17-Apr-2017
         											Financial Express
                                                
                                                Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Australian counterpart Malcom Turnbull, the two countries expressed their keenness to secure a timely conclusion of a high-quality RCEP
                                             
                                            
                           
                                        
    
                                     
                                    
                                 
                                    
                                    
                                        
                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                                
                                                    17-Apr-2017
         											Global Risk Insights
                                                
                                                Sri Lanka expects to deepen existing FTA with India and to sign a FTA with Singapore and another with China. Sri Lanka also hopes to talk to Japan, Indonesia and other ASEAN countries with regards to FTAs.
                                             
                                            
                           
                                        
    
                                     
                                    
                                 
                                    
                                    
                                        
                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                                
                                                    17-Apr-2017
         											Straits Times
                                                
                                                The ambitious Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade pact that seemed dead in the water after the United States’ withdrawal could get a second wind, with Japan prepared to take the lead in an 11-country agreement sans the US.
                                             
                                            
                           
                                        
    
                                     
                                    
                                 
                                    
                                    
                                        
                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                                
                                                    14-Apr-2017
         											The Telegraph
                                                
                                                British banks could be able to access the US markets in future as freely as they trade with the EU now, under a trade deal
                                             
                                            
                           
                                        
    
                                     
                                    
                                 
                                    
                                    
                                        
                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                                
                                                    12-Apr-2017
         											ACP Secretariat
                                                
                                                Seventy-nine countries from Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific are preparing to negotiate a major partnership framework with the European Union which will set directions for trade relations.
                                             
                                            
                           
                                        
    
                                     
                                    
                                 
                                    
                                    
                                        
                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                                
                                                    12-Apr-2017
         											African Business Magazine
                                                
                                                The two sides have managed to separate the grant from their long-running dispute over the proposed Economic Partnership Agreement, media have been told.
                                             
                                            
                           
                                        
    
                                     
                                    
                                 
                                    
                                    
                                        
                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                                
                                                    11-Apr-2017
         											Western Sahara Resource Watch
                                                
                                                A note sent from French government to the French parliamentarians in Brussels casts doubts on whether France has studied the judgment at all.
                                             
                                            
                           
                                        
    
                                     
                                    
                                 
                                    
                                    
                                        
                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                                
                                                    11-Apr-2017
         											The Economic Times
                                                
                                                India has begun the process of negotiating a free trade agreement (FTA) with Georgia.