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13-Oct-2022
Yonhap
South Korea and Mercosur held their seventh round of free trade negotiations in September last year, but little progress has been reported since then.
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12-Oct-2022
Deccan Herald
The two delegations reviewed the status of the negotiations of the India-UAE bilateral investment treaty. Twelve rounds of negotiations have been conducted until now.
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12-Oct-2022
Korea JoongAng Daily
Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo held talks with Chilean President Gabriel Boric on Tuesday and agreed to resume negotiations this year to upgrade a bilateral free trade agreement that went into effect in 2004.
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12-Oct-2022
IELP
The original NAFTA might have had labor and environment rules, but they turned out that they were unenforceable and there were no teeth, said USTR Tai.
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12-Oct-2022
Reuters
Former shareholders of defunct oil giant Yukos asked a judge in London to allow the enforcement of a $50 billion arbitration award against Russia.
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12-Oct-2022
The Guardian
Transform Trade charity says British-based companies are among main bringers of cases based on bilateral investment treaties.
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12-Oct-2022
Reuters
Chile’s congress voted to approve the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) trade deal after four years of legislative debate.
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11-Oct-2022
Swiss Info
Russia must pay $2.6 billion to Yukos Capital after Switzerland’s highest court rejected an appeal by Moscow.
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11-Oct-2022
The Interpreter
The European Union and Australia are now talking up the strategic value of a deal.
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11-Oct-2022
The Express Tribune
Pakistani government decides to avoid future investment treaties and cancels agreements posing legal risks.
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10-Oct-2022
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
Japan and the European Union have been exchanging views on the reassessment of the need for including provisions on the free flow of data into the Japan-EU EPA.
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10-Oct-2022
Nikkei Asia
Members of a trans-Pacific free trade pact could agree in principle to allow Britain to join as a new member this year, using the European country’s case as a model for future aspirants, Japan’s economic minister said.
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10-Oct-2022
PTI
India and Taiwan should finalise the proposed free trade agreement at the earliest as it will remove all barriers to trade and investment and help create a secure and resilient supply chain, Taipei’s de-facto Ambassador said.
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10-Oct-2022
Xinhua
The African Continental Free Trade Area secretariat based in Accra, the capital of Ghana, has launched a guided trade initiative for seven member countries.
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10-Oct-2022
The Daily Star
The Bangladesh Trade and Tariff Commission (BTTC) is conducting further studies on possible outcomes of the country joining the world’s largest China-led trade deal, Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).
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10-Oct-2022
Khmer Times
Cambodian Minister of Commerce and United Arab Emirates Minister of Foreign Trade plan to hold a meeting in Abu Dhabi City at the end of this month to launch negotiations on the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) between the two countries.
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10-Oct-2022
DW
EU-Indonesia relations have soured over a handful of trade disputes, most of which have gone to the World Trade Organization (WTO) for review. Yet tensions are expected to ease once the WTO makes its recommendations by the end of the year.
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10-Oct-2022
Korea Herald
South Korea has spent nearly 68.5 billion won ($48.1 million) in total to fight and settle investor-state dispute settlements since 2013,#including its battle with US-based private equity firm Lone Star, data showed.
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10-Oct-2022
Tribune India
Data localisation and UK companies being allowed to bid for Indian government contracts are among the issues causing a possible deadlock in the final stages of the India-UK free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations towards a Diwali draft completion deadline.
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10-Oct-2022
Business Inquirer
The Philippines is eyeing the entry into force of a free trade agreement (FTA) with South Korea next year, with the bilateral pact seen benefiting local banana and processed pineapple exporters in the form of reduced tariffs.
