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  • 24-Feb-2025 Politico
    France still looking to block EU-Mercosur trade deal, Macron says
    Farmers should not be “an adjustment tool for purchasing power … nor an adjustment tool for trade agreements,” French president says.
  • 24-Feb-2025 rabble.ca
    Re-imagining trade for people and the planet
    Progressive new trade policies and agreements driven by global environmental objectives, as well as decades-old attempts through the United Nations General Assembly to reshape the global trade system and decolonize it, offer some direction.
  • 21-Feb-2025 CDR
    Honduras tops ICSID disputes list in 2024
    The centre’s latest caseload statistics reveals 55 new arbitrations were lodged in 2024. Honduras was involved in five of them.
  • 21-Feb-2025 Bangkok Post
    Free trade talks eyed with Gulf nations
    Thailand is revving up free trade agreement negotiations with Gulf countries to enhance trade, tourism and investment.
  • 21-Feb-2025 The Maple
    Time to think beyond ‘worthless’ free trade agreements: Economists
    Why should we feel constrained by a free trade agreement? If we could make a compelling economic and policy case to renationalize a key industry, we should just do it and we should stop worrying about whether it’s allowed in the free trade agreement or not.
  • 21-Feb-2025 La Via Campesina
    The MERCOSUR-EU trade agreement and its impact on peasant women: Notes from Brazil
    Women continue to march, denouncing violence and environmental crimes, fighting against the plundering of common goods, and against the signing and ratification of agreements that continue to fill the galleys of the Global North with our wealth at the expense of the massacre of peoples.
  • 21-Feb-2025 Bangkok Post
    Bhutan free trade deal all set
    Representatives from Thailand and Bhutan during talks held during the fourth round of negotiations for a free trade agreement (FTA). The FTA is set to be signed during the Bimstec Leaders’ Summit, which Thailand will host on April 2-4.
  • 20-Feb-2025 The Standard
    China pledges to support customs autonomy as free trade pact expands
    Hong Kong and the mainland signed the Second Agreement Concerning Amendment to the CEPA Agreement on Trade in Services last October, which takes effect on March 1.
  • 20-Feb-2025 CCPA
    Mexico’s CUSMA loss is a warning to New Zealand
    Genetically modified corn dispute from the US and Canada exposes lack of protection for Indigenous rights in recent trade deals.
  • 20-Feb-2025 The Express Tribune
    Thailand seeks swift finalisation of FTA
    Thailand Ambassador Rongvudhi Virabutr urged the Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry to foster and push the government to finalise the FTA as soon as possible.
  • 20-Feb-2025 Bloomberg
    Trump says new China trade deal ‘possible’ despite tensions
    US President Donald Trump said it would be possible to reach a fresh trade deal with China, signaling he is open to heading off a brewing trade fight between Washington and Beijing.
  • 20-Feb-2025 ETUN Palestine
    Joint letter ahead of the European Union-Israel Association Council
    In a letter sent ahead of the European Union-Israel Association Council meeting, our network alongside 120 trade unions, civil society and human rights organisations called on the EU to suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement.
  • 19-Feb-2025 Harvard Kennedy School
    American workers vs. surveillance capitalism: the future of digital trade policy
    The USTR’s review of the USMCA should reveal that its digital trade chapter, built on the Obama-era neoliberal TPP rules, seeks to consolidate tech power, monopolize markets, undermine workers’ rights, and disregard AI transparency and accountability.
  • 19-Feb-2025 Xinhua
    Zambia finalizes tariff concessions under Africa’s free trade mechanism
    Zambia has officially gazetted its Provisional Schedule of Tariff Concessions under the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement.
  • 19-Feb-2025 India Today
    India-Israel free trade deal on the cards: What it means for both nations
    As both nations move towards signing the FTA, the partnership is expected to open new trade and investment opportunities, benefiting businesses and economies on both sides.
  • 19-Feb-2025 ANI
    India negotiating FTA with GCC and Qatar: MEA
    India is in the process of negotiating a Free Trade Agreement with the Gulf Cooperation Council and is also considering an FTA with Qatar.
  • 19-Feb-2025 The Express Tribune
    Thailand seeks swift finalisation of FTA
    Karachi businesses are urging a quick FTA with Thailand to boost trade, currently at $1.1B. While acknowledging the trade imbalance, both sides see potential for growth, especially in services and investment. Concerns about local industry protection and export diversification were raised, along with calls for streamlined business practices and the new Thai e-visa.
  • 19-Feb-2025 Business Mirror
    ‘Intersessional sessions’ to fast-track EU-PHL FTA
    The Philippines and the European Union are accelerating free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations with "intersessional sessions" following productive second-round talks. The third round is set for June in Brussels. Both sides aim for a mutually beneficial agreement covering trade, investment, and sustainability.
  • 18-Feb-2025 Financial Express
    Contours of trade pact with US in 2 weeks
    The trade agreement that India and the US have agreed to negotiate during prime minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to Washington will not be akin to a free trade agreement, but explore ways to boost trade on a bilateral give-and-take basis.
  • 18-Feb-2025 Business Standard
    India, EU to hold next round of talks on proposed FTA from Mar 10
    India and the European Union will hold the next round of talks on the proposed free trade agreement from March 10 to 14, a senior government official said.