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Dangote Refinery opens opportunity for shipping business, AfCFTA
Dangote Refinery is positioning Nigeria for the AfCFTA, which is also creating new trade opportunities between Nigeria and African countries.
The power of sunset clauses put to the test: Can intra-EU BITs be back from the dead?
There appears to remain a growing demand from investors for the creation of a new European investor-State dispute settlement regime, which would provide a permanent neutral forum for the adjudication of their intra-EU claims.
Deep-sea mining: dispute settlements under international investment law
In part three of our series about international deep-sea mining regulation, Louise Woods and Elena Guillet of Vinson & Elkins explore how international investment law could be applied to dispute resolution.
Secretive court system has awarded over $100bn public money to corporations, finds new analysis
More than $100bn of public money has been awarded to private investors in investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) courts, according to the most comprehensive analysis yet.
US, Indo-Pacific partners holding talks in Singapore on clean energy
The US-led Indo-Pacific Economic Framework is holding a ministerial meeting this week in Singapore, including major firms joining a "Clean Economy" investor forum to boost infrastructure and climate investments across the region.
Between sovereignty and corporate interests: what is at stake in the Ecuadorian referendum?
On 21 April 2024, the government of Daniel Noboa is holding a referendum in Ecuador to amend the country's constitution and, in particular, to reactivate the dangerous investor-state dispute settlement mechanism.
After 30 Years of NAFTA, the Working Classes Are Still Losing
Thirty years after NAFTA came into effect in 1994, the economic data suggests a somber conclusion: The three countries’ working classes are worse off today than they were before
Swiss trade deal: Is India changing its tune on pharma patents?
Intellectual property protection for the Swiss pharmaceutical industry has been a key sticking point in negotiations on a free trade agreement with India. Now there seems to be a breakthrough in talks after 16 years. What’s changed?
Cars v cows: German automakers call to split EU-Mercosur deal to bypass French ‘non’
The EU-Mercosur trade agreement should be split into two distinctive parts to circumvent French resistance based on agricultural issues, the German car industry has proposed, in a bid to boost export markets other than China.
EU urged to conclude Mercosur trade talks amid environmental concerns
A total of 23 trade bodies have called for the swift approval of the EU-Mercosur free trade agreement, which will make it easier to export EU agri-food products including key dairy commodities to Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay and vice versa.