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18-Oct-2017 Land Portal
Not so sweet: Tanzania confronts arbitration over large-scale sugarcane and ethanol project
Tanzania is currently confronting this challenge, faced with a new international investment dispute tied to a proposed large-scale sugarcane and ethanol production project. -
18-Oct-2017 NY Times
A Nafta battleground on the shores of Canada
This far-flung peninsula in the North Atlantic seems an unlikely place for an international trade dispute. But an American company’s scuttled plans to build a quarry here have turned these quiet fishing grounds into a case study. -
18-Oct-2017
Ultimate Guide To GMAW For Successful Aluminum Welding
Aluminum welding techniques have come a long way from a basic welding technic to todays GMAW (Gas-Metal-Arc-Welding). -
18-Oct-2017 The Express Tribune
Pak-Thailand FTA: Pakistan wants duties eased on 100 products
A Free Trade Agreement between Pakistan and Thailand will be signed on January 15 for enhancing bilateral trade between the two countries, a top official of the Ministry of Commerce said. -
18-Oct-2017 Financial Post
Indigenous chapter critical to NAFTA despite current challenges: Bellegarde
An Indigenous chapter in NAFTA mustn’t be allowed to fall by the wayside, regardless of the challenges currently confronting negotiators, says Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde. -
18-Oct-2017 PTI
India-EU FTA: chief negotiators to meet mid-November
Chief negotiators for the proposed India-EU free trade agreement will meet in New Delhi to discuss the way forward for the resumption of the long-stalled talks over it. -
18-Oct-2017 CNBC
Mexico says TPP countries seek consensus on market access at APEC meeting
The remaining countries of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) hope to agree on how to preserve the market access enshrined in the trade deal, Mexico’s economy minister said. -
18-Oct-2017 Mobile World Live
Orascom escalates €5B Algeria battle
A long-running battle between Naguib Sawiris’ Orascom and the Algerian authorities rumbled on, with the operator seeking an annulment of a recent decision on the case. -
18-Oct-2017 Reuters
NAFTA negotiators trade barbs, indicate wide differences
The top US and Canadian and trade officials accused each other of sabotaging efforts to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, even as they and Mexico agreed to extend talks into the first quarter of 2018. -
17-Oct-2017 The Diplomat
5 hidden costs of the RCEP to people and planet
The RCEP has hidden costs for people’s lives -
17-Oct-2017 The Indian Express
US, Japan fail to bridge gap on trade in economic talks
The talks are shaping up to be a test of whether the close US-Japan relationship can withstand Donald Trump’s "America First" trade policies. -
17-Oct-2017 Bloomberg
US seeks end of Canada dairy system as latest NAFTA talks wrap
The US wrapped up the fourth round of Nafta trade talks with a bombshell proposal to dismantle Canada’s dairy sector, adding to a list of demands its trading partners say would be impossible to accept as negotiations grow more fraught. -
17-Oct-2017 Tax-news
EFTA and Ecuador make progress towards FTA
The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) states and Ecuador held their fourth round of negotiations on a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement on October 9-13 in Geneva, Switzerland. -
17-Oct-2017 Daily Maverick
South Africa fails to exploit free trade agreement access to massive EU market
So-called SPS – Sanitary and Phyto-sanitary – issues identified as the main culprit. "Sometimes ostensible SPS issues were in fact disguised trade protectionism," said South Africa Trade Minister. -
17-Oct-2017 Reuters
Canada set to open Mercosur trade talks in December: sources
Canada and the South American trade bloc Mercosur will announce in December the opening of negotiations for a free-trade deal during the World Trade Organization’s annual meeting in Argentina. -
17-Oct-2017 Panam Post
Fearing an end to NAFTA, Mexico looks to Middle East for new trade partners
Jose Antonio Meade, Secretary of Finance and Public Credit of Mexico, said that the country will seek to diversify its trade relations with other countries. Trade agreements with the Middle East and Turkey will be a priority. -
17-Oct-2017 Food Sovereignty Alliance
The milk crisis in India: The story behind the numbers
This book tells the story of how global trends including the ongoing threats of trade agreements such as the EU-India FTA and the RCEP are driving countless small dairy farmers into debt and ultimately out of farming. -
17-Oct-2017 Reuters
France seeks food safety inclusion in EU-Mercosur deal - envoy
France will propose changing the European Commission’s mandate to negotiate a trade deal with South America’s Mercosur bloc to include food safety provisions. -
17-Oct-2017
55 groups call for a meaningful CSO engagement in the 20th RCEP Round
Joint sign-on letter of civil society organisations to Trade Ministers of RCEP negotiating countries. -
16-Oct-2017 The Hindu
Fresh talks on free trade pact with EU to give equal weight to goods, services, investment
India and the European Union (EU) are set to begin talks soon on re-starting stalled negotiations for a free trade pact but New Delhi will not favour pre-conditions, such as prioritising an investment agreement that the 29-member bloc had earlier insisted upon.