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12-Jan-2024
Ecns
All dairy products exported from New Zealand to China are now able to enter China duty-free and quota-free.
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12-Jan-2024
Arab News
The UAE Minister of State for Foreign Trade and his Costa Rican counterpart have signed a joint statement confirming the conclusion of negotiations toward a comprehensive economic partnership agreement.
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12-Jan-2024
Essex Court Chambers
Peteris Pildegovics and SIA North Star argued that Norway had violated the BIT between Latvia and Norway in relation to alleged investments of the claimants in snow crab harvesting licenses and harvesting vessels.
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11-Jan-2024
Business Insider Africa
Following a successful inaugural Luncheon in 2023, Africa Collective in partnership with the AfCFTA Secretariat will once again be organizing its annual Closing & Outlook Luncheon in Davos on 18 January 2024 from 12:30 noon to 2:30 pm, during the time of the World Economic Forum.
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11-Jan-2024
Nikkei Asia
Taiwan slammed China’s decision to study measures to suspend tariff concessions on more Taiwanese imports after the mainland scrapped preferential tariffs on a dozen chemical products from the island from the start of the year.
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11-Jan-2024
The Guardian
The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, has lamented the low trade volume in Africa and the stagnant growth in the continent’s trade.
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11-Jan-2024
Euronews
Decision on whether to part from treaty remains in limbo, with some EU countries wanting to stay and others having already departed.
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11-Jan-2024
Gulf Business
The UAE has completed bilateral trade negotiations with Congo-Brazzaville, the second Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) agreement with an African state in a week.
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11-Jan-2024
ENA
Ethiopia is aggressively working to finalize its accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in the coming three years, Minister of Trade and Regional Integration, Gebremeskel Chala remarked.
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11-Jan-2024
Money Control
India has no plans to resume negotiations for a free trade agreement with Canada anytime soon since both sides are yet to find a political solution over the issue of Khalistani activities.
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11-Jan-2024
Reuters
Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva discussed with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida a potential trade deal between Japan and South American bloc Mercosur, the Brazilian government said.
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10-Jan-2024
Al Habtoor
Emirati conglomerate Al Habtoor Group served a notice of an Investment Treaty Dispute against the Lebanese Republic in connection with Lebanon’s breaches of the Bilateral Investment Treaty between the United Arab Emirates and Lebanon.
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10-Jan-2024
GBC
The Africa Private Sector Summit has called on African governments to consider the adoption of a Charter on Private Sector Bill of Rights to facilitate the emergence of an enabling environment for trade and investment on the continent.
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10-Jan-2024
The Reporter
Ethiopia’s trade negotiators are taking cautious steps to minimize revenue losses from the impending full implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).
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10-Jan-2024
CBAN
A trade dispute panel has rescinded an invitation to Canadian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to submit official comments in the dispute under the Canada-US-Mexico Trade Agreement (CUSMA) over Mexico’s phase-out of genetically engineered (genetically modified or GM) corn.
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10-Jan-2024
Africa Forbes
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) has been touted as the key to unlocking the continent’s economic fortunes. Yet, in a continent that grapples with extreme poverty and inequality, what does this tangibly mean?
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10-Jan-2024
Financial Express
These negotiations would focus on complex issues in the areas of goods, services, and investment. Issues that are pending include duty cuts on electric vehicles, whiskey, and the movement of professionals.
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10-Jan-2024
The Star
This will enable Hong Kong businesses to more easily and effectively gain Hong Kong-originating status for more of their products, providing them with preferential tariff treatment when expanding into the growing Asean market.
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10-Jan-2024
The Greens/EFA
Time to call off this deal. Free-traders have been pushing desperately but the mobilisation for the environment and social rights has worked and the Commission has been unable to sign the deal this autumn.
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10-Jan-2024
Buenos Aires Times
President Javier Milei spoke with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, with the two calling for a swift conclusion to the European Union-Mercosur trade deal.
