Canada


TiSA troubles: Services, democracy and corporate rule in the Trump era
This study, co-published with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, examines the adverse impacts on public services and public interest regulation of the little-known Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA), quietly being negotiated in Geneva by a group of 23 governments, including Canada
More trouble for Canada-EU trade deal, as drug changes delay implementation
Goal of implementing most of CETA this summer slips farther from reach.
Six years after the ‘Aymarazo’ protests in Peru
Criminal charges pending against 18 community leaders and a billion-dollar court case at ICSID.
EU-CETA agreement on verge of collapse: Spanish party in major U-turn shock
The European Union’s controversial trade deal with Canada is once again in doubt as a Spanish party votes against the agreement.
Venezuela mines for a reversal in federal appeals court
Venezuela is taking its fight over a $1.4 billion arbitral award to the District of Columbia’s federal court of appeals.
US and Indonesia agree to step up work to expand trade
Officials from the United States and Indonesia met under their Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA), agreeing on next steps for expeditiously resolving bilateral issues and further building their trade relations.
Venezuela pays Gold Reserve $40 million on $800 million ICSID expropriation judgment
Gold Reserve Inc. reports that it has received a $40 million payment on its $800 million judgment that it won at the World Bank's International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in 2014.
Canada may not celebrate CETA provisional implementation on July 1, 2017
Canada has passed a statute but still must implement the necessary regulations and establish governmental processes required to implement the Canada-EU CETA.
Canada-EU trade deal's July 1 target threatened by new cheese dispute
Europeans upset at how Canada will allocate import quota for new EU products.
Canada stands to win big from a TPP without the U.S.: report
Canada actually would see greater economic gains from a Trans-Pacific Partnership that excludes the United States — the so-called TPP11 — according to a new report released by the Canada West Foundation.