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11-Mar-2024
Dhaka Tribune
United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister emphasized the importance of signing the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement and activating the Joint Business Council for economic partnership with Bangladesh.
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11-Mar-2024
Reuters
India and the members of the European Free Trade Association held 21 rounds of talks over 16 years to clinch the broad-based Trade and Investment Agreement.
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11-Mar-2024
Swiss Info
The European Free Trade Association (EFTA), of which Switzerland is a member, has inked a free trade agreement with India that is expected to be ratified in 2025.
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11-Mar-2024
ABC News
The Romanian government has won a years long legal dispute with a Canadian mining company seeking damages over failed plans to open a gold and silver mine in the Eastern European country.
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8-Mar-2024
Project Syndicate
Whereas free trade was once the central cause of progressive reformers seeking to combat entrenched interests on behalf of ordinary people, now it is the bête noire of both right-wing nationalists and the mainstream left. To understand why attitudes changed so radically, one must follow the money.
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8-Mar-2024
SOMO
Oil Refiner Klesch sues EU, Germany and Denmark over windfall profit tax while making record profits due to Ukraine invasion.
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8-Mar-2024
Antara
APEC member economies are considering innovative and improved approaches to revitalize the Free-Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP) as a major instrument to further APEC’s regional economic integration agenda.
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8-Mar-2024
Financial Express
The EFTA that includes Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein will be encouraging $ 50 billion of investments by their companies in India in the first 10 years of the FTA coming into force.
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8-Mar-2024
Tehran Times
Head of Iran’s Trade Promotion Organization Mehdi Zeighami has said that the Islamic Republic of Iran and Vietnam have expressed hope to reach an agreement on preferential trade.
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8-Mar-2024
Reuters
European Union countries agreed to jointly quit an international energy treaty over concerns that it undermines efforts to fight climate change, officials said.
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8-Mar-2024
BBC
The farmers want India to withdraw from the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and scrap all free trade agreements.
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8-Mar-2024
CBC
Katherine Tai refers to challenges ahead, including dairy, when pact comes up for renewal.
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7-Mar-2024
SSRN
Using the 2015 arbitral award in von Pezold v. Zimbabwe as its starting point, this piece reflects on the relationship between racial capitalism and international law.
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7-Mar-2024
GMA News Online
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. recently announced the Philippines’ signing of the second protocol to the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement during the ASEAN-Australia Special Summit. This agreement aims to facilitate trade and investment opportunities for businesses, including micro, small, and medium enterprises, by reducing trade barriers and enhancing market access.
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7-Mar-2024
Live Mint
India and the UK will make a last-ditch attempt in the coming days to iron out sticky issues and sign the free trade agreement (FTA).
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6-Mar-2024
Malay Mail
Malaysia is looking to increase the number of free trade agreements, said its Investment, Trade and Industry Minister.
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6-Mar-2024
La Via Campesina
Associazione Rurale Italiana highlighted the deep damage that CETA causes to small and medium-scale livestock farms in Italy; the risks of further economic (and therefore decision-making) reinforcement of a single industrial group on the entire dairy sector.
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6-Mar-2024
The National Tribune
The CTU has sent a letter to the European Commissioner of Trade to bring his attention to New Zealand’s disregard of its obligations under the Trade and Sustainable Development chapter of the NZ-EU FTA by the Government’s repeal of Fair Pay Agreements
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5-Mar-2024
The Jakarta Globe
Indonesia and the European Union (EU) recently held the 17th round of negotiations on their long-awaited trade agreement in Bandung. During this round, the two parties reached a "technical conclusion" on three chapters of the pact, including sustainable food systems, technical barriers to trade, and institutional provisions.
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5-Mar-2024
The Manila Times
The Philippines hopes to launch formal negotiations for a free trade agreement with the European Union "very soon," Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo told Agence France-Presse.
