Trade Deals

Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) and ISDS

BITs are agreements between two governments ostensibly designed to promote investment flows and protect international investors

This EU-US deal is the largest ever negotiated, and aims to entrench neoliberal policies and transfer powers to multinational corporations

Although it is an EU trade deal with Canada, CETA could still affect the UK after Brexit

The Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) is a trade deal being negotiated by 50 countries, including the EU member states

The Energy Charter Treaty is a legally-binding plurilateral agreement for the energy industry

The WTO, with 162 member governments, is the only forum in which most of the world’s countries come together to try to negotiate global trade deals

A UK-US trade agreement would present risks from regulatory protections, to privatisation to diplomacy