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Mercosur, EU to hold talks in Brussels
5-Jul-2018 Prensa Latina
Foreign Ministers of the Common Market of the South (Mercosur) will meet with the European Union on July 18 in Brussels to discuss aspects of the trade agreement.
EU, China officials prepare to ramp up investment treaty talks
29-Jun-2018 ICTSD
Officials promised to hit a key milestone in their negotiations for an investment treaty, saying that they would exchange market access offers at next month’s leaders’ summit.
FTA negotiations: EU beefs up trade talks with Australia
27-Jun-2018 Queensland Country Life
Farmers can look forward to greater access to the highly protected European Union, but it is still to be seen how big an impact a free trade agreement between Australia and the world’s largest trading bloc will have on the red meat industry.
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.
Mercosur offers to halve import tariff on EU cars -paper
27-Jun-2018 Reuters
The Mercosur bloc of four South American nations has offered to cut import tariffs on European Union cars by 50 percent .
South African Customs Union, EU start talks on new economic partnership agreement with post-Brexit Britain
26-Jun-2018 Xinhua
The Southern African Customs Union, Mozambique and the European Union have started talks to conclude a new economic partnership agreement with post-Brexit Britain.
Legal review for Vietnam-EU FTA concludes
26-Jun-2018 Vietnam+
Vietnam and the European Union (EU) have finished the legal review process for their free trade agreement (FTA) and reached agreement on the entire of the bilateral investment protection deal.
EU Parliament critical of Commission’s Western Sahara approach
24-Jun-2018 WSRW
The EU Commission received heavy critique from the European Parliament for its suggestion to include occupied Western Sahara in a trade deal with Morocco.
“Trade for all” in the EU NZ FTA offers no new direction
21-Jun-2018 Scoop
The trade rules that generate inequalities, favour the wealthiest transnational corporations, threaten jobs, consume fossil fuels and destroy the environment will remain unchanged.
Australia targets non-tariff measures in bid to secure FTA grain trade
21-Jun-2018 Agri Census
A range of non-tariff measures (NTM) that can prevent the FTA functioning as imagined, Grain Trade Australia’s CEO says.
Japan and EU to ink free trade pact July 11
21-Jun-2018 Nikkei Asian Review
Both sides eager to finalize the deal as US hardens its protectionist stance.
Chicken Kiev baron beats Brussels
21-Jun-2018 Politico
Yuriy Kosyuk has found a cunning and completely legal way to bypass tough EU import restrictions.
Brussels workshop talks about EU-Vietnam free trade agreement
21-Jun-2018 Vietnam Plus
The EU-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentians’ Group and the European Institute for Asian Studies, held a workshop in Brussels to speed up the signing and ratification of the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA).
EU-ACP post-Cotonou agreement: EU negotiating directives (June 2018)
20-Jun-2018 European Council
As released by the European Council
The myth behind health and trade agreements – Q&A with Othoman Mellouk
20-Jun-2018 IP Watch
Dr Othoman Mellouk is a Moroccan treatment advocate who has been working on intellectual property and access to medicines for more than a decade.
Tough talk over medicine and cheese as Australia and Europe seek a $37b trade deal
19-Jun-2018 Sydney Morning Herald
Trade Minister Steven Ciobo has promised to take a hard line with Europe on the question of cheap medicines and his counterpart Cecilia Malmström foresees “difficult” negotiations over Australian producers using European names such as "parmesan".
Sushma Swaraj discusses steps to revitalise bilateral ties with Italy
19-Jun-2018 DNA
India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj held bilateral talks with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte to discuss forging bilateral cooperation across sectors and steps to revitalise the bilateral relationship.
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.
EU-Morocco fishing agreement’s renegotiation: Polisario Front brings action for annulment
18-Jun-2018 Sahara Press Service
The Polisario Front brought an action for annulment of the Council of the European Union’s decision, which allows the European Commission to open negotiations with Rabat to extend EU-Morocco fishing agreement to Western Sahara.
Australia opens free trade talks with EU as Trump tariffs rock global commerce
18-Jun-2018 Australian Financial Review
Australia and the European Union will strike a blow for free trade, formally opening negotiations on a pact in Canberra.