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Indonesia’s digital economy commitments in EU and RCEP trade agreements
4-Nov-2021     Transnational Institute
In recent years, Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) have started to include rules for the digital economy as a result of pressure from Big Tech. This summary analyses the most important points being negotiated by Indonesia with the European Union and RCEP.
Debunking government claims on RCEP
3-Nov-2021     Rappler
As Trade Justice Pilipinas articulated in an earlier statement: “RCEP will further prop up a broken economic model that we need to radically transform in favor of one that is more resilient.”
Missing from the climate talks: Corporate powers to sue governments over extractives policies
2-Nov-2021     Inequality.org
Allowing oil, mining, and gas companies to continue to file expensive lawsuits over environmental regulations could undermine whatever agreements might be reached in the COP26 in Glasgow.
Fossil fuel companies claiming 18bn against government climate action in secret courts
28-Oct-2021     Global Justice Now
Courts allow big polluters to sue governments into “a state of climate paralysis”, campaigners say.
Old wine in new bottles – why the NZ-UK free trade agreement fails to confront the challenges of a post-COVID world
27-Oct-2021     The Conversation
The price of allowing this FTA to proceed without open public and media debate is just too high. Another TPPA-style agreement will lock us into the failed neoliberal project of the 20th century.
Parliament passes RCEP enabling legislation, despite acknowledging flaws in the agreement
26-Oct-2021     AFTINET
The government will now proceed with the ratification process by exchanging letters with RCEP governments as required by the agreement.
Jane Kelsey: Such a good free trade greement with the UK, we aren't allowed to read it
25-Oct-2021     NZ Herald
With the release of an Agreement in Principle for a New Zealand United Kingdom free trade agreement we are once again left shadow boxing with a deal whose text we aren't allowed to see.
Colombia: Environmental defenders criticise ISDS tribunal decision favouring Canadian mining giant
13-Oct-2021     AFTINET
While the tribunal has yet to make a decision about compensation to be paid, Eco Oro Minerals is claiming nearly $700 USD million.
The false hopes and empty promises of investment treaty modernization
13-Oct-2021     The Monitor
A Canadian company’s successful challenge to a precautionary mining ban in Colombia shows how little investor–state dispute panels care about the right to regulate.
Transnational corporations and free trade in Mexico
11-Oct-2021     TNI
This report examines how, over the last 30 years, Mexico has become one of the main industrial paradises on the planet.