ISDS Case Map
UK
United Kingdom
The hearing will delve into whether Britain's fishing ban violates the Trade and Cooperation Agreement with the European Union.
Britain's Secretary of State for Business and Trade plans to visit India next month with a focus on finalising the Free Trade Agreement.
Tanzania and British developer Pennyroyal Limited could find themselves back to the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) after talks between the two parties failed to yield an agreement.
The prime minister wants talks with the new US president’s team to start in the weeks ahead.
The negotiations on a free trade agreement between India and the UK are expected to resume in early February, after months of pause due to the general election in the UK, a senior official said.
The UK government told Parliament that the Free Trade Agreement talks with India have been relaunched to deliver a joint ambition of taking the bilateral relationship to even greater heights.
Trade deals can allow international corporations to trample over the rights of governments in the Global South. That is the message from the Colombian government, which describes the effect of such deals as a “bloodbath” for their national sovereignty.
The European Commission decided to refer the United Kingdom to the Court of Justice of the European Union for failing to terminate the Bilateral Investment Treaties that it still has in force with Bulgaria, Czechia, Croatia, Lithuania, Poland and Slovenia.
British High Commissioner to Pakistan Jane Marriott indicated that the United Kingdom may consider a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Pakistan in the future, noting that the current trade volume of £4.1 billion is at its lowest and requires improvement.
US industry ready to drop demand to export chlorinated chicken and hormone-fed beef in move set to anger British farmers.
