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Singapore breaks new ground as arbitration hub
15-May-2015    
The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes hears its first case outside of US, France
First hearing opens over Lone Star asset sell-offs in Korea
15-May-2015    
An international tribunal began hearing a multi-billion dollar case Friday that the US private equity firm Lone Star filed against South Korea's government over tax and other disputes surrounding its asset sell-offs in Korea.
Against the Trans-Pacific Partnership
15-May-2015     Jacobin Magazine
Opponents of the trade deal being secretly negotiated between the United States, Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam have moved the discussion beyond its putative impact on jobs and growth and closer to the agreement’s broader ramifications, writes the IUF's Peter Rossman.
US Senate poised to breathe new life into Obama's trade agenda
14-May-2015     Reuters
After blocking it Tuesday, enough Democrats are expected to support consideration of Obama's "fast-track" trade negotiating authority today, having won the scheduling of a separate vote on a bill punishing countries that unfairly manipulate their currencies to keep their exports cheap.
Amul raises alarm over dumping of dairy products through FTA
14-May-2015     Hindu Business Line
The Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation says that the EU, Australia and New Zealand are lobbying hard for access to India's dairy market through bilateral Free Trade Agreements in order to dump their surplus stocks of dairy commodities.
UN blasts EU for backing global deal for ISDS, but not for country bailouts
14-May-2015     EurActiv
Richard Kozul-Wright, director at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), said support for investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) but not for state-investor was “incongruous”.
Hearing to begin this week in multi-billion-dollar battle between S. Korea, Lone Star
14-May-2015     Yonhap
An international tribunal will begin hearing a multi-billion dollar case this week that the US private equity firm Lone Star filed against South Korea's government over tax and other disputes surrounding its asset sell-offs in Korea.
TPP denounced in Peru as US-led negotiations end
13-May-2015     teleSUR
On Monday, a coalition of Peruvian civil society organizations issued a strong warning as negotiations for the Trans Pacific Partnership treaty (TPP) come to an end.
The embattled future of global trade policy
13-May-2015    
Should proposed US plurilateral trade agreements be welcomed? This is a big question, not least for those who consider the liberalisation of world trade to be a signal achievement. It is also highly controversial.
Australia: Labor wants China trade pact info released
13-May-2015     Australian Associated Press
Labor has called on the government to release the text of the Australia-China free trade deal, after the Coalition revealed the budget would take a $6 billion hit over four years as tariffs came down.