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India, Mauritius conclude second round of talks for FTA
22-Apr-2018 Outlook
India and Mauritius has concluded the second round of negotiations for the proposed free trade agreement (FTA), aimed at boosting bilateral trade and investments.
Japan’s multi-layered, multilateral strategy
22-Apr-2018 The Diplomat
Tokyo has some work to do to convince the region its strategy is not designed to contain China.
Lee-Chin seeks US$300m in arbitration fight over Dom Rep investment
20-Apr-2018 The Gleaner
A Jamaican investor served the government of the Dominican Republic with a notice of arbitration surrounding the state takeover of a recycling facility and waste-to-energy plant.
Canada hails progress on crucial autos file at NAFTA talks
20-Apr-2018 Reuters
Canadian, Mexican and U.S. ministers seeking to revamp the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) have made good progress on the key question of autos, Canadian Foreign Minister said.
Nafta negotiators wrap up telecom chapter, sources say
20-Apr-2018 Bloomberg
Key divides still remain on autos, agriculture, dispute panels. Freeland says she’ll take the time to ‘get a good deal’.
AfCFTA - Consolidated text (March 2018)
20-Apr-2018
EU and Singapore successfully on Trade and Investment Protection Agreements
20-Apr-2018 New Europe
The European Commission has given the green light to clear an EU-Singapore trade and investment agreements that aim to take bilateral relations to a new level.
Papua New Guinea reportedly set to join China’s Free Trade Agreement at APEC
19-Apr-2018 ABC
Papua New Guinea is believed to be on course to sign up to a Free Trade Agreement with China to promote bilateral cooperation and deepen cooperation in the ’One Belt, One Road’ initiative.
Canadian opposition to Nafta’s chapter 11 gives Trudeau leeway
19-Apr-2018 Bloomberg
Dislike of investor-state dispute mechanism appears widespread. Public consultation files detail what Trudeau team was told.
EU plans to pitch trade bargain to Trump
19-Apr-2018 Wall Street Journal
Deal would feature lower tariffs on US cars, access to government bidding for Europe, and joint action on China
Trump pushes Abe for ’free, fair and reciprocal’ trade
19-Apr-2018 Nikkei
Japan seeks US return to TPP but president unlikely to bend on bilateral deal.
Taiwan hopes talks under TIFA will resume this year
19-Apr-2018 Focus Taiwan
A Taiwanese senior trade negotiator said Thursday that Taiwan hopes that talks under the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) with the United States will resume this year.
Trump, in another apparent reversal, says trans-pacific trade pact has ‘too many contingencies’
18-Apr-2018 New York Times
After publicly flirting with having the United States rejoin the Trans-Pacific Partnership, President Trump appeared to rebuff the idea once and for all.
EU pushes to hasten start of Japan trade deal
18-Apr-2018 Reuters
The European Commission put forward a proposed free-trade agreement with Japan for fast-track approval, hoping to avoid a repeat of the public protests that nearly derailed a trade pact with Canada.
Dozens of NGOs oppose proposed EU watch list on IP rights
18-Apr-2018 IP Watch
A wide-ranging list of international nongovernmental organisations issued a letter to European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström opposing a proposal to establish a “watch list” of countries deemed failing to protect European intellectual property.
Economic ties with China still thorny / Intellectual property, steel remain problematic
18-Apr-2018 The Japan Times
The Japan-China high-level economic dialogue on Monday — the first such meeting in about eight years — marked a first step toward resetting a bilateral relationship that has been under strain amid such issues as perceptions of history and deepening economic ties.
Japan PM Abe meeting Trump on trade, North Korea and TPP
18-Apr-2018 Action Forex
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is meeting Trump in Florida now. Facing domestic political turmoil, Abe is seeking to achieve something out of the summit. The first and foremost is the 232 steel and aluminum tariff of the US.
Jordan, Turkey to renegotiate suspended FTA
18-Apr-2018 The Jordan Times
Turkish authorities are ready to look into Jordan’s conditions to reactivate the suspended free trade agreement (FTA) between the two countries, Minister of Industry, Trade and Supply Yarub Qudah said Tuesday.
Peru: Final statement from the people’s summit
17-Apr-2018 News Click
The representatives of social and popular organizations of Peru, Latin America and the Caribbean, met in Lima, Peru from April 10 to 14, 2018 to discuss the political, social and economic reality of Our America.
New Zealand PM pushes for EU trade deal
17-Apr-2018 Yahoo
New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern pushed for a "progressive" free-trade agreement with the European Union.