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Ag starts to come into focus in next round of UK trade talks
28-Oct-2020 Beef Central
Sensitive topics including agriculture are likely to start to come into greater focus in the next round of free trade agreement negotiations between the United Kingdom and Australia.
Australia says it’s ready to talk to China about their trade dispute
19-Oct-2020 CNBC
Australia wants dialogue with China to resolve their trade dispute and clear up any misunderstandings with its largest trading partner, Australian agriculture minister David Littleproud told CNBC Friday.
Vietnam continues institutional reform as part of EVFTA commitment
13-Oct-2020 Vietnam Plus
Vietnam is continuing its institutional reform commitments made in the historic EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) in an aim to boost exports of agricultural products and attract more investment from the EU trading bloc.
Campaigners in last-ditch push to protect farming standards post-Brexit
12-Oct-2020 The Guardian
Farmers say UK food safety and animal welfare could be compromised as agriculture bill returns to parliament
Britain open to Aussie-style EU trade deal but Australia wants more
5-Oct-2020 Reuters
Australia is far from happy with its arrangements with the EU and is pushing for the better market access that only a fully-fledged trade deal with the wealthy 27-member bloc would bring.
Petition: No to poisonous pork, fight for health and democracy
5-Oct-2020 No Poison Pig
People cannot accept the sacrifice of democratic values, people’s health, and farmers’ interests in exchange for the opportunity of trade negotiations between Taiwan and the US.
The future is digital, but we should keep digital chapters out of our trade deals
1-Oct-2020 Equal Times
We must ensure that, as we enter a new phase in the digital disruption of the economy, we do not shackle our democratic institutions from regulating the digital sphere.
CETA deal has delivered lopsided trade flows: CAFTA
25-Sep-2020 Real Agriculture
Canadian exporters are fed up with the EU using non-tariff trade barriers, red tape, and protectionist measures to keep Canadian products out of the Union.
Trade deals handing Japanese seeds to multinational corporations
24-Sep-2020 GRAIN
Japan need a policy that is based on a major shift from industrial agriculture to agroecology by small farmers. For this to be possible Japan must pull out of TPP and other similar FTAs.
Neoliberal obesity and coronavirus in Mexico
21-Sep-2020 Al Jazeera
American capital brought high rates of chronic disease to Mexico which has led to a surging COVID-19 death toll.
UK FTA could be on horizon
21-Sep-2020 Phnom Penh Post
Cambodia and the UK have vowed to boost their bilateral trade as the Kingdom looks to establish a bilateral free trade agreement with the country.
Joint declaration by European farmers: No to EU-Mercosur agreement
21-Sep-2020 La Via Campesina
Peasants and farmers in Europe want a fresh start for a trade policy that enables fair prices, protects the climate and secures human rights, instead of just trying to fix the current model!
India seeks market concession for rice, access for grapes, pomegranates from South Korea
18-Sep-2020 Economic Times
India will seek concessions for its rice exports to South Korea as Seoul levies a whopping 513% tariff on imported rice and buys rice from only five countries under its tariff rate quota regime.
Trade deal with US unlikely before November presidential elections: India
15-Sep-2020 The Economic Times
The two aim for a free trade agreement (FTA) in the long run and have been working on an initial trade deal for almost two years amid a plethora of bilateral issues ranging from medical devices, agriculture, Harley Davidson motorbikes, e-commerce, totalisation pact, visa issues and disputes at the World Trade Organization.
Free trade agreements define the way our agricultural exporters do business
14-Sep-2020 Food & Beverage
Australia’s agricultural export performance over the past 15 years has been supported by the proliferation of free trade agreements.
EU agrees to cut taxes on US lobsters in modest trade pact
11-Sep-2020 AP
The EU agreed to drop its 8% tariff on US lobsters while the US agreed to cut in half tariffs on EU imports, including some prepared meals, crystal glassware and cigarette lighters.
Mukhisa says planned Kenya-US trade deal unfavourable
11-Sep-2020 The Star
The Donald Trump’s administration is seeking abolition of import duty on agricultural exports to Kenya.
British farmers will be trampled in the rush for free trade deals
11-Sep-2020 The Guardian
Farmers were once part of the Tories’ national identity, but this government’s Brexit strategy will ruin many
The red carpet investments in the middle of a pandemic result in crisis of people’s sovereignty
11-Sep-2020 Indonesia for Global Justice
Indonesian CSOs assesses the national economic recovery strategy by strengthening policies economic liberalization focusing only on investment and exports will only be increasingly open space for corporate monopoly on economic resources.
Between free trade and local markets: Thailand’s attempt to enter CPTPP negotiations meets opposition again
11-Sep-2020 GRAIN
In this time of Covid-19, free trade negotiations have not subsided, and are even increasing. In Thailand the government is trying again to join the CPTPP.