ISDS Case Map
China
Article 13.1 of Model IV provides that an investment dispute between an investor and a host state shall, as far as possible, be settled amicably through negotiations between the parties to the dispute, including conciliation procedures.
South Korean companies are suffering increasing damage following the Korea-China Free Trade Agreement as low-cost Chinese products are flooding into the domestic market, an analysis showed.
Switzerland hopes to seal an updated free trade agreement with China in early 2026, Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis said, following a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi.
Lapse of African Growth and Opportunity Act deals tariff blow to continent and ‘creates fertile ground’ for Beijing to expand its clout.
While US officials express expectations of meaningful progress in the next round of trade talks, analysts suggest soybeans are poised to become a key bargaining chip for China in upcoming negotiations, and a comprehensive deal may not be easily signed.
Chinese Ambassador to Kenya, Guo Haiyan, said the two countries will work together to ensure Kenyans start benefiting as soon as possible from the deal.
In 2023, China was Kenya's largest source of imports, valued at approximately Sh459 billion.
The agreement has been modernised in areas such as electronic commerce, technical barriers to trade, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, and investment promotion.
China, supported by other members, is multiplying free trade agreements and promoting capitalist globalisation based on free trade, even as the former powers of the North are now turning towards protectionism.
ASEAN Secretary General Dr Kao Kim Hourn said the upgrade would mark a new chapter in the partnership with technology and innovation at the centre of the cooperation.
Is the AfCFTA truly an autonomous African initiative that serves the peoples of the continent, or is it merely another tool for maintaining the dominant global economic order?
