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3-Jul-2023
IISD
If India’s approach and engagement with international investment agreements can be distinguished into phases, with the new agreements being negotiated and concluded, India is poised to enter a new phase.
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3-Jul-2023
Euractiv
Mercosur countries cancelled trade talks with the EU meant to be held in Buenos Aires starting 29-30 June in what was seen as an attempt by Brazil’s President to buy time and present a counter-proposal to the bloc’s most recent demands.
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3-Jul-2023
Reuters
Australian and European Union trade ministers spoke, as optimism builds that sticking points over a free trade agreement can be overcome with more negotiation.
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3-Jul-2023
South China Morning Post
China has unveiled new measures to help its bid to join the CPTPP as Beijing presses on with its goal to reach the standards of the 11-nation deal, despite the thresholds for entry deemed by some members to be too high for the world’s second-largest economy.
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1-Jul-2023
Zelena Akcija
After almost six years, the arbitration court rejected the compensation request of the investor Razvoj golf in which the company claimed compensation from the Republic of Croatia for the condoisation of Srđ in Dubrovnik.
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30-Jun-2023
Reuters
A planned free trade deal between the European Union and South American bloc Mercosur risks increasing demand for farm produce from Brazil at the expense of Indigenous people’s land and rights, a leading activist said.
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30-Jun-2023
PNA
The Philippine and Indian governments have agreed to begin the negotiations on a bilateral preferential trade agreement, which will reduce and eliminate tariffs on various goods.
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30-Jun-2023
Reuters
The European Commission is readying a proposal for EU countries to jointly quit an international energy treaty, after some governments already pledged to leave over climate concerns.
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30-Jun-2023
BelTA
Belarus and China are planning to sign an investment service agreement by the end of the year, BelTA learned from the press service of the Economy Ministry of Belarus.
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30-Jun-2023
Heinrich Böll Stiftung
Can India protect its development objectives by signing a free trade agreement with an unequal partner with different ambitions?
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30-Jun-2023
Public Citizen
We stand in solidarity with the people of Honduras and condemn US company Próspera’s $11 billion case against the will of the people.
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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).
