Australia
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13-Apr-2018 Sydney Morning Herald
Australian meeting clears way for UK trade deal after Brexit
British officials will fly to Canberra for a “working group” on the free trade agreement, amid hopes on both sides that a deal will commence as soon as Britain leaves the European Union at the end of 2020.
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13-Apr-2018 9 News
Turnbull to push free trade deal with EU
Mr Turnbull is expected to discuss plans for a free trade agreement with Chancellor Angela Merkel. Ms Merkel running Europe’s largest economy and a key voice at the EU.
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6-Apr-2018 Xinhua
Free trade talks between Indonesia, Australia expected to complete by August
Negotiation of free trade agreements between Indonesia and Australia is expected to be completed by August of this year, Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Darmin Nasution said here on Friday.
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27-Mar-2018 News.com.au
Call for Australian trade agreement with Britain as Brexit begins
As the date for Brexit looms, trade minister Steven Ciobo is in London for talks on strengthening free trade ties with Britain.
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22-Mar-2018 International Centre for Trade & Sustainable Development
Australia, ASEAN leaders pledge commitment to free trade, highlight regional cooperation
Leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Australia met in Sydney on 18 March to discuss the next steps for their Strategic Partnership, initiated in 2014, with regional trade agreements, digital trade, and sustainable urbanisation high on the agenda.
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20-Mar-2018 Antara News
Indonesia, Australia strive to complete CEPA
The Governments of Indonesia and Australia are seeking to immediately complete the Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (IA-CEPA) negotiations, as they seek the grounds that hampered the negotiations.
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19-Mar-2018 Jakarta Post
Australia hopes Indonesia will join TPP-11
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has expressed hope that Indonesia will one day join the revamped Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), popularly known as TPP-11.
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16-Mar-2018 Today Online
Singapore, Australia to redouble efforts to conclude RCEP ‘most desirably’ within this year
Just a week after signing the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) with nine other countries, Singapore and Australia vowed to “redouble” efforts to conclude an ambitious free-trade agreement among 16 Asia-Pacific countries this year.
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12-Mar-2018 South China Morning Post
Fears tobacco giants will use TPP to sue Australia over plain packaging as secrecy shrouds legal costs in Philip Morris case
Political party says the newly signed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact, which contains similar clauses to the Hong Kong deal, could prompt more costly challenges in The Hague
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7-Mar-2018 SBS
Indonesia-Aust trade pact talks push out
Canberra and Jakarta are unlikely to finalise a free trade deal ahead of the Indonesian president’s visit to Australia for a leaders summit.
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26-Feb-2018 Taiwan News
The ’Indo-Pacific Strategy’ emerges as a counter to China’s ’One Belt, One Road’
A Japanese official speaking in Washington discussed conditions for Japan’s participation in China’s BRI project, while also suggesting China seek a partner role in the emerging ’Indo-Pacific Strategy’.
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21-Feb-2018 AFTINET
Revised TPP-11 text is largely unchanged: independent assessment and Senate Inquiry needed
Many of the most harmful clauses remain.
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19-Feb-2018 Bangkok Post
Moving forward in global trade
Thailand has entered into negotiations for a number of free trade agreements (FTA). Its first FTA was the Asean Free Trade Area, signed in 1992. The country has six FTAs with India, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Peru and Chile.
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12-Feb-2018 Xinhua
Australia, Peru sign free trade agreement
Under the deal, tariffs on 99 percent of Australian goods exported to Peru will be eliminated within five years.
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8-Feb-2018 ICTSD
Pacific Alliance, associate members advance trade talks, eye new economic opportunities
The talks brought together officials from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and Singapore with the Pacific Alliance coalition made up of four Latin American countries – Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru.
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7-Feb-2018 EJIL: Talk!
United in mixity? The future of the EU common commercial policy in light of the CJEU’s recent case law
The European Commission reportedly proposed a model for the fast track ratification of trade deals that should be applied for the first time to the new trade agreements with Australia and New Zealand.
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30-Jan-2018 Food Magazine
Gold Coast hosts second round of Pacific Alliance Free Trade Agreement negotiations
Australia is currently hosting the second round of Pacific Alliance Free Trade Agreement negotiations.
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26-Jan-2018 Sydney Morning Herald
How about showing us the TPP deal we’re about to sign?
There’s no way to tell what’s in the revised Trans-Pacific Partnership deal until we’ve seen the text, and we won’t see it until after it’s signed, in Chile on March 8.
