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24-Oct-2023
The Fiji Times
The Fiji Government will thoroughly assess the fairness and effectiveness of the PACER Plus agreement before it makes a decision on rejoining the trade agreement.
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24-Oct-2023
DiEM25
There is a coordinated move for EU members to withdraw from the dangerous Energy Charter Treaty but Ireland is refusing to act.
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24-Oct-2023
AFTINET
Māori Indigenous peoples have said in the recently released Ngā Toki Whakarururanga position paper that they that they have been denied direct independent sovereign representation in negotiations in the Indo-Pacific Economic Forum.
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24-Oct-2023
Reuters
Argentina and Brazil are requesting 12.5 billion euros in financial aid from the European Union in talks to conclude a trade agreement with South America’s Mercosur bloc.
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24-Oct-2023
The Financial Express
Bangladesh will not join the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), world’s largest regional free-trade bloc led by China, or any other grouping before the forthcoming general election.
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24-Oct-2023
Jakarta Globe
The ASEAN Secretariat said that the preliminary work to allow more countries to join the world’s largest trade deal RCEP was underway, with the procedures for the accession to possibly be ready by next year.
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24-Oct-2023
Daily News
Sri Lanka will sign a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Malaysia when President Ranil Wickremesinghe visits the country in February, said visiting Malaysian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr Zambry Abd Kadir.
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24-Oct-2023
Yonhap News Agency
South Korea struck a free trade agreement with Ecuador and plan to officially sign the deal in the first half of next year following due domestic procedures. Under the deal, South Korea will remove tariffs on 96.4 percent of all items and Ecuador will lift tariffs on 92.8 percent of all products traded.
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23-Oct-2023
Seattle to Brussels Network
Fifty Civil society organizations call on the European Parliament not to ratify the trade agreement with New Zealand.
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23-Oct-2023
The Korea Times
Korea and a group of Arab countries were set to launch a new round of negotiations for their free trade deal in Seoul on Monday, Seoul’s industry ministry said Sunday.
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23-Oct-2023
Arab News
Indonesia hopes to start talks on a free trade pact with Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Cooperation Council, a minister has said after the Indonesian president’s meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh.
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23-Oct-2023
Muscat Daily
Jasem Mohamed al Budaiwi, Secretary-General of GCC, stressed that the free trade agreement between the GCC countries and China, which is currently being negotiated, will undoubtedly be one of the important factors in strengthening GCC-China relations in all fields, especially economic and investments.
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23-Oct-2023
Xinhua
The peak body representing Australian farmers has called for the federal government to walk away from a proposed free trade agreement (FTA) with the European Union (EU).
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23-Oct-2023
The Economic Times
A 1 billion ($1.2 billion) corner of the UK economy is fearing for its future as Britain and India close in on a long-awaited free-trade agreement.
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20-Oct-2023
Yahoo Finance
Belgium’s top diplomat in Australia expects a free trade deal with the European Union to be sealed by the end of this year, saying there will be "concessions on both sides".
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20-Oct-2023
TEMPO.CO
Zulhas said one of the topics discussed at the meeting was the formation of the negotiating team for the Indonesia-Saudi Arabia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (ISA-CEPA).
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20-Oct-2023
Reuters
Malaysia is proposing the creation of a free trade agreement between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) its premier said on Friday at a summit of the two blocs.
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20-Oct-2023
Mint
As both countries inch closer to signing the agreement, discussions have focused on contentious parts such as intellectual property rights (IPR), rules of origin and bilateral investment treaties (BIT)
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18-Oct-2023
SeeNews
Serbia expects to sign a free trade agreement with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) by the end of this year, the head of Serbia’s Chamber of Commerce said.
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18-Oct-2023
Business Standard
India and the United Kingdom (UK) are unlikely to ink the much-anticipated trade deal by the end of October due to unresolved differences over market access issues, especially in services, according to a Financial Times report.
