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19-Aug-2025
La Via Campesina
The 10th of September is commemorated by La Via Campesina and its allies worldwide as the International Day of Action Against the World Trade Organization (WTO) and Free Trade Agreements (FTAs).
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18-Aug-2025
Business insider Africa
A preliminary trade agreement with China focuses on the export of five types of stone fruit.
This development signifies a strategic shift by South Africa to diversify its trade partnerships.
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15-Aug-2025
Zawya
Kenya has announced plans to kickstart negotiations with the United States on a bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA) that President Donald Trump initiated during his first administration.
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15-Aug-2025
SPS Rasd
Member of the European Parliament and spokesperson for agricultural affairs, Carmen Crespo, has once again called on the European Commission to review the trade agreement between the EU and Morocco, explicitly excluding occupied Western Sahara, in compliance with the rulings of the European Court of Justice.
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14-Aug-2025
Focus on the Global South
The Forum for Trade Justice condemns the UK-India CETA for allowing India to make severe concessions that undermine its ability to maintain public health safeguards, control digital data sovereignty, and protect domestic industries, while the promised export gains are minimal or illusory.
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14-Aug-2025
Antara News
Indonesia and Peru have signed the IP-CEPA to enhance trade competitiveness and reduce tariff barriers. This agreement marks Indonesia’s second comprehensive partnership in South America, following Chile.
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14-Aug-2025
Financial Express
India’s Ministry of Commerce announced the completion of CEPA negotiations with Oman. The government is also monitoring and mitigating the effects of US-imposed tariffs on Indian exports, while continuing efforts to expand trade partnerships globally through negotiations with the EU, Australia, and others.
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14-Aug-2025
Tribune India
Farmers in Faridkot protested against the proposed India-US free trade agreement by burning effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump, fearing the duty-free import of US agricultural products would devastate Indian farmers dependent on small landholdings.
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8-Aug-2025
Bharat Neeti
The coordination of ten Central Trade Unions (CTUs) and Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) on Monday strongly condemned the recent threats by U.S. President Donald Trump to impose 25% tariffs on India.
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7-Aug-2025
News Ghana
Ghana is spearheading this transformation through a German-backed upgrade of its national measurement capabilities. Trade Minister Elizabeth Ofosu-Adjare revealed the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) is elevating its metrology services to National Metrology Institute (NMI) status with support from Germany’s Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB).
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6-Aug-2025
Antara
The Trade Ministry announced that the Indonesia-Canada Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (ICA-CEPA) is Indonesia’s first CEPA in North America.
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6-Aug-2025
Sana
The Turkish Minister noted significant progress was achieved to establish a new comprehensive economic partnership agreement aimed at integrating the Turkish and Syrian economies
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6-Aug-2025
Financial Express
India and the Philippines begin talks for a Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) to boost bilateral trade, building on AITIGA terms.
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6-Aug-2025
https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/aseanplus-news/2025/08/06/vietnam-and—egypt-strengthen-economic-ties-eye-bilateral-fta
Egypt and Vietnam agreed to establish a joint working group to study the feasibility of a Vietnam–Egypt Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
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1-Aug-2025
European Coordination Via Campesina
ECVC expresses outrage at the disastrous EU-US trade deal, sealed by Donald Trump and Ursula von der Leyen last Sunday in Scotland.
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1-Aug-2025
Borderlex
European and Asia-Pacific leaders are eyeing a possible pan-continental agreement on digital trade as part of a rapprochement between the EU and the 12-nation Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement on Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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1-Aug-2025
Al Jazeera
Canada and the US are working on negotiating a trade deal by August 1, with Trump threatening a 35% tariff on Canada.
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1-Aug-2025
Cointelegraph
As Brazil’s Pix system expands and BRICS eyes a reserve currency, Trump responds with a 50% tariff and a sweeping trade investigation.
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1-Aug-2025
Reuters
The United States and Pakistan hailed a trade deal that Islamabad said would lead to lower tariffs and increased investment, but without specifying the level of tariff to be levied on Pakistani exports.
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1-Aug-2025
Belga
Swedish prime minister Ulf Kristersson has demanded that the EU freeze the trade part of its association agreement with Israel.
