6-Jul-2020
The Edge Markets
Once RCEP is signed, it needs to be ratified by all member states for it to come into force, which could take quite a while.
6-Jul-2020
ASEAN Briefing
Singapore and the Southern Common Market of South America (MERCOSUR) have experienced a delay in their FTA negotiations after Argentina announced its decision to withdraw from ongoing negotiations on potential trade deals.
6-Jul-2020
Maroc Diplomatique
Britain’s separation talks with the European Union resume Monday with few signs of compromise on a new trade agreement and time running out to avoid a messy split.
6-Jul-2020
The East African
Kenya says it hopes to conclude a post-Brexit trade deal with the UK before the end of the year.
5-Jul-2020
Financial Express Bangladesh
The government has planned to sign free trade agreements, or FTAs,with some African countries, including Morocco, to boost the country’s export earnings, officials said.
5-Jul-2020
Civil society groups sound alarm over COVID-19 claims in ’corporate courts’
Countries could be facing a wave of cases from transnational corporations suing governments over actions taken to respond to the Covid pandemic using a system known as investor-state dispute settlement, or ISDS. Some 630 organisations from across the world, representing hundreds of millions of people, are calling on governments in an open letter to urgently take action to shut down this threat.
3-Jul-2020
bilaterals.org
Interview with Yamina Saheb, former head of unit in the Energy Charter Treaty Secretariat .
3-Jul-2020
Auto Economic Times
Japan and Britain aim to clinch a trade deal by the end of July and Tokyo wants to secure at least the same automobile tariffs as it has in its existing European Union trade pact,
