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15-Oct-2024 Press TV
Spain urges fellow EU members to suspend free trade agreement with Israeli regime
Spain has called on fellow members of the European Union to suspend a free trade deal between the EU and Israel, amid the regime’s ongoing aggression in the Gaza Strip. -
15-Oct-2024 Lexology
Indonesia and Switzerland seeks to accelerate investments under new bilateral investment treaty
The 2022 BIT offers several important advances compared to the 1974 BIT, providing greater certainty and protection for investors. -
15-Oct-2024 Agriland
EU farmers reaffirm opposition to Mercosur deal as talks resume
Several EU-wide organisations representing farmers across several sectors have reaffirmed their opposition to the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement, as talks between both sides have restarted. -
14-Oct-2024 CCSI
After intra-EU BITs and the ECT, the EU needs to abandon extra-EU BITs—for legal, energy and climate policy, and political economy reasons
EU members should terminate extra-EU BITs. To facilitate the process, the EU could spearhead an instrument similar to the plurilateral agreement to terminate intra-EU BITs or based on the draft treaty language on termination proposed to UNCITRAL. -
14-Oct-2024 The Financial Express
Interim govt moves to access RCEP
The Bangladesh interim government has strongly started processing to access the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), an emerging economic bloc encompassing the Asia-Pacific region that represents one third of global GDP. -
14-Oct-2024 Philstar Global
Philippines, EU to resume FTA talks
The Philippines and the European Union (EU) are set to resume next week the negotiations for a free trade agreement (FTA), which the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) wants to conclude by 2027 to ensure continued preferential market access to the bloc. -
14-Oct-2024 ekathimerini.com
French court clears Cyprus on FBME case
France’s highest court has brought an end to the $1.4 billion legal battle over the resolution of FBME Bank, ruling that the Central Bank of Cyprus acted prudently and did not breach any obligations under a bilateral investment treaty between Cyprus and Lebanon. -
14-Oct-2024 The Edge Malaysia
Malaysia in talks for new free trade deals to blunt impact of geopolitical conflicts — Zafrul
Malaysia is currently negotiating several new free trade agreements that would help to diversify its trade and investments, and mitigate the impact of conflicts in the Middle East and the Russia-Ukraine war. -
14-Oct-2024 Hindustan Times
Drop ‘irrational standards’ in trade talks, Goyal advises EU
Commerce minister Piyush Goyal on Friday advised the European Union to shun imposing “irrational standards” such as carbon tax, which he said act as trade barriers. -
14-Oct-2024 The Print
UK, Switzerland to begin negotiations on FTA
The current UK-Switzerland trade deal, largely based on a 1972 EU-Swiss deal, excludes digital trade and data flows. -
14-Oct-2024 Politico
‘Isolated’ France faces political storm over EU-South American trade deal
An already weakened Macron risks outrage from farmers as the rest of the EU races to get Mercosur deal done. -
11-Oct-2024 SOMO
ExxonMobil sues the Netherlands over gas field closure
The multinational disagrees with the decision that gas production in the Dutch province of Groningen will be shut down early. -
11-Oct-2024 MercoPress
Italian Deputy PM pledges to help pull through EU-Mercosur FTA
Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister and top diplomat Antonio Tajani told a group of Brazilian businesspeople in Sao Paulo that they are working to accelerate the process and reach a positive conclusion. -
11-Oct-2024 Macau Business
Macau and mainland sign new upgrade to CEPA trade agreement
Macau and mainland China authorities signed a new version of the Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement. -
11-Oct-2024 Xinhua
China, ASEAN issue joint statement on conclusion of FTA upgrade negotiations
The statement covers existing areas of the China-ASEAN FTA agreement as well as emerging areas that have great cooperation potential, including the digital economy, the green economy and supply chain interconnectivity, the ministry said. -
11-Oct-2024 Zawya
UAE, Malaysia conclude negotiations towards CEPA
A trade deal between the UAE and Malaysia seeks to eliminate or lower tariffs, reduce barriers to trade, promote private-sector collaboration and establish new pathways for investment. -
9-Oct-2024 Ahramonline
Egyptian-Malaysian free trade agreement in progress: Malaysian plantation minister
Egypt’s Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade and his Malaysian counterpart are currently engaged in designing a free trade agreement (FTA) between the two countries, where palm oil will be a key pillar of this imminent action -
9-Oct-2024
AfCFTA: Women and youth in trade protocol (Oct 2024)
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9-Oct-2024
AfCFTA protocol on investment (Oct 2024)
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9-Oct-2024
AfCFTA: protocol on intellectual property rights (Oct 2024)