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8-Dec-2021
The Straits Times
Singapore and Europe commenced talks in Brussels to strengthen bilateral digital trade, with a longer-term goal of advancing towards a digital partnership.
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8-Dec-2021
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Morrison government is pushing the Biden administration to strike a digital free trade agreement with democracies across the Indo-Pacific in a bid to counter China’s “digital authoritarianism”.
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7-Dec-2021
Thai PBS World
Thailand’s anti-CPTPP civil society organizations issued an open letter, addressed to Prime Minister, urging the government immediately to cease plans to join the 11-member CPTPP trade bloc.
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7-Dec-2021
Bloomberg
By building relations at state level, the UK will help ease the approval process for any eventual federal-level free trade agreement.
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7-Dec-2021
TASS
The long-term target of the trade and economic relationship between the two countries is an increase by 2025 in bilateral trade to $30 bln and in mutual investment to $15 bln.
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7-Dec-2021
All Africa
The Commercial Operations Officer, Dangote Group, yesterday called for the reform at ports in Africa as well as the ease of regulations and bureaucracy, in order to realise benefits of the African Continental Free Trade Area agreement.
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6-Dec-2021
Open For Business
Tunisia is ready to start the negotiation process on concluding an agreement on a free trade area (FTA) with Ukraine, negotiations may begin in the first quarter of 2022.
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6-Dec-2021
ANI
The free trade agreement between India and Israel will conclude by June 2022, stated Israel Ambassador to India Naor Gilon.
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6-Dec-2021
Financial Express
According to government sources, “A feasibility study was conducted and it indicated having a FTA with EAEU is going to be favourable. The negotiations are expected to take off soon. Discussions have started. ”
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6-Dec-2021
National Hog Farmer
The biggest reason our exports have continued growing is trade deals, whether free trade agreements, trade and investment framework agreements or one-off market access deals.
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6-Dec-2021
The Economic Times
India and the UAE aim to conclude the negotiations for a free trade pact next week when the two sides meet for the third round of talks in New Delhi.
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6-Dec-2021
Daily Express
The EU Commission has launched infringement proceedings against seven member states over their failure to end intra-bilateral investments agreements.
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5-Dec-2021
All Africa
To sustain momentum after the AfCFTA’s January launch, traders must be kept in the loop about why implementation is slow.
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5-Dec-2021
African Business
Arab-African trade has enormous potential but is held back by a number of bottlenecks. The Second Arab-Africa Trade Forum in Cairo revealed new ways to take trade forward.
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5-Dec-2021
KBC
The exports and imports mismatch has been highlighted as a key concern as Africa continues to deepen trade with China.
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3-Dec-2021
Bangkok Post
Nowhere is the intersection between geopolitics and geoeconomics more evident than the accession negotiations under the 11-member Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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3-Dec-2021
Ecns
China and Russia are looking into the feasibility of updating their bilateral investment treaty to provide better institutional support for the two nations’ investment cooperation.
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3-Dec-2021
The Hindu BusinessLine
Both sides are keen to meet the time-line of having an early harvest agreement by the year-end. Comprehensive agreement aimed by 2022.
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2-Dec-2021
GRAIN
Which countries use free trade deals to push corporate control over seeds? Which countries are under attack from these deals?
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2-Dec-2021
The Hindu BusinessLine
Labour issues may emerge as a tricky area for India in its efforts to further trade ties with the US as the Biden government is keen to make “worker-centric” matters part of the bilateral trade discussions.
