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Food retailers seek UK-EU free trade agreement
28-Mar-2017 Tax-news
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) and other food industry representative bodies have called on the UK Government to secure two-way tariff-free trade with the EU in Brexit discussions.
A trade war is brewing inside the White House between rival camps
28-Mar-2017 Los Angeles Times
Soon after President Trump took office, an executive order was quietly drafted to suspend trade talks with China but the executive order never even got to the president’s desk.
Gulf Arab states push for UK free trade deal after Brexit: officials
28-Mar-2017 Reuters
Gulf Arab states are pressing for an early deal on free trade with Britain to secure preferential arrangements after Brexit, and could have a draft agreement ready within months.
How to understand globalization: not nations, but class
28-Mar-2017 The Real News Network
The question is often posed whether trade and investment is a zero sum game among nations. South Centre Chief Economist Yilmaz Akyuz says he does not think nations are the correct focus here.
U.S. court upholds award to miner Crystallex in Venezuela dispute
27-Mar-2017 Reuters
A U.S. court has upheld an award by a World Bank Tribunal that orders Venezuela to pay more than $1 billion to Canadian mining company Crystallex, paving the way for the firm to seize assets for the 2008 expropriation of the Las Cristinas gold project.
Joint EU-Mercosur communique following the XXVIIth round of negotiations
27-Mar-2017 European Commission
Significant progress was achieved regarding the negotiating text in the three parts of the future Association Agreement between both regions: Trade Part, Political Dialogue and Bi-Regional Cooperation.
New Zealand and China plan to expand free-trade deal
27-Mar-2017 Bloomberg
New Zealand and China announced they would open talks soon to expand a successful free-trade deal in place for nearly a decade.
Nigeria pushes for investment treaty with Japan
27-Mar-2017 Nikkei
Government eager for expertise and capital from electronics and machinery makers.
Tribunal dismisses Eli Lilly’s NAFTA challenge on promise utility doctrine
27-Mar-2017 Lexology
The Tribunal found that Eli Lilly had failed to demonstrate that the promise doctrine constitutes a fundamental or dramatic change in the utility requirement under Canadian patent law or that the promise doctrine is arbitrary and/or discriminatory.
India offering ’far deeper’ proposals in RCEP: Commerce Secretary
27-Mar-2017 Press Trust of India
Commerce Secretary Rita Teaotia also said India will give more concessions in RCEP than any other country will do.
Renco failed to comply with formal waiver requirement under US–Peru Trade Promotion Agreement
26-Mar-2017 IISD
Renco alleged that Peru breached its TPA obligations to afford fair and equitable treatment and national treatment, as well as certain contractual obligations.
SOL comments to the EU delegation to SA’ press release of 16 March 2017
25-Mar-2017 SOL
South African poultry producers are fully justified to accuse the EU of dumping.
S’pore watching how TPP develops, will continue talks with other partners: PM Lee
24-Mar-2017 Today Online
Despite the uncertainty hanging over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) after the United States’ formal withdrawal, Singapore will continue its preparations to ratify the trade pact.
TransCanada Keystone XL rejection lawsuit dropped - arbitrator
24-Mar-2017 Reuters
Transcanada Corp’s legal challenge against the United States over its past rejection of Keystone XL pipeline has been dropped.
China FTA review should ditch controversial clause
24-Mar-2017 Scoop
China FTA review should ditch controversial temporary worker clause, says AFTINET.
Romania - the end of intra-EU bilateral investment treaties
24-Mar-2017 Lexology
The law approving the termination of agreements on mutual promotion and protection of investments concluded by Romania with other Member States (Intra-EU BITs) was published in the Official Gazette.
FTA brightens prospects of Vietnamese footwear products
24-Mar-2017 Vietnamnet Bridge
Prospects are bright for Vietnam’s footwear exports after the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement comes into force in 2018.
The subsidies to the EU exports of cereal products to West Africa in 2015 and 2016
24-Mar-2017 SOL
The EU-West Africa’s Economic Partnership Agreement has planned to reduce to 0 the import duty on non-rice cereal imports from the European Union at the beginning of the liberalization period.
International investment law and arbitration: a conceptual framework
24-Mar-2017 International Law and Litigation
Investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) has become the most controversial form of international litigation.
Japanese ambassador cautions versus haste in concluding RCEP
24-Mar-2017 Manila Bulletin
Japan cautioned against haste in the conclusion of the proposed RCEP stressing “substance is more important than timing.”