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29-Jun-2022
Hawkesbury Gazette
Negotiations for a "critical" trade deal with the European Union have "stalled" over perceptions Australia isn’t "fair dinkum" on climate change action, and due to a fractured relationship with France.
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29-Jun-2022
Yonhap
An international tribunal declared an end to all proceedings in a multi-billion dollar suit the US private equity firm Lone Star filed against South Korea’s government 10 years ago.
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28-Jun-2022
Leadership
The agreement was brokered by the African Union (AU) and was signed by 44 of its 55 member states in Kigali, Rwanda on March 21, 2018. The only country still not to sign the agreement is Eritrea, which has a largely closed economy.
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28-Jun-2022
Ecowas
To date, a total of forty-three (43) African countries are State Parties to the Agreement of the AfCFTA, including twelve (12) ECOWAS Member States.
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28-Jun-2022
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28-Jun-2022
Hindustan Times
India and the UK will hold the fifth round of talks for a free trade agreement in New Delhi in July, with leaders of the two countries having already set a target for concluding the negotiations by October.
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28-Jun-2022
IISD
The new "agreement in principle" for a modernized Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) falls short of pledges to make the trade and investment deal better suited to achieving international climate goals, IISD experts say.
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28-Jun-2022
Outlook
India and the European Union resumed negotiations, after a gap of over eight years, for a comprehensive free trade agreement.
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27-Jun-2022
European Coordination Via Campesina
ECVC is heavily critical of the lack of ambition shown by the European Commission to tackle only future free trade agreements, meaning the pre-existing FTAs can continue their environmental and social devastation.
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27-Jun-2022
CMS Law-Now
In a award, made in Green Power Partners K/S and SCE Solar Don Benito APS v Spain, a tribunal unanimously denied its jurisdiction over an intra-EU investment dispute arising under the Energy Charter Treaty.
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27-Jun-2022
The Guardian
1994 agreement allows investors to sue governments for changes in energy policy that harm their profits.
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27-Jun-2022
Deccan Herald
India is inking a series of Free Trade Agreements but there is criticism from various quarters about it. All India Kisan Sabha Joint Secretary Vijoo Krishnan spoke about what is wrong with FTAs and where the government is erring.
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27-Jun-2022
Energy Charter
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27-Jun-2022
The Economic Times
While India and EU have set the ambition to conclude a comprehensive agreement, it must be acknowledged that there are fundamental differences in the design, or the template of the trade agreements signed by India and the EU so far.
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27-Jun-2022
The Jakarta Post
The Indonesia Trade Ministry expects the House of Representatives (DPR) to ratify the Indonesia-Korea Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (IK-CEPA) next month.
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27-Jun-2022
Sunday Observer
Negotiations on the Indonesia-Sri Lanka Preferential Trade Agreement (ISL-PTA) will begin soon as both countries see the enormous potential to boost bilateral trade, said Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia, Dewi Gustina Tobing.
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24-Jun-2022
DLA Piper
A tribunal found Nigeria in breach of its obligations under the China-Nigeria BIT and awarding Zhongshan compensation of around USD70 million.
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24-Jun-2022
bilaterals.org
This month’s episode analyses the impact of Trump’s return on the free trade regime.
[read the transcript >https://www.bilaterals.org/IMG/pdf/bp-03-25-transcript.pdf] (pdf)
Programme: bilaterals.org’s 20th anniversary The EU’s return to a wide-ranging free trade agenda (including deals with Mercosur, Mexico, Indonesia, Thailand, etc.) Colombia’s ISDS reform African countries’ ISDS cases against mining companies
[read the transcript (...)
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24-Jun-2022
The Print
An 11 June meeting called by USTR Katherine Tai discussed ’launching negotiations under trade pillar’, sparking fears among Indian officials that IPEF could end up as a trade agreement.
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24-Jun-2022
Financial Express
Union minister Piyush Goyal has expressed hope that the free trade agreement between India and the United Kingdom will be concluded by Diwali.
