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Pacific countries to sign trade deal next month
21-Mar-2017 Radio NZ
Pacific Island countries are expected to sign the proposed regional trade deal called PACER Plus next month.
S. Korea, Israel to hold 3rd round talks on FTA
20-Mar-2017 KBS
South Korea and Israel will hold a third round of Free Trade Agreement(FTA) negotiation in Seoul
Free trade deal with Singapore updated
20-Mar-2017 News.com.au
Australian universities, lawyers and financial firms will be among the biggest winners from an updated free trade deal with Singapore.
Brazil’s rotten meat scandal strikes ahead of fresh EU trade talks
20-Mar-2017 EurActiv
The European Union has insisted Brazilian representatives attend an emergency meeting to explain themselves regarding a scandal involving rotten meat and the country’s two largest exporters.
Canada scores ISDS victory over Eli Lilly
20-Mar-2017 Politico
Canada has prevailed over pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly in a long-running investor-state dispute the drug company filed under NAFTA’s investment chapter.
Spain confirms: EU-Morocco trade deal not for Western Sahara goods
20-Mar-2017 Western Sahara Resource Watch
The Spanish government in a statement confirmed the EU court’s judgement that Western Sahara goods are not covered by the EU-Morocco trade deal.
China cites Philippines’ key role in China-led RCEP
20-Mar-2017 ABS-CBN News
China says the Philippines will play a key role in a proposed regional free trade agreement led by China.
Opinion: The UK will get a bad trade deal from the US
18-Mar-2017 Borderlex
There is little reason to doubt that the United Kingdom will sign a free trade agreement with the United States once outside the EU. But there is not going to be that much into it for British businesses. This is because the UK will be the weaker party in the talks.
Trade Minister in push for Pacific Alliance trade deal to replace TPP
18-Mar-2017 The Australian
Australia is pushing for a new multi-billion dollar free trade deal with Pacific Alliance countries — Mexico, Chile, Colombia and Peru — following the collapse of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Pakistan, Turkey to hold 6th round of FTA talks
17-Mar-2017 Pakistan Herald
Paksitan and Turkey will hold sixth round of negotiations on Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in April (2017).
Mixed messages to investors as India quietly terminates bilateral investment treaties with 58 countries
17-Mar-2017 Lexology
The Government of India says it has sent notices to terminate bilateral investment treaties (BITs) with 58 countries, including 22 EU countries. It has been reported that many of these BITs will cease to apply to new investments from as early as April 2017.
RCEP to give Philippines better market access than existing trade deals
17-Mar-2017 Business Mirror
ADB advisor Ganeshan Wignaraja said the Philippines must implement domestic reforms to make it more competitive should the RCEP be signed.
China lays foundations for Eurasian free trade after TPP failure
16-Mar-2017 China Briefing
The demise of the TPP and the recent politicizing of trade have made China rethink what it really wants from free trade agreements (FTAs).
Getting back to basics in Vina Del Mar
16-Mar-2017 IATP
Countries should look to Fair Trade for guidance, and even further to their own domestic policies, for a sustainable way to build the global economy.
India, Russia to discuss free trade agreement, ways to bolster bilateral trade
15-Mar-2017 Live Mint
Nirmala Sitharaman and Russia’s Denis Manturov will discuss possibility of a free trade agreement, or FTA, between India and Eurasian Economic Union.
Trump’s USTR nominee pledges tough enforcement of U.S. trade laws
15-Mar-2017 Reuters
Lighthizer pledged to fight for strong protections for intellectual property rights and for digital trade access.
Anti-TPP protesters clash with riot police in Chile
15-Mar-2017 Tele Sur
Riot police clashed with protesters in Viña Del Mar, where representatives of the 11 remaining member states of the Trans Pacific Partnership together with China, Colombia and South Korea met.
Mustapa: RCEP is next best option to junked TPPA
15-Mar-2017 The Star
International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed said Malaysia is not keen to salvage the TPPA with the other 10 nations after the United States pulled out of the trade pact.
As ministers meet on scrapped Pacific trade deal, decisions elusive
15-Mar-2017 Reuters
Ministers and officials representing the 12 countries of the failed Trans-Pacific Partnership, plus China and South Korea, began talks in Chile, but any concrete decision on how a new trade pact might look seemed far off.
Ensuring the primacy of human rights in trade and investment policies
15-Mar-2017 CIDSE
Model clauses for a UN Treaty on transnational corporations, other businesses and human rights.