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New steel policy in India on docket as FTA pressure builds
While India's steel sector debates the finer points in the draft of a new steel policy, the cry to delete steel from the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between India and countries like Japan and Korea just got shriller.
SBY frets over int’l arbitration
President Susilo Bambang Yu-dhoyono is telling his ministers to prepare for the worst after the government recently entered into arbitration with an international mining company.
Canadian miner's complaint can proceed under El Salvador law
Canadian company Pacific Rim can move forward under El Salvador law with a case against that country's government for blocking a gold mining project, but cannot file suit under a regional trade agreement, a World Bank arbitration panel ruled.
Churchill Mining files international arbitration against Indonesia
Churchill Mining (LON:CHL) said it has now filed for international arbitration in its dispute regarding the East Kutai coal project (EKCP) in Indonesia, 75 per cent owned by Churchill.
Canadian human rights report on Colombia a 'sick joke'
The Canadian government’s human rights report tabled in Parliament Tuesday regarding implementation of the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement might as well have been a comic strip of three monkeys: "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil."
‘Malaysia-Australia FTA on track despite Lynas issue’
The issue of the Lynas rare earth plant will not disrupt the proposed Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations between Malaysia and Australia, said International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed.
N.S. aims to bar key industries from trade deal
Nova Scotia is trying to protect its liquor monopoly and its mining, forestry and fishing and gambling industries from a new free trade agreement between Canada and Europe.
MAC applauds progress by Canadian government in the Americas
The Mining Association of Canada today offered congratulations to the federal government on the formal entry into force of the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement effective August 15 2011.
Govt urged to put marble products in FTA with China
All Pakistan Marble Mining Processing Industry and Exporters Association (APMMPIEA) demanded the government make semi-processed/un-finished tiles, slabs, some marble and granite and onyx products, part of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with China.
First a gold rush, then the lawyers
Pacific Rim is suing the Salvadoran government in an international investment court, one of scores of cases in recent years in which frustrated oil, gas and mining investors, using provisions of trade agreements, have sought to recoup losses from mostly developing countries.