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GCC – Japan negotiations make progress in sealing free trade agreement
7-Jul-2025 Saudi Gazette
The second round of negotiations for the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and Japan took place in Tokyo from June 30 to July 4. These talks focused on key provisions including goods, technical barriers, services (financial, telecommunications), movement of natural persons, intellectual property, dispute settlement, and trade facilitation.
Civil society groups say there is now even more reason to keep ISDS out of the RCEP
7-Jul-2025 bilaterals.org
Civil society organisations from the 15 member countries of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), call upon RCEP governments to continue to exclude Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) from the RCEP.
Croatia loses dispute, must pay 17,5 million euros to Societe Generale
4-Jul-2025 Sloboden Pecat
Croatia has lost the multi-year arbitration dispute that the French bank Societe Generale was leading against it before the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes in Washington.
Over 280 Ecuadorian and international organizations speak out against the criminalization and violence against environmental defenders resisting Canadian mining
4-Jul-2025 Mining Watch
This criminalization and violence is occurring while Ecuador and Canada seek to ratify a free trade agreement that will only increase Canadian mining investment in the country.
EU’s neighbours strike Mercosur trade deal as Brussels awaits
4-Jul-2025 Euractiv
The European Free Trade Association has clinched a trade agreement with Mercosur, while the EU’s own trade agreement with Mercosur has been delayed.
EU closing in on ‘framework’ trade deal with US to avoid Trump’s 50% tariffs
4-Jul-2025 The Guardian
Diplomats and officials say bloc willing to accept 10% tariffs, but talks may go down to wire before Wednesday deadline.
United call by EU farmers’ and agricultural workers’ organisations to oppose the EU-Mercosur trade agreement
3-Jul-2025 European Coordination Via Campesina
We, the undersigned organisations representing the diverse interests of European farmers and agricultural workers – COPA-COGECA, CEJA, ECVC and EFFAT – urge you to firmly oppose the conclusion of the EU-Mercosur trade agreement in its current form.
Trump’s tariffs and the Big Tech takeover
3-Jul-2025 Bot Populi
How are countries in the Global Majority world responding to the US’s sudden demand for trade (re)negotiations in the digital economy?
Albanese revives push for Australia-EU Free Trade Agreement at G7 Summit
3-Jul-2025 AFTINET
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has reaffirmed Australia’s ambition to finalise a long-delayed Free Trade Agreement with the European Union.
Lupaka wins ICSID dispute against Peru over gold project
3-Jul-2025 Mining Weekly
The dispute arose under the Free Trade Agreement between Canada and Peru and concerned Lupaka’s investment in the Invicta gold project, located in the Andean highlands of Peru.
By sacrificing Palestine, Europe betrays itself
3-Jul-2025 Al Jazeera
By refusing to take action on Israel, EU states are violating European and international law.
US and Vietnam reach initial tariff deal
3-Jul-2025 Politico
President Donald Trump said he will reduce tariffs on Vietnam while Hanoi will open its market to US agricultural products and strengthen rules of origin standards to cut down on transshipment.
Why Kenya-UAE economic deal could be disastrous for Kenya’s health sector
2-Jul-2025 The standard
On January 14, President William Ruto and UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan signed the Kenya-United Arab Emirates Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), touted as the UAE’s first such deal with a mainland African country.
Assess_EU-Mercosur 2.0: Assessing the final agreement text of the Association Agreement between the EU and Mercosur
2-Jul-2025 OFSE
This report presents an updated assessment of the potential effects of the EU Mercosur Association Agreement in its final version, thereby paying particular attention to the new elements included in the agreement
The Republic of Armenia is put on notice of investment dispute for its actions against Samvel Karapetyan and Electrical Networks of Armenia
2-Jul-2025 Tert.am
Samvel Karapetyan, a prominent businessman and a founder of Tashir Group, one of the largest group of companies in Eastern Europe, together with his family, sent a notice of investment dispute to the state officials of the Republic of Armenia.
Trump tariffs may add fuel to UAE’s free trade push
2-Jul-2025 AGBI
The UAE’s pursuit of bilateral trade deals is more important than ever today as US President Donald Trump’s tariffs threaten to upend international commerce as we know it.
EU wants upfront relief for key sectors in any US trade deal, sources say
2-Jul-2025 Reuters
The European Union wants immediate relief from tariffs in key sectors as part of any trade deal with the United States due by a July 9 deadline, but the bloc expects even a best-case deal to include a degree of asymmetry.
Mercosur, EFTA blocs finalize free-trade agreement, say sources
2-Jul-2025 Reuters
South American bloc Mercosur has concluded talks for a free-trade agreement with a group of four European nations known as EFTA.
Aftershock in Groningen
2-Jul-2025 SOMO
How Shell and ExxonMobil use arbitration to offload the costs of closing the Netherlands’ largest gas field.
Trump warns ‘spoiled’ Japan may not get a US trade deal
2-Jul-2025 CNN Business
US President Donald Trump expressed doubt about reaching a trade deal with Japan, criticizing Japan for allegedly not buying American rice and cars—claims contradicted by trade data. Trump threatened steep tariffs (up to 30-35%) if no deal is made.