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29-Jun-2023
The Australian Financial Review
Australia’s free trade deal with the European Union is “approaching the end-game”, according to Brussels’ most senior negotiator, but it still looks touch-and-go whether the two sides can land a deal by a mid-July deadline.
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29-Jun-2023
European Commission
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29-Jun-2023
Xinhua
Sri Lanka has launched a fact-finding mission to explore avenues for an early entry into the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership free trade agreement, a statement from the foreign ministry said .
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29-Jun-2023
Euractiv
As the Philippines is nearing the status of an upper-middle income country, which would see it lose preferential treatment in EU trade policy, it is trying to seal trade relations with the EU by means of a free trade agreement with the bloc.
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29-Jun-2023
Tasmin News
Iran and Pakistan will start direct talks for a free trade deal in September, according to a senior Iranian trade official who said an agreement may be possible until the end of the Iranian calendar year in March 2024.
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29-Jun-2023
CCPA
This briefing paper explores what that prioritization might look like, and proposes a number of concrete paths forward for the Canadian government.
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29-Jun-2023
SUNS
The US policies in global trade appear somewhat like “old wine in new bottles,” with some semantic sophistry. It appears that “the more things change the more they remain the same” as regards the new forms of colonialism.
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28-Jun-2023
Ghana Business News
Mr David Ofosu-Dorte, Senior Partner, AB and David Africa, has urged African public sector players not to be too excited yet about the African Continental Free Trade Area’s (AfCFTA) progress.
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28-Jun-2023
The Independent
Eastern and Southern African trade promotion organisations are asking Kenya to withdraw from its recent agreement with the European Union to implement the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA).
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28-Jun-2023
The Citizen
Negotiations between the EU and EAC to establish an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) have revealed, very clearly, that the EAC is not a genuine customs union.
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28-Jun-2023
Mint
Amid declining merchandise exports due to demand slowdown in the west, India is placing renewed focus on striking a trade deal with a union of five countries of Southern Africa.
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28-Jun-2023
Reuters
Britain’s investment minister said he would like to see strong investment protections in any future trade deal with India, and that the two countries could work more closely together on financial services even without a trade pact.
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28-Jun-2023
MercoPress
Brazilian president Lula da Silva reiterated his support for the signing of the agreement between the European Union and Mercosur but expressed his dissatisfaction with the additional terms proposed by the European bloc, calling them “unacceptable.”
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28-Jun-2023
Reuters
Brazil cannot give up government purchases, Lula said, referring to an unwanted procurement clause of the deal allowing European companies to sell to Brazil’s public sector.
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28-Jun-2023
Euractiv
The modernised EU-Chile trade agreement, like its sister EU-Mexico trade deal, contains a new chapter on energy and raw materials, which opens the door for deeper cooperation in those areas.
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28-Jun-2023
The Globe and Mail
Enerflex argued the ruling defied regional trade agreements between Mexico, the United States and Canada, also calling the court’s decision “indirect expropriation” and denouncing arbitrary treatment by the Mexican state.
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28-Jun-2023
Swiss Info
Switzerland joined Liechtenstein, Norway and Iceland in signing an agreement to boost economic and trade relations with Moldova.
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28-Jun-2023
European Commission
The new code must be declared to benefit from the preferential tariff under the EU-Israel association agreement. Israeli settlements are not eligible.
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26-Jun-2023
Business Standard
India and Australia plan to conclude negotiations for a comprehensive trade pact by December, a year after implementing the interim Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (ECTA), according to people aware of the matter.
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26-Jun-2023
Xinhua Net
The opening ceremony of the third round of negotiations on Version 3.0 China-ASEAN Free Trade Area (FTA) was held Sunday in Kunming, capital of southwest China’s Yunnan Province, said the Ministry of Commerce.
