As the World Trade Organization (WTO) prepares for its 14th Ministerial Conference in Yaoundé, Cameroon, this March, we must confront the troubling reality of its impact on global trade.
The submission recommends that Bilateral Investment agreements with Hungary, Poland, Czechia, Lithuania and Romania should be terminated without sunset clauses, which preserve existing investor rights to sue after agreements are terminated.
The US-Argentina deal represents a new low in using US trade policy to bully countries into adopting intellectual property rules that expand Big Pharma’s monopoly power at the expense of access to affordable medicines.
Over 170 civil society groups, farmers groups, environmental organisations urge the EU to respect democratic processes and refrain from applying the agreement before the European Parliament has exercised its right to vote on the deal.
This so-called ‘deal’ is a one-sided neocolonial trap that locks Indonesia into binding, economy-wide concessions to benefit large U.S. corporate interests.
Honduran and international civil society organizations that defend individual and collective human rights reject the new Honduran government’s decision to rejoin the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).
Developing nations are compelled to adopt legal frameworks favoring multinational seed companies, often through trade agreements and regional protocols that serve imperialist interests and control over the economies of the Global South.
Bangladesh and Indonesia have agreed to accelerate negotiations on a Preferential Trade Agreement to expand bilateral trade and deepen economic cooperation.
Leaders of the South American bloc hope the recent EU trade deal will provide the political will for other pacts with the United Arab Emirates and Canada.
The meetings brought together lead negotiators and legal experts from ASEAN Member States and the ASEAN Secretariat to advance discussions on the ASEAN Digital Economy Framework Agreement.
The Omani Undersecretary for Commerce and Industry met the Chinese Ambassador to discuss strengthening bilateral trade and investment, with a key focus on accelerating the GCC-China Free Trade Agreement to boost regional economic integration and market access.
Negotiations for a free trade agreement (FTA) between the Philippines and the European Union (EU) may be concluded by June or July this year, Trade Secretary Cristina Roque said.