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Indigenous chapter critical to NAFTA despite current challenges: Bellegarde
18-Oct-2017 Financial Post
An Indigenous chapter in NAFTA mustn’t be allowed to fall by the wayside, regardless of the challenges currently confronting negotiators, says Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde.
India-EU FTA: chief negotiators to meet mid-November
18-Oct-2017 PTI
Chief negotiators for the proposed India-EU free trade agreement will meet in New Delhi to discuss the way forward for the resumption of the long-stalled talks over it.
Mexico says TPP countries seek consensus on market access at APEC meeting
18-Oct-2017 CNBC
The remaining countries of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) hope to agree on how to preserve the market access enshrined in the trade deal, Mexico’s economy minister said.
Orascom escalates €5B Algeria battle
18-Oct-2017 Mobile World Live
A long-running battle between Naguib Sawiris’ Orascom and the Algerian authorities rumbled on, with the operator seeking an annulment of a recent decision on the case.
NAFTA negotiators trade barbs, indicate wide differences
18-Oct-2017 Reuters
The top US and Canadian and trade officials accused each other of sabotaging efforts to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, even as they and Mexico agreed to extend talks into the first quarter of 2018.
5 hidden costs of the RCEP to people and planet
17-Oct-2017 The Diplomat
The RCEP has hidden costs for people’s lives
US, Japan fail to bridge gap on trade in economic talks
17-Oct-2017 The Indian Express
The talks are shaping up to be a test of whether the close US-Japan relationship can withstand Donald Trump’s "America First" trade policies.
US seeks end of Canada dairy system as latest NAFTA talks wrap
17-Oct-2017 Bloomberg
The US wrapped up the fourth round of Nafta trade talks with a bombshell proposal to dismantle Canada’s dairy sector, adding to a list of demands its trading partners say would be impossible to accept as negotiations grow more fraught.
EFTA and Ecuador make progress towards FTA
17-Oct-2017 Tax-news
The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) states and Ecuador held their fourth round of negotiations on a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement on October 9-13 in Geneva, Switzerland.
South Africa fails to exploit free trade agreement access to massive EU market
17-Oct-2017 Daily Maverick
So-called SPS – Sanitary and Phyto-sanitary – issues identified as the main culprit. "Sometimes ostensible SPS issues were in fact disguised trade protectionism," said South Africa Trade Minister.
Canada set to open Mercosur trade talks in December: sources
17-Oct-2017 Reuters
Canada and the South American trade bloc Mercosur will announce in December the opening of negotiations for a free-trade deal during the World Trade Organization’s annual meeting in Argentina.
Fearing an end to NAFTA, Mexico looks to Middle East for new trade partners
17-Oct-2017 Panam Post
Jose Antonio Meade, Secretary of Finance and Public Credit of Mexico, said that the country will seek to diversify its trade relations with other countries. Trade agreements with the Middle East and Turkey will be a priority.
The milk crisis in India: The story behind the numbers
17-Oct-2017 Food Sovereignty Alliance
This book tells the story of how global trends including the ongoing threats of trade agreements such as the EU-India FTA and the RCEP are driving countless small dairy farmers into debt and ultimately out of farming.
France seeks food safety inclusion in EU-Mercosur deal - envoy
17-Oct-2017 Reuters
France will propose changing the European Commission’s mandate to negotiate a trade deal with South America’s Mercosur bloc to include food safety provisions.
55 groups call for a meaningful CSO engagement in the 20th RCEP Round
17-Oct-2017
Joint sign-on letter of civil society organisations to Trade Ministers of RCEP negotiating countries.
Fresh talks on free trade pact with EU to give equal weight to goods, services, investment
16-Oct-2017 The Hindu
India and the European Union (EU) are set to begin talks soon on re-starting stalled negotiations for a free trade pact but New Delhi will not favour pre-conditions, such as prioritising an investment agreement that the 29-member bloc had earlier insisted upon.
US proposes gutting Nafta legal-dispute tribunals
16-Oct-2017 Bloomberg
US Nafta negotiators are proposing to essentially do away with the independent tribunals that oversee the trading and investment relationship.
BoI working on its own template for BIT
16-Oct-2017 Business Recorder
The government of Pakistan would not be made liable for private investor disputes. Alternative dispute resolution mediation would be made compulsory, while foreign arbitrators would be decided in advance through consensus.
As US shocks with NAFTA demands, other countries asking: What does Trump want?
16-Oct-2017 National Post
The No. 1 discussion topic at this current round is whether chief US negotiator’s team is being ordered to sabotage the talks, so President Donald Trump can declare NAFTA has failed.
The EU-Myanmar IPA threatens emerging democracy
16-Oct-2017 The Irrawaddy
The EU accounts for about 10 percent of foreign direct investment in Myanmar and is keen to raise that number with its planned Investment Protection Agreement (IPA), a wide-ranging agreement on trade that has been in-negotiation in recent years.