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13-Jan-2021
Bloomberg
The UK will begin talks with the European Union this week on how regulators will cooperate over financial services now Brexit has been completed.
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13-Jan-2021
Yabiladi
Israel aspires to sign a free trade agreement with Morocco, Israeli Minister of Economy Amir Peretz said.
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12-Jan-2021
Reuters
Members of Africa’s new free trade area should complete their tariff reduction schedules and finalise essential rules of origin by July.
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12-Jan-2021
Vietnam Briefing
The UKVFTA is based on the terms of the EU-Vietnam free trade agreement and is one of several ‘continuity agreements’ based on existing European Union trade agreements with third countries.
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12-Jan-2021
RCI
The federal government is launching public consultations on the merits of a possible free trade deal with Indonesia, International Trade Minister Mary Ng announced.
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11-Jan-2021
Kluwer Arbitration Blog
The EU-UK agreement contains limited protections for investors and no investor-state enforcement mechanism. Its dispute resolution mechanism is limited to a “WTO-like” state-to-state arbitration.
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11-Jan-2021
TRT
The Investor-State Dispute Settlement process has gone against developing countries for far too long.
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11-Jan-2021
Financial Express Bangladesh
The government has backtracked from a plan to propose the United States for signing a free trade area deal considering its lack of preparedness, an official says.
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11-Jan-2021
Tehran Times
Director General of the Asia-Pacific Office at Iran’s Trade Promotion Organization said that a preferential trade agreement with Afghanistan is going to be signed in the near future.
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11-Jan-2021
South China Morning Post
Draft text shows Beijing looked to withhold telecoms sector benefits to firms from countries with restrictions on Chinese telecoms companies.
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11-Jan-2021
Yahoo
Montero has completed a litigation funding agreement with Omni Bridgeway Canada Limited, an affiliate of the litigation funder.
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11-Jan-2021
The International News
The High Court of Justice in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) has postponed the hearing on the enforcement of the $6 billion award in the Reko Diq case until the 18th January.
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11-Jan-2021
New Statesman
Law firms have been drawing investors’ attention to how they could pass their Covid-19-related losses onto states.
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11-Jan-2021
AP
Trump said the goal of the Western Sahara consulate would be “to promote economic and trade opportunities in the region.”
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11-Jan-2021
MercoPress
Analysis by the United States Department of Agriculture point out that the country has US$ 4 billion in agricultural exports that may be affected to some extent by the European Union-Mercosur trade deal.
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11-Jan-2021
UrduPoint
South Korea plans to speed up negotiations on free trade in the investment and services areas with Russia and China, President Moon Jae-in said.
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11-Jan-2021
The Edge Markets
South Korea said today it plans to "actively" consider joining a mega Asia-Pacific free trade agreement (FTA) initiated again by the US in an effort to diversify the country’s export portfolio amid growing trade protectionism.
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11-Jan-2021
The Phnom Penh Post
China will step up efforts to expand its free trade area network with trading partners across the world to enlarge its “circle of friends”, while eliminating more tariffs on goods and broadening market access for services trade and investment, according to commerce minister Wang Wentao.
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11-Jan-2021
The Phnom Penh Post
The part in relation to Cambodia under the ASEAN-Hong Kong free trade agreement (FTA) and Investment Agreement (IA) is set to take effect on February 12, according to Hong Kong’s Trade and Industry Department.
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11-Jan-2021
The News International
Pakistan and the Republic of Korea have agreed to hold further negotiations on the proposed Free Trade Agreement (FTA) for increasing bilateral trade and promote free trade between the two countries.
