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US urges UK to cut EU rules after Brexit to boost trade
5-Jan-2018 Bloomberg
US trade official says it is ‘difficult’ to do business with EU and Brexit offers chance to press the ‘reset button’.
FTA with Turkey is Ukraine’s key priority for 2018: Ambassador
5-Jan-2018 MENAFN
Ukraine’s Ambassador to Turkey Andrii Sybiha considers the conclusion of the agreement on a free trade area (FTA) with Turkey as one of the key priorities of 2018.
Indonesia to start trade talks to boost exports
5-Jan-2018 Jakarta Post
Indonesia seeks to initiate negotiations on trade agreements under both bilateral and regional schemes this year to help jack up the country’s exports.
Free trade or women’s rights?
5-Jan-2018 Strategic Review
After 30 years of neoliberal globalization, it has been increasingly acknowledged that austerity, privatization, deregulation of finance, markets and corporations, and trade and investment liberalization have had a devastating and discriminatory impact on women.
UK leaving single market for TPP could hit workers’ rights, union warns
5-Jan-2018 The Guardian
TUC delivers stark warning about labour abuses after trade secretary Liam Fox refuses to rule out membership of TPP.
A declaration from North Africa: food sovereignty is a right
5-Jan-2018 CADTM
We stand against the plunder of peoples’ resources by multinationals and financial capital and against all forms of discrimination and racism.
TPP sows fear in Japan’s agriculture industry
5-Jan-2018 The Diplomat
As the resurrected TPP moves forward, Japanese consumer groups and farmers fear the effects.Many argue that seeds are likely to become more expensive by the proposed abolishment of the Seed Law.
Big Asean presence on R-Day will have ripple effect on mega trade pact talks
5-Jan-2018 The Hindu BusinessLine
It is highly probable that the Asean countries will use the official visit to gain some political mileage and push India towards steeper commitments on dismantling tariffs and improve market access commitments to RCEP members.
Liam Fox’s Pacific plan is toxic. Post-Brexit trade policies need proper scrutiny
4-Jan-2018 The Guardian
Joining the dysfunctional Trans-Pacific Partnership would help only big business. There must be transparency and accountability over trade.
China announces it will begin “a greater push” to conquer trade in the hemisphere
4-Jan-2018 MercoPress
Chinese Ambassador to Argentina Yang Wanming urged Latin American nations to increase trade ties to China, promoting Beijing’s “One Belt One Road” project and warning Beijing will begin a “greater push” to conquer trade in the hemisphere.
Japan wheat market to tighten
4-Jan-2018 The Progressive Farmer
US wheat growers are likely to lose some market share in Japan in the coming years because of a free trade agreement between Japan and the European Union, and the newly constituted Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership, a new USDA report warns.
SL-Singapore FTA first draft forwarded for Cabinet approval
4-Jan-2018 Daily Mirror
Unlike trade negotiations with behemoths such as India and China, politically-backed protests have not taken place against the Sri Lanka-Singapore FTA negotiations.
S. Korea to hold hearing on follow-up FTA talks with China
4-Jan-2018 Yonhap News Agency
In December 2017, the trade and industry ministers of South Korea agreed to expedite negotiations to expand the two countries’ two-year-old free trade agreement to include the service and investment sectors.
US and Australia meet to review bilateral FTA
3-Jan-2018 Global Trade
Officials from the United States and Australia held a meeting of the US-Australia Free Trade Agreement Joint Committee to review the implementation of the FTA.
India-UK trade meet to focus on visa restrictions, trade barriers
3-Jan-2018 The Hindu
While the UK can engage in free trade agreement (FTA) talks with other countries including India only after the process of full disengagement from the EU is complete, talks are already happening unofficially on the potential of such a pact.
Britain exploring membership of the TPP to boost trade after Brexit
3-Jan-2018 The Guardian
Department for International Trade believed to be working on proposals to enter the troubled Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Leaked documents reveal how Shell blackmailed Nigeria in Malabu deal
2-Jan-2018 Petro Barometer
Shell used an arbitration case it filed with the International Centre for the Settlement of International Disputes to railroad the government into brokering truce between it and Malabu Oil and Gas Ltd, its estranged erstwhile partner and the original licensee.
Seoul, Washington to kick off FTA talks next week
2-Jan-2018 Korea Herald
South Korea and the United States are to start the first round of negotiations to amend their bilateral Free Trade Agreement on Jan. 5 in Washington.
Pakistan spends over Rs2b on legal expenses in Progas case
2-Jan-2018 Express Tribune
The government has spent over Rs2 billion to win a case in the international court over the acquisition of assets of Progas Pakistan Limited company – worth Rs2.3 billion.
China invites Pakistan for FTA-II talks in February
2-Jan-2018 The News
China wants no more damage to Pakistan in bilateral trade which is why the former has offered to re-initiate the stalled talks on Free Trade Agreement-II in February 2018.