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24-Feb-2025
Armenpress
The agreement on a free trade zone between the Eurasian Economic Union and the United Arab Emirates will be signed in a couple of months, a top Emirati official has said.
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24-Feb-2025
Business Standard
The next round of negotiations for reviewing the India-Asean free trade agreement in goods is expected in April, though the pace of talks is slow, an official said.
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24-Feb-2025
Politico
Farmers should not be “an adjustment tool for purchasing power … nor an adjustment tool for trade agreements,” French president says.
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24-Feb-2025
rabble.ca
Progressive new trade policies and agreements driven by global environmental objectives, as well as decades-old attempts through the United Nations General Assembly to reshape the global trade system and decolonize it, offer some direction.
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21-Feb-2025
CDR
The centre’s latest caseload statistics reveals 55 new arbitrations were lodged in 2024. Honduras was involved in five of them.
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21-Feb-2025
Bangkok Post
Thailand is revving up free trade agreement negotiations with Gulf countries to enhance trade, tourism and investment.
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21-Feb-2025
The Maple
Why should we feel constrained by a free trade agreement? If we could make a compelling economic and policy case to renationalize a key industry, we should just do it and we should stop worrying about whether it’s allowed in the free trade agreement or not.
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21-Feb-2025
La Via Campesina
Women continue to march, denouncing violence and environmental crimes, fighting against the plundering of common goods, and against the signing and ratification of agreements that continue to fill the galleys of the Global North with our wealth at the expense of the massacre of peoples.
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21-Feb-2025
Bangkok Post
Representatives from Thailand and Bhutan during talks held during the fourth round of negotiations for a free trade agreement (FTA). The FTA is set to be signed during the Bimstec Leaders’ Summit, which Thailand will host on April 2-4.
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20-Feb-2025
The Standard
Hong Kong and the mainland signed the Second Agreement Concerning Amendment to the CEPA Agreement on Trade in Services last October, which takes effect on March 1.
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20-Feb-2025
CCPA
Genetically modified corn dispute from the US and Canada exposes lack of protection for Indigenous rights in recent trade deals.
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20-Feb-2025
The Express Tribune
Thailand Ambassador Rongvudhi Virabutr urged the Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry to foster and push the government to finalise the FTA as soon as possible.
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20-Feb-2025
Bloomberg
US President Donald Trump said it would be possible to reach a fresh trade deal with China, signaling he is open to heading off a brewing trade fight between Washington and Beijing.
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20-Feb-2025
ETUN Palestine
In a letter sent ahead of the European Union-Israel Association Council meeting, our network alongside 120 trade unions, civil society and human rights organisations called on the EU to suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement.
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19-Feb-2025
Harvard Kennedy School
The USTR’s review of the USMCA should reveal that its digital trade chapter, built on the Obama-era neoliberal TPP rules, seeks to consolidate tech power, monopolize markets, undermine workers’ rights, and disregard AI transparency and accountability.
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19-Feb-2025
Xinhua
Zambia has officially gazetted its Provisional Schedule of Tariff Concessions under the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement.
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19-Feb-2025
India Today
As both nations move towards signing the FTA, the partnership is expected to open new trade and investment opportunities, benefiting businesses and economies on both sides.
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19-Feb-2025
ANI
India is in the process of negotiating a Free Trade Agreement with the Gulf Cooperation Council and is also considering an FTA with Qatar.
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19-Feb-2025
The Express Tribune
Karachi businesses are urging a quick FTA with Thailand to boost trade, currently at $1.1B. While acknowledging the trade imbalance, both sides see potential for growth, especially in services and investment. Concerns about local industry protection and export diversification were raised, along with calls for streamlined business practices and the new Thai e-visa.
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19-Feb-2025
Business Mirror
The Philippines and the European Union are accelerating free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations with "intersessional sessions" following productive second-round talks. The third round is set for June in Brussels. Both sides aim for a mutually beneficial agreement covering trade, investment, and sustainability.
