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India, Eurasian Economic Union bloc ink terms of reference to launch trade pact talks
15-Sep-2025 CNBC TV18
India and the Eurasian Economic Union signed terms to start FTA negotiations, aiming to diversify export markets and boost trade.
CARICOM, Colombia to expand South-South Co-operation
15-Sep-2025 St Vincent Times
CARICOM and Colombia trade negotiators concluded the second round of negotiations to update the CARICOM-Colombia Trade and Economic and Technical Cooperation Agreement.
Mercosur-EFTA deal ready to be signed next week
15-Sep-2025 MercoPress
The comprehensive understanding covers various sectors, including trade in goods and services, intellectual property, government procurement, and sustainable development.
Mercosur-UAE FTA 80% through
15-Sep-2025 MercoPress
According to Asunción’s Foreign Ministry, talks have progressed by 80% across 15 chapters, which include areas such as trade in goods, services, and rules of origin.
Call for signatures: We say no to AfCFTA – trade justice for people, not corporations!
15-Sep-2025 bilaterals.org
As civil society groups across Africa, trade unions, farmers’ associations, local communities, and environmental, feminist, and youth movements, we raise our voices in collective opposition to the African Continental Free Trade Area.
Cross-border data flows and free trade agreements
15-Sep-2025 Digital Trade Alliance
Provisions that restrict the regulation of cross-border data flows can limit the ability of States to implement domestic measures to protect the privacy and security of consumer data.
Source code disclosure and free trade agreements
15-Sep-2025 Digital Trade Alliance
Consumer rights are at risk when FTAs limit the ability of countries, their regulatory and oversight agencies, or appropriate third parties to monitor the software being imported into their territories.
Trump administration must choose between Big Tech and US sovereignty as industry seeks to weaponize trade policy to attack data security, privacy policies in other nations that US has also adopted
12-Sep-2025 Rethink Trade
Congress and federal agencies and US states have adopted the same sorts of data security and privacy policies that Big Tech lobbyists are pushing President Trump to attack as the “illegal trade barriers.”
The tech lobbying is coming from inside the house
12-Sep-2025 The American Prospect
Emails from the US trade representative’s office show a cozy relationship with Amazon, Google, and Facebook.
US ties trade deal with India to abandoning Russian oil
12-Sep-2025 RBC-Ukraine
The US may strike a trade deal with India as soon as it stops buying oil from Russia, states US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.
India, EU committed to early conclusion of FTA: Goyal
12-Sep-2025 The Hindu Business Line
India and the EU have reiterated their shared commitment towards early conclusion of the bilateral Free Trade Agreement, India Commerce Minister said that 60-65 per cent of the chapters had already been finalised.
Press conference invitation: More than 50 organisations from two continents launch campaign against toxic trade agreements between the EU and Latin America
11-Sep-2025 Power Shift
On 16 September, more than 50 organisations and movements from at least 17 countries in Latin America and the European Union are launching a joint campaign against toxic free trade agreements between the two regions.
What the India-Israel investment treaty reveals about IMEC, geopolitics amid Gaza conflict
11-Sep-2025 Asianet News
The agreement, aimed at offering stronger protections for investors, comes at a moment of shifting economic and geopolitical dynamics in the region.
EU measures too little too late
11-Sep-2025 Linkedin
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen used her State of the Union speech to finally address the situation in Palestine after weeks of silence.
“A new global trade framework based on food sovereignty is urgent and necessary” – La Via Campesina
11-Sep-2025 La Via Campesina
On this International Day of Action Against the WTO and Free Trade Agreements, La Via Campesina reaffirms its call for a new global trade framework rooted in food sovereignty.
Von der Leyen calls for partial suspension of EU-Israel trade deal
10-Sep-2025 Euractiv
The European Commission will propose suspending the trade part of the EU-Israel Association Agreement, Ursula von der Leyen said, in a significant toughening of Brussels’ reaction to the war in Gaza.
India speeds up FTAs with Peru, Chile, Mexico to offset US tariffs: Report
10-Sep-2025 Money Control
The three Latin American markets together could reportedly absorb around 20 percent of India’s exports currently shipped to the US, worth nearly $17 billion, without requiring major supply-chain changes.
’Complicit in genocide’: Two opposition parties condemn India signing trade agreement with Israel
10-Sep-2025 The New Indian Express
Condemning Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s visit to India, the CPI(M) said it is "shameful" that the government is hosting him at a time when people are being massacred in Gaza every day.
Fiji reluctant to join PACER Plus agreement
10-Sep-2025 RNZ
New Zealand is courting the Fijian government to join PACER Plus, a free trade and economic partnership agreement - but Fiji are holding out.
PM says S. Korea positively considers joining trans-Pacific trade pact
10-Sep-2025 Yonhap
Prime Minister Kim Min-seok has said South Korea was positively considering joining a trans-Pacific trade pact, in a bid to bolster economic cooperation with Japan.