18-Apr-2017
         											Business Standard
                                                
                                                Australian trade minister said India’s asking goes well beyond anything that Australia has done, in terms of any FTAs put in place, and Australia is not willing to go to that extent.
                                             
                                            
                           
                                        
    
                                     
                                    
                                 
                                    
                                    
                                        
                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                                
                                                    18-Apr-2017
         											Kathmandu Post
                                                
                                                The bilateral meeting will focus on looking for ways to expand production of the 66 products to which the US has been providing duty-free access through the Trade Preferences Act (TPA).
                                             
                                            
                           
                                        
    
                                     
                                    
                                 
                                    
                                    
                                        
                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                                
                                                    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
                                             
                                            
                           
                                        
    
                                     
                                    
                                 
                                    
                                    
                                        
                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                                
                                                    13-Apr-2017
         											Bloomberg BNA
                                                
                                                The Indian government nudges Cairn to accept the terms of its tax dispute settlement scheme instead of pursuing the international arbitration route.
                                             
                                            
                           
                                        
    
                                     
                                    
                                 
                                    
                                    
                                        
                                
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                            
                                                
                                                
                                                    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.