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India, Canada set for FTA talks on Fri
7-Mar-2022 Live Mint
Commerce minister Piyush Goyal and his Canadian counterpart Mary Ng will meet in New Delhi on Friday to begin talks for a free trade agreement (FTA) between the two countries.
Riches for Australian miner equals misery for Thai villagers
4-Mar-2022 Michael West
The gold mine was closed by the Thai government, but an obscure clause in a “free trade” agreement has allowed the lucrative mine in Central Thailand to reopen.
10 days for submissions on UK FTA a total farce
4-Mar-2022 Scoop
People have only ten days to make submissions on the 1700-page secretly negotiated free trade agreement between New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
Behind the ‘inclusive’ window dressing, the NZ-UK free trade deal disappoints politically and economically
4-Mar-2022 The Conversation
The free trade agreement between New Zealand and the United Kingdom demonstrates the intransigence of political leaders and their official advisers in the face of concerted demands to rethink the country’s trade policy paradigm.
EAC eyes trade-in-services under AfCFTA Agreement
4-Mar-2022 The Citizen
The East African Community (EAC) is developing a strategy to boost trade-in-services, which will position the bloc better in the negotiations of service liberalisation at the continental level.
Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) reform: Why it has failed to deliver on the EU’s own objectives
4-Mar-2022 Both Ends
From a climate perspective, the expected reform outcome is a failure. No Contracting Party will end investment protection for fossil fuels in a timeline that is necessary to align with the Paris Agreement.
IUAE-CEPA fourth round results in substantial agreements
3-Mar-2022 Antara
The fourth round of IUAE-CEPA focused on resolving issues that still needed further discussion such as trade in goods and services, provisions of origin of goods, as well as legal and institutional issues.
Guatemalan water defenders celebrate 10 years of resistance
3-Mar-2022 Inequality.org
An attempted assassination, criminalization, and violent eviction in 2014 didn’t stop the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya in Guatemala, which won legal action suspending harmful mining activities.
Understanding the agricultural biotechnology provisions in the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement
3-Mar-2022 IATP
While industry lobbyists succeeded in convincing trade negotiators to include agricultural biotechnology provisions in the USMCA, they now misstate the scope of the text that was agreed to by Canada, Mexico and the US.
Pakistan, Uzbekistan to sign PTA
3-Mar-2022 The Express Tribune
Pakistan and Uzbekistan will sign a preferential trade agreement this week to lower duties on nearly three-dozen products in the range of 20% to 100%.
S. Korea, Mexico agree to resume talks on free trade deal
3-Mar-2022 The Korea Herald
South Korea and Mexico have agreed to resume negotiations to forge a bilateral free trade agreement 14 years after their suspension.
Civil society position on the East African Community (EAC)-European Union (EU) economic partnership agreement (EPA)
2-Mar-2022 Seatini
We the members of the East African Trade Network (EATN) call upon the Government of Tanzania and the East African Community (EAC) not to waver and be stampeded into signing the EPA.
A sea of trouble: Seabed mining and international arbitration in Mexico
2-Mar-2022 Inequality.org
In the Gulf of Ulloa, a US treasure-hunting company turned seabed mining outfit poses a dire risk to the environment.
Corporate courts can be beaten. It’s essential for climate justice
2-Mar-2022 Global Justice Now
It is perfectly possible to withdraw from trade deals containing corporate courts, as former South African trade minister Rob Davies explains.
UAE and Israel are closing in a possible free trade deal by summer
2-Mar-2022 Gulf News
Israel wants to be among UAE’s Top 10 trade partners in ‘5 to 10 years’.
I confess, I am an AfCFTA sceptic
1-Mar-2022 The Africa Report
I do not share the view that the AfCFTA is the solution to Africa’s low level of intra-Africa trade. Neither do I believe that it will trigger the great transformation of Africa’s economies that its advocates assert it will.
NZ ’pushing hard’ to secure free trade agreement with EU
1-Mar-2022 1News
New Zealand will be "pushing hard" to secure a free trade agreement (FTA) with the EU this year, Trade Minister Damien O’Connor says.
Trade agreements must be climate-focused, new IPCC report shows
1-Mar-2022 Policy Options
Governments need to repair the incoherence between climate objectives and the emissions-intensive trajectory of the global economy.
NZ UK FTA “inclusive trade” agenda does nothing to redress failed free trade model
1-Mar-2022 Scoop
Professor Kelsey repeated the calls for a comprehensive rethink of this model of free trade agreements to confront the social, environmental and economic challenges of the 21st century.
NZ-UK free trade agreement: “a missed opportunity”
1-Mar-2022 Scoop
The announcement of the free trade agreement with the United Kingdom was described by Pita Tipene as “a missed opportunity to set a new bar for honouring Te Tiriti o Waitangi”.