ISDS Case Map
Russia
Dhaka and Moscow on Tuesday expressed their willingness to sign a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) to further bolster bilateral trade during a meeting between Russian envoy and Bangladesh's foreign minister
The US government and Russia have amended their five-year bilateral poultry and pork trade agreement with protections that should limit disruptions to trade, the US Trade Representative said.
Korea wants to offset the expected slowdown in growth next year by expanding free trade pacts with Russia and South America's Mercosur members, a government official said yesterday.
Georgian Minister of Economic Development Ekaterina Sharashidze said last week that the US and Georgia will explore the possibility of a bilateral free trade agreement during a US delegation's visit to Georgia this month.
India finds itself increasingly on the defensive in agricultural trade for permitting field trials across the country in a host of genetically modified food crops -- rice, brinjal, okra, potato, tomato and groundnuts -- and thereby exposing conventional crops to the risk of transgenic contamination. A case in point is a rather dodgy no-contamination certificate that the regulator, Genetic Engineering Approval Committee, was forced to give two months ago in response to a restriction imposed by Russia on import of rice, groundnuts and sesame seeds from India.
Major US exporters urged the Bush administration to begin negotiations with the "BRIC" nations -- Brazil, Russia, India and China -- on bilateral investment treaties, which they said were critical to US service company efforts to tap those large markets.
The Russian government presented three days ago a draft law stipulating that selling the shares of any strategic company to foreign investors is prohibited unless it is approved by a special governmental committee headed by the Prime Minister.
Korea has agreed with Russia to launch study group talks on a bilateral free trade agreement in September.
The Indo-Russian Joint Study Group (JSG) has finalised its report proposing a set of recommendations to boost bilateral trade to US$ 10 billion in two years, according to officials.
India and Russia have decided to explore signing a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement that will include not only features of an FTA but also trade in services and investment.
