countries to terminate intra-bloc bilateral investment treaties
18-Jan-2019     New Europe
22 of the 28 EU nations have committed to terminate their bilateral investment treaties and use their influence as home states and respondent-states to notify tribunals of the non-arbitrability of intra-EU bilateral investment treaties and Energy Charter Treaty claims.
EAEU, Egypt successfully complete 1st round of talks on FTA
18-Jan-2019     Kazinform
The talks focused on the main provisions of the Agreement and set the schedule of the further work.