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17-Oct-2025
Rethink Trade
Recently initiated six-year USMCA review must include improvements to the USMCA rapid response labor mechanism for intended benefits to materialize
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17-Oct-2025
Public Citizen
A new report unpacks how decades of corporate-led trade agreements have displaced millions of people, stripping them of their livelihoods and forcing them to migrate to survive.
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17-Oct-2025
Manila Bulletin
The European Union aims to finalize a free trade agreement (FTA) with the Philippines by the end of 2027, ahead of the expiration of the current GSP+ arrangement that grants the Philippines duty-free access to the EU market for over 6,200 products.
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17-Oct-2025
Business Tech
South African Trade Minister Parks Tau said a trade deal with the US was very close, without providing details.
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16-Oct-2025
Daily Sabah
Türkiye and the UK are set to hold a third round of negotiations after the second in September to reach a "next-generation" and comprehensive free trade agreement to replace the existing one since 2021.
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16-Oct-2025
Tralac
This blog attempts to shed light on the question of whether the liberalisation of merchandise trade on the African continent – which is the stated goal of the AfCFTA – will help cushion the trade impacts of US tariffs and the end of preferences under AGOA.
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16-Oct-2025
Tech Africa News
The new digital platform streamlines exporter registration and the issuance of Certificates of Origin — documents that are vital for traders seeking preferential access under COMESA, the East African Community (EAC), and the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).
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16-Oct-2025
The New Times
The Afreximbank and the AfCFTA Secretariat have joined forces to roll out the Africa Trade Gateway (ATG), a digital trade platform aiming to help Rwandan businesses identify partners, access financing, complete cross-border payments, and expand into new markets.
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16-Oct-2025
ECVC
ECVC denounces the steps taken by the European Commission and Morocco regarding the EU-Morrocco trade agreement, as they try at all costs to save the interests of a minority of transnational corporations and foreign investors at the expense of the Saharawi people and Moroccan and European peasants.
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15-Oct-2025
The Nation Thailand
The 7th round of Thailand-EU Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations in Brussels marked significant progress, with breakthroughs in capital movement, financial services, and market access. Key issues like trade remedies, State-Owned Enterprises, and the automotive annex are nearing resolution, while talks intensify on outstanding challenges—market opening levels, agricultural standards, intellectual property, and digital trade.
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15-Oct-2025
ANTARA News
The Indonesia–Canada Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (ICA-CEPA) was signed on Wednesday, with President Prabowo Subianto and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney witnessing the signing at Parliament Hill, Ottawa.
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15-Oct-2025
JagoNews24
The Bangladeshi government has begun preparing for FTA negotiations, with a draft framework ready and formal talks expected to start in mid-2025. They highlight Malaysia’s role as a gateway to ASEAN’s 660 million people.
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15-Oct-2025
AP
These protests come a week after the EU Commission unveiled detailed proposals to protect farmers from being undercut by imports from South America as it seeks to build support for this deal.
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15-Oct-2025
The Diplomat
Thailand expects to finalize its trade deal with the United States by the end of the year, the country’s commerce minister said yesterday, while issuing a warning about the uncertain trajectory of the Thai economy.
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15-Oct-2025
Khmer Times
Cambodia dodged a bullet by successfully negotiating a tariff deal with the US, which brought down the rates from 36 percent to 19 percent.
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15-Oct-2025
Trend
The parties discussed priority areas of bilateral trade and economic cooperation. Special emphasis was placed on the readiness of both Georgia and Serbia to sign a Free Trade Agreement and the importance of the steps already taken in this direction.
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15-Oct-2025
The Express Tribune
Pakistan and Vietnam have officially launched negotiations on a Preferential Trade Agreement to enhance bilateral trade, investment, and economic cooperation.
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15-Oct-2025
Buenos Aires Times
US President Donald Trump says he will discuss a potential free-trade agreement with Argentina during White House talks with President Javier Milei.
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14-Oct-2025
Addis Insight
Ethiopia marked a historic milestone today with the official launch of its first trade under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), a move expected to boost the country’s regional trade integration and export potential
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14-Oct-2025
SADC
The SADC Secretariat, in collaboration with the AfCFTA Secretariat and the World Customs Organisation (WCO), conducted a five-day training workshop on the AfCFTA Rules of Origin in Eswatini. the training was supported under the European Union–WCO Rules of Origin Africa Programme and funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) through the GIZ CESARE Programme.
