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26-Nov-2025
Business Today
India and the European Union have pushed their long-running free trade talks back to the centre of their partnership, reaffirming a shared goal to conclude negotiations on the FTA by the end of this year. The joint statement reaffirmed ambitions to finalize the FTA, accelerate negotiations on an Investment Protection Agreement, and conclude a Geographical Indications agreement.
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25-Nov-2025
The Korea Times
The justice ministry has sent a letter to Lone Star requesting the private equity fund to reimburse legal costs incurred during an investor-state dispute settlement over the 2012 sale of a local bank.
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25-Nov-2025
Reuters
The United States demanded that the European Union make its regulation of the tech sector more "balanced" in exchange for a reduction of US tariffs on steel and aluminium imports from the bloc.
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25-Nov-2025
AnewZ
Activists staged a dramatic protest outside the European Commission in Brussels on Monday (24 November), targeting the controversial European Union-Mercosur trade deal.
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25-Nov-2025
Jakarta Globe
Indonesia is set to finalize a preferential trade agreement (PTA) with Tunisia in January 2026, negotiated since 2018, will see Tunisia reduce tariffs on these products, while Indonesia will lower or eliminate duties on Tunisian goods including crustaceans, dates, and other agricultural products.
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25-Nov-2025
Tehran Times
Pakistan’s ambassador to Iran said Tehran and Islamabad are accelerating implementation of their planned free trade agreement, adding that a barter mechanism between the two neighbors will become operational soon.
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24-Nov-2025
The Pioneer
A close reading of the India-EFTA trade deal’s investment chapter shows that the $100 billion investment commitment is largely symbolic, a political gesture designed to justify the market-access concessions India granted to EFTA’s exporters.
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24-Nov-2025
ISDS impacts
The YPF case exposes the inconsistencies of the international investment protection system, which enables large corporations to engage in predatory practices, creating severe macroeconomic problems for Argentina.
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24-Nov-2025
European Coordination Via Campesina
European farmers will mobilise on 24 November in Strasbourg from 11am in support of an MEP initiative to request a CJEU opinion on the EU-Mercosur FTA.
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24-Nov-2025
Financial Express
India and Israel have agreed to pursue their Free Trade Agreement in two phases, prioritizing "low-hanging fruit" to ensure early benefits for their business communities, according to Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal.
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24-Nov-2025
Kyodo
Australian Trade Minister announced "substantial progress" on Costa Rica’s membership application and that negotiations on Uruguay’s accession would commence.
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24-Nov-2025
Reuters
Canada and India have agreed to restart stalled talks for a new trade deal, the Indian government said, after discussions between the two countries paused following a diplomatic spat two years ago.
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24-Nov-2025
The Nation
US-Thai trade negotiations have stalled after the US linked the deal to a geopolitical dispute involving the Thai-Cambodia Peace Declaration.
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24-Nov-2025
The Nation
Thailand is fast-tracking FTAs with EFTA, the EU and South Korea to reduce dependence on US exports after tariff hikes, aiming to expand new markets and boost GDP
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23-Nov-2025
Business Post
Google and theAfCFTA Secretariat have launched the AfCFTA Digital Inclusion & Entrepreneurship Programme that will train thousands of SMEs across Nigeria and the African continent on critical AI and digital skills to expand their businesses and trade continent-wide.
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23-Nov-2025
CTV News
Prime Minister Mark Carney heads to Johannesburg for the G20 summit, Canada and South Africa are talking about a deal to boost bilateral trade and investment that could see more South African wine on Canadian shelves in exchange for gas exports.
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23-Nov-2025
Yabiladi
The European Parliament’s Agriculture and Rural Development Committee has reignited debate over the labeling of agricultural products from Western Sahara, a contentious issue in the recent Morocco-EU agricultural agreement.
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22-Nov-2025
Directorate-General for Trade and Economic Security
The EU and South Africa signed the first-ever Clean Trade and Investment Partnership (CTIP), building on the EU-South Africa Strategic Partnership and the Economic Partnership Agreement.
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21-Nov-2025
Leah Sullivan
Civil society groups are calling on the Government to leave the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) and reject ISDS, as a new threat emerges over the government’s refusal to grant an exploration licence to an oil and gas company.
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21-Nov-2025
TradingView
The European Union is weighing new ways to invest directly in Australia’s critical resources sector, with Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič saying Brussels is exploring options ranging from equity stakes to long-term offtake agreements and joint investments.
