investment | BITs

investment | bilateral investment treaties

China issues a first draft of its new foreign investment law for public comment
The Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China recently (19 January 2015) published a first draft of the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Foreign Investments (the Draft Law), for public consultation.
Dar briefed on BIT regime
Pakistan Finance minister says the government will review its existing bilateral investment treaties and develop a template for future ones.
India in no hurry to begin bilateral investment talks with US
New Delhi wants to finalise model text on investment treaties first
Goldman pushes China investment deal as Silicon Valley wary
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is exhorting the US to quickly complete a treaty with China to open the long-sheltered market of the world’s most populous nation to American banks and other firms.
S2B statement on EU-Myanmar investment treaty
The Seattle to Brussels Network call upon the European Commission not to push through with the negotiations for an investment treaty with Myanmar as it will not help but hurt democratic transition.
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, investor-state dispute settlement and China
Advocates of a transatlantic investment treaty should be careful not to overstate their case and play the “China-card” as a core argument for allowing US investors to side-track EU courts.
UN trade body meets to promote sustainability in international investment agreement regime
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is convening a meeting later this month in a bid to make sure that sustainability is embedded in the global country-level ‘International Investment Agreement’ (IIA) regime for cross-border investment.
Signing of the Japan-Ukraine Investment Agreement
Tokyo announces the signing of a bilateral investment treaty with Kiev, which it highlights as opening Ukraine farmland and mineral resources to Japanese investors.
What is brewing between India and the US on IPR?
Ssomething is brewing between the two countries on the issue of intellectual property rights.
Prof Stiglitz on TPP 2015
Professor Stiglitz addressing TPP negotiators in New York in January 2015.