ISDS Case Map
India
According to media reports, India wants up to 50,000 extra visas a year spread across EU's 27 member-States under the proposed India-EU free trade agreement with Britain said to be under pressure to cough up 20,000 of these.
Apart from intellectual property concerns, the EU is pushing for harmonisation of standards on medical devices and clinical trials, both of which may benefit large TNCs, in its free trade deal with India
EU is pushing India to relax controls on capital flows and conditions on investment, such as export obligation and local content requirement.
India will sign another free trade agreement with Malaysia tomorrow to boost the $8 billion bilateral trade by further reduction of duties by the two countries
Competition between South Korean and Japanese businesses in India will likely intensify following New Delhi's signing of a free trade agreement with Tokyo this week, a local trade body said Friday.
As the Philips Morris case shows, any corporation can potentially sue the
Indian government in a bid to block sovereign actions for protecting the
wellbeing of its people.
Japan and India signed an economic agreement that will abolish tariffs on 94 percent of trade over 10 years as each country expands its investment in Asia.
Today, Corporate Europe Observatory launched a legal action, suing the EU’s executive in the EU General Court for withholding documents related to the EU’s free trade talks with India. The Commission is accused of discriminating in favour of corporate lobby groups and of violating the EU’s transparency rules.
Transparency campaigners have hauled the European Union's executive to court for withholding documents about free trade talks with India, intensifying pressure on the bloc to make its policy-making less secretive.
