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UK seeks to prepare FTA with Ukraine by mid-2019
29-Aug-2018 Interfax
The United Kingdom is ready to talks with Ukraine on the bilateral free trade agreement that would regulate trade and economic relations after Brexit.
China, UK mulling FTA
29-Aug-2018 The Japan News
China and Britain have agreed to look at the possibility of reaching a “top notch” free trade agreement after Britain leaves the European Union, China’s Commerce Ministry said on Saturday after talks with British trade minister, Liam Fox.
Why CETA is no better
20-Aug-2018 New Internationalist
CETA is not ‘just’ a trade deal. It is about empowering corporations, undermining sensible regulations and locking in privatization.
Oil firms use secretive court hearing in bid to stop Vietnam taxing their profits
16-Aug-2018 The Guardian
ConocoPhillips and Perenco try to stop £140m levy from sale of oilfields in key case for tax avoidance by multinationals.
Five red flags for food, farming and fair trade under the UK’s new Brexit plan
6-Aug-2018 IATP
“Brexit” presents a number of significant risks to the future of sustainable food and agriculture in both the UK and the EU.
One hundred years of expropriation without compensation
4-Aug-2018 Expropriate
On 29 July 1918, the British judiciary proffered the Empire’s most expressly and egregiously racist justification for the land dispossession of indigenous peoples. Today, an ICSID tribunal continues that mission. No matter which way Zimbabwean’s turn at the polls, they’re still paying for their invasion and occupation by Cecil Rhodes’ British South Africa company...
A leading think tank brokered access to ministers for US donors looking to influence Brexit
31-Jul-2018 The Ecologist
Britain’s most prominent free-market think tank is offering to broker access to senior politicians for foreign donors seeking to influence the course of Brexit and a potential US-UK free trade deal, a new report reveals
China offers to open discussions on post-Brexit trade deal - Jeremy Hunt
30-Jul-2018 Reuters
China has offered to open discussions on a post-Brexit free trade deal with Britain, British Foreign Minister Jeremy Hunt said in Beijing on Monday.
UK set to start domestic consultation on first free-trade deals, including with NZ
19-Jul-2018 NZ Herald
The British Government has authorised preparations to begin for free-trade negotiations with New Zealand, Australia and the United States and to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans Pacific Partnership
EU FTA almost dead, India now eyes post-Brexit UK
19-Jul-2018 Times of India
The India-EU free trade agreement is on the verge of death. The two sides are expected to formally state, in diplomatic language, that FTA talks may no longer be resumed.
TPP countries to start accession talks for new members in 2019
19-Jul-2018 The Mainichi
Thailand, Indonesia, Columbia, South Korea and Taiwan are seen as willing to join the revised TPP. Britain has also shown interest.
Donald Trump says free trade deal with UK won’t happen if it proceeds with current Brexit plans
13-Jul-2018 Global News
US President Donald Trump said a free trade deal with Britain might be impossible if it went ahead with Prime Minister Theresa May’s proposals for post-Brexit ties with the European Union
UK-India trade review calls for flexibility on food standards and chemical rules
12-Jul-2018 Unearthed
Confidential document details complaints over EU rules on imports such as rice and paneer ahead of prospective post-Brexit trade talks.
Turkish government taken to international tribunal
12-Jul-2018 The Guardian
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s regime accused of illegally seizing company assets and breaching investment treaties involving Britain and other EU states.
Dodgy trade deals like CETA threaten UK workers
27-Jun-2018 Red Pepper
The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement enshrines the right of corporations to make profit - whatever the cost to real people.
Red meat quotas a likely sticking point when NZ-EU FTA talks get underway
19-Jun-2018 Stuff
Agricultural exports into Europe look set to be a hurdle facing New Zealand diplomats when negotiations for free trade agreements with the European Union and Great Britain get started.
Georgia-UK launch free-trade agreement consultations
8-Jun-2018 The Messenger
The Georgian Economy Minister Dimitry Kumsishvili announced that technical consultations on the free trade agreement with Britain will start by the end of 2018.
Australia’s ’hormone beef’ not to Brexit Britain’s taste: report
6-Jun-2018 Sydney Morning Herald
One of Australia’s supposed key demands for a free trade deal with the UK – their agreeing to buy our hormone-treated beef – is “almost impossible” for the UK to agree to, according to a new report by an anti-Brexit think tank.
Chicken safety fear as chlorine washing fails bacteria tests
28-May-2018 The Guardian
British microbiologists find that American technique at heart of Brexit trade row does not kill listeria and salmonella
UK foreign secretary seeks trade agreements in Chile, Latin America
24-May-2018 Reuters
Britain’s Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson concluded a five-day charm offensive in Latin America by expressing interest in a trade agreement with Chile and other countries in Latin America’s so-called Pacific Alliance.