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“Trade for all” in the EU NZ FTA offers no new direction
21-Jun-2018 Scoop
The trade rules that generate inequalities, favour the wealthiest transnational corporations, threaten jobs, consume fossil fuels and destroy the environment will remain unchanged.
Australia targets non-tariff measures in bid to secure FTA grain trade
21-Jun-2018 Agri Census
A range of non-tariff measures (NTM) that can prevent the FTA functioning as imagined, Grain Trade Australia’s CEO says.
Japan and EU to ink free trade pact July 11
21-Jun-2018 Nikkei Asian Review
Both sides eager to finalize the deal as US hardens its protectionist stance.
Chicken Kiev baron beats Brussels
21-Jun-2018 Politico
Yuriy Kosyuk has found a cunning and completely legal way to bypass tough EU import restrictions.
Rally protests trade agreement
21-Jun-2018 Green Left Weekly
More than 100 members of unions, aid and development organisations, health, environment and other groups rallied in Sydney outside the Parliament’s public hearing on the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Nepal PM’s China visit may see a reset of bilateral ties
21-Jun-2018 Asia Times
Nepalese Prime Minister KP Oli’s visit this time to Beijing is being looked at as a careful balancing act to maintain ties with both India and China.
Brussels workshop talks about EU-Vietnam free trade agreement
21-Jun-2018 Vietnam Plus
The EU-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentians’ Group and the European Institute for Asian Studies, held a workshop in Brussels to speed up the signing and ratification of the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA).
India in talks with China, Australia, New Zealand to crack mega trade deal
21-Jun-2018 The Hindu BusinessLine
India is holding bilateral dialogues with China, Australia and New Zealand to get them to agree to less ambitious tariff cuts for sensitive products. The aim is to end the logjam in the negotiations for the mega regional trade bloc, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).
PNG Prime Minister Peter O’Neill visits Beijing to sign One Belt, One Road trade deal
20-Jun-2018 ABC News
Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister Peter O’Neill is arriving in China today for a week-long visit to strengthen ties with Beijing and to sign the controversial One Belt, One Road initiative.
EU-ACP post-Cotonou agreement: EU negotiating directives (June 2018)
20-Jun-2018 European Council
As released by the European Council
NGO’s send letter to Minister Kaag to call for termination of BIT with Burkina Faso
20-Jun-2018 Both Ends
Both ENDS sent a letter, signed by various civil society organisations, to the Dutch Minister of Aid & Trade to urge her to terminate the Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) that exists between the Netherlands and Burkina Faso.
It’s time to stop giving more rights to global corporations
20-Jun-2018 Sydney Morning Herald
Despite this growing rejection of ISDS, the Australian government claims that ambiguous general “safeguards” in the TPP-11 will protect public interest laws.
The myth behind health and trade agreements – Q&A with Othoman Mellouk
20-Jun-2018 IP Watch
Dr Othoman Mellouk is a Moroccan treatment advocate who has been working on intellectual property and access to medicines for more than a decade.
Argentina’s Macri wants Mercosur to pursue global trade deals
20-Jun-2018 Latin America Herald Tribune
Argentine President Mauricio Macri and Uruguayan counterpart Tabare Vazquez agreed that the Mercosur bloc should pursue trade accords with Asian countries and Canada.
China Belt and Road scheme brings warnings from scientists and environmentalists
20-Jun-2018 Radio Free Asia
Scientists and environmentalists are warning that China’s vast “Silk Road” global infrastructure initiative could cause permanent environmental damage unless it’s carefully handled.
Tough talk over medicine and cheese as Australia and Europe seek a $37b trade deal
19-Jun-2018 Sydney Morning Herald
Trade Minister Steven Ciobo has promised to take a hard line with Europe on the question of cheap medicines and his counterpart Cecilia Malmström foresees “difficult” negotiations over Australian producers using European names such as "parmesan".
Sushma Swaraj discusses steps to revitalise bilateral ties with Italy
19-Jun-2018 DNA
India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj held bilateral talks with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte to discuss forging bilateral cooperation across sectors and steps to revitalise the bilateral relationship.
Vietnam, Israel hold fifth round of negotiations on FTA
19-Jun-2018 Vietnam Plus
During the fifth round of negotiations between the two nations in Jerusalem, trade in goods, rules of origin, customs, technical barriers to trade, services, investment and other legal and institutional issues were tabled.
American Chamber of Commerce in Singapore urges US to rejoin Trans-Pacific trade pact
19-Jun-2018 The Business Times
The American Chamber of Commerce in Singapore (AmCham Singapore) has called on the US to join the trade pact which replaced the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), from which the US withdrew in January 2017.
Uruguay calls on Mercosur to renew trade talks with China
19-Jun-2018 Xinhua
Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez called on member countries of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) to renew trade talks with China.