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People’s groups demand a halt to RCEP talks
24-Jul-2017 Forum Against FTAs
People’s groups from across the country converged in Hyderabad from July 22-26 to unanimously reject the RCEP.
Women farmers take out rally to oppose RCEP free trade agreement
24-Jul-2017 Social Post
Women from different parts of India marched along with other marginalised communities to protest the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, the mega Free Trade Agreement which is currently being negotiated in India.
Wine and the Canada-Israel free trade agreement
24-Jul-2017 Dissident Voice
Two weeks ago the worst fear of Canadian opponents of neoliberal ‘free trade’ agreements came true. Surprisingly, there has been almost no reaction from the political parties, unions, and other organizations that warned these agreements would be used to undermine Canadian law, even though this is exactly what happened.
ASEAN Parliamentarians call for a focus on rights in regional trade talks
24-Jul-2017 Asian Tribune
Officials from ASEAN member states and other countries meeting in India this week for negotiations on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) should take steps to ensure that the trade deal safeguards human rights, Southeast Asian lawmakers said today.
UK, SACU commit to trade relations despite looming Brexit
24-Jul-2017 Southern African News
The United Kingdom has reaffirmed its commitment to continue trading with SADC EPA countries under the current trade arrangement despite its withdrawal from the European Union (EU).
This obscure Nafta chapter could be Canada’s deal-breaker again
24-Jul-2017 Bloomberg
Will anti-dumping dispute resolution be the deal breaker it was in 1987?
Argentina bonds for sale to pay money owed Total
24-Jul-2017 Nasdaq
Citigroup offered US$200m of Argentina bonds for sale as part of an arbitration agreement to help settle the sovereign’s obligations to French oil company Total.
Protests commence before global ASEAN meet
24-Jul-2017 The Hindu
Meet witnesses fiery speeches from grassroots workers.
RCEP: India Inc. against quick elimination of duties
24-Jul-2017 The Hindu
Fears, including of surge in imports from China, to be conveyed to government on July 25
FTAs loaded against Third World, says researcher
23-Jul-2017
The Andhra Pradesh government will have to pay up $ 44.71 million in damages if it loses the case in the International Court of Arbitration (ICA) for cancellation of an agreement with UAE-based company Ras Al-Khaimah Investment Authority (RAKIA).
Digital trade games
22-Jul-2017 The Hindu
India must not succumb to global digital trade paradigms and rules that back predatory business.
EDA expresses CETA cheese concerns
21-Jul-2017 Dairy Reporter
With implementation of the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement looming, the European Dairy Association says it would limit access of EU cheeses to the Canadian market.
Madagascar signs tripartite free trade agreement
21-Jul-2017 tralac
The agreement brings together three regional economic communities – COMESA, EAC and SADC – into a single free trade area covering 57% of Africa’s population with a combined GDP of US$1.3 trillion as of 2015
The US can now ship rice to China for the first time
21-Jul-2017 Bloomberg
The rice deal comes just a month after China reopened its market to US beef imports for the first time in more than a decade and is the latest in a flurry of trade negotiations between the nations. China is also approving more biotech products and increasing US natural gas imports.
US, China fail to agree on trade issues, casting doubt on other issues
21-Jul-2017 Reuters
The United States and China failed on Wednesday to agree on major new steps to reduce the US trade deficit with China, casting doubt over President Trump’s economic and security relations with Beijing.
EU-Mexico FTA - EU text proposals (July 2017)
21-Jul-2017 European Commission
All texts as available as of 18 July 2017
Who benefits from RCEP - the world’s largest free trade agreement?
21-Jul-2017 Newsclick
This video highlights various critical aspects of RCEPs corporate agenda.
No more business as usual: Where to now for international trade?
21-Jul-2017 Policy Observatory
What is the future of international trade in a world of re-emergent national populism and voter scepticism of big trade deals? This new report brings together thirteen authors who have written thirteen very different essays on the future of trade.
E-com: RCEP nations start detailed talks
20-Jul-2017 The Hindu
Source code disclosure ‘curb,’ a worry.
Why India should rethink its approach to RCEP negotiations
20-Jul-2017 Madhyam
Before expanding global footprint through FTAs, India must put its own house in order by strengthening the domestic productive capacities and mobilizing resources to improve the physical and social infrastructure.