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18-Oct-2024
CNBCTV18
India anticipates resuming Free Trade Agreement negotiations with the UK in November after an eight-month pause. Bilateral trade has risen, but contentious issues remain, including access for Indian professionals and UK duty concessions on various goods.
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18-Oct-2024
The Edge Malaysia
Malaysia’s participation in BRICS will not include any free trade agreement (FTA) between the country and members of the economic group, said Deputy Investment, Trade, and Industry Minister Liew Chin Tong.
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17-Oct-2024
The Herald
THE Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) secretariat has approved Zimbabwe’s provisional schedules of tariff concession, paving way for the country to start trading
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17-Oct-2024
New bilaterals.org podcast is out!
It includes:
– La Via Campesina protests
– Ecuadorian rights defenders travel to Canada
– AfCFTA digital trade protocol
– UAE’s growing power in the global trade system
https://youtu.be/gV8gBSUWjUw?si=TIrwCilwJGYnZHLA
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17-Oct-2024
Mehr News Agency
The free trade agreement (FTA) between Iran and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) member states is expected to be finalized by January 2025. Both sides believe their economies are complementary and aim to increase trade. Iran hopes to increase its exports to EAEU members, while also investing in transportation infrastructure to enhance trade relations.
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17-Oct-2024
Financial Express
India and Australia are racing to finalize a comprehensive trade deal before Australia’s upcoming elections. Negotiators are working to address remaining differences and secure the agreement within the next two months. Meanwhile, India is also seeking to address tariff imbalances in its trade agreement with ASEAN, aiming for a more balanced free trade arrangement.
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17-Oct-2024
The Daily Star
Bangladesh has initiated the process to join the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). This move is primarily driven by the need to secure preferential trade benefits after graduating from the least developed countries (LDCs) status in 2026.
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16-Oct-2024
Madamasr
Egypt and Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday the formation of a new cooperation council and the forging of an agreement to encourage and protect mutual investments
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16-Oct-2024
Reuters
Talks on an EU-GCC free trade agreement, which began 35 years ago, have been suspended since 2008. The UAE has urged the EU to start talks on a separate trade pact with it.
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16-Oct-2024
Jakarta Globe
ASEAN intends to sign its upgraded trade pact with China in 2025, according to the Southeast Asian bloc’s secretary-general Kao Kim Hourn.
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16-Oct-2024
Politico
The European Commission is working on a new budget fund to compensate farmers for any negative impact from the EU-Mercosur agreement. A French diplomat described the proposal as “an interesting option.”
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15-Oct-2024
European Council
The Council has adopted a decision to conclude the trade agreement between the European Union and its member states, on one hand, and Colombia and Peru, on the other, as well as a decision to conclude the protocol concerning Ecuador’s accession to this agreement.
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15-Oct-2024
Press TV
Spain has called on fellow members of the European Union to suspend a free trade deal between the EU and Israel, amid the regime’s ongoing aggression in the Gaza Strip.
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15-Oct-2024
Lexology
The 2022 BIT offers several important advances compared to the 1974 BIT, providing greater certainty and protection for investors.
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15-Oct-2024
Agriland
Several EU-wide organisations representing farmers across several sectors have reaffirmed their opposition to the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement, as talks between both sides have restarted.
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14-Oct-2024
CCSI
EU members should terminate extra-EU BITs. To facilitate the process, the EU could spearhead an instrument similar to the plurilateral agreement to terminate intra-EU BITs or based on the draft treaty language on termination proposed to UNCITRAL.
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14-Oct-2024
The Financial Express
The Bangladesh interim government has strongly started processing to access the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), an emerging economic bloc encompassing the Asia-Pacific region that represents one third of global GDP.
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14-Oct-2024
Philstar Global
The Philippines and the European Union (EU) are set to resume next week the negotiations for a free trade agreement (FTA), which the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) wants to conclude by 2027 to ensure continued preferential market access to the bloc.
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14-Oct-2024
ekathimerini.com
France’s highest court has brought an end to the $1.4 billion legal battle over the resolution of FBME Bank, ruling that the Central Bank of Cyprus acted prudently and did not breach any obligations under a bilateral investment treaty between Cyprus and Lebanon.
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14-Oct-2024
The Edge Malaysia
Malaysia is currently negotiating several new free trade agreements that would help to diversify its trade and investments, and mitigate the impact of conflicts in the Middle East and the Russia-Ukraine war.
