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4-Mar-2025
Chosun Biz
The 4th round of EPA negotiations between South Korea and Thailand held in Seoul, focus on 17 areas including trade in goods and services, digital economy, and sustainable development, with the goal of strengthening economic ties in a volatile global trade environment.
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3-Mar-2025
Xinhua
The mainland and Hong Kong signed CEPA in 2003. CEPA has now been upgraded to a comprehensive and modern free trade agreement and has brought significant economic benefits to Hong Kong.
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3-Mar-2025
ScandAsia
Sweden has expressed strong support for the swift establishment of a Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and Malaysia.
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3-Mar-2025
Economy Next
Vietnam Ambassador and Sri Lanka Trade Minister discussed the potential FTAs. It raises critical questions about Sri Lanka’s ability to leverage such partnerships effectively amidst its own economic challenges and the need for a more robust trade strategy that prioritizes national interests over mere economic engagement.
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3-Mar-2025
CNBC TV18
Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal is scheduled to commence his visit to Washington as India and the United states prepare to initiate negotiations for a proposed bilateral trade agreement.
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3-Mar-2025
Firstpost
India is negotiating a free trade agreement (FTA) with the EU, aiming to conclude by 2025, after a $15.44 billion trade surplus in 2023-24. While opportunities exist in electric vehicle batteries and technology, challenges in the automotive and agricultural sectors require cautious, selective liberalization to protect Indian interests.
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3-Mar-2025
bne Intellinews
The Iranian parliament has ratified an agreement with the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) to create a free trade zone, Mehr news agency reported.
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3-Mar-2025
Romania-Insider
Romania opposes the free trade agreement with the countries of the Mercosur bloc, considering that it will bring significant harm to the agri-food sector and Romanian farmers, said agriculture minister.
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3-Mar-2025
Sky
Previous negotiations have stalled because of red lines on the NHS and food standards - so what sort of deal could Labour achieve after the Starmer charmer offensive?
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3-Mar-2025
Third World Network
The U.S. and India agreed to negotiate a bilateral free trade agreement (BTA) by October 2025, aiming for $500 billion in trade by 2030. Concerns arise over potential imbalances due to economic disparities, with President Trump criticizing India’s high tariffs. The joint statement commits to enhancing trade and investment, but uncertainties remain about addressing these disparities and the impact on the Indian market amid Trump’s upcoming tariff plans.
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3-Mar-2025
The North African Post
Morocco and Egypt are reviewing their free trade deals after Egyptian authorities-imposed restrictions on Morocco’s car exports.
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3-Mar-2025
Global Justice Now
Campaigners warn potential return of US trade deal talks would take a ‘wrecking ball’ to standards and public services.
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28-Feb-2025
IATP
The dispute panel’s ruling against Mexico in a challenge brought by the US, and Mexico’s eventual agreement to withdraw the provisions on corn, points to the limitations of existing trade rules, which are heavily influenced by industrial agriculture and biotechnology interests.
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28-Feb-2025
Journal of Contemporary European Research
This article thinks reflexively about the decolonial option and the ruptures it triggers as to what EU trade policy is and the colonial logics sustaining ‘normative’ and ‘geopolitical’ narratives on/by the EU as a trade power.
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28-Feb-2025
Investing.com
After US President Donald Trump’s threat to hit the European Union (EU), a 27-member bloc, with 25 per cent tariffs, a meeting between the top leadership of India and the EU is expected to give fresh push to efforts to seal an ambitious free trade agreement.
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28-Feb-2025
Reuters
The United States and Britain are negotiating a bilateral trade agreement, US President Donald Trump told a joint news conference with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, saying such a deal could help avert US tariffs.
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28-Feb-2025
Euractiv
Czech farmers took to the streets across the country, with hundreds of tractors to protest against food imports from non-EU countries.
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28-Feb-2025
Centre for International Governance Innovation
Time will tell how Trump’s digital trade agenda will evolve.
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27-Feb-2025
CCPA
Amidst all the chaos brought on by Trump’s tariff threats, Canada’s federal trade minister celebrated a minor win this month: the finalization of a trade agreement with Ecuador.
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27-Feb-2025
IATP
The EU-Mercosur Agreement continues with the narrative that it ensures environmental clauses and climate commitments, in practice it implements measures that could divert means and resources that could otherwise be used for a genuine, just, ecological and inclusive transition.
