ISDS Case Map
corporate interests
A new report to be released today reveals that Japanese companies have stashed away $1.56 trillion cash reserves, the equivalent of Australia’s entire annual economic output — and potentially a source of massive new investments in Australia under a free trade deal.
During the last TTIP negotiating round, CEO and the German lobby watchdog Lobbycontrol organised guided tours through the EU quarter in Brussels, focusing on the corporate lobbying behind the TTIP negotiations and the way that the European Commission allows corporations to set the agenda for the talks.
Newly leaked documents from the chemical industries in the United States and European Union depict a joint effort to guide bilateral trade talks in a way that legal and public interest analysts warn would irreparably weaken the ability of governments in both continents to regulate toxic chemicals.
The head of Japan's most influential business lobby on Monday called on New Zealand to play an active role toward concluding talks for a Pacific free trade pact, as the 12 negotiating members struggle to overcome their differences.
CropLife America (CLA) and the European Crop Protection Association (ECPA) called for a more harmonized risk assessment framework for pesticide regulations during the fourth round of negotiations of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
A report published today by ClientEarth and CIEL shows that a leaked proposal from lobby groups, the American Chemistry Council and the European Chemical Industry Council, to the US-EU trade negotiations would damage future protective legislation on toxic chemicals.
Corporations, backed by lawyers, use international investment agreements to scavenge for profits by suing Europe’s crisis countries.
For a variety of reasons, including poor management of public perceptions, the administration’s trade agenda is in trouble. Much of the public’s antipathy toward trade agreements can be boiled down to concerns about the so-called Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) provision. ISDS enables foreign investors to circumvent domestic legal processes and sue host governments in third-party arbitration tribunals for unfair or discriminatory treatment – described hyperbolically by those fanning the flames of opposition as “running roughshod over domestic laws, regulations, and sovereignty.”
In an exclusive interview with viEUws, Susan Danger, Managing Director of the American Chamber of Commerce to the EU, talks to Lénaïc Vaudin d’Imécourt, viEUws Trade Editor, about the TTIP negotiations.
The US Dairy Export Council and the National Milk Producers Federation suggest moving forward with Trans Pacific Partnership without Canada and Japan on the basis of the countries' dairy policies
