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EFTA, Indonesia progress free trade talks
Delegations from the European Free Trade Association states and Indonesia held the 11th round of negotiations on a proposed free trade agreement.
Romania to terminate its intra-EU Bilateral Investment Treaties
The President of Romania agreed to submit to the Romanian Parliament draft legislation approving termination of 22 bilateral investment treaties that Romania concluded with other EU Member States.
Is toxic trade in your backyard?
Looming trade deals threaten efforts to keep fossil fuels in the ground
India inches towards liberalisation at RCEP
In a move likely to inject momentum into the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) talks, India has indicated it is willing to compromise on its three-tiered tariff schedule.
Time has once again come to wind up SAARC
Even as India and others boycott SAARC, they must accelerate economic integration. India should address the concerns of countries such as Bangladesh and Nepal while investing in regional connectivity.
Theresa May names India among nations keen on FTA with UK post-Brexit
Countries including Canada, China, India, Mexico, Singapore and South Korea have already said they would welcome talks on future free trade agreements with the UK.
Taipei, Washington to hold latest round of TIFA meetings
The discussions are to focus on areas including medical devices, pharmaceuticals, intellectual property rights and technical trade barriers
EU proposes more aid, trade pact to support Tunisia
The European Commission proposed to increase aid to Tunisia and complete a deeper trade pact within three years.
German farmers divided over EU-Canada trade deal
The German agricultural sector is divided in its opinion of the deal: large farms relish the advantages and small enterprises fear the competition.
“If beef is not included”, there won’t be no Mercosur-EU trade agreement, warns Uruguay
European Union and Mercosur coordinators to exchange the list of goods and services in mid October, the first formal meeting of its kind in fourteen years.
Brazil wants free trade within MERCOSUR
The Brazilian government has discussed measures to eliminate internal obstacles and make free trade possible between member countries of the Southern Common Market.
Commission boosts infringement procedures against five countries
The European Commission today ramped up infringement procedures against Austria, the Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia and Sweden to push them toward scraping their bilateral investment treaties with other EU nations.
Canada’s civil society calls for Chevron’s assets to be frozen so Ecuador judgment can be paid
Some of Canada’s largest environmental, labor and civil society organizations have now joined the growing international community demanding that Chevron clean up its toxic waste in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
NFU President meets with EU farm leaders in Brussels, talks dairy crisis and CETA
NFU President encouraged Europe to solve its ongoing dairy crisis by adopting a Canadian-style supply management system instead of attempting to use the CETA trade agreement to increase dairy exports to Canada.
Case between Ecuadoreans, Chevron heading to Ontario court
The latest salvo in a marathon multibillion-dollar legal battle between global energy giant Chevron Corp. and a group of Ecuadorean residents over environmental damage has begun in a Toronto court.
Morocco ratifies 3 bilateral investment treaties
This surge in the ratification of “Intra-African” BITs is part of the Moroccan “South-South Partnership” strategy
EU wants swifter progress on economic partnership with Japan
Trade minister Hiroshige Seko has received a letter from a senior European Commission official urging prompt conclusion of an economic partnership agreement.
Kenya finally deposits EU trade pact ahead of Saturday deadline
Just a week after the National Assembly unanimously endorsed the Economic Partnership Agreement, the government deposited the same instruments with the EU.
New Zealand, Gulf states renew efforts to seal free trade pact
New Zealand and the Gulf Cooperation Council will work to get a stalled free trade pact back on track after trade ministers from the Pacific nation and Saudi Arabia agreed to deepen trade ties.
Big Pharma lobbying in TTIP: Bad news for patients
Big Pharma is everything but shy when it comes to lobbying EU policy-makers. But what exactly are these groups lobbying for in TTIP?