Hoo boy. Russia looks to be using much demonized (by labor and environmental rights advocates) investor-state dispute settlement provisions to pursue Euroclear.
Read more...Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) provisions in trade pacts – long abused by opportunists – are slowly being rejected by governments.
Read more...The Biden Administration demonstrates it can’t shoot straight with respect to an economic deal meant to counter China.
Read more...Yves here. In the US, Public Citizen deserves a great deal of credit for turning policy-makers against the multinational-favoring, national-law-and-regulation-gutting “free trade agreement known as ISDS, or “investor state dispute settlement. These disputes are arbitrated by secret panels with no appeal and pro-corporate cronies acting as deciders. Public Citizen’s relentless digging got key bad facts […]
Read more...Beijing asked Washington numerous times to partner in the Belt and Road Initiative. Instead the US works against it.
Read more...Aiee, the TPP is back as the CPTPP. Same bad features but no US market access. What’s not to like?
Read more...Why signing up to a US trade deal would mean a loss of sovereignity for the UK.
Read more...Beware! The TPP is still skulking around, rebranded as the CPTPP. As Lambert says, “Kill it with fire”.
Read more...Jomo Kwame Sundaram makes the case against the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership, a free trade agreement that went into effect at the end of 2018, for six of its eleven member countries.
Read more...Why what looks like a trade problem is really a financialization problem, and therefore there are much better solutions than using tariffs.
Read more...Is it the beginning of the end for “Investor-State Dispute Settlement” clauses that have undermined democracies, and specifically, labor and environmental protection?
Read more...TiSA’s effect on professional service and contract labor.
Read more...How TiSA could prevent the delivery of possible universal concrete material benefits, like Medicare for All
Read more...By Lambert Strether of Corrente. In this post, I continue what is starting to feel to me like a Lewis and Clark expedition through the unexplored territory of “trade” “deals”[1], having engaged New Zealand activist Jane Kelsey, who authored the new report TiSA: Foul Play (PDF) as my guide. Because I’m feeling my way into […]
Read more...The extraordinary ambitions of TiSA (the Trade in Services Agreement)
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