ISDS Case Map
China
Free-trade agreements are often contentious but rarely would one have as much strategic significance as that proposed between China and Taiwan.
As with Western BITs, bilateral investment treaties between China and numerous Latin American countries potentially protect Chinese investors by authorizing them to bring legal claims related to their investments against the host country government directly and to settle those disputes in international arbitration, rather than in the domestic courts
Free trade talks between China and Australia will go ahead in Beijing next month despite rocky relations between the two countries, Australia's Trade Minister Simon Crean was reported as saying on Friday.
Industry Minister Fahmi Idris said on Tuesday that his ministry's stance remained firm that the FTA -- which will open up various sectors in both markets by gradual reduction of import duty tariffs -- would bring more harm than benefits to Indonesia, given China's superiority over Indonesia with regard to competitiveness.
Asean and its six major trading partners yesterday reaffirmed their resolve to create the world's largest economic bloc through the "East Asia Free Trade Agreement" and "Comprehen-sive Economic Partnership in East Asia" within 15 years.
China's Commerce Minister Chen Deming and the economic ministers from 10 ASEAN member states Saturday morning signed the ASEAN-China Investment Agreement during the 41st ASEAN Economic Ministers Meeting (AEM) and related meetings in Bangkok.
Taiwan's former vice president said that the KMT and CCP are plotting a “3-3-3” scheme that includes an ECFA, confidence-building and a peace treaty by 2011
The administration of President Ma Ying-jeou should ask Beijing to sign a free trade agreement under the framework of the WTO, rather than seeking to ink an economic cooperation framework agreement under the “one China” principle, participants at an economic forum said yesterday.
Indonesian manufacturers have asked the government to delay a free-trade pact between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, as it may hurt local firms, a senior industry official said on Wednesday.
The implementation of its Free Trade Agreement with China has turned Indonesia's trade surplus with the former into a deficit of US$3.61 billion, a chamber of commerce and industry official said.
