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The garment dilemma in Indonesia-Bangladesh trade talks
19-Apr-2023 The Diplomat
Jakarta is committed to promoting free trade through PTA, but it is also keen to protect some domestic industries, such as garment manufacturing, from low-cost import competition due to their importance to the economy.
Philippines eyes free trade deal with US
19-Apr-2023 ABS CBN News
The Philippines is eyeing a free trade deal with the United States while waiting for the renewal of its eligibility to the US GSP (Generalized System of Preferences) program which expired in 2020, a trade official said.
India, Russia in talks for FTA, BIPA to deepen commercial ties: Russian Deputy PM Manturov
18-Apr-2023 The Hindu BusinessLine
India and Russia are discussing a free trade agreement and a bilateral investment protection agreement.
Cariforum and UK sign economic partnership agreement
18-Apr-2023 Guyana Government
Ambassador David Hales last Friday signed the CARIFORUM-United Kingdom Economic Partnership Agreement and a Memorandum of Understanding on behalf of the Government of Guyana.
Air Tanzania aircraft may be seized over $100 million mining compensation claim
18-Apr-2023 Simple Flying
Australian-based exploration company Indiana Resources has threatened to attach one of Air Tanzania’s aircraft to force the Tanzanian government to pay nearly $100 million as compensation for a failed nickel project.
Smallholder farmers group wants US-Kenya trade deal stopped
18-Apr-2023 Capital Business
NAIROBI, Kenya, April 14 – The Kenya Small Scale Farmers Forum (KESSFF) is asking the Kenyan government to halt ongoing trade negotiations with the United States, saying the deal favors America and that they have not been involved.
India, Russia discuss FTA to guarantee investment, says Russian deputy PM
17-Apr-2023 Live Mint
India and Russia are discussing a free trade agreement to guarantee investment between the two countries. The New Delhi-Moscow relations have withstood the West’s pressures, and bilateral trade has been the biggest benefactor as well as a catalyst in this transformation.
Germany to support critical minerals-rich countries build processing capacity
17-Apr-2023 Yahoo
Germany wants to help countries that are rich in critical minerals such as Chile, Indonesia and Namibia to build their own processing infrastructure to cut dependency on China.
Taiwan, Canada to launch FIPA investment agreement talks
17-Apr-2023 Taiwan News
Taiwan and Canada are likely to start the first round of talks about a Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA) in Taiwan within two weeks.
India, Mexico exploring free trade agreement: Envoy
17-Apr-2023 Live Mint
India and Mexico have launched studies to explore the potential for a free-trade agreement (FTA), given India’s preoccupation with ongoing FTA negotiations with the UK, Australia and other partners.
India-Canada conclude 7th round of talks on Early Progress Trade Agreement
17-Apr-2023 Hindustan Times
Indian and Canadian negotiators have concluded their seventh rounds of discussions towards securing an Early Progress Trade Agreement or EPTA between the two countries.
Mexican firm seeks $380 million from Honduras over blocked unit
17-Apr-2023 Reuters
Mexican investment firm JLL Capital, whose Honduran operation has been blocked since 2018 in a local dispute, is seeking some $380 million from the Central American country in arbitration proceedings.
Next round of India-UK free trade agreement talks from April 24
14-Apr-2023 Business Standard
Both sides now continue to thrash out the thorny issues pertaining to the trade pact.
Ministers of EFTA to meet Goyal in Delhi on trade agreement this month
14-Apr-2023 Devdiscourse
Four ministers of the European Free Trade Association are coming on April 26 to discuss potential trade engagement and free trade agreement, Goyal said here while addressing a business meeting.
Albanian PM threatens to quit international arbitration body
14-Apr-2023 Balkan Insight
Premier Edi Rama reacted angrily to a decision by a World Bank-funded international arbitration body to grant around 110 million euros in compensation to an Italian businessman who claimed he was politically persecuted in Albania.
India, Latin America in talks to expand preferential trade agreement
14-Apr-2023 Mint
Both sides are currently discussing expanding the number of goods included in the agreement, according to persons aware of the negotiations, which are in their early stages.
Denmark to withdraw from Energy Charter Treaty
14-Apr-2023 Euractiv
Denmark will withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty as it creates more uncertainties about investments than certainties, the Danish government announced.
Ukraine’s Naftogaz says Russia told to pay $5 billion for seizing Crimea assets
14-Apr-2023 Reuters
Ukraine’s state-owned gas company Naftogaz that Moscow had been ordered by an arbitration court in The Hague to pay $5 billion in compensation for unlawfully expropriating its assets in Russian-annexed Crimea in 2014.
ASEAN, China start negotiations on upgrading bilateral FTA
14-Apr-2023 Vietnam+
The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and China started the first round of negotiations on the upgrade of the ASEAN-China Free Trade Area.
Free trade deal is a major threat to UK public health, warn experts
13-Apr-2023 Medical Press
The UK’s decision to join one of the world’s largest free trade agreements, known as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement on Trans-Pacific Partnership, poses a major threat to UK public health, warn experts.