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12-Nov-2019 The News
Pak-China FTA to become effective from Dec
China has approved the premature activation of the free trade agreement with Pakistan. This is the second phase of FTA with china that was signed in Beijing in April 2019. -
12-Nov-2019 The Nation
The new NAFTA won’t protect workers’ rights
Trump’s new United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement repeats the disasters of the original agreement. -
12-Nov-2019 New Europe
EU-Singapore trade deal to enter into force this month
The Council of the European Union gave the green light to the free trade deal between the bloc and Singapore. -
11-Nov-2019
Revamped bilaterals.org launched!
11 November 2019 Dear friends, The bilaterals.org team is pleased to announce the launch of an upgraded version of the website. We would be happy to know your thoughts. Please send your comments and feedback to our new email address: info@bilaterals.org. Bilaterals.org has always been committed to supporting movements engaged in struggles against free trade and investment agreements. In order to keep the site relevant and useful, we gathered feedback to assess users’ needs and (...) -
10-Nov-2019 Euractiv
After a week in Hanoi: What we need to make a EU-Vietnam trade deal work
Will this trade deal help improve people’s livelihoods and rights, and offer a brighter future for Vietnamese at home? Or will it make matters worse. -
9-Nov-2019 https://bilaterals.org/?multilatera...
Multilateralism, lack of development and violence: Central American migrants in transit through Mexico
Multilateralism, lack of development and violence: Central American migrants in transit through Mexico The REDODEM 2018 Report. Guillermo Castillo .... and they take migrants as currency of exchange ... … But migrants are not numbers, they are not statistics, they are stories and people…. ... and many times these stories are full of a lot of pain ... Sister. Magda ... for Balderrama ... ... thinking that migrants are the global excluded, the banished, but also the active subjects (...) -
8-Nov-2019 The London Economic
The NHS will be part of any post-Brexit US free trade deal—here’s why
“Free trade” deals are often a cover for privatising public services and US negotiating texts already mention British drug and tech companies. -
8-Nov-2019 Ukrinform
Ukraine, Turkey to hold next round of FTA talks in January
Ukraine and Turkey will hold the next round of talks on signing the free trade agreement between the two countries in January 2020. -
8-Nov-2019 MENAFN
Ukraine ready for conclusion of FTA with UK, and hard Brexit trade representative
Ukraine is ready for conclusion of a free trade agreement with the United Kingdom and for economic cooperation in the face of hard Brexit. -
8-Nov-2019 The Guardian
Can Britain reach a trade deal with the EU by the end of 2020?
Few experts believe transition period is long enough, raising continued threat of no-deal Brexit. -
8-Nov-2019 Global Times
China, EU reach ’hallmark’ bilateral trade GI agreement: MOFCOM
This is the first comprehensive, high-level bilateral agreement China has ever signed with foreign businesses to protect geographic indication. -
7-Nov-2019 CNN
The UK will never get the US trade deal it wants
The United Kingdom is likely to be confronted by a phalanx of hard-nosed American trade officials who will attempt to pry open British markets to more American goods. -
7-Nov-2019 MENAFN
Kuwait wins int’l property ownership case
ICSID dismisses lawsuit filed by Egyptian company. -
7-Nov-2019 Scroll.in
RCEP: Does free trade reduce inequalities, ask Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo in their new book
Data shows that poverty reduction slows down in areas impacted the most strongly by trade liberalisation, says the book. -
7-Nov-2019 Euractiv
Africa offers a test to von der Leyen’s ‘geopolitical Commission’
The African Union Commission’s high representative on Cotonou has warned that keeping the ACP framework will make it harder for the EU to agree on a ‘continent-to-continent instrument’. -
7-Nov-2019 India Briefing
Has India lost its free trade mojo? Or will Delhi substitute the RCEP for the EAEU?
he EAEU deal may well be championed in India as a game-changer, and in certain sectors it will be. But what India really needs is the motivation and initiative to compete with China. -
7-Nov-2019 The Economic Times
China urges RCEP members to include India in trade bloc
A Chinese state-run English daily said, “the countries involved in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership shouldn’t lose the chance to include India." -
7-Nov-2019 The Sydney Morning Herald
Australia still in the cold while NZ lands plum trade deal with China
Australian businesses in China have praised a New Zealand trade deal which overcomes prohibitive red tape and any unofficial go-slow at Chinese ports that can plague Australian exporters. -
7-Nov-2019 Bangkok Post
Somkid affirms interest in Hong Kong FTA talks
Despite the ongoing protests, Thailand remains confident about the potential of Hong Kong and is negotiating a bilateral free trade agreement with the autonomous territory. -
7-Nov-2019 Future Directions International
RCEP agreement no guarantee of increased Australian exports to ASEAN countries
In the short- and medium- terms, however, it seems unlikely that those additional rules will facilitate any significant increase in Australian exports to ASEAN.