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8-Apr-2024
The East African
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is expected to significantly boost intra-Africa trade when fully implemented, but small businesses in East Africa are not happy about it, as it may not bode well for them.
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8-Apr-2024
EconomyNext
Sri Lanka has begun implementing a free trade agreement with Singapore as part of efforts to improve market access, diversify market and draw investments, the island’s top trade negotiator said.
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8-Apr-2024
Mint
Negotiations for a free trade agreement between India and Oman have concluded, and it’s likely to be signed after the formation of a new central government in the coming months, two people aware of the matter said.
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8-Apr-2024
Daily Sun
Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira welcomed Bangladesh’s interest in reaching a MERCOSUR-Bangladesh Preferential Trade Agreement during a meeting with Bangladeshi foreign ministry officials in Dhaka.
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8-Apr-2024
Spotmedia
Romania has placed a lien on over 80% of the shareholding held by Gabriel Resources in Roșia Montană Gold Corporation to recover its $10 million arbitration costs incurred over a 9-year process in Washington.
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8-Apr-2024
CDR
The subject of the arbitration is given as ‘transportation fare collection services’, and invokes the 2001 bilateral investment treaty between Turkey/Türkiye and Yugoslavia as the basis for the claim.
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5-Apr-2024
Myanmar Now
A panel has been formed in Singapore to hear Telenor’s claims for compensation from Myanmar over money lost in its controversial Myanmar exit.
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5-Apr-2024
Apbrebes
Indonesia reiterated its position not to accede to the UPOV 1991 to ensure policy space to protect smallholder farmers’ seed systems and plant genetic resources.
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5-Apr-2024
The News
The caretaker government had ratified the draft of FTA, including the Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT).
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4-Apr-2024
Sky News
Trade and Tourism Minister Don Farrell says he and his European counterpart are both committed to “having another go” at a Free Trade Agreement.
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4-Apr-2024
Le Monde Diplomatique
International investment agreements enable corporations to sue foreign governments for loss of profits. The sums they demand can be so huge that even the threat of a claim is enough to make governments cave in.
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4-Apr-2024
The Times of India
Switzerland pursues a new bilateral investment treaty with India post EFTA deal, addressing model treaty concerns.India remains reluctant on concessions, focusing on market.
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4-Apr-2024
The Business Post
Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh said Bangladesh and China have exchanged the feasibility study reports on free trade agreement (FTA) between the two countries last week, which he sees as a major development in Dhaka-Beijing economic and trade cooperation.
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3-Apr-2024
Financial Express
India and the five-nation Eurasian Economic Union (EaEU) that comprises Russia will start formal negotiations for a free trade agreement soon.
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3-Apr-2024
Yonhap
South Korea’s trade ministry it has launched another round of talks with Chile to update their bilateral free trade agreement, aiming to reflect the latest changes in the global supply chain and the digital economy.
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3-Apr-2024
AKIpress
Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea Han Duk-soo met with his Mongolian colleague Oyun-Erdene Luvsannamsrai in Seoul. Han Duk-soo expressed hope that the two countries will adopt the Economic Partnership Agreement as soon as possible.
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3-Apr-2024
ETUN Palestine
We, the undersigned European trade unions, are calling on the EU and European countries to suspend the Association Agreement with Israel as well as bilateral treaties in light of grave violations of human rights by the Israeli Government.
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2-Apr-2024
The Ecologist
Trade deals are used to extract valuable resources from the Global South - but a recent victory shows we can make a difference.
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2-Apr-2024
Tehran Times
An official at the Trade Promotion Organization of Iran said that implementation of a Free Trade Agreement between Iran and Syria would beef up the mutual trade to a great extent.
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2-Apr-2024
