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RCEP

Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (ASEAN+6)

RCEP meet: focus on investor-state dispute
Deccan Herald | 3-Aug-2016
RCEP trade ministers will meet in Laos on August 5 to try and resolve issues that are stuck in negotiations.
keywords: investor-state disputes | ISDS , RCEP
China-led trade agreement shrouded in deeper secrecy
NZ Herald | 13-Jun-2016
Secretive negotiations for the China-led Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP began in November 2012. The 13th round is being held at SkyCity in Auckland.
keywords: investor-state disputes | ISDS , New Zealand , RCEP
Signing away sovereignty
TNI | 24-May-2016
The Philippines has a web of investment treaties which severely constrain the government’s ability to regulate or close polluting mines, a legal straitjacket that will become even tighter if the EU–Philippines Free Trade Agreement and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) proceed
keywords: actions | resistance , EU , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Philippines , RCEP
RCEP - draft investment chapter (October 2015)
KEI | 22-Apr-2016
As leaked by KEI
keywords: FTAs (texts of) , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , RCEP
RCEP draft text for investment chapter, October 16, 2015 version
KEI | 22-Apr-2016
Overall, the investment chapter is designed to give private parties the right to extract costly damages from governments that implement policies that harm profits.
keywords: investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , RCEP
RCEP threatens tax policies in India and other 15 countries
Public Services International | 1-Mar-2016
New report shows that trade and investment deals like RCEP will further adversely affect the ability of the government of India to tax corporations effectively and fairly.
keywords: actions | resistance , finance | banking | taxes , India , investor-state disputes | ISDS , RCEP
RCEP: India to propose mechanism to resolve non-tariff measures
Financial Express | 6-Jan-2016
India is set to propose a non-legal and non-adversarial mechanism to resolve trade-impeding non-tariff measures among the 16 Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) countries.
keywords: India , investor-state disputes | ISDS , RCEP
RCEP - draft chapter on investment (Oct 2015)
RCEP Legal | 17-Oct-2015
As leaked on RCEP Legal
keywords: FTAs (texts of) , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , leaks , RCEP
Update on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement – NGO briefing
AFTINET | 14-Sep-2015
While RCEP was initially framed as an agreement that would be more flexible for low and middle income countries, there is evidence that some governments from industrialised countries are seeking to pursue aspects which would be very damaging for developing countries.
keywords: actions | resistance , intellectual property , investor-state disputes | ISDS , medicines , RCEP