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UK to ratify free trade agreement with Australia by end of March - High Commissioner
8-Mar-2023 UrduPoint
The United Kingdom will ratify the post-Brexit free trade agreement with Australia by the end of March, UK High Commissioner to Australia Victoria Treadell said.
EU hopes Macron will budge on Latin American trade deal
7-Mar-2023 Politico
In Brussels, several EU diplomats believe France could change its mind as geopolitical tensions following the war in Ukraine and the coronavirus pandemic strengthen the case for the 27-nation bloc to diversify its trading relationships.
Goldgroup Mining announces filing of request for arbitration with International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes
7-Mar-2023 Junior Mining Network
Goldgroup Mining Inc., through its subsidiary, is seeking damages as a result of Mexico’s breaches of NAFTA.
Free-trade deals lite
7-Mar-2023 The American Prospect
The White House is brokering trade deals with Europe that could loosen sourcing rules in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), President Biden’s plan for green domestic manufacturing.
Slovenian NGOs threaten to challenge CETA in court
7-Mar-2023 Euractiv
Environmental organisations are threatening to bring about a court challenge to the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between the EU and Canada, just as the ratification of the agreement is set to be on the agenda.
US demands formal talks with Mexico over GMO corn dispute
7-Mar-2023 Yahoo
The consultations are the first formal step toward a US request for a dispute settlement panel under the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement on trade (USMCA) that could ultimately lead to retaliatory US tariffs if no resolution is reached.
India, Iceland review ties, status of negotiations on trade agreement
7-Mar-2023 Business Standard
India and Iceland reviewed the status of ties, including trade and investments and the India-EFTA Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement (TEPA) negotiations.
Australia, India to upgrade ECTA to a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement
7-Mar-2023 The Hindu
Australian PM’s visit to India would provide a big boost to bilateral ties as both governments are in talks to upgrade the interim trade agreement to the level of a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA).
The rise of trade in services: corporate manoeuvres and popular resistance
6-Mar-2023 bilaterals.org
The idea of ‘Trade in services’ is an artificial creation of the late 1970s and 1980s, designed to bring the social and public phenomenon of services under international ‘trade’ rules that would work for corporations.
China’s trade in goods with BRI countries doubled in past ten years
6-Mar-2023 China Economic Net
China aims to promote the signing of free trade agreements with more countries and accelerate the development of a free trade zone network covering the entire BRI-related region.
Iran, Pakistan negotiating free trade agreement
6-Mar-2023 Tehran Times
Iran and Pakistan are negotiating a free trade agreement with the aim of boosting their mutual trade to a targeted five billion dollars per year, an official with Iran’s Trade Promotion Organization said.
Senators Coons, Thune introduce legislation to kick-start trade negotiations with United Kingdom
6-Mar-2023 Chris Coons
The UNITED Act builds on the common values and interests of the US and UK to grant new presidential authority on a new trade agreement.
Türkiye, UAE sign free trade deal as ties improve
6-Mar-2023 Hurriyet Daily News
The oil-rich United Arab Emirates and Türkiye signed a free trade agreement, the Gulf country’s president said, the latest step in improving ties long strained by regional disputes.
EU, US working on deal to make EV minerals eligible for tax credits -EU official
6-Mar-2023 Reuters
The United States and European Union are working toward agreement in principle on a deal to make European minerals eligible for tax credits.
EU-Mercosur: a nightmare for nature
6-Mar-2023 Greenpeace
The deal as negotiated is in principle a neocolonial, extractivist instrument: intended to secure EU imports of commodities and raw materials from South America, while increasing EU exports of industrial and chemical products.
Shared views on the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF)
3-Mar-2023 Citizens Trade Campaign
Any final deal should correct the errors of past trade pacts and becomes a useful model for future agreements that deliver real benefits to people and the planet.
Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity is unlikely to expand trade
3-Mar-2023 American Action Forum
The APEP seeks to “foster regional economic integration,” but it does not include negotiation objectives on market access to eliminate tariffs, objectives similarly neglected by the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework..
The EU-Chile advanced framework agreement: a brief analysis of the investment protection provisions
3-Mar-2023 Lexology
The advanced framework agreement’s investment protection provisions include many of the substantive obligations that are common in international investment agreement.
Signing of US-Taiwan trade pact to be foundation for future full-scale BIA: Source
3-Mar-2023 Focus Taiwan
Taiwan and the United States will be signing an agreement under a trade initiative "in the coming weeks" that would pave the way for a full-scale bilateral trade agreement should Washington wish to explore that option.
Africa: World Customs Organization publishes Guide on AfCFTA Rules of Origin
2-Mar-2023 Baker McKenzie
The World Customs Organization (WCO) has published a Guide for Rules of Origin under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement.