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Singapore to sign free trade agreement with Sri Lanka

22-Jan-2018 The Straits Times

Singapore will sign a free trade agreement (FTA) with Sri Lanka this week - its 13th bilateral deal and, significantly, its first since the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) faced a setback last year when the United States withdrew from it.

Vietnam’s FTAs: Boon or Bane?

22-Jan-2018 VietNam News

As 2018 brings newer and bigger free trade agreements (FTAs), Vietnamese enterprises are faced with tough choices. They can either adapt and move up the global supply chain, or stand by while imported goods flood the country’s market.

Indonesia sends trade mission to South Asia

22-Jan-2018 Jakarta Post

Trade Minister Enggartiasto Lukita kicked off the trade mission on Monday to two South Asia countries — India and Pakistan — taking with him 61 businesspeople to explore the cooperation with their counterparts in the two countries.

India’s proposed investment treaty terms leave foreign partners cold

19-Jan-2018 Reuters

Having cancelled investment treaties with about 50 foreign governments last year, India is struggling to convince some to accept new terms that make it harder to seek international arbitration for disputes

EU-MERCOSUR FTA: Goods draft chapter (Nov 2017)

19-Jan-2018

Swiss Prez to discuss trade pacts with PM Modi in Davos

19-Jan-2018 Money Control

The two leaders will also discuss, among other trade and business matter, the envisaged free trade agreement between India and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), of which Switzerland is a member.

EU-MERCOSUR FTA: Rules of origin draft text (Nov 2017)

19-Jan-2018

EU-MERCOSUR FTA: Product-specific draft agrifood rules (Nov 2017)

19-Jan-2018

EU-MERCOSUR FTA: Antifraud draft text (Nov 2017)

19-Jan-2018

EU-MERCOSUR FTA: Trade defence draft chapter (Nov 2017)

19-Jan-2018

EU-MERCOSUR FTA: Sanitary & phytosanitary draft chapter (Nov 2017)

19-Jan-2018

EU-MERCOSUR FTA: Dialogue/cooperation draft chapter (Nov 2017)

19-Jan-2018