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Canadian mining company reorganizes to seek damages from Costa Rica
Tico Times | 21-Jan-2016
Infinito announced that it has secured funding from a lender to continue pursuing damages stemming from Costa Rica’s cancellation of the firm’s gold mining concession in 2011.
keywords: Canada , Costa Rica , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining
Lametti on CETA: ’We’ll get this deal to work’
Embassy | 21-Jan-2016
CETA, China, softwood lumber among government’s top trade priorities for 2016. Canada’s government is willing to address ISDS concerns.
keywords: Canada , China , CPTPP , EU , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Investissement : La Tunisie condamnée pour la première fois par le Cirdi
Kapitalis | 15-Jan-2016
La Tunisie a été condamnée pour la première fois de son histoire par le Centre international pour le règlement des différends relatifs aux investissements (CIRDI).
keywords: energy , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Sweden , Tunisia
More than 500 civil society organisations from Myanmar express their concerns about the Investment Protection Agreement with the EU
TNI | 14-Jan-2016
Letter from civil society organizations in Myanmar to EC Commissioner Malmström.
keywords: actions | resistance , EU , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Myanmar
Canada-India free trade agreement talks delayed
The Hindu | 14-Jan-2016
Canada asks officials to focus on TPP ratification instead; wants India to first ink bilateral investment pact.
keywords: Canada , India , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Global economy moved one step forward, one step back in 2015
Market Watch | 14-Jan-2016
The problem of TPP is with the “investment” chapter, which severely constrains environmental, health, and safety regulation, and even financial regulations with significant macroeconomic impacts.
keywords: climate , CPTPP , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Le retour du commerce administré menace le libre-échange
Les Echos | 14-Jan-2016
L’accord sur le climat ou la création d’une nouvelle banque de développement par les BRICS l’an dernier vont influer sur 2016. Mais le vrai enjeu, moins médiatique, ce sont les accords commerciaux restrictifs qui s’annoncent.
keywords: climate , CPTPP , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Rafael Correa anuncia que Ecuador asumirá los ‘pasivos’ de Oxy
El Universo | 13-Jan-2016
Ecuador alcanzó un acuerdo de pago con la empresa petrolera estadounidense Occidental (Oxy), anunció ayer (9-1) el presidente Rafael Correa, en el enlace sabatino 458, transmitido desde Malchinguí, Pichincha.
keywords: Ecuador , ICSID , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Rafael Correa announces that Ecuador will assume Oxy’s “liabilities”
El Universo | 13-Jan-2016
President Rafael Correa announced that Ecuador has reached a payment plan with the US oil company, Occidental (Oxy)
keywords: Ecuador , ICSID , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Who has benefited financially from investment treaty arbitration?
SSRN | 13-Jan-2016
The beneficiaries of ISDS have overwhelmingly been companies with more than USD1 billion in annual revenue and individuals with more than USD100 million in net wealth.
keywords: investor-state disputes | ISDS