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4-Dec-2024
The Hindu BusinessLine
The proposed India-EU Free Trade Agreement is likely to focus on investment liberalisation, while keeping investment protection and arbitration out of the pact, to be negotiated separately in a bilateral investment treaty.
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4-Dec-2024
Swiss info
The Swiss Senate is in favour of a free trade agreement between the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and India. It was the first Swiss parliamentary chamber to approve the deal.
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4-Dec-2024
Bangkok Post
The fourth round of negotiations for the Thailand-European Union free trade agreement (FTA) finished with conclusions on the good regulatory practices and transparency chapters.
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3-Dec-2024
Transform Trade
The UK has an opportunity to lead by example, removing UPOV91 provisions from trade deals and redirecting development assistance toward farmer-led initiatives.
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3-Dec-2024
Friends of the Earth Europe
Even after modernisation, the ECT continues to undermine European and global climate policies.
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3-Dec-2024
Reuters
Indonesia and Canada signed a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement that aims to strengthen economic ties between the two G20 members, three years after negotiations began.
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3-Dec-2024
Tehran Times
The proposed Free Trade Agreement between Iran and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) has reached a significant milestone, receiving unanimous approval from the Economic Commission of the Iranian Parliament.
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3-Dec-2024
Hespress English
South Korean officials have expressed keen interest in accelerating negotiations for an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with Morocco as the two countries seek to deepen their economic partnership.
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3-Dec-2024
The Edge Malaysia
The United Kingdom will officially become a member of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) on Dec 15, marking the first-ever free-trade agreement (FTA) between the UK and Malaysia.
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3-Dec-2024
Bangkok Post
Thailand Minister Pichai Naripthaphan was announcing successful negotiations for the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Thailand and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), comprising Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.
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2-Dec-2024
GRAIN
Given that the AfCFTA could lead to a rise in demand for African land from agricultural and other investors, and that climate policies are increasingly looking to land projects to “capture” carbon, the risks for local communities whose livelihoods rely on land will be great.
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2-Dec-2024
Swiss Info
The enhanced free trade agreement between Switzerland and China is set to enter into force in 2025. This is the assumption of parliamentarian Thomas Aeschi, president of the EU-EFTA delegation.
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2-Dec-2024
bilaterals.org
In order to put an end to free trade agreements, it is essential to continue to link the different struggles for the defence of territories and their natural resources, for the social demands of the people, for life and for peace.
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2-Dec-2024
Reuters
Canada thinks the members of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade pact have a chance to produce a fully aligned policy on China, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said.
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2-Dec-2024
AGBI
European and Gulf officials are holding “informal” efforts to “revive” and even “upgrade” negotiations over a free trade agreement between the two blocks.
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2-Dec-2024
Gulf Times
Qatar has called for expediting negotiations on a free trade agreement between the Gulf Co-operation Council or GCC and the European Union.
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30-Nov-2024
Socialnews
Kenyan President William Ruto called on African nations to integrate special economic zones (SEZs) into a continental transformation strategy to drive growth.
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30-Nov-2024
Fanabc
Ethiopia is scaling up efforts for the successful implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement.
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29-Nov-2024
Access to medicines
Civil society and non-government organizations in Thailand oppose the provisions proposed by the EU that will have a vast and adverse impact on access to medicines, universal health coverage scheme, agriculture, food sovereignty, consumer protection, and livelihoods of Thai people.
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29-Nov-2024
Herbert Smith Freehills
This treaty marks a significant step in Venezuela’s recent trend of executing BITs, particularly following its withdrawal from the ICSID Convention in 2012.
