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8-Feb-2023
Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung
The EU-India trade deal is a neoliberal deal, entrenched in the idea that more trade between the two markets will bring significant benefits. Benefits there will be, for Indian and European multinationals but people and the planet will significantly lose from this deal.
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8-Feb-2023
Fresh Plaza
The first round was held online for some groups, from January 30 to Friday, February 3, while other groups will meet in person during the week of February 6 to 10, in Hong Kong.
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8-Feb-2023
Reuters
The European Commission has told member countries that a joint EU exit from a controversial international energy treaty appears inevitable.
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8-Feb-2023
Mining.com
Berkeley said it also believes the rejection is not legal as it infringed on its rights under an international agreement known as the Energy Charter Treaty.
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8-Feb-2023
Yahoo
The largest US labor organization issued a set of principles that it says is needed to protect workers, the public’s privacy and governments’ ability to regulate a rapidly evolving sector as the USTR negotiates digital trade agreements.
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8-Feb-2023
Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung
Investor rights in the expired North American Free Trade Agreement continue to undermine democratic decision-making and climate policy in Mexico, Canada, and the United States.
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7-Feb-2023
The Guardian
The UK’s plan to lower standards in areas such as environmental protection and workers’ rights could breach “level playing field” provisions that were at the heart of the post-Brexit trade and cooperation agreement, say EU politicians.
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7-Feb-2023
The Hindu BusinessLine
The Supreme Court of Netherlands refused to overturn $111.3 million arbitral award levied by the District Court of Hague, finding the Indian government liable for improperly terminating the Devas-Antrix deal in 2011.
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7-Feb-2023
Buenos Aires Times
For more than two decades, the European Union and Mercosur laboriously negotiated a trade deal they agreed but never signed. Now, both sides want to finalise it to create a necessary partnership amid the global dispute between the United States and China.
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7-Feb-2023
India Narrative
India and the EU have set three working groups under the India-EU Trade and Technology Council (TTC). The TTC will deepen strategic engagement on trade and technology between the two partners.
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7-Feb-2023
Business Daily
Kenya could soon start exporting its goods outside the East African Community (EAC) market with the implementation of a tripartite agreement that is expected to be implemented in March this year.
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6-Feb-2023
The International News
Azerbaijan wants to increase economic relations with Pakistan by signing a preferential trade agreement, Ambassador of Azerbaijan Khazar Farhadov said.
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6-Feb-2023
The National
It would open up opportunities in sectors such as renewables, technology, manufacturing and tourism, analysts say.
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6-Feb-2023
Khmer Times
The government is considering the establishment of more bilateral free trade agreements to access broader markets for Cambodia-made products.
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6-Feb-2023
AFTINET
The AFTINET submission provides evidence of the harmful use of ISDS over the last decade against public regulation on health, indigenous rights, the environment and most recently against policies to reduce carbon emissions.
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6-Feb-2023
Khmer Times
The inter-ministerial negotiation teams for the Cambodia-United Arab Emirates Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement are expected to finalise the free trade pact during the third round of the bilateral negotiation to be held this month in Dubai
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6-Feb-2023
Manila Bulletin
Farmer groups maintain their opposition against the Regional Comprehensive Economic Cooperation (RCEP) as Senate resumes its deliberations Tuesday, Feb. 7, on the country’s participation in the mega trade deal.
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6-Feb-2023
Bisnis
The Indonesian Employers’ Association (Apindo) revealed that Indonesia’s export growth to partner countries has actually been slower after joining the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) which began in the early 2000s.
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3-Feb-2023
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
There is an urgent need for coherence. The UK should set out clearly in a trade strategy how its trade policy will support human rights, labour rights and the climate, including how each trade agreement will meet the four tests laid out here.
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3-Feb-2023
FERN
The FTA aims to increase trade in products known for their harmful impact on people and forests, which is incompatible with the transition to a just and green economy.
