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SA-UK post-Brexit deal just about finalised
14-Feb-2019 Business Day
SA’s negotiations with the UK to ensure that a trade agreement is in place in the event that it exits the EU without a deal is 99% complete, trade and industry director-general Lionel October said.
Nouvelle-Calédonie et Vanuatu dans un accord de libre-échange
14-Feb-2019 Les Nouvelles Caledoniennes
Les gouvernements calédonien et vanuatais s’engagent dans un accord de libre-échange, facilitateur du développement des affaires entre les deux pays.
Comoros and Samoa join trade and development agreements with the European Union
14-Feb-2019 European Commission
The island states Comoros and Samoa have joined the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the EU and the group of countries from their respective regions. The EU now has 40 trade agreements in place with 72 countries.
Liam Fox rushing through Brexit trade deals would mean bypassing democracy
13-Feb-2019 Huffington Post
Although they will affect huge areas of society, many of these ’rollover’ deals would pass through parliament without any debate or vote.
Cotonou successor: EU-Africa relations at the crossroads
13-Feb-2019 Euractiv
Negotiators are hoping to break the back on talks for the successor to the Cotonou Agreement, which expires in May 2020, between the EU and 79 countries in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP).
European Parliament disregards Court and adopts Morocco fish deal
13-Feb-2019 WSRW
European Parliament has voted in favour of the EU-Morocco Fisheries Agreement that will be applied to the waters of occupied Western Sahara.
China-backed coal projects raise heat in Pakistan
13-Feb-2019 Nikkei Asian Review
China-backed coal plants are raising environmental concerns locally.
Parliament gives green light to EU-Singapore trade and investment protection deals
13-Feb-2019 European Parliament News
European Parliament endorsed the free trade and investment protection deals between EU and Singapore, serving as blueprint for further cooperation with Southeast Asia.
Zim not yet ready for full AfCFTA
13-Feb-2019 The Herald
Zimbabwe should ramp up value addition and beneficiation of its products beforehand, says official.
Israel and Iran both set to join Russia-led free trade zone
13-Feb-2019 Times of Israel
After two rounds of negotiations, Jerusalem close to agreement with Eurasian Economic Union; separately, Tehran also set to sign deal ‘in the near future’.
Asean credibility at stake if RCEP not concluded this year, forum hears
13-Feb-2019 The Nation
Concluding the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) will be the biggest challenge during Thailand’s Asean chairmanship this year.
Corporate sector in China’s Belt & Road: Impact on people’s access to land and water
12-Feb-2019 People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty
China has been receiving flak for its conditional investments and loans that are resulting in land and resource grabbing in Asia and Africa.
Investor-state dispute settlement in Tanzania
12-Feb-2019 The Citizen
Tanzania has embarked on process of regulation of its foreign investment regime by enacting legislation, which exclude international arbitration.
UK signs post-Brexit trade deal with Switzerland
12-Feb-2019 BBC
The "continuity agreement" - based on the EU’s existing free trade deal with Switzerland - was agreed in December but ratified on Monday.
EU begins process to hit Cambodia with trade sanctions
12-Feb-2019 Reuters
The European Union started an 18-month process that could lead to the suspension of Cambodia’s duty-free trade access over its record on human rights and democracy.
Bangladesh, Indonesia set to start PTA negotiation
12-Feb-2019 New Age Business
Bangladesh and Indonesia are set to start a negotiation this month for signing a preferential trade agreement to boost bilateral trade
EU-New Zealand FTA: NZ proposals (November 2018)
11-Feb-2019
As released by the Government of New Zealand
The EU-Singapore investment protection agreement
11-Feb-2019 SOMO
An analysis of its impact on managing government bonds and capital flows.
MEPs take note: EU-Singapore deal could hinder fight against fraud and corruption.
11-Feb-2019 Stop ISDS
The most worrying thing about the EU-Singapore deal is not the risk that Singapore firms themselves pose, but the fact that the agreement looks set to be used as a model for reinvigorating ISDS.
Here’s what US lobbyists want Donald Trump to get from a post-Brexit trade deal
11-Feb-2019 Huffington Post
Big firms want Donald Trump to play hard ball over the NHS, food quality and consumer rights.