ISDS Case Map
investment | BITs
investment | bilateral investment treaties
The service sector will be included in the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the European Union and the East and Southern African (ESA) countries as the parties enter the final stages of agreeing on a deal.
The investment rules in the Colombia and Peru trade pacts with the US deserve special scrutiny. They grant protections for private foreign investors that are virtually identical to those in NAFTA, CAFTA and myriad bilateral investment treaties signed over the past two decades. And yet these countries are being pulled on board at a time of a dramatic awakening about these rules' potential for harm.
The US and China on Friday agreed to intensify discussions about the opening up of China's services sector and explore the possibility of a bilateral investment treaty at the conclusion of this week's high level talks in Beijing.
Alert to European civil society groups, trade unions and social movements from the Seattle to Brussels Network
On November 14, 2006, Canada and Peru signed a bilateral investment treaty (BIT), otherwise referred to as a Foreign Investment Protection and Promotion Agreement (FIPA). This is Canada's first BIT to be negotiated in eight years and the first BIT to be based on Canada's new 2004 Model FIPA.
Parallel to the 4th EU-Latin America/Caribbean Summit in Vienna this week, large corporations from both regions will gather at a Business Summit. Apart from discussing business opportunities in different sectors, the 300 business representatives attending the event are expected to demand that governments speed up a whole range of free trade talks between the two regions.
This paper by Claire Godfrey provides a wide-ranging look at the many problems with the EPAs, and investigates how these could impact on the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries' future development.
A case study that looks at the impacts from liberalisation of the tourism industry in Vanuatu.
Canada and Peru on Tuesday signed a Foreign Investment Protection and Promotion Agreement, the first one of its kind that Canada has signed with a foreign country in eight years.
UNCTAD released its second IIA Monitor for the year 2006 focusing on developments in international investment agreements (IIAs) for the year 2005.
