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22-avr-2024 MSN
Beijing lobbying for Hong Kong to join world’s biggest free-trade pact this year : minister
Hong Kong is expected to join the RCEP this year despite past delays, as Beijing lobbies all member states to speed up the approval process for the city, the local commerce chief has said.
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19-avr-2024 Inter Press Service
Trade deception returns in Pan-Africanist guise
The World Bank has exaggerated probable gains from the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) to promote partial and uneven trade liberalisation that is unlikely to enhance development on the continent.
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16-avr-2024 The Hindu
TEPA’s IP encroachment : A new barrier to indigenous innovation
The new approach to intellectual property and investment through FTAs accepts an IP maximalist agenda of the United States Trade Representative ; it threatens to upset the fine balance between public and private interests and push India away from essential innovations.
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12-avr-2024 The East African
US senators introduce bill to renew AGOA through 2041
A bipartisan group of senators has introduced a bill to renew the US trade pact with Sub-Saharan Africa ahead of its expiration next year, an aide to one of the senators said on Thursday.
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12-avr-2024 Global Justice Now
Podcast : The secret world of investor courts
The Secret World of Investor Courts is a podcast made by the Global Justice Now Youth Network, exploring corporate power, colonialism and climate justice.
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12-avr-2024 Money Control
8th round of India-Peru Trade Agreement talks likely in June 2024
India and Peru recently concluded the seventh round of talks for a proposed free trade agreement that took place in New Delhi, India from April 8 to April 11, 2024.
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12-avr-2024 European Commission
Commission reports on thirteenth negotiation round with five Eastern and Southern African countries to deepen existing EPA
The European Commission has published a report summarising progress made during the latest negotiation round to deepen the existing Economic Partnership Agreement with five Eastern and Southern African partners.
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11-avr-2024 bilaterals.org
Protocole sur le commerce numérique de la ZLECAf : Des problèmes critiques dévoilés
Dans les eaux troubles de l’économie numérique, où l’innovation technologique dépasse les cadres réglementaires, le protocole sur le commerce numérique de la Zone de libre-échange continentale africaine soulève de profondes inquiétudes.
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10-avr-2024 International organisations
100 organizations from around the world call on Ecuador to defend its sovereignty against international arbitration : No to ISDS !
Various organisations express their support for Ecuador’s rejection of international arbitration tribunals in a gesture of international solidarity.
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10-avr-2024 Deeclaración internacional
100 organizaciones de todo el mundo llaman a Ecuador a defender su soberanía frente al arbitraje internacional : ¡No al ISDS !
En un gesto de solidaridad internacional, diversas organizaciones expresan su respaldo al rechazo de Ecuador hacia los tribunales arbitrales internacionales.
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9-avr-2024 Actu Cameroun
Le Cameroun et le Togo se lancent dans un rapprochement stratégique dans le cadre de la ZLECAF
Les autorités de la République du Togo ont annoncé l’intension des deux pays de renforcer leurs liens commerciaux, pour entrer pleinement dans l’esprit de la Zone de libre-échange continentale.
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9-avr-2024 bilaterals.org
AfCFTA digital trade protocol : Unveiling critical flaws
In the turbulent waters of the digital economy, where technological innovation is outpacing regulatory frameworks, the leaked African Continental Free Trade Area protocol on digital trade raises deep concerns.
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9-avr-2024 CIAR Global
Un empresario portugués presenta el primer arbitraje CIADI contra Angola
El empresario portugués Ricardo Filomeno Duarte Ventura Leitão Machado, propietario de la compañía de proyectos energéticos Aenergia SA, ha presentado una solicitud de arbitraje de inversión contra Angola ante el Centro Internacional de Arreglo de Diferencias relativas a Inversiones (CIADI). Se trata del primer procedimiento que enfrenta el país africano ante este organismo internacional.
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8-avr-2024 The East African
Small firms say AfCFTA tariff liberalization may push them out of business
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is expected to significantly boost intra-Africa trade when fully implemented, but small businesses in East Africa are not happy about it, as it may not bode well for them.
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8-avr-2024 Daily Sun
Brazilian FM welcomes Bangladesh’s interest in Preferential Trade Agreement
Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira welcomed Bangladesh’s interest in reaching a MERCOSUR-Bangladesh Preferential Trade Agreement during a meeting with Bangladeshi foreign ministry officials in Dhaka.
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4-avr-2024 Le Monde Diplomatique
The lucrative world of international arbitration
International investment agreements enable corporations to sue foreign governments for loss of profits. The sums they demand can be so huge that even the threat of a claim is enough to make governments cave in.
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3-avr-2024 El Economista
La UE retrasa firma de TLC con México y el Mercosur
La Unión Europea ha retrasado la aprobación de un Tratado de Libre Comercio con el Mercosur y la modernización de otro TLC con México, mientras avanza la integración derivada de tres grandes acuerdos comerciales ya en vigencia y con gran escala.
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28-mar-2024 Stabroeknews
Guyana now ready to sign new OACP-EU pact – Todd
Having gotten the clarity it sought on areas of concern, Guyana says that it will now sign on to the Samoa Agreement – successor to the Cotonou Agreement that the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (OACPS) has with the European Union (EU).
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28-mar-2024 The Guardian
Macron calls proposed EU-Mercosur trade pact ‘very bad deal’ lacking strong climate commitments
French president tells Brazil forum both parties need to be ‘much stronger’ on biodiversity and climate.
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27-mar-2024 Dzair Tube
Algeria-EU Association Agreement under revision : toward a balanced and mutually beneficial partnership
The Algeria-European Union (EU) Association Agreement, signed in 2002 and implemented in 2005, has long been a subject of contention for Algeria. Its revision is now underway by both parties, marking a significant development in their bilateral relations.