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2-Apr-2025 Daryo
Uzbekistan ratifies three international agreements to boost economic cooperation
President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has approved the ratification of the bilateral investment treaty between Uzbekistan and India. -
2-Apr-2025 Global Justice Now
A trade deal with Trump: Why we need to reject the Big Tech wishlist
Days before Donald Trump’s second inauguration, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that he wanted to start negotiations on a trade deal with the United States as soon as possible. -
2-Apr-2025 Reuters
Argentina pursues trade deal in Washington as Trump tariffs loom
Argentina’s foreign minister will meet US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a trip aimed at laying the initial groundwork for a trade deal between the two nations. -
2-Apr-2025 Mint
Critical minerals, Antarctica focus of India- Chile talks on economic partnership
India and Chile will soon begin talks on a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement focusing on a wide range of sectors like critical minerals, Antarctica and digital public infrastructure. -
2-Apr-2025 CEPR
Conflicts of interest and sovereignty at stake: The Ecuador-Canada FTA
Ecuador’s free trade agreement with Canada presents a glaring conflict of interest for President Noboa, whose family, one of Ecuador’s wealthiest, has a sizable financial stake in a Canada-based mining company. -
2-Apr-2025 Reuters
First Quantum to discontinue two Cobre Panama arbitration proceedings
First Quantum Minerals said it had agreed to discontinue two arbitration proceedings related to its Cobre Panama copper mine. -
1-Apr-2025 Business Human Rights Journal
Investment treaties: Protecting transition investments, but are they just?
The urgent demand for critical minerals has led to the expansion of mining operations, often accompanied by significant human rights and environmental abuses that cause social unrest and spark disputes between states and foreign investors. -
1-Apr-2025
bilaterals.org podcast: April 2025
This month’s episode analyses the impact of Trump’s return on the free trade regime.
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1-Apr-2025 Baird Maritime
Europeche calls for exclusion of tuna from new free trade agreement with Thailand
As the European Commission and Thailand begin the fifth round of trade negotiations today until 4 April, calls are growing in Spain for tuna to be excluded from any future deal with Bangkok. -
1-Apr-2025 Euractiv
EU-Thailand trade talks resume as Spain worries about tuna sector
As the European Commission and Thailand begin the fifth round of trade negotiations today until 4 April, calls are growing in Spain for tuna to be excluded from any future deal with Bangkok. -
31-Mar-2025 Power Shift
The climate impact of the EU trade agreement with Colombia, Peru and Ecuador
Instead of supporting sustainable development, the agreement has primarily facilitated trade in environmentally harmful goods, and has also failed to introduce effective mechanisms to address sustainability challenges. -
31-Mar-2025 Pattaya Mail
Thailand, Sri Lanka fast-track FTA strategy to diversify exports and draw investors
The move followed discussions between Suchat Chomklin, Deputy Minister of Commerce, and representatives from the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce in Colombo. -
31-Mar-2025 The Hindu
India, US decide to hold sector-specific talks for proposed trade pact in coming weeks
The US is pushing India to negotiate a large and grand bilateral trade agreement while seeking to open the agriculture sector for American businesses -
31-Mar-2025 Gulf Today
CEPA programme strengthens UAE’s global economic position
The UAE’s Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement programme, initiated in September 2021, has resulted in 26 agreements with strategically significant countries and international blocs by the end of the first quarter of 2025 -
31-Mar-2025 ETUC
ETUC position on EU digital trade agreements with 3rd countries
Digital trade agreements should not prevent enforcement of workers’ rights or indeed the improvement of working conditions. -
31-Mar-2025 BEUC
EU-Singapore digital trade agreement: Key points for consumers
The EU-Singapore Digital Trade Agreement is the first EU trade deal focused solely on digital trade. While it aims to strengthen online consumer protections, some provisions could put fundamental rights at risk. -
31-Mar-2025 Business Korea
Korea-Japan-China industry ministers agree to resume talks on free trade agreement
The economic and trade ministers of Korea, China, and Japan have agreed to resume negotiations for the Korea-China-Japan Free Trade Agreement. -
28-Mar-2025 TNI
The financialisation of international investment law
The landscape of financial profiteering from investor-state dispute settlement claims. -
28-Mar-2025 Xinhua
Kazakhstan ratifies investment protection agreement with Kyrgyzstan
The lower house of Kazakhstan’s parliament has approved the law on ratifying the agreement between Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan on encouragement and mutual protection of investments. -
28-Mar-2025 CNBC TV18
India holds firm on agricultural tariffs as US pushes for trade concessions
Excluding dairy and agriculture-based products from the US-India agreement to protect the interests of local farmers is facing resistance from Washington, which is demanding lower tariffs on all products.