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The EU-Chile advanced framework agreement: a brief analysis of the investment protection provisions
3-Mar-2023 Lexology
The advanced framework agreement’s investment protection provisions include many of the substantive obligations that are common in international investment agreement.
EU recovers appetite for trade in green industry push
31-Jan-2023 Reuters
The European Union is aiming to enact up to five trade deals in record time to ensure its future as a clean tech leader, by securing supplies of key raw materials, increasing markets for green exports and reducing its reliance on China.
EU-Chile FTA text (2022)
16-Jan-2023 European Commission
Chile becomes 10th nation to ratify TPP
2-Jan-2023 Jiji
The Chilean government informed New Zealand, the depository for the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, that it has completed ratification procedures for the free trade pact.
French livestock farmers not pleased with EU-Chile deal
2-Jan-2023 Euractiv
French livestock farmers have criticised the recently agreed EU-Chile trade agreement, which slashes most tariffs between both trading blocs, as it allows Chile to trade without having to respect the same standards that bind EU member states.
The new trade agreement between Chile and the EU must be stopped
13-Dec-2022 America Latina Mejor sin TLC
Joint statement by the Platform "Chile without Free Trade Agreements" network, MPs and social organizations.
EU, Chile conclude negotiations on new trade agreement
12-Dec-2022 Euractiv
Twenty years after their first free trade agreement concluded, Chile and the EU concluded negotiations on a new, more far-reaching “Advanced Framework Agreement” that slashes most tariffs.
Chile to sign modernization of bilateral agreement with the EU next week
7-Dec-2022 Reuters
Chile’s President said that the minister of foreign affairs will travel to Brussels at the end of the week to sign a modernization of a bilateral agreement with the European Union.
209 Civil Society Organisations say: EU trade deals must not undermine democratic rights
24-Nov-2022 S2B Network
We civil society organizations vehemently oppose the splitting of trade deals, which would circumvent existing concerns about the negative implications of these deals on biodiversity, climate change and human rights issues.
China’s bid to join digital economy pact hinges on clarification of data laws, experts say
7-Nov-2022 South China Morning Post
A special task force has been set up to negotiate China’s membership application for the Digital Economy Partnership Agreement but Beijing must clarify data laws if it wants to negotiate carve-outs that allow it to maintain digital sovereignty, experts say.
Chile is hopeful of signing a modernized trade agreement with the EU in November
27-Oct-2022 MSN
Chile’s Foreign Minister has expressed hope that a modernized trade agreement with the European Union will be concluded by November at the latest after years of being blocked on the table.
Korea, Chile agree to resume FTA upgrade talks this year
12-Oct-2022 Korea JoongAng Daily
Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo held talks with Chilean President Gabriel Boric on Tuesday and agreed to resume negotiations this year to upgrade a bilateral free trade agreement that went into effect in 2004.
Chilean lawmakers approve Trans-Pacific Partnership
12-Oct-2022 Reuters
Chile’s congress voted to approve the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) trade deal after four years of legislative debate.
The false makeup for the TPP-11: the “side letters”
4-Oct-2022 América Latina Mejor Sin TLC
The impacts that TPP-11 will have then must be analyzed in an integral way, not by chapters. For years now, from various academic and social sectors, we have been explaining that agreements such as the TPP-11 are negative in their entirety.
No to TPP-11! Chile’s battle for sovereignty
3-Oct-2022 Pressenza
The recent experience of the countries that have already ratified the TPP-11 and begun to operate, has demonstrated the character of this treaty and its pro-business tribunals, which is nothing more than an insurance for large corporations on their profits and markets.
State of play in EU trade policy
23-Aug-2022 Euractiv
After a slow year, the EU’s free trade agenda is picking up speed under the Czech EU Council presidency. Nevertheless, more momentum still seems to be on the unilateral trade measures currently being negotiated in the bloc.
Social movement reflections on FTAs in the new Chilean constitution
26-May-2022 bilaterals.org
Interview with Chilean activist Lucía Sepúlveda Ruiz.
Spain calls for a quick ratification of EU trade agreements with Chile, Mexico and Mercosur, but what else is needed?
18-May-2022 MercoPress
Spanish foreign minister Jose Manuel Albares called on his EU peers to definitively advance in the ratification of the trade accords of the European Union with Chile, Mexico and Mercosur.
EU wants to sign stalled trade agreements, but with Mercosur objections persist
13-May-2022 MercoPress
The European Union aims to finalize and sign at least three stalled trade agreements this year as the bloc looks to reinforce strategic alliances amid the turmoil caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Russian war leads EU bloc to push for faster trade deals
6-May-2022 Bloomberg
A group of European Union countries are pushing to kick start negotiations on stalled free-trade agreements as Russia’s war with Ukraine threatens the bloc’s economic and security interests.