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8-Jun-2023
Econews Africa
Econews Africa, in a memorandum to the Kenya/United States Strategic Trade and Investment Partnership (STIP) has highlighted lack of transparency in the negotiation process and the devastating consequences of negotiating a chapter on Agriculture have been highlighted.
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8-Jun-2023
B&FT online
Speakers at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Industry (UNCTAD) workshop have indicated that Special Economic Zones (SEZ) are crucial for pushing Africa’s industrialisation agenda in the context of the AfCFTA.
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8-Jun-2023
The Greens/EFA
The EU will import more meat and other agricultural products - with them, emissions, deforestation, soil contamination and human rights abuses - while endangering local farmers’ livelihoods in the Mercosur region and in the European Union.
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7-Jun-2023
The National
The primary objective in the trade negotiations with the GCC is to have “an ambitious and comprehensive agreement,” said the British Trade Commissioner to the Middle East and Pakistan.
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7-Jun-2023
Sky
As trade negotiations in Brussels heat up, Australia and the European Union are still yet to overcome major impasses over naming rights of beloved products and market access.
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7-Jun-2023
Euractiv
The still not yet ratified EU-Mercosur trade deal could be among the main keys to the rapprochement of like-minded democratic states as it would “make it clear that democracies when they work together, can solve global challenges,” said German Foreign Minister.
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7-Jun-2023
Buenos Aires Times
French government official says European Union and Mercosur both want to "take their time" to finalise trade deal.
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7-Jun-2023
Euractiv
The EU will prioritise concluding a long-delayed trade deal with South America’s Mercosur bloc and closer institutional cooperation as it seeks new allies to reduce economic dependencies on China and counter Russia.
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7-Jun-2023
CTV
While the Liberals insist a Pacific Rim trade bloc should welcome any country that meets its standards, an internal document suggests Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wants China kept out of the deal.
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7-Jun-2023
CNBC Indonesia
Zulkifli Hasan, the minister of trade, said frankly that recent difficulties have made cooperation with the EU challenging. As a result, he acknowledged that he was developing a plan to predict how the EU would act.
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6-Jun-2023
Agri-Pulse
The US aims to wrap up negotiations on the 14-nation Indo-Pacific Economic Framework this year, but not before key provisions on sustainability are added to the agriculture chapter of the deal, Chief US Agriculture Negotiator Doug McKalip said.
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6-Jun-2023
ABS CBN
Trade Secretary Alfredo Pascual will be in Brussels this month to continue talks on the Philippines’ trade with the European Union and the country’s bid to have a free trade deal with the EU.
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5-Jun-2023
Reuters
The exporters’ body warned the EU plan could make India’s free trade agreements with other countries and a proposed pact with the EU "redundant" as the prices of many exporters’ goods would rise.
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5-Jun-2023
Agri-Pulse
US Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced that she is calling for dispute consultations with Mexico over the country’s efforts to ban genetically modified corn and its recent history of rejecting biotech seed traits.
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5-Jun-2023
Horti Daily
The objective was the agricultural development of Morocco’s rural population and traditional farmers. It’s been a fallacy because the rural population hasn’t developed and Moroccan farmers haven’t improved their situation.
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5-Jun-2023
Phnom Penh Post
Cambodia and Vietnam have signed an agreement to promote bilateral trade for 2023-2024, noting that it is an important mechanism that will promote and enhance bilateral cooperation in all sectors.
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5-Jun-2023
Reuters
A dispute between the European Union and major palm oil producers Indonesia and Malaysia over a new deforestation law will have no bearing on the two countries’ stalled negotiations with the bloc on free trade agreements, a Malaysian minister said.
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2-Jun-2023
The Zimbabwe Mail
ZIMBABWE continues its fight in the United States (US) to block enforcement of a US$277 million arbitration award to a German and Swiss family which stems from the country’s controversial land reform programme.
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2-Jun-2023
BNN Bloomberg
Australia’s Trade Minister Don Farrell will head to Brussels for the final rounds of negotiations on a free trade agreement with the European Union, which both sides signaled may be completed by the end of the European summer.
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2-Jun-2023
Al-Monitor
The United Arab Emirates and Turkey ratified a cooperation agreement aiming to raise bilateral trade to $40 billion within five years.
