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investment | BITs
investment | bilateral investment treaties
Don Davies, Canadian Member of Parliament for the New Democratic Party, discusses the approval of the Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA) and its future impact on Canada and First Nations.
Governments are souring on treaties to protect foreign investors
China and the United States are likely to conclude bilateral investment treaty (BIT) negotiations within two years, China's Vice Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao said Wednesday.
Israeli Ambassador to Myanmar Hagay M Behar and DICA director general Aung Naing signed a reciprocal promotion and protection of investments agreement in Yangon yesterday.
The real threats to ‘freedom’, ‘democracy’, ‘decency’ and ‘fairness’ do not lie in Syria or Iraq. The destruction of national sovereignty, democracy, freedom, decency, quality of life and livelihoods is being carried out by corporate vultures under the guise of the secular theology of neoliberalism, not least in practice via free trade and investor rights agreements.
Trade treaty expert Van Harten lays out ways FIPA governments can 'disclose, monitor, and limit the harm done by this treaty.'
African countries have entered into over 400 bilateral investment treaties which investors from Asia may take advantage of.
In an exclusive interview with the United Daily News, South Korea's representative to Taiwan stated that the majority of the contents in the agreement have been shaped while both sides have yet to agree on a few fragments.
The controversial Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPPA), which the Harper government signed into effect without parliamentary debate, "means that any B.C. government or legislature or courts would now be subject to obligations arranged by the federal government and China under the treaty," says Osgoode Law School professor Gus Van Harten.
The 15th round of talks on a bilateral investment treaty between China and the United States began Monday in Beijing.
