{"id":16767,"date":"2026-01-19T15:23:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T14:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/?p=16767"},"modified":"2026-04-21T19:20:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:20:00","slug":"canada-and-indonesia-conclude-cepa-with-modernized-investor-state-dispute-provisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/2026\/01\/19\/canada-and-indonesia-conclude-cepa-with-modernized-investor-state-dispute-provisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada and Indonesia Conclude CEPA with Modernized Investor\u2013State Dispute Provisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada and Indonesia have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pm.gc.ca\/en\/news\/news-releases\/2025\/09\/24\/prime-minister-carney-announces-new-trade-agreement-indonesia\">concluded<\/a> a new Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canasean.com\/post\/canada-indonesia-cepa-full-text-released\">CEPA<\/a>), establishing an updated framework for trade and investment relations between both countries. It is expected to take effect after ratification in 2026. The Investment Chapter of the CEPA incorporates modern investor\u2013state dispute settlement provisions, including explicit rules on the consolidation of claims, transparency, limits on frivolous claims, and acknowledgement of state regulatory rights.<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips15','Association of Southeast Asian Nations'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips16','Asociaci\u00f3n de Naciones del Sudeste Asi\u00e1tico'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips23','Association des nations de l\u2019Asie du Sud-Est'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips67','Energy Charter Treaty'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips76','multilateral investment court'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips116','European Commission'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada and Indonesia have concluded a new Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), establishing an updated framework for trade and investment relations between both countries.<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips76','multilateral investment court'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips116','European Commission'); <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":16972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[397],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17314,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16767\/revisions\/17314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}